Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-05-03
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have only discounted that monument for
mutton chop!
Oh. you unfllial children, do not give
your parents SO much tombstone, but Il
few more blankets-less funeral and more
bedrooml II five per cent. OF the money
we now spend on Burns's banquets could
have been expended in making the living
Scotch poet comfortable, he would not
have been harried with the drudgery OF an
exciseman. Horace Greeley. outrageously
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 resolutions with which
| her Legislature denounced the living
| Springfield can pay for Booths buIletp
Oh, do justice to the livingl All the JUS
| tice you do them you must do this side the
gates OF the Metropolis. They cannot wake
up to count the number OF carriages ut the
obsequies or to notice the polish OF the
| Aberdeen granite or to read epitaphnl COM
inemoration. Gentlamans mausoleum in
| the suburbs OF Jerusalem cannot pay for
| Bethlehem manger and Calvarean cross
and Pilates ruffian judiciary. Post NOR
tenn honors cannot atone for ante-mortem
| ignominIes.
Again, standing in this garden OF the
| sepulcher, am impressed with the fact
that floral and arooresceNt decorations are
appropriate for the place of the dead. We
| are glad that among flowers and sculptural
adornments Christ spent the short time Of
| His inhumation.
| cannot understand what I sometimes
| see In the newspapers where the obsequies
are announced and the friends say in con-
| nection with 1t, "Send no flowers" Rather,
IL the means allow-I say II the means
| allow-strew the casket with flowers, the
hearse with flowers, the grave with flowers.
| Put them on the brow-lt will suggest
coronation; In their hand-it will mean
| victory.
| Christ was buried In n garden. Flowers
mean resurrection. Death is sad enough
| anyhow. Let conservatory and arboretum
| contribute to its aleviation. The harebel
will ring the victory; the passion flower
will express the sympathy; the daffodll
will kindle its lamp and iIlume the dark
ness. The cluster Of nsters will be the
constellation. Your little child loved
flowers when she was living. Put them In
her hand now that she can 90 forth no
| more and pluck them for herself. On sun
shiny days take II fresh garland and put 1t
over the still heart.
Brooklyn has no grander glory than its
Greenwood, nor Boston than Its Mount Au.
burn, nor Philadelphia than it's Laurel
Hill. nor Cincinnati than its Spring Grove,
nor San Francisco than its Lone Mountain.
But what shall we say to those country
graveyards with the vines broken down
and the slab aslant and the mound caved
in and the grass IL pasture ground for the
sections cattle? Indeed, were your father
and mother OF so little worth that you can
not afford to take care OF their ashes? Some
day turn out all hands and straighten the
slab and bank up the mound and cut away
the weeds and plant the shrubs and flow
ers.
Some day you will want to lie down to
your last slumbe.. You cannot expect any
respect for your bones II you have no de-
ference for the bones OF your ancestry. Do
you think these relics are OF no impor
tance? You will see of how much impor-
tance they are iii the day when the arch.
angel takes out his trumpet. Turn ali
your cemeteries into gardens.
Again, standing in this garden OF the
new sepulcher, 1 am impressed with the
dignity OF private and unpreteEdng obse-
quies.
Joseph was moururt, sexton. liverymau
had entire charge Of everything. Only
four people at the burial OF the King OF the
Universe! Oh, let this be consolatory to
| those who through lack OF means or
through lack OF acquaintance have but
| little dem onstration OF grief at the graves
| OF their loved ones. Long line of glitter
ing equipage, two rows OF stlvec handles,
casket of richest wood, pallbearers gloved
and scarfed, ere not necessary. II there
be six Mt the graz, Christ looks down from
heaven and reH,embers that is two more
Not recognizing this idea. how many
small properties are scattered aud widow
hood and orphannge go forth into cold
| charity! The departed left small prop
| erty, which would have been enough to
keep the family together until they could
take care OF themselves, but the funeral
| expenses absorbed everything. That went
| for Grape which ought to have gone for
| bread. man of moderate means can
hardly afford to die In any OF our great
| cities. BY all means, do honor to the de-
| parted. but do not consider funeral pageant
| as necessary. No one was ever more b)v-
ingly and tenderly put away to sepulcher
than Christ our Lord, but there were only
| four people In the procession.
| Again, standing In this garden with a
| new sepulcher, / am impressed with the
fact that you cannot keep the dead down.
Seal Of sanhedrn, company Of soldiers
| from the tower OF Antonia, floor OF rock,
roof OF rock, walls OF rock. door OF rock,
| cannot keep Christ in the crypts. Come
| out and come up He must. Come out aud
| come up He did. Prenguration. First
| fruits of them that slept. Just as certain
| ly us we go down into the dust, just so
certainly we will come up again. Though
| all the granite of the mountains were piled
on us we will rise. Though buried amid
| the coras OF the deepest cavern OF tho
| Atlantic Ocean, we will come to the sur
| face.
| the face OF the MONDAY sun, but We shall
| have stronger vision, because the tamest
| thing in the land to which we go will ha
| brighter than the sun. We shall have
| bodies with the speed Of the lightning.
| Our bodies improved, energized, switched,
clari1ed-mortality, immortality. The
| door of the grave taken off its hinges and
| flung fiat into the dust.
| Oh, my brethren, death and the grave
are not so much as they used to be; for
while wandering in this garden with the
new sepulcher find that the vines aud
| flowers of the garden have completely COW
cred up the tomb. Instead of one garden
there are four gardens, opening into each
other-garden OF Eden, garden OF the
worlds sepulcher, garden OF the earth's
regeneration, garden OF heaven. Four
gardens. Bloom, o earthi Bloom. O
heaven! Oh, my friends, wake up to glad.
ness on this Easter morning! This day, II
1 interpret 1t right, means joy-it means
peace with heaven, and it means peace with
| all the world.
| Oh, bring more flowers! Wreathe them
around the brazen throat Of the cannon;
plant them In the desert, that it may bios
som like the rose; braid them into the,
name of the returned war charger. No