The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-04-20

uONn upon tue pavement. moves out
of the portico, appears in the doorway,
advances into the open mir, comes TIP
the marble steps. Having left His
mortuary attire behind Him, He comes
forth in workmRn's Rarb, as take it,
from the fact that the women mistool
Him for the gardener.
That day the grave received such
shattering it can never be rebuilt. All
the trowels of earthly masonry can
never mend il. Forever and forever
il is a broken tomb. DeGth. taking
side with the military in that fight, re-
ceived a terrible cut from the angels
spear of flame, so that he himself shall
go down after awhile under it, The
king of terrors retiring before the
King of Grace! The Lord is risen,
Let earth and Heaven keep Easter to-
day. Hosanna!
Some things strike my observation
while standing in this garden with a
new sepulcher. And, first, post NOR
TEN honOrs in contrast with ante NOR
tenn ignominies. If they could have af-
fOrded Christ such costly sepulcher.
why could not they have given Him an
earthly residence? Will they give this
piece of marble to a dead Christ in
stead of a soft pillow for the living
Jesus? If they had expended half the
value of that tomb to make Christ com
Portable, il would not have been so sad
a story. He asked bread; they gave
Him a stone.
Christ, like most of the worlds bene-
factors, was appreciated better after
He was dead. Westminster abbey and
monumental Greenwood are the
worlds attempt TO atone by honors
to the dead for wrongs TO the living
Poets corner I'M Westminster abbey
attempts to pay for the suffcrings of
Grub street.
Go through that Poets corner in
Westminster abbey. There is Handel.
the great musician. from whose mu-
sic YOU hear to-day: but while | look
at his statue l cannot help but think
of the discordS with which his fellow
musicians tried to destroy him. There
is the tomb of John Dryden. a beauti-
full mOnumePt; but 1 cannot help but
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 siXpencc a
line. And there. too, YOU find the
monument of Samuel Butler. the au-
thor of "Hudibras;" but while look
at his monument i'm Poets corner !
cannot but ask myself where he died.
In q garret. There | see the costly
tablet in the Poets corner-thc costly
Z tablet TO one of whom the celebrated
Waller wrote: Tho old blind school
master. John Milton. has just issued
a tedious poem on the fall of man. If
the length of il be no virtue. il has
none" There is a beautiful monument
to Sheridan. Poor Sheridan. If he
could only have discounted that mon
ument for a mutton chop!
Oh. you unfilial children. do not give
your parents so much tombstone. but
a few more blankets-less funeral and
more bedroom, If five per cent of
the money we now spend on Burns
banquCts could have been expended
in making the living Scotch poet COM
Portable. he would not have Deen har-
ried with the drudgery of an excise
man. Horace Greeley. OutrageOuslv
abused while living, when dead is fol-
Owed toward Greenwood by the pres
dent of the United States and the
leading men of the army and navy.
Massachusetts tries to stOnc at the
grave of Charles Sumner for the ig-
lominious resolutions with which her
legislature deounccd the living SEN
itor. DO you think that the tomb al
springfield can pay for Booths bull |
ct?
Oh. do justice to the living. All the |
Justice you do them you must do this |
ide the gates of the Metropolis. They |
annOt wake up to count the number |
# carriages at the obsequies or to |
tote the polish of the Aberdeen gran |
te or to read epitaphal commemora- |
ion. Gentleman's mausoleum in the |
uburbs of Jerusalem cannot pay for |
Bethlehem manger and CaIvaTean |
ross and Pilates ruffian judiciary. |
'ost mOrtem honoTs cannot atone for |
nte mOrtem ignOmiuies.
Again. standing in this garden of
he sepuIcher, l am impressed with /
he fact that floral and arborescent |
ecOrations are appropriate for the
lace of the dead. We are glad that
mong flowers and sculptural adorn-
lents Christ spent the short time of
lis inhumation.
I cannot understand what | some
ines see in the newspapers where the
bsequies are announced and the
riends say in connection with it:
Send no flowers" Rather. if the
leans allow say if the means al
,w-strew the casket with flowers.
18th flowers. Put them on the brow
will suggest coronation; in their
and-it will mean victory.
Christ was buried in garden.
lowers mean resurrection. Death is
I'D enough anyhow. Let conservatory
nd arboretum contribute TO its al
.viation. The harebell will ring the
ctory; the passion flower will ex-
ress the sympathy; the daffodil viii
indie its lamp and illumine the dark
ess. The cluster of asters will be
le constellation. Your little child
we'd flowers when she was living.
ut them in her hand now that she
IN go forth no more and pluck them
IT herself. On sunshiny days take
esh garland and put il over the still
cart.
Brooklyn has no grsnder glory than
6 Greenwood, nor Boston than its
cunt Auburn, nor Philadelphia than
S Laurel Hill, nor Cincinnati than its
Oring Grove. nor San Francisco than |
S Lone Mountain. But what shall we
" of those country graveyards, with
lie vines broken down and the slabs
liant and the mound caEed in ard the |