Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-04-25
have only discounted that monument for


have only discounted that monument for .
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on, you unfiiial children, do not give
your parents so much tombstone, but
Few more blaukets-less funeral and more
bedroomi II f1ve per cent. OF the money
We now spend on Burns's bnnquets could
have been expended In making the living
Scotch poet comfortable, he would not
have been harried with the drudRery Of an
exciseman. Horace Greeley. outraReously
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 Mt the grave Of Charles Sumner for
the ignominIous. resolutions with which
her Legislature denounced the living
Senator. Do you think that the tomb at
Springfield can pay for Booths bullet?
Oh, do justice to the livlngl 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 at the
obsequies or to notice the polish OF the
Aberdeen granite orto read epitaphal COM
memoration. Gentinman's 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 arborescent decorations are
appropriate for the place OF the dead. We
are glad that among flowers and sculpturai
adornments Christ spent the short time OF
His inhumation.
cannot understand what l sometimes
see In the newspapers where the obsequtes
nre announced and the friends say in con-
nection with 1t, ''Send no flowers. Rather,
II the means allow-I say II the means
allow-strew the casket with flowers, the
hearsa 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 a garden. Flowers
mean resurrection. Death Is sad enough
anyhow. Let conservatory and arboretum
contribute to its alienation. The harebell
will ring the victory; the passion flower
will express the sympathy; the danodii
will kindle its lamp and Hume the dark
ness. The cluster OF asters will be the
constellation. Your little child loved
flowers when she was living. Put them In
her hand now that she eau go forth no
more and pluck them for herself. On sun
shiny days take fresh garland and put IL
over the still heart.
Brooklyn has no grander glory than its
Greenwooh, nor Boston than fits Mount Au-
burn, nor Philadelphia than its Laurel
Hill, nor Cincinnati thnn 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 q pasture ground for the
sexton's cattle? Indeed, were your father
and mother of so little worth tnat you can
not afford to take care OF their ashes? Some
day turn ont all hands and strai2hten the
slab aud bank up the mound and cut AWAY
the weeds and plant the shrubs and hOw-
ers.
Some day you will want to lie down to
your last slumber. You cannot expect any
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ference for the bones of your ancestry. Do
you think thes, relics are OF no impor-
lance? You will see OF how much impor.
tance they are In the day when the arch.
angel takes out his trumpet. Turn all
your cemeteries into gardens.
Again, standing in this garden Of the
new sepulcher, 1 am impressed with the
dignity Of private and unpreterding obse-
Quies.
Joseph was mourner. sexton. liveryman
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 demonstration of grief at the graves
OF their loved ones. Long line OF glitter
ing equipage, two rows OF silver handles,
casket of richest wood, pallbearers gloved
aud scarfed, are not necessary. Ii there
be six at the grave, Christ looks down from
heaven and remembers that is two more
than were at His Obsequies.
Not recognizing this idea, how many
small properties are scattered and widow
hood and orphanage go forth into cold
charityl The departed left small prop
erty, which would have been enough to
keep the family together until they could
tnke care OF themselves, but the funeral
expenses absorbed everything. Tint went
for Grape which ought to have gone for
bread. A 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 low
fngly 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, 1 am impressed with the
fact that you cannot keep the dead down.
Seal Of sanhedrin, 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 and
come up He did. Prenguration. First
fruits of them that slept. Just us certain
ly ns 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 eorals OF the deepest cavern OF the
Atlantic Ocean. we will come to the sur
face.
With these eyes we may not look into
have stronger vision because the tRmest
thing in the land to which we 90 will be
brighter thnn the sun. We shah have
bo,iies with the speed Of the lightning
Our bodies improved, energized, swiftened,
door Of the grave t.ten on its h,.res and
fluug fiat into the dust.
Oh, my brethren, death and the grave
are not SO much rs they useu TO DC; ior
whiie wandering IN this garden win the
new sepuicher 1 hnd that the vines ana
MOWERS OF the garden nave completely COW
ered up the tomo. instead OF one garden
there are Iour gardens, opening into eacn
other@garden oil Eden, garden OF the