THIRST of applause calls public judgment in If no basis bear my rising name But the fallen ruins of another's fame; YOUNG Then teach me, Heaven! to scorn the guilty bays; THE man we celebrate must find a tomb, POPE COWPER WHY then doth flesh, a bubble-glass of breath, And rear a trophy for devouring death, SPENSER FAME, if not double-faced, is double-mouthed, MILTON. REST-SLEEP. THERE remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. HEBREWS, iv, 9. In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and confidence shall be your strength. ISAIAH, XXX, 15. Come unto me all ye that labour, and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. MATTHEW, Xi, 28. He giveth His beloved sleep. PSALM CXXVii, 2. I will both lay me down in peace and sleep, for Thou, Lord, only makest me dwell In safety. PSALM iv, 8. Or all the thoughts of God that are Along the Psalmist's music deep; For gift or grace, surpassing this- MISS BARRETT. 'Tis loving and serving the Greatest and Best, GOOD night! Slumber till the morning light! Good night! ANONYMOUS. KORNER. MAKE then, while yet ye may, your God your friend, And learn, with equal ease, to live or die. WILLIAM MASON. How blessed was that sleep And hushed the billows to repose. How beautiful is sleep! The sleep that Christians know:. AND of my bed each sundry part In shadows doth resemble MRS. M'CARTEL. The sundry shapes of death, whose dart Shall make my flesh to tremble: My bed itself is like the grave, My sheets the winding-sheet, My clothes, the mould which I must have To cover me most meet. NoT in this weary world of ours Can perfect rest be found; GEORGE GASCOIGNE. Thorns mingle with its fairest flowers Even on cultured ground; Earth's pilgrim still his loins must gird To seek a lot more blest; And this must be his onward word "In Heaven alone is rest." BERNARD BARTON. RESURRECTION. I AM the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live; and whosoever liveth and believeth in me, shall never die. JoHN, xi, 25, 26. He hath appointed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness, by that Man whom He hath ordained; whereof He hath given assurance unto all men, in that He hath raised Him from the dead. Acts, xvii, 31. New is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first-fruits of them that slept. I. CORINTHIANS, XV, 20. So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption: It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power: It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. I. CORINTHIANS, XV, 42-44. The hour is coming in the which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good unto the resurrection of life, and they that have done evil unto the resurrection of damnation. JoHN, V, 28, 29. THESE ashes too, the little dust And the long-silent dust shall burst KIRKE WHITE. So, when the tomb's dull silence finds an end, WILLIS G. CLARK. AN angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave! YOUNG THIS dust shall live again, I said, Though 'tis but pauper flesh; These bleaching bones the word of God Shall clothe with life afresh. THOMAS MCKELLAR. YET life again shall heave the mouldering breast, A deathless spring shall o'er these ashes bloom, FORGOTTEN generations live again, A. ALEXANDER. Assume the bodily shapes they owned of old, KIRKE WHITE. THE trumpet! the trumpet! the dead have all heard: Lo, the depths of the stone-covered chancel are stirr’d: From the sea, from the land, from the South and the North, The vast generations of man are come forth. BUT has not Jesus passed the tomb, To break its bars away ? H. H. MILMAN. And, darting through its fearful gloom The beams of endless day, Does He not, from the other side, HANNAH F. GOULD. |