The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-07-13

Fourth, and so greatly injured that he died
after having fingered two days in great agony.
D~Let us thank GoD that we live in a he
roic age 1t is brief a few years make it.
Nor do they come often. "Adown the gulf of
time there rises at far reaches on the shores
of the years the Annals, where God calls men
up to himself and holds converse with him.
Where, amidst earth throes and FIRE, and
clouds, and thick darkness, and above all, q
glory, unveiled and ineffable, Heaven be-
comes directly the lawgiver of the race and
of men shall go. And between those table
lands of COPS own upraising there stretches
deserts Of seasons, unmarked by ideas and
leaving no impress on the race, when humani-
ty is ignoble and positive forces are lost from
the world. We dwell now upon the nights.
The present years of your life are immortal.
The myriads of organic life that existed in the
shoreless and unruffled seas of the pre- anthro-
pnic icons persisted unmarked and were lost
to the universe forever. Only those thsthv
''when the spirit of GoD moved upon
the waters and the earth yielded to the ac
tive energies of creative ideas, are tabletted
in the rocks and viii be preserved through all
time. Humble and unimportant as the hum
blest and least important of US may be, we
cannot sever ourselves from the times in which
we live. The Now is the Educator Of an I'M
known Future. 1t is creative. These four
years are landmark of human progress that
has been reared for the nations They are
marked forever, and living in them, your
life is no longer mortal. We should be beti
ter for it. Patriotism, virtue, sacrifice, BRAY
cry, benevolence charity, love,-they have
grown and borne fruit even in war. Vice
corruption, wong, dishonesty, evil passions
have fourished, too. But there has been that
in the strife to ennoble manhood, for right and
justice and freedom have been victors.
Through tempests and revolutions as we
have experienced, truth goes on to her final
reign. Humanity learns slowly. but it shall
emerge into Cops own light at last We have
faith in it for the principles and men that are
ofHeaven's creation as sovereign live in the
people heart and are loved by them without
teachers. Mr. Lincoln is the best gift of the
age to man. He is It's embodiment. Mr..
Lincoln as Mr. Lincolnis nothing to us, living
or dead. But as justice, as liberty, as patriot
ism, as universal right, as large human sym
pathies and the friend of man he lives and
reigns as one of the few world rulers hence
forth ever The people will take care of bis
fame. Will there ever be a HOMER to sing
worthily Of ABRAHAM LINCOLN and this our
heroic and golden age? Never. There are
no creators of the creators, HECTOR and
ACHILLES were real only as they were crea
tons of the grand old sightless Bard Had
they existed he would been but Inner
But he was acreator and these were his works
Hence it was HOMER himself that lived in the
Greek heart. The people treasured his words
and cherished his fame, and perpetuated his
verse. There was no scroll or tablet on which
his words W ere written. Nor was it needful
The mother hushed her babe with the rhyth-
mic beauties of the '.Illad" and the warrior in
his tent sang of heroes in the poets own
words. The soul of HOMER lived in every
Grecian home, and the people loved him as
the Italian loves DANTE, or the Swedes Az
eusTrs VAsA, or as we have loved WASHING
TON and will love LINCOLN. The latter would
live without written record. He is the prop
erty OF the people and they will be the better,
nohler, wiser, purer, by the guardianship Of
his life and fame
MIcHELEr calls woman q religion. We
separate four years from those that have pro.
ceeded, and those that shall come after them
and call the four religion. 1t is the prin.
ciple that is the soul Of them-the ideas thai
live in them. They are suited as reall great
things to the spiritual growth and education
of human nature. Some turn away from tn,
strife as though there were none of good anc
OF Con in it. As though it were not Hi,
hand that guided. Says writer recently il
an able journal: Il know fair Saint who
In all this long war of ours, waged for the bes
interests of the world, religious war. if eve
there was such a thing, a war waged agains
oppression, against injustice, against the at
tempts of wicked men to fasten the curse o
slavery and caste on the mass of their conn
tymen, has never read newspaper, has ken
her mind steadily, and of purpose, cold auc
estranged from the cause, and has never Al
lowed that ehaste and high seated heart to in
dulge in one pang Of agony when the caus
ofrigHt and justice was in peril, nor in. ON
thrill ofjoy when it triumphed Aud why
Because it was q contest of the world con
irving. Its success wouldn't advance III
cause OF missions or Sunday schools, or q
least, those were not its objects. Therefor
the right has triumphed with no help fror
her. And is this the heed that Christian
shall give to Cons own teachings? Shall v
thus blind ourselves to 1.-THE lessons of n
hourr' Heaven forbid Graves and deso
late homes, and crimsoned fields, and dut
done, and hearts chsstened but strong. an
great achievements, and grand ideas, and III
-aishty propositions Of the Present prompt {
= make Of it temple where true vor,b;
III be the Improvement BY every ONE Of III
spportsnities d he hour BY working for n
nasity, for truth ard for Con.
r--s---p,-tt
At FIRE in the town Of Koslow. no<