Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1908-03-19

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yaara ~ they come and 70 should
brfna the heart to understand that
TIM W. calt death should not be
|thoueI1t 81 and especially BY those
who like rnyself have had long leasa
0f lifa- II A bA1,e hift Il Blessing and
nof tD die while 10 surely would this
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that sfhnsa yvhos lave IN most dearly
wniId nray that Ne might be set free
from TIA burden, ~ the over many
years. mar III would make ~ mat
ter TO the creatures 81 the lower cre4
alton we have glanced at. IL their life
could run on forever III the old kindly
grooves. because they must measure
their life by their instincts. and the
nrasant moment IL the nerfect sphere.
They want no better. as they fear no
worse. and take no thought for the
morrow. The squirrel has his nuts
and the bee his honey. ana So through
ali the spheres Of their life. Tss I
But here lies the distinction be-
tween our life and theirs. Where they
have instincts we have memories,
where tfey. have habits we have out
looks and inlooks. authorizations and
retIections. and orr manhood on the
line to which we have risen holds In
its heart OUrs cross and our crown.
The glamor OF youth i'd mine no
more. vet. i NAV remember with ten
der regret and I may in some diE1
fashion be aware why the eternal
love should give me the blessed boon
OF death, when have drank my fill
at the fountain OF life down here and
II is time to cross the bar. fnd then
must take this truth home to my
heart: that by the time have had
enough OF life the world I live in now
may have had enough OF me. So I
must not only get out of the world.
but out of the way. SO that the new
man may have room for the work he
must do. To most OF us the time
comes when we begin to traAe the
truth of the new time Oy the lines Of
longitude and forget the lines of lati-
tude; we do not believe in the new
man from the Lord, but want the Old
man and manhood that will be trne
to our line of measurement. Again.
when we grow old the knowledge OF
the evil in the world begins to lie
like lead on us, while the knowledge
Of the good can hardly hold its own.
One man In ten may take me in AMI
I lose moro grace by that one man
than gain by the nine who did not;
I think more of the bitter than the
sweet. brood over the cruelty and for
get the mercy. n,
While / must say. with the great
anostle. "It doth not vet appear what
we shall be.,I would hold on well to
the faith that l shall be myself when
I mass from the shadows OF the seen
and temporal into the light OF the
unseen and eternal. / shall pass out
of one room In the .smany mansions"
into another. and what treasure in
the heaven was mine here will be
mine there. while that which Is to
come will not seem so much another
life as the ripeness and perfscting OF
this life that now is. We may say
we know nothing about the mystery
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