The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1905-04-07
FARMvILLE, VA, FRIDAY, APRIL Z, 1905

sea of sandi The absence Of the rivers.
Yes. 40 the Egyptians for centuries
wOrshiped the river Nile because its
rise or fall meant 10 them food or fam
inc, clothing or nakedness, prosperity
or poverty health or disease, the rivers
of our land are the source Of fertility
10 the soil and prosperity TO our people.
If the peace Of our hearts Is to be like
river it must give help temporal and
spiritual TO all around us.
Are we temporal and spiritual 'riy-
crs Of life' to our fellow menf Some
Of us are truly rivers Of death" or
rivers Of seclusion." Our lives are like
the stygian stream in the great Nam
moth cave Of Kentucky. We are sur
rounded by grandeurs and beauties on
every side. but we have walled our
selves i'm by solid rock, where we can
do no good to others and where others
cannot do any good to us
or our lives. if they are not like the
Styx Of a Mammoth cave. supporting
only "a few blind fish swimming hun
drcds of feet below the surface OF the
earth. may he like the wonderfully
suggestive beauties Of Luray cave Of
old Virginia. which likewise are doing
no good to any one. That Luray cave
is q marvellous place. Though its beau
ties were buried for centuries. yet un-
der the fash OF light il looks rs though
MS walls had been erected only yester-
day and like the TAI Mahal Of India,
are a elttering mass Of dead precious
stones. Yonder stand the columns Of
stalagmite as statuary in vestal gar
mcmis Of purest white. Here are the
drippngs Of cataract. as though the
mad rush Of Niagara had been In
stantly halted and. like an open mouth
ed lion. dared not utter one growl, al
though even now we seem to hear the
echo of it's last wild. mad roar HOnder
is the ballroom" where our imagina-
ton tells us the nymphs and the fairies
used to sport and dance and make mer-
nv. Near 90 this ball hall' is the Gem
ctcry ridge" where those nymphs and
fairies were buried ages on ages ago.
Here are the hanging wells Of the god
dessps." so thin that through them
flashes the light Of our guides lamps,
so rcd that they seem to have been
dipped in the blood Of the soldiers who
over this very mountain once followed
Stoncwall Jackson in his last raid or
into the blood Of those soldiers who re-
coiled before the cavalry charge Of
Lightning Horse" Phil Sheridan.
From yonder cathedral, with its domes
and spires and steeples and minarets
and strange carvings. there come echo
ing up the solemn notes of an organ
which roll and swell and thunder and
whisper and pray and chant and die.
From out of every grotto stretches
some hand or lifts some snowhank or
flaps some wing or. like cats eye.
blinks some emerald or, tiger like,
glares the bloodshot eyeball of some
ruby or flashes some emerald And
while an the chimes Of all the towers
are beginning TO ring suddenly a sta
lactite many tons i'm weight breaks
loose and crashes upon the floor II
shivers. rolls over once or twice and
then lies still to be decompoSed by the
coming ages. A marvellous and en-
chanting place is Luray cave Of old
Virginia.
All its walls are strangely sculntured,
Column high and chasm wide.
frrf- tho u1ara tVnar. All the shadows
OF the past years silent hide.
But when / stood within the walls
Of that fascinating place | said TO my
self. How like selfish man is this cave.
His heart is q heart Of stone. Amid
the sunerings and troubles Of a sinful
world. with all his vast resources for
doing good. he burles himself in a wall
ed citadel. which is called his home or
his store. He lives. he breathes, he
eats. he sleeps. he works for himself,
and himself alone. Oh, brother, may
your gospel peace be not like the gilt
tering grandeur hidden In the darkness
of a Luray cave in Virginia or Of 81
lent river Styx flowing through the
dark halls OF a Mammoth cave Of old
Kentucky. May it be river OF life,
bringing peace and joy and hope to all
who are willing TO bend down their
parched and sinful lips to lap OF the
spiritual waters.
But cannot close this sermon upon
this beautiful text without finding one
more symbol. The pleading river Is
not only river Of conservation to God,
but river Of triumph. II is not only
the crystal gates through which. as the
Jordan Of death. we shall enter the
tomb. but it is the crystal gates by
which we shall leave the wilderness Of
trouble and earthly wanderings and en-
fer into the promised land Of heaven
and eternal Joy. Shall our peace. which
is like a river. stop at the brink OF the
grave?
oh. for the peace. the everlasting
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