The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-06-22

beautiful harvesrs. There are those now before US
no doupI VINO trace the influence upon them
the iarm Or IN the shop. W can see
In my life the character OF pale modest
ese ssasne sss to the old
had been pinched and scolded there before Tor
not learning what was not taught. she was bat
one summer there. know not her name or what
became oil her. yet has she SO mixed herself 10 my
ne that you hear her preach every Sunday, and
others through me have spread her UNCONSCIOUS
innuence wide, and Its effects VIII continue through
generations vet unborn.
Our New England fathers. in founding Harvard
aud Yale, are now represented by thousands OF
men throughout all the world whose character has
been influenced by those schools. Cardinal VOL
sey ruled England, controlling her monarch. He
founded Chrlsts College at Cambridge, and III that
seeming trivial act ne has dffused more influence
ana exerted more power than IN all the triumphs
OF has statecralt We all feel the results oil that
work 10 this day.
PETER COOPER WILL DIE SOON
His cooper Union has a foundation OF immortality.
The walls OF that solid structure NAV turn 10 dust,
hut the effect or his noble work can never pass away.
Lennox and Aston WITH all their money, WIN be
forgotten, but the libraries they have established
for tue pubic Will preserve their power longer
than any wealth can endure. So they who benefit
the pubic 10y the endowment OF asyums. intrma-
RES hospitals shall 1--we for centuries IN benelae'
tons 10 their race. He who in village founas q
free reading room opens a fountain OF hight when
no time can hide. In IKE manner they work Tor
the ages who benefit the community by es ablisn
ing savings banks and insurance societies Men
working for the pubic good working FOR ages
after their bodies die. 1t is ever iresn and par
takes somewhat OF immortality. SO those who
sing in noble thoughts. Architects, WITH lofty as
plratlons after the fitting and the beautiful beam
down upon US long after they have left US. Five
men built the Old Cathedral Of Winchester; not
the most celebrated OF those old edifces, out one
which most impressed me. They have in IL repre-
sented all successive stages OF architectural art.
They all sleep beneath Its root, beside royalty,
a6Dots and various martyrs. That historic ROOF
shed lumlnousnesS upon me as wandered through
It's alsies and looked upon It's treasures thanked
the men who built il ior me, an unknown citizen
oil a continent not vet discovered. Shakespeare,
Milton, Dante, Watts Wordsworth, Homer, Chau-
Ger, Virgil; their works had not half the power in
their lives as to-day. Blessed are the dead Their
works follow them. so the teachers shan i've. All
who humbly teach in the colored schools OF the
South, IN the rude log cabins OF the West-eebe
women worrying INTO consumption, fast falling
into the grave-can they diey
GONE BEFORE TO GREET U.s.
Our works not only follow US into the other life.
We are constantly throwing ourselves forward.
Many OF those on whom we exert influence 60 be-
fore AS IN q shipwreck, we send a line ashore,
then make both ends secure and we stand by 1t
on the wreck TN every human beng and even the
poor dog have safely gone ashore on the trembling
rope. Tlus We follow them TO secure their bene-
should be comfort to those who seem confined
in humble spheres. None OF their work can perish.
Ii with small means and poor opportunities they
do their work we'll much the greater will be
their reward. When the time comes for your
death the angels shall wait for you, calling,
'Come Up hlther. Blessed are the dead.n And
far away think hear, BLESSED are the dead,
they rest from care and their work goes on and
follows them.'