. Down the eastern and up the Black . as over that of the saint (in many cemeteriesa little higher,) and no flabby-leafed plant such as Hawthornesaw on a New England grave unfolds itself to show the restingplace of Mr. Badman. Perchance they be all saints that liehere. Let us hope so. Evidently those children yonder thinkso, for they drop their flowers indiscriminately on every gravethey pass. The girls appear to have their aprons full of a few steps back of them their little brother follows. He,too, has roses—a chubby handfull —that he quickly drops to chasea butterfly
. Down the eastern and up the Black . as over that of the saint (in many cemeteriesa little higher,) and no flabby-leafed plant such as Hawthornesaw on a New England grave unfolds itself to show the restingplace of Mr. Badman. Perchance they be all saints that liehere. Let us hope so. Evidently those children yonder thinkso, for they drop their flowers indiscriminately on every gravethey pass. The girls appear to have their aprons full of a few steps back of them their little brother follows. He,too, has roses—a chubby handfull —that he quickly drops to chasea butterfly. From grave to grave it flits, he after it—now stumb-ling over foot-stones—now slipping on the graves. He has it-no ! his hand just missed it, there, it flits beyond him, beyond thecemetery wall. Pick up thy flowers, boy, the butterfly hath es-caped thee, all that thou canst hope to find here now is its the antiquarian, St. Marks has little to present. Such avisitor will not find here any quaint or curious headstones with [ 40. Barney Unangst. skulls and crossbones and old time epitaphs engraved these, he must seek the churchyard of St. Johns in theneighboring township of West Cain. St. Marks was but an in-fant when St. Johns was hoary with its hundred years. Theorganization of St. Marks dates back to 1835, about the sameage as Holy Trinity—a few years older than St. Peters inPhoenixville, a few years younger that St. Pauls in WestWhiteland. The parish of St. Marks is not a large one, nor are her com-municants numerous, but her roll embraces not a few sin-cere and unaffected woi-shippers. Many of her present mem-bers are lineal descendants of former parishioners, whose bodieslie within her churchyard walls. I walk among these graveswith slow and reverend step, for some of them contain the dustof very worthy men—men who believed in the dignity of laborand the providence of God—men who perceiving the true end oflife sought to build character r
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