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Statistics show that war kills more
people than volcanos. This may be true
but how does that let the volcanos out.
How very human were the letters
written by the entombed miners in Ten-
nessec to their families. Here were
men buried in the earth awaiting death
by suffocation—death in one of its most
terrible forms. In these last moments
their thoughts were all of the loved ones
from whom they were soon to be sep-
arated. The pathos of these final fare-
wells is indescribable. Letters scribbled
on scraps of paper to mother, wife or
children, as the case might be, told of
one of those awful tragedies which
shock the world for an instant, but are
soon forgotten. There are those who
g0 to the pages of fiction for heart-
breaking pathos—who weep over “the
death of Little Nell” and sob over the
sadness of the “Bonnie Brier Bush.”
One does not have to go to the masters
of literature to have his heart stirred
to its profoundest depths. The letters
of the Tennessee miners, written while
those who penciled them were waiting
for death, with no hope of escape, re-
corded the tenderest emotions of which
man is capable These men died like
heroes.
Mr. J. P. Morgan has been credited
with saying that “the Urited States can
solve every commercial problem if we
give it time. The country can supply
all the markets of the world.
carrying power. The country has not
anything like enough carrying power for
its products.
against the United States by European
countries is not possible; there are too
many conflicting interests.
without luxuries; they cannot do with-
out necessities.”
This has been advanced by the parti-
sans of the Ship Subsidy Bill. We think
it is a great argument against it. If
“they cannot do without” our necessities
capital will build ships to carry them.
Why the United States? Mr. Morgan
has set a precedent which other capital-
ists should follow.
The fact that a Chicago judge has |
issued an injunction
Western meat packers from combining |
to raise the price of beef may prove that
the Government will be able to over-
throw the alleged monopoly. There are
no indications, however, of an imme-
diate decline in the price of beef and
other food products sold by the packing
houses. An injunction can sometimes
perform marvels. If it can bring the
price of meat within the purchasing ca- |
pacity of persons of limited means “gov-
ernment by injunction” will receive pub-
lic approval in one instance at least.
Meantime it will be observed that the
“meat riots” have extended to Boston.
Man cannot live on beans alone, even
in the city in which a distaste for beans
is regarded as evidence of mental in-
firmity.
reg ge
It is said that the volcano eruptions
in Mt. Peelee came not without warn-
ing. For days before the great catas-
trophe the inhabitants of St. Pierre
were made aware of their fate, which
shows maybe that they regarded the
prognostications of eruptions very much
as we regard the weather reports.
A man in Maryland has a hen which
daily lays him an egg with a picture
on it.
one of the eggs is a race track in which
the artistic hen shows the second horse |
winning the race. This may be art,
but it is not according to Hoyle.
A party of Republican Congressmen
have gone to Alabama to investigate the
condition of the negro. If they are truly
in search of information on this topic,
they can get the real thing by trying
a fried catfish dinner in Black Bottom.
—Nashville News.
In the beginning of life we want for-
tune and fame and nothing will make |
us so glad. In the end we are tickled
to death to find a postage stamp we
didn’t know that we had.
—p
The theory of the survival of the
fittest gets a setback from the fact that |
a negro murderer in prison was the | :
D : | to gather a woman. But he is careless
|
only man in St. Pierre
through the great disaster,
——— ee
HER ELOPEMENT SPOILED.
who lived
Vancouver, B. C.—Beatrice Hellamy,
whose parents are said to be wealthy | little things interfere with your domes-
[ tic peace. Better swallow the fly, and
people of Baltimore, was taken off of
the steamer Empress of India by Chief
Detective Wylie just before the steamer |
sailed for the Orient. Five weeks ago
she ran away. from home. Detectives
were employed by her parents and the
Pictures of the girl were sent here
and when she applied yesterday for a
ticket the counter
likeness. The girl violently remonstrat-
ed against being removed from the ship, |
but the detectives finally persuaded her |
to leave and to-morrow she will return
to her home in the East.
It is asserted that she confessed that [
she had come across the continent with |
a young man formerly her father’s sec- |
retary, and that he was to join her on |
the steamer at Victoria. Together they |
were then to go to Shanghai, |
We need |
A commercial coalition |
We can do |
| loth at him.
convulsively through the air.
| till he alight on your face, and then
{
SWALLOWING A FLY,
| was.
crush to the folds of your coat, to find
A country meeting-house.
summer Sabbath, The air lazy and [one you were searching after. That
warm. The graveyard about oppressive- | one sits laughing at your vexation from
ly still, the white slabs here and there the tip of your nose,
shining in the light like the drifted | Apothecaries advertise insect exterm-
snows of death, and not a grass-blade |inators; but if in summer time we
rustling as though a sleeper had stirred set a glass to catch flies, for every one
in his dream. | we kill there are twelve coroners called
| Clap-boards of the church weather- [to sit as jury of inquest; and no sooner
beaten, and very much bored, either by does one disappear under our fell pur-
bumble bees, or long sermons, probably | suit than all its brothers, sisters, neph-
the former, as the puncture was on the ews, nieces, and second cousins come
outside, instead of the in. Farmers, | out to see what in the world is the mat-
worn out with harvesting, excessively ter., So with the unclean critics that
soothed by the services into dreaming | crawl over an author’s head. You can-
of the good time coming, when wheat |not destroy them with bludgeons.
shall be worth twice as much to the | There is a time. in a schoolboy’s his-
bushel, and a basket of fresh-laid eggs | tory when a fine-tooth comb will give
will buy a Sunday jacket for a boy. | him more relief than a whole park of
We had come to the middle of our |artillery. O man! go on with your life
sermon, when a large fly, taking ad- | work. If, opening your mouth to say
vantage of the open mouth of the | the thing that ought to be said, a fly
speaker, darted down our throat. The {dart in, SWALLOW IT!
crisis was upon us. Shall we cough | The current of your happiness is of-
and eject this impertinent intruder, or ten choked up by trifles. Your chimney
let him silently have his way? We had | smokes. Through the thick vapor you
| no precedent to guide us. We knew not | see no blessing left. You feel that with
| what the fathers of the church did in |the right kind of a chimney you could
| like circumstances, or the mothers | be happy. It woul dbe worse if you had
| either. We are not informed that |be happy. It would be worse if you
| Chrysostom ever turned himself into a |had no fire. Household annoyances
| fly-trap. We knew not what the Synod | multiply the martyrs of the kitchen.
of Dort would have said to a minis- | The want of more pantry room, the
ter’s eating flies during religious ser- | need of an additional closet, the small-
vices. [ ness of the bread-tray, the defectiveness
We saw the unfairness of taking ad- | of the range, the lack of draught in a
vantage of a fly in such straitened cir- | furnace: a crack in the saucepan, are
| cumstances. It must have been a blind | flies in the throat. Open your mouth,
| fly, and only experimenting with air | shut your eyes, and gulp down the an-
currents. It may have been a reckless | noyances.
fly, doing what he would soon be sorry | The aforesaid fly, of whose demise
for, or a young fly, and gone a-sailing [1 spoke, was digested, and turned into
You sweep your hand
You wait
A mid- |out that it was a different fly from the
Fickleness of public opinion.
Nature’s testimony to God.
In our last lesson we considered man’s
give a fierce slap on the place where he | duty to God, in this we will look at his
I. DEWIT TALMAGE. You slyly wait till he crawls up
vour sleeve, and then give a violent
duty to his fellow-men. God alone is
worthy the supreme worship of the
heart, and where God is worshiped as
supreme the heart goes out in unselfish
love toward all “the brethren.” In that
lesson we saw our missionaries in the
heart of paganism, in this we see them
in the city which is the recognized cen-
ter of Judaism. There, they were among
strangers, speaking a strange tongue;
here they are among brethren and all
are speaking the new tongue which
Jesus taught, the language of love. At
We must keep in mind that neither
Lystra Paul and Barnabas exerted their
utmost energy to persuade men to wor-
ship the true God who is a Spirit; at
Jerusalem they are striving with equal
zeal to persuade all to worship the true
God “in spirit and in truth.” In both
cases men who magnify form above
faith and duty above love, are troublers
of others. But in both cases also the
faithful workers have the abiding pres-
ence of their Savior and Lord, and the
guidance of all their words and actions
by his Holy Spirit.
The first Council of the Christian
Church, held at Jerusalem A. D. 51,
was convened to settle the question of
the times: Is conformity to the law of
Moses essential to salvation? The con-
troversy has proved to be perennial.
In each succeeding age it has presented
itself in a somewhat changed aspect:
Is man to be saved by faith or by
works? It seems as if the devil could
not yield this one point and permit him
| whom the Son of God sets free to be
“free indeed.” He strives by all his
manifold devices to bring him into
bondage of one form or another. In
| this early age the fate of Christianity
apparently hung upon the solution of
barely be conceded—they insinuated
themselves into the Church in the
petty spirit of jealousy and espionage,
not with any high aims, but with the
object of betraying the citadel of liberty,
and reducing the free Christians of An-
tioch to their own bondage. St. Luke,
true to his conciliatory purpose, merely
speaks of them as ‘certain form Judea’;
but St. Paul, in the heat of indignant
controversy, and writing under a most
intense impression of their mischievous
influence, vehemently calls- them ‘the
false brethren secretly introduced.’ ”—
F, W. Farrar; D.D:
Whatever may have been the spirit
which animated the troublers, the ques-
tion which they brought before the
Church was one which could not be set
aside, but must be authoritatively an-
swered if true unity was to be estab-
lished between the Gentile and Jews
whose hearts were bound one to another
by their mutual faith and love for Christ
Jesus.
For fifteen centuries the rites and
ceremonies of Judaism had been sep-
arating the Jews from other peoples.
The more truly religious a Jew was,
the higher this wall of separation ap-
peared to him., We sometimes regret
that the Church is divided into denom-
Boston Herald.
inations to-day and the individual church
their lives. What they did so strenu-
ously combat was the disposition to re-
gard them as essential to salvation.
into social cliques, but there is no sep-
aration of classes to-day comparable
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the prophet Amos had announced. He,
therefore, decided that Gentiles must
not be required to submit to circum-
cision. He resolved to write to them a
brotherly letter of sympathy and instruc-
tion. y
Paul’s subsequent history, which we
learn largely from the Epistles, shows
that the decision of the Council was
not received by the Church as final,
but the disturbing question again and
again came up.
THE BIVOUAC OF THE DEAD.
By Turobore O’HARA.
Theodore O'Hara, the soldier bard,
born in’ Danville, Ky., February 11,
1820, graduated at St. Joseph Academy,
Bardstown, Ky. was admitted to the
bar, and in 1845 was appointed clerk in
the United States Treasury Department
in Washington. He served in the Mex-
ican War from 1846 to 1848, was bre-
vetted major for gallant conduct and
made captain in the Second Cavalry in
1855, but resigned in 1856. When the
remains of the Kentucky soldiers who
fell at Beuna Vista in 1847 were re-
moved to their native State O’Hara
wrote for the occasion his famous poem,
“The Bivouac of the Dead.” Lines
from the poem are inscribed over the
entrances’ of several of the national
cemeteries. He was a colonel in the
Confederate Army, and after the war
settled in Georgia. He died in Bullock
county, Alabama, June 6, 1867, His
remains, by act of the Kentucky Leg-
to that which existed between Jews and |
Gentiles of the first century, unless it |
be the institution of caste among the |
people of India. |
So long as Jews believed they ought |
not to mingle socially nor eat with |
Gentiles, how could they enjoy fellow- |
ship as brethren or partake together of |
the Lord’s Supper? It seemed to them
the problem. Had it been settled other-
that it could be done only through the
is lature were removed to Frankfort,
to rest with those of his comrades.
The muffled drum’s sad roll has beat
The soldier’s last tatoo:
No more on life's parade shall meet
The brave and fallen few.
On Fame’s eternal camping ground
Their silent tents are spread,
And glory guards with solemn round
The hivouac of the dead.
restraining the |
| on Sunday without his mother’s consent.
| Beside this, we are not fond of flies
‘prepared in that way. We have, no
doubt, often taken them preserved in
| blackberry jam, or in the poorly lighted
| eating-house, taken them done up in
| Stewart’s sirup. But fly in the raw was
la diet from which we recoiled. We
would have preferred it roasted, ‘or
| fried, or panned, or baked, and then to
| have chosen our favorite part, the upper
joint, and a little of the breast, if you
please, sir. But, no; it was wings,
| proboscis, feet, poisers, and alimentary
| canal, There was no choice; it was
| all, or none.
| We foresaw the excitement and dis-
turbance we would make, and the pro-
| bability of losing our thread of discourse
{if we undertook a series of coughs,
| chokings, and expectorations, and that,
muscle and bone, and went to preach- |
|ing himself. Vexations conquered be-
come additional strength. We would
lall be rich in disposition, if we learned
[to tax for our benefit the things that
| stick ‘and scratch. We ought to collect
a tariff on needles and pins, The flow-
jer struck of the tempest, catches the
[drop that made it tremble, and turns
| the water into wine. The battle in,
{and the victory dependent on your next |
| sabre-stroke, throw not your armor
| down to shake a gravel from your shoe.
| The blue fly of despondency has choked
[to death many a giant.
| Had we stopped on the aforesaid day
[to kill the insect, at the same time we
[would have killed our sermon. We
{could not waste our time on such a
| combat.
|on an insect’s proboscis. You are all
| ordained to some mission by the laying
Truth ought not to be wrecked |
wise than it was it would have con- | Gentiles becoming “proselytes of right-
| ” : : Wl
| demned Christianity to be a Jewish sect | €Ousness, —that is, by their submitting
| instead of a universal religion. But in | to the rites and following the ceremonies
[ 1: : : : : : of Judaism. But to Gentiles the Jew-
an Patan, o Se he | ish law of ordinances was a burden too Nor troubled thought of midnight
| date of this lesson, there has een a 6 be bo Sead re tins, thor | haunts,
| great danger to be carefully avoided— | eavy to € borne; and, more than thay, Of loved ones left behind:
| Christian liberty is not li ense. While | their submitting to it would subvert | fe : ha
Stan 1ocrly < : | : istianity: it | No vision of the morrow’s strife
| the first council decided that Gentile | the very foundation of Christianity ; it The warrior’s dreams) alarms:
| Christians need not submit to the rites | Would be a declaration that they could | Ne S 2 anm ok
Shang > : PR o braying horn or screamin e
| of Tudaism the wise “pillars of the | NOt be saved through faith in Jesus | oe ik g
them certain | Christ, but must add thereto the works | Gawn snall ca .
| of the law. | Theis shi 1 3 J with
. : | Their shivered swords are red wit
At last it was decided that Paul and fast,
Their pluméd heads are bowed ;
No rumor of the foe’s advance
Now swells upon the wind;
| church” enjoined upon
| concessions to the weaker brethren un- |
| der the law of love. While the Protes- |
| tant church to-day maintains that we | Barnabas, with others, should go up
are saved alone by faith in Jesus Christ, | to Jerusalem and by conference with the | Their haughty banner, trailed in dust
it also holds that a true, a living, a sav- | apostles and elders there, settle the vex- oe cit roid shroud 2
ing faith, will inevitably show itself in | ed question. | And plenteous funeral tears have washed
righteous and loving works. He who | “The struggle for Gentile freedom | The red stains from each brow
[is freed from the law comes under { waged by St. Paul, is typical of the bat- | And the proud forms, by battle gashed
grace, the all-embracnig law of love. |tle for freedom of conscience, for free- | Ave fren from anguish no ?
Paramount among the glorious rights | dom of knowledge, for human rights, | 2
A recent scene represented on |
| On the top of one of your best parlor
| lectured
| zing. You write a book, he caricatures
search extended all over the States. |
| urgent work of life to catch one poor
after all our efforts we might be un-
successful, and end the fray with a fly's on of the hard hands of work, the white
wing on our lip, and a leg in the wind- |hands of joy and the black hands of
| pipe, and the most unsavory part of it | trouble. Whether your pulpit be black-
all under the tongue. | smith’s anvil, or carpenter’s bench, or
We concluded to take down the nui- | merchant’s counter, do not stop for a
sance. We rallied all our energies. It | fly.
was the most animated passage in all, Our every life is a sermon. Our
our discourse. We were not at all hun- | birth is the text from which we start.
gry for anything, much less for such | Youth is the introdutcion to the dis-
hastily prepared viands. We found it course. During our manhood we lay
no easy job. The fly evidently wanted down a few propositions and prove
to back out. “No!” we said within | them. Some of the passages are dull,
ourselves. “Too late to retreat. You {and some sprightly. Then some infer-
are in for it now! We addressed it |ences and applications. At seventy years
in the words of Noah to the orang- | we say “Fifthly and Lastly.” The Dox-
outang, as it was about entering the | ology is sung. The Benediction is pro-
Ark, and lingered too long at the door, |nounced. The Book is closed, It is
“Go in, sir—go in!” | getting cold. Frost on the window-
|- And so we conquered, giving a warn- | pane. Audience. Shut up the church.
| ing to flies and men that it is easier | Sexton goes home with the key on his
| to get into trouble than to get out | shoulder.
| again. We have never mentioned we
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON.
| above circumstance before; we felt it |
| a delicate subject. But all the fly’s|
| friends are dead, and we can slander it |
| 2s much as we please, and there is no
| danger now. We have had the thing |
| in our mind ever since we had it in our
| stomach, and so we come to this con-
fession. |
You acknowledge that we did the |
| wisest thing that could be done; and |
vet how many people spend their time | The healing of a cripple by Peter and
in elaborate, and long-continued, and | John.—Acts 3:1-11.
| convulsive ejection of flies which they | A case where Jesus
| ought to swallow and have done with. | faith.—Matt. 8:10.
| Your husband’s thoughtlessness is an | Faith necessary to divine healing. —
| exceeding annoyance. He is a good man, | Matt. 9:27-30; Jas. 5:14-16.
| no better husband since Adam gave up | Spiritual significance of the healing of
| a spare rib as a nucleus around which | the cripple—Isa. 35:3-6.
What godly man in early days was
worshiped as a god?—Dan. 2:46.
Who sought to worship Peter ?—Acts
10:23, 26.
Where Paul again came in contact
with the worship. of Olympian deities.—
Acts 19:24-41. :
The true God contrasted with gods
of wood and stone—Acts 17:28, 20.
Paul's success among idolaters.—r1
Thess. 1:0.
Paul’s own record of his stoning.—2
Cor. 11:25 with 12:1-4 (See margin).
Topics to Consider.
How another’s faith can be “perceiv-
FOR THE WEEK OF JUNE 8th
TEXT: ACTS 15-22-33.
Scripture passages to look up.
perceived great
{ about where he throws his slippers,
| books he has laid a plug of pig-tail
tobacco. For fifteen years you have
him about leaving the news-
| paper on the floor. Do not let such
have done with it.
Here is a critic, to you a perpetual
annoyance. He has no great capacity
himself, but he keeps up a constant buz-
it. You make a speech, he sneers at it.
You never open your mouth but he flies ed.”,
into it. You have used up a magazine | How faith is necessary to the healing
clerk noticed the | of powder in trying to curtail the |of the body.
sphere of that insect. You chased him
round the corner of a Quarterly Re-
view. You hounded him out from the
cellar of a newspaper. You stop the
Openness with which miracles were
performed by Christ and apostles con-
trasted with the secrecy employed by
deceivers,
Man’s longing for a visit from God.
How this is satisfied by Jesus.
- The subtle danger in the approval of
men. +
Primitive religion of the Lystrans. |
Honor due to God.
fly—the Cincinnati Express train stop- |
ping at midnight to send a brakeman
ahead with flag and lantern to scare
the mosquitos off the track ;—“Swamp-
Angel” out a gunning for rats,
It never pays to hunt a fly. You |
of the Christian is the right to deny
himself, to lay aside his so-called rights,
under constraint of the law of love and
for the purpose of helping others.
The missionary tour of Paul and Bar-
nabas had taken three or four years.
They had tarried some time in each city
which they had chosen as headquarters,
and from there had evangelized all the
region round about. They had passed
through many scenes of excitement and
peril. (See 2 Cor. 11:23-20.) In each
city they had left a little band of con-
verts forming a nucleus of a Christian
church, which had been carefully or-
ganized when visited on the return
journey. They made many bitter ene-
mies, but also staunch and loyal friends.
“If, as some suppose, the people of
this region formed part of the Galatian
churches, we see from Paul’s Epistle to
them the kind of love they gave him.
They received him, he says, as an angel
of God, nay, as Jesus Christ himself;
they were ready to have plucked out
their eyes and given them to him. They
were people of rude kindness and head-
long impulse, Paul’s warm heart could
not but enjoy such an outburst of affec-
tion.
return his own deep love.”—Rev. Jas.
{ Stalker, D.D.
| Returning now to Antioch, Paul and |
| Barnabas joyously rehearsed to eagerly |
attentive hearers the glorious story of |
Jong God had done through them, and |
| how Gentiles had pressed into the king-
dom of Christ.
| While the missionaries were resting
| at Antioch,
| freshed by the church in that city, cer-
| tain unauthorized men, strict Jews, came
from Jerusalem, and greatly disturbed
the Gentile Christians by declaring,
“Except ye be circumcised after the
manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved.”
From Luke’s account (Acts 15:1, 6,)
| we might understand that these trou-
blers were true Christians, though mis-
taken ones. They secured a large fol-
lowing among the Christians of Antioch
who had belonged to the Jewish sect
of Pharisees. We cannot strongly con-
| denn them for their devotion to a law
| which had been divinely given, to which
Jesus and his apostles had submitted,
and which had not been revoked by any
decree from heaven. It was difficult for
them to learn to understand God’s will
as revealed by his Spirit and through
providential dealings; difficult also for
them to distinguish between what was |
| typical and temporary, and that which
was real and abiding.
| But we must consider also Paul’s own
| reference to them found in Gal. 2.
“Jews still in bondage to ther nar-
| Towest preconceptions — brethren to
God alone worthy of honor. | whom the sacred name of brethren could
He responded to it by giving in |
refreshing and being re- |
and of every other battle against tyr- |
anny and wrong which the world has |
ever seen.”—G. T. Stokes, D.D.
“The origin of the controversy Bes]
in the historic crisis of the times; |
Christianity was passing over from a
Judaic form into a form which would
suit all nations. The parties of the con- |
troversy were: First, the Judaizing
party. It is an example of the infinite |
charity of the spirit of inspiration that |
none of the names of this party are |
recorded. Second, the party of Chris-
tion liberty. This embraced, as far as
we know, all the apostles, Paul and
Barnabas, the two great missionaries |
of that period, were prominent on that |
side. The exact question at issue was: |
Must Gentile Christians be circumcised |
and keep the law of Moses as a condi- |
tion of salvation? Few question have |
arisen in the history of Christianity so |
important as this. If Gentiles cannot |
be saved without first becoming Jews, |
then salvation depends on ceremonial |
| works, and not wholly on Christ's grace.
| Then Christianity is not adapted to all |
| nations.”—7J. A. Worden, D.D.
| Paul took with him to Jerusalem Ti- |
| tus. a Gentile Christian, who had not |
| been circumcised, and who, in zealous |
| devotion to Jesus, would be a good |
specimen of the converts whom the |
| missionaries had won in Galatia. |
When they reached Jerusalem, the |
| delegation from Antioch was most cor- |
| dially received. Paul tells he talked |
privately with one and another of the |
| “pillars” of the chucrh before the time |
| set for the public discussion.
| At length the council was convened, |
| James, “the Lord's brother,” bishop of |
| Jerusalem, presiding. It is believed by |
many that he wore the golden plate of |
| the high priesthood, was clothed wholly |
in fine white linen. He lived an ascetic
| life, and was esteemed by all other men |
| by Jewish Christians. By nature and
| practice he was the most fanatical of
| bigots, but how his heart was mellowed |
| by the love of Christ, and that his in- |
| born prejudices could be overcome by |
| the Holy Spirit, his decision and letter |
clearly show.
Peter formally addressed the assem- |
bly, rehearsing how he had been con-
vinced that circumcision and the other
rites of Judaism were non-essential, by
| the outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon
| the Gentiles to whom he had preached
| at the house of Cornelius in Caesarea.
| (See Lessons 3,4) ,
| Then Paul and Barnabas gave their
| testimony, “declaring what miracles and
| wonders God had wrought among the
| Gentiles by them,
In rendering hs verdict, James said
| that he was convinced by what the apos-
| tle and the missionaries had related, and
| by finding that all this agreed with what
The neighing troop, the flashing blade,
The bugle’s stirring blast,
The charge, the dreadful cannonade,
The din and shout are past;
Nor war’s wild note, nor glory’s peal
Shall thrill with fierce delight
hose breasts that nevermore may feel
The rapture of the fight.
Like the fierce northern hurricane
That sweeps the great plateau,
Flushed with the triumph yet to gain,
Come down the serried foe,
Who heard the thunder of the fray
Break o'er the field beneath,
And knew the watchword of the day
Was “Victory or Death!”
Full many a norther’s breath has swept
O’er Angostura’s plain,
And long the pitying sky has wept
Above its mouldered slain. ¢
The raven’s scream, or eagle's flight,
Or shepherd’s pensive lay,
Alone awakes each sullen height
That frowned o’er that dread fray.
Sone of the Dark and Bloody Ground,
Ye must not slumber there,
Where stranger steps and tongues re-
sound
Along the heedless air.
Your own proud land’s heroic soil
Shall be your fitter crave:
She claims from war his richest spoil—
The ashes of her brave.
Thus ‘neath their parent turf they rest,
Far from the gory field,
Borne to a Spartan mother’s breast
On many a bloody shield;
The sunshine of their native sky
Smiles sadly on them here,
And kindred eyes and hearts watch by
The heroes’ sepulcher.
Rest on, embalmed and sainted dead!
Dear is the blood you gave;
No impious footstep here shall tread
The herbage of your grave;
Nor shall your glory be forgot
While Fame her record keeps,
Or Honor points the hallowed spot
Where Valor proudly sleeps.
Yon marble minstrel’s voiceless stone
In deathless song shall tell,
When many a vanished age hath flown,
The story how you fell:
Nor wreck, nor change, nor Winter’s
blight,
Nor Time's remorseless doom,
Shall dim one ray of glory’s light
That gilds your deathless tomb.
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“That man,” said the coachman, point-
ing to a gentleman going down the
street, “has to work very hard.”
“For his living?”
“No, for mine.”