Golden hyarp!
Golden hyarp I’m bound ter play, dat outshines de glit—ter—in’——sun——.”
Then all was hushed!
Mayhap Uncle David dreamed he had on his golden slippers that outshone the glittering sun, wore a starry crown and long white robe, sang a new hymn, and played upon a golden harp, for the Bible tells us—
“The sleep of a laboring man is sweet.”
[1]. Robert Morris was the father of the revolutionary financier, and Henry Callister, a philanthropist who befriended the deported hapless Acadians, sent to Annapolis, Md., in 1775, and gave large sums from his own pocket to relieve their suffering, to the serious impairment of his moderate fortune.
[2]. Macaulay says, “Our own firm belief is that he was.”
[3]. To appreciate this sermon the 29th chapter of Genesis should be read if the reader is not familiar with the same.
[4]. II Samuel xviii, 9, 10.