The Ocean Cemetery

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 25, 1866

The Ocean Cemetery

A GRAVE WITHOUT A MONUMENT.—The sea is the largest of cemeteries, and all its slumberers sleep without a monument. All other grave-yards, in all lands, show some symbols of distinction between the great and the small, the rich and the poor, but in that great ocean cemetery the king and the clown, the prince and the peasant, are alike undistinguished. The same wave rolls over all, the same requiem by the minstrelsy of the ocean is sung to their honor. Over their remains the same storms beat, and the same sun shines; and there, unmarked, the weak and the powerful, the plumed and the unhonored, will sleep on, until, awakened by the same trump, the sea will give up its dead. No marble rises to point out where their ashes are gathered. Yet that cemetery hath ornaments of which no other can boast. On no other are the heavenly orbs reflected in such splendor. Over no other is heard such noble melody.