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IN THEIR LAST HOUR.
The following “last words,”
culled from widely different
sources, furnish a striking com
mentary on the many strange
variations in human nature and
human character. But when we
have pondered them well we find
one outstanding fact that is very
significant: in nearly every case
the farewell words are consistent
ly in keeping with the life and
of the speaker. In the final
hour the ruling passion still rules.
The French Revolutionist Des
moulins halted on the scaffold to
proclaim himself once again. “Be
hold,” lie said, ‘the recompense
reserved for the first apostle of
liberty!” Cavour, the Italian
patriot exclaimed, “Brothers,
brothers, the free church and the
free state!” Said Thomas a Beck
et as he fell, slain, at the altar
of Canterbury Cathedral, - “For
the defense of the church I am
willing to die.” William Henry
Harrison, president <if the United
States, said:: “I wish you to un
derstand and true principles of
government. 1 wish them carried
out. 1 ask no more.” John C. Cal
houn cried, “The South, the
South! God knows what will be
come of her!” Poor Mary of Eng
land-—Bloody Mary—at the very
end knew no remorse for her atro
cious record. Instead, she wept
bitterly over the loss of England’s
great fortress: “When I am dead
you will find Calais written on my
heart.” eßethoven, the great
musician, voiced, in his last mo
ments, the particular longing of
his life. He said, “I shall hear in
Heaven.”
Occasionally the list of last
shows strange contracts.
Oliver Cromwell said to those
about bim, “1 desire to make what
haste I may to be gone,” Queen
Elizabeth cried with her last
breath, “All my possessions for
one moment of time!” Here and
we find a bitten soul falling
back on irony at the last: “You
can show my head to the people,”
Dan+on laughed, to bis execution
er. 1 “It will be well worth the dis
play.” Often the dying man or
w'fjjman, though ready to go, clings
with one hand, as it were, to some
beloved thing of life. Queen Vic
toria died during the Boer War;
with which s|:e was never in
sympathy, and her expiring prayk
er Was, “0, that peace may cornel}
Margaret of Valois breathed,
“ijarewell and remember me. ”
Jafie Taylor, the beloved writer
fort young people, questioned wist
fully at-the end, “Are we not
hhlldreii, all of us?” Thomas Jeff
erson! said, “I commend my soul
to God and my daughter to my
country.” On the other hand, fre
quently there is merely the stark
expression of perfect submission.
Geprge Washington said, “It is'
*7l]/’ Alice Cary, “l want to go
Imay. ” John Adams’ final words
were, “It is the last Of earth. 1 am
content.”
The contract between the dying
words of Christians and those of
unbelievers can need no comment.
It bears silent and irrefutable wit
ness \o tlie power of the faitli of
Cod. “O' my poor soul, whither
art' thou, going?” exclaimed Em
peror Hadrian, when lie faced the
last eneniy. Mary, the wife of Wil
liam 111 bf. England, remonstrated
wifh the weeping bishop who read
the: church’s prayers-at her side:
“My I jord, why do you not go on?
] rgn not afraid to die.” Albert;
prince consort, said: “1 have bad
weklth, rank, power, but if these
wejv all Ihow wretched 1 should
be.r Thomas Paine, dying; replied
to |he question, Do‘ you wifeh to
believe that Jesus is the Soii ''■of
()ofl. “I have no wish to believe on
theis.sub.ject.” Another famous
atiieist, shrinking at tlie last from'
hist own terrible creed, groaned,
“1 jam taking a fearful leap in tiny
darjjc. “ Vram-ts Willard said,
“flow beaut mil to be with Cod .
ijfow and then we catch in
deathbed utterances a meaning we
jflre not deny. An ecstatic word,
a single simple phrase shows us
that the passing soul sees and
hears things hid from our mortal
sense. Elizabeth Barfett Brow-ning
cried as her spirit took flight, “It
is beautiful!” Felicia Hemans
said, “I feel as if I were sitting
with Mary at the feet of my Re
deemer.” Hannah Moore uttered
one glad monosyllable. “Joy.”
Another woman author told her
mourning friends, “I hear beauti
ful voices, and the children’s are
the loudest.” An aged believer,
passing away on a dark midnight
in a room from which he had ban
ished the lamp, pointed suddenly
to the black east: “See,” he cried,
“Dawn!’
Two passages—for they may so
be called —written centuries apart
but, each representative of its au
thor, set forth strikingly mai’s
different attitude toward death
and immortality. One is the work
of a pagan soul hesitating and
fumbling before the great mys
tery :
Soul of me, floating and Hit
ting and fond,
Thou and this body were iiome
niates together:
Wilt thou be gone, now and
whither?
Palid and naked and cold.
Not to laugh, not to be glad as
of old.
The other is Benjamin Frank
lin’s epitaph, written by himself.
It has a whimsical touch that ap
pears to border on levity until one
reads between the lines its golden
faith and assurance:
The body of Benjamin Franklin,
Printer (like the (-over on an old
book, its contents torn,( lies here,
food for vforms. Yet the work it
self shall not he lost, for it will, as
he believed, appear once more, in
anew and more beautiful edition,
corrected and amended by The
Author—Thg Southern Church
man. '
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Mr. Marion Holcomb, of Nancy, Ky., says: “For quite
a long while I suffered with stomach trouble. 1 would
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THE MULBERRY ASSOCIA
TIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL
CONVENTION AT CEDAR
CREEK CHURCH JUNE
29, 1919.
10:00 to 10:30 Song Service and
Devotional.
10:30 to 10:45 Necessary Equip
ment for a good Sunday School.
By Rev. J. B. Brookshire.
10:45 to 11 :00 Grading and Or
ganizing Classes. By J. P. Wil
liams.
11:00 to 11:15 Bible Authority
for Sunday. By Rev. W. 11. Faust.
11:15 to 11:30 Qualifications
and Duty of a Superintendant.
By Rev. J. W. Maltbie.
11 :30 to 11 :45 Planting the
Truth. By Rev. W. T. Evans.
11:45 to 12:00 The Teacher and
his Message. By Prof. J. P.,,Cash.
DINNER.
Bethabara Class.
1:30 to 1:50 Song Service by
Bethabara ('lass.
1 :50 to 2:20 How to put Life in
a Sunday School.
By Revs. J. T. Grizzle and Bunyon
Collins.
2:20 to 2:40 Singing by Walnut
Class.
2:40 to 2:55 Soul Winning.
By Mrs. W. P. DeLaPerriere.
ANNOUNCEMENTS AND SONG
BY CONVENTION.
ADJOURN AT WILL.
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Old Familiar Discovery.
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The worst thing about the profuse
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“Spend less than you earn. That Is
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