The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-04-20

/ That day the grave received such
SCATTERING IL can never be rebuilt. All
the trowels of earthly masonry can
never mend IT, Forever and forc,er
il is a broken tomb. Death. taking
side with the military in that fight. re-.
ceived terrible cut from the angels
spear Of flame, so that he himself shall
20 down after awhile under IL. The
king Of ;errors retiring before tho
King of Grace, The Lordiis risen,
let earth and Heaven keep Easter TO-
day, Hosanna.
Some things strike my obseryatiou
while standing IN this garden with a
new sepulcher. And. first. pos; NOR.
tenn honors in contrast with ante NOR
ten ignominies. n they could have af.
for,led Christ such n costly sepulcher.
why could not they have given Him an
earthly residence? VIII they giveshis
piece OF marble TO dead Christ I'M.
stead of a soft pillow for the living
Jesus? II they had expended halfthe
value Of that tomb TO make Christ com
Portable. II would not have been No sad
a story. He asked bread: they gave
Him a stone.
Christ, like most OF the worlds bene.
factors, was appreciated better after
ile was dead. Westminster abbey and
monumental Greenwood are thr
worlds attempt TO atone by honor
to the dead for wrongs to the living
Poets corner in Westminster abbsv
attempts 10 pay for the sufferines Of
Grub street.
Go through that Poets corner In
Westminster abbey. There is Handle
the great musician, from whose Gnu.
sic you hear to-day: but while ! look
at his statue | cannot help but think
OF the discords with which his fs2ow
musicians tried TO destroy him. Their
is the tomb Of John Dryden. a beauti.
ful monument; but cannot help bal
thing at 20 years of age he wrote OF
his being oppressed in fortune and OF
the contract that he had just made
for a thousand verses at sixpenee a
line. And teere. too. you hnd the
monument OF Samuel Batter. the an.
thor of "fiudibras. but while I look
at his monument in Poets corner
cannot but ask myself where ne diet.
In a garnet. There 4 see the co,siy
tablet in the Poets corner-the costig
tablet TO one of whom the celebrated
Waller wrote; The old blind school.
master, John Milton. has just issaed
a tedious poem on the fall Of man M
the length of IL be no virtue. u has
none There Is a beautiful monumsnt
TO Sheridan. Poor sheridan. II b.
could only have discounted that noh.
umcnt for a mutton chop. "a
on. you nnfllial children. do not ~
your parents 20 much tombstone. but
a few more blankcts--less funera and
more bedroom. N five per cert. Of
the money We now spend on Iurns'
banquets could have been EXPENDED
in making the living scotch poe com
Portable. he would not have bssn har-
ried with the drudgery Of an eNcisc-
man. Horace Greeley. outrafeous'v /
abused while living. when dead is fol-
lowed toward Greenwood By the pres
ilent Of the United States and The
leading men of the army ard nayr
Massachusetts tries. TO atom at The
grave OF Charles Sumner fu- the ig.
nominious resolutions with which her
legislature deounced the living sen.
ator. DO you think that the tomb az
springfield can pay for Booths bul.
let?
Oh. DO justice to the living, All the
justice you do them you must do this
side the gates Of the Metropolis. They
cannot wake MP TO count the number
Of carriages at the obsequies OF 20
note the polish Of the Aberdeen gran.
lie or to read epitaphal commemon-
ton. Gentleman's mausoleum In the
suburbs OF Jerusalem cannot pay for
Bethlehem manger and Calsarean
cross and Pilates ruffian judiciary.
Post norton honors cannot atone for
ante norton ignominies
Again. standing in this garden Of
the sepulcher. | am impressed with
the fact that fCral end arborescent
decorations are appropriate for tine
place of the dead We are glad that
among flowers and sculptural adorn.
ments Christ spent the short time Of
His inhumation.
! cannot understand what / some.
times see in tho newspapers where the
obsequies are announced and the
friends say in connection with 81:
send TO flowers" Rnther. II the
means allow say n the means al.
low-sirew the casket with flowers.
the hearse with flowers. the grave
with flowers. Put them on the brow
II will suggest coronation; in their
hand-it viii mean victory.
Christ was buried in garden
Flowers mean resurrection. Death Is
sad enough anyhow. Let conservatory
and arboretum contribute 10 its al.
deviation. The harebell will ring the
victory; the passion flower will ex.
press the sympathy; the daffodil will
kndle its lamp and illumine the dark.
ness The cluster Of asters will n.
the constellation. Your little child
loved fiowers when she was Uviug
Put them in her hand now that sbo z
can go forth no more and pluck tbon,
Tor herself, On sunshiny days take ,
fresh garland AID put il over the sim
heart
brooklyn has no grander glory than
liz Greenwood, nor Boston tbop ~
Slonni Auburn, nor PHILADELPHIA than
us Laurel Hill, nor Cincinnati tBopits
spring Grove. nor San Francisco Than J
It's Lone Mountain. But what shall ,ye
say OF those country graveyard ,.,,t