Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-09-29

dom musical cadence and rhythmic
beauty Of expression. Unassumine
and modest to the last degree. Away:
depreciating himself, and Withholding
from distrust, much that I think should
have been given to the public eye, be
has never, as [ believe, been held in
tellectually at his just measure and
worth. And such in him was the
heart, that the intellect seems to have
been in a degree, shaded and over
Swallowed by the affections.
But [ muss close. Time, not my
theme, fails me One Of the rarest of
men, gentle, sweet, brave and grand
he towers the nober 10 view as he dis
appears from the sight and the mortal,
which was also immortal, rises and
transhgures into celestial and eternal
Fortunate city, to have known as resi-.
dent In its midst. such a person such a
presence Fortunate to have had for
more thar twenty-five years the minis
trations of its service and the beam and
blessing Of It's bepediction!
Tie great qualities incarnated in life
are sacramento; they have exhaustless
qulchenirg and vitallzing power. The r
breath is contagious, the atmosphere
carries infection; infects to virtue, to
nobleness, to truth. Any worthy deed,
high resolve, snany, generous per
Torrance, piques, rouses and incites to
do like or more. [ caunot hear of il
without being stirred and stimulated,
nerved to fresh action. The sight of
possession helps me to be possessed
the sight of patience strengthens me
to bear, and the spectacle of courage
makes courageous All Of our teach
ing is by object lessons. From the
earliest infancy to the latest age our
instruction and quickeuing come
through scenes and by symbols In
him was life, and the life was the light
of men, We lie 90 The bosom Of hu-
mainly, and from that breast we draw
perpelual]y. History is our sacrament;
man, especially in the nobler samples,
lS our leFelalOf ana nelper.
Too carefully we can not preserve.
keeping in mind this symbolic relation,
the forms, the feeting shadows even,
that were to US the medium of such
benefit. Well may we invoke the pen
of the scribe, the printers type, the
painters brush and the sculptor's
chisel, anything that they serve to give
hem perpeiuity, to keep to us the pic
ture alphabet 10 which our first great
lessons were conveyed, and the senten-
ces read to US, that set our lives to any
note of the music of the skies.
Let this representation, done in the
beautiful marble, rendering so express
lively and lmpressiveIy some Of the
choicest features of our departed friend,
stand constant hint and also proph
ecy. Let it stand here, for it belongs
with US, having been wrought BY the
fair hand of one of our own citizens,
our city itself honored in the high gift
of her genius, her skill and indomita-
BILE enterprise. Let it stand here, in
this city Of his adoption, his warmest
affection and lifelong service. Let it
stand withal here, on this spot especial
y sacred 10 the cause of education to
his memory; in this structure, whose
very being is SO largely due to his IN
terest, his enterprise and untiring de-
votion. Let it stand to greet the eyes
of all beholders, especially the youth,
as they shall resort hlther, beamiDg
with its benign radiance to feed, nour-
ish and quicken every generous aspi-
ration and noble resolve It shall be
indeed an auxiliary, perpetual helper
in the cause Of the higher education
1t needs yet finer age; it awaits
generation worthier than ours, less alb
sorbed in material pursuit, less Of the
earth, earthly, more unselfsh, spiritual,
humane, justly to apprehend and fully
to appreciate this soul. We of this
time are incapacitated though our tenn
permanent, in the general and dominant
tone of our living to enter deeply,
alphabetically, into his spirit and
aims. There were plans of his tor hui
man amelioration, that must wait
ripper age to be welcomed and realized.
In future day, when life shall be set
to higher key, when it shall have be-
come one great sacrament of devotion,
self-surrender, love, when the nerves
shall thrill perpetually to the finer
thought and the nobler doing-then
shall Samuel j. May be more thor
oughly studied, felt and known.
Let this stand to aid that future
! knowledge. Let it be one contribution,
left by this age for that time sure to
come, when generations now unborn,
earnest, inquiring, hungering seekers,
shall carefully explore all this past,
religiously searching for every trace
and fragment that may serve to shed
light and bring them near to the bene-
factors and prophets of the fore-time.
He, too, opine, albeit using never
the gift of lyric expression, to be found
one of those
"Olympian bards who sung