Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-04-20

steps. Having left his mortuary at
tire behind him, he comes forth in
workmans garb. as take it. from the
fact that the women mistook him for
the gardener.
That day the grave received such
shattering it can never be rebuilt. All
the troweis of earthly masonry can
never mend it, Forever and forever
it is a broken tomb. Death, taking
side with the military in that fight.
received a terrible cut from the an
gels spear Of flame, SO that he him.
self shall go down after awhile under
It. The king of terrors retiring be-
fore the king Of grace, The Lord is
risen. Let earth and heaven keep
Easter today, Hosannai
Some things strike my observation
while standing in this garden with
new sepulcher. And. first. post NOR
TEN honors in contract with ante-mor-
tenn ignom.nies. If they could have
afforded Christ such a costly sepul-
cher. why could not they have given
him an earthly residence? Will they
give this piece of marble TO a dead
Christ instead Of soft pillow for the
living Jesus? If they had expended
half the value of that tomb to make
Christ comfortable II would not have
been 50 sad a story. He asked bread;
they gave him stone.
Christ. like most Of the worlds
benefactors. was appreciated better
after he was dead. Westminster alb
hey and monumental Greenwood are
the worlds attempt 10 atone by hoi-
Crs to the dad for wrongs to the liy-
ing. Poets corner in Westminster
abbey attempts to Ply Tor the suffer
ings Of CRIB street
Go through that poe.s' corner n
! Westminster abbey There is Han
del. the great musician, from whose
music yCu hear today: but while |
lock al his statue | cannot help bu.
think of tine discocds with which his
fellow-Inusicians tiled 10 destroy him.
There is the tomb OF john Dryden. a
beautiful monument; but | can not
P
wrote of mis- being oppressed in for
tune and Of the ccntrac; that he hi1
just made for thousand verses at s.X-
pence line And there. too. you finl
the monument of Samuel Butler. the
author of "Hudibras;" but while
look at his monument in poets corner
| cannot but ask myself where he died.
In garrett. There | see the costly
tablet IN the poets cOrner-the costly
tablet to one of whom the celebrated
Waller wrote: The old blind school
master. John Milton, has just issued
a tedious poem or the fall o; man. If
the length Of it be no virtue, ii has
none" There is a beautiful monu
ment to Sheridan. Poor Sheridan. Ii
he could have only discounted that
monument for a mutton chop.
Make tho Living Happy.
oh. YOU unfl:al children. do not give
YOUR parents 50 much tombstone. but a
| few more blankets less funeral and
more bedroom. II ) pei cent of the
money We now spend on Burns ban
! quets could have been expended in
making the living Scotch poet comfort
able. he would rot have been harriet
with the drudgery Of an exciseman.
Horace Greeley. outrageOusly abused
while living. when dead is followed
toward Greenwood by the president OF
the United States and the leading men
of the army and navy. Massachusetts
tries to atone at the grave of Charles
Sumner for the ignominiOus resolu-
tions with which her legislature de-
nounced the living senator. Do you
| think that the tomb at Springfield can
pay for Booths bullet?
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 up to count the number
of carriages at the obsequies or to no
tice the polish of the Aberdeen granite
or to read epitaphal commemoration
Gentleman's mausoleum in the suburbs
of Jerusalem cannot pay for Bethle-
hens manager and Calcarean cross and
Pilates ruffian judiciary. Post NOR
TEN honors cannot atone for ante
mortem ignominies.
Again, standing in this garden of the
sepulcher. | am impressed with the
fact that floral aud arborescent decor
! atoms are appropriate for the place OF
the dead. We are glad that among
flowers and sculptural adOrnments,
Christ spent the short time OF his in
humation.
/ cannot understand what | some
| times see in the newspapers where the
obsequies are announced and the
friends say in connection with it, SEMI
no flowers" Rather. If the means al
low-I say If the means allow-strew
| the casket with flowers, the hearse
with flowers, the grave with flowers
! Put them on the brow-it will suggest
! coronation; in their hand-it will
/ mean victory.
Christ was buried in garden
Flowers mean resurrection. Death is
sad enough anyhow. Let CONSERVE
| tory and arbOretum contribute to its
! alienation. The harebell will ring tn :
victory; the passion flower will express
the sympathy: the daffodil will kind.e
/ its lamp and illumine the darkness
| The cluster OF asters will be the con-
stellation. Your little child loved flow