Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-04-21

tcring it can never be rebuilt. All the
trowels of earthly masonry can never
mend it, Forever and forever it is d
broken tomb. Death. taking side with
the military in that fight, received ter
rible cut from the angels spear of flame
so that he himself shall so down after
awhile under il. The King of tcrrors re-
firing before the king of grace, The
Lord is risen. Let earth aud heaven kee(
Easter to-day! HoSanna
Some things strike my observation
while standing in this garden with new
Sepu!cher. And, first, post mortem hon
orS in contrast with antc-mortem iguo-
mines, Ii they could have afforded Christ
such lovely sepulcher, why could not
they have given him an earthly resi-
dence? VIII they give this piece of mar
bic to a dead Christ instead of soft pill
low for the living Jesus? II they had
expended half the value Of that tomb to
make Christ comfortable. it would not
have been SO sad story. He asked
bread; they gave him stone.
Christ. like most of the world bone
factors, was appreciated better after he
was dead. Westminster abbey aud mon.
umental Greenwood are the worlds at
tempt to atone by honors to the dead for
wrongs to the living. Poets corner in
Westminster abbey attempts to pay for
the sufierings of Grub street.
Go through that Poets corner in West.
minister abbey. There is Handel the
great musician, from whose music you
hear to-day; but while look III his statue
cannot help but think of the discords
with which his fellow musicians tried IL
destroy him. There is the tomb OF John
Dryden, a beautiful monument; hut
cannot help but think at 40 years of age
he wrote of his being oppressed in for
tune and of the contract that he had just
made for thousand verses AT SiXpencc a
line. And there, too, you find the monu
mcnt Of Samuel Butler, the author of
"Hudihras;' but while look ut his mon
umcnt in Poets corner | cannot but ask
myself where he died In garnet. There
see the costly tablet in the Poets cor
ner-t the costly tablet to one of whom
the celebrated Waller wrote: "'rhe old
blind schoolmastcr. John Milton. has just
issued tedious poem on the fall of man.
II the length OF il he no virtue, it has
none" There is a beautiful monument
to Sheridan. Poor Sheridan, III he could
have only discounted that monument for
Il mutton chop.
Making the Living Happy.
Oh. You untiial children. do not give
Your parents 50 much tombstone. but a
few more hlankcts--lcss funeral and
more bedroom, II ! per cent Of the mon
~ we now spend on Burns banquets
could have heen expended in making
the living Scotch poet comfortable, he
would not have been harried with the
drudgery of an CXclscman. Horace Gree
ley. outraRcously abused while living
when dead is followed toward Greenwood
10y the President of the United States and
he leading mcu Of the army and navy
Massachusetts tries to atone at the grave
of Charles Sumner for the ignominions
resolutions with which her Legislature de
nounccd the living Senator. DO you thinl
that the tomb at Springfield can pay fol
Booths bulleti
Oh. do justice to the living. All iii,
justice you do them you must do this sid,
the gates of the Metropolis They canno
wake up to count the number Of carriage,
the Aberdeen granite or 10 read cpitapha
COmmcmoration. Gentlcmln's mauso
lcum in the suburbs of Jerusalem cannot
pay for Bethlehem mungcr and Calva
rean cross and Pilates rrt!ian judiciary
Post mortem honors cannot atone foI
ante mortem ignominiCs.
Again, standing in this garden Of the
Sepulchcr, | am impressed with the fact
that floral and arborescent decorations
are appropriate for the place Of the dead
We are glad that among flowers aud
sculptural adornmPnts Christ spent the
short time of his inhumation.
| cannot understand what / sometimes
see in the newspapers where the obsc-
quies are announced and The friends say
in connection with it. "Scnd no flowers "
Rather, if the means allow say if the
means allow strew the caSkct with noW-
crs. the hcar~e with flowers The grave
with flowers. Put them on the brow it
will suggest coronation; in their hand it
viii mean victory.
Christ was buried ia a garden. Flow
crs mean resurrection. Death is sad
enough anyhow. Let conservatory and
arhorctum contribute 10 It's alienation
] ne udlfpFi VIII liAE NV NhibAN iH'
passion flower viii express the sympathy A..
the daifodil will kindlc it's lamp and IL
Iumiuc the darkness. The cluster Of as
tiers will hc the constellation. Your little
child loved flowers when she was living
Put them in her hand now that she can
20 forth no more aud pluck them for her
self On sunshiny days take fresh gar.
land aAI put it over the still heart
Plant Flowers.
Brooklyn has no grander glory than its
Greenwood. nor Boston than its Mount
Auburn, nor Philadelphia than its Laurel
Hill. nor Cincinnati than its Spring
Grove. nor San Francisco than its Lone
Mountain. But what shall we say to
those country graycyards, with the vines
broken down and the slab aslaut and the
mound caycd in and the grass n pasture
ground FOR the sections cattle? Indeed.
were your father and mother Of 50 little
worth that you cannot afford 10 take care
OF their aslAs? Some day turn out all
hands aud straightcn the slab aud bank
up the mound and cnt away the weeds
and miami the shrubs aud flowers