The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-05-31

| 70 our nature, so well adapted 10 prosper
ity or adversely" The same writer quote
as monstrous the speech of an actor In
play that, "men should always act a
though they were about to become enc
miles," The motto of this high and cain
attachment should be forever" In th
same essay the writer says: 80 This is
virtue regarding whose merit all mankin,
agree" Thus all the deep students O
society in the long past have paused and
as it were, have uncovered their head
when thew have passed by the shrine wher
Friendship sat looking down in perpetua
benignity.
AS love became the basis of charity il
one age, SO in an age of more virtue an,
though this devotion of man to man Nigh
easily become an equal but purer inspira
ton. We admire It when we see it, bu
we all forget to live its life. When W.
see q man imperiling his life for friend
our admiration becomes unbounded, AMI
for an hour we feel how unworthy is tn,
ambition of Kings or Generals compare,
with this devotion of heart to heart
When the Spottiswood Hotel was burnin,
at Richmond on q Christmas Day, few
years ago, an incident occurred which re
minds us that there ia in the soul senti
| ment capable Of achieving greater thing
than man has yet drawn from its resources
The incident is related in the address of
public man, and thus was rescued from
the pcrishable newspaper. A Mr.. Hine.
busted himself in seeking through tn.
smoke and heat of the room and corridor.
for any lost or suffocated one. Learning
that special friend was missing, he
plunged once more into the rolling black
and hot cloud, and after an absence OF
seconds, which seem like hours, he ap
peared at an upper window, half carrying
half dragging the unconscious man. A
shout of joy went up from the street. But
he had reached the window a minute toe
late. The center of the building fell and
dragged inward into the crater of the vol.
canO the window and wall which were
presenting to the throng such a picture OF
human devotion. Death perhaps cam
to carry them both to where friendship is
pure and imperishable.
At the burning of another hotel not loDg
since there was a similar instance
of self-sacrifice, and this display OF
love for a man burst forth from
a heart not specially trained accord.
ing to church rules or the rules of
high society. Evidently there is in man.
kind some unmined riches, some hidden
ore, diamonds yet unseen, whose riches
and light will spring up in other days.
Often have you seen rude, playful sketches
of that kind of boy called The Neglected
Genius" He is roughly and poorly clad.
His hair is not looked after by any mother
or sister. He is barcfooted. He is sit
ting on the humblest bench in the log
schOol-house, and in all ways looks a.
though no one in the world knew him or
cared for him, and as though any fence.
corner or hay stack might be his home
But mark this: On his slate he has drawn
the teachers face, and he smiles, and the
better dressed boys around smile at the
sly portrait of the master. In this en-
bodiment of neglect slumbers a mind
which years not far away will call ''Cole, {"
or q Powers" or Angelo" Just thus
in the midst of civilization, even of Chris
tianity, there is sitting form unseen al
most, quite uncared for, ragged, home.
less. 1t is barefooted and hungry. But
look at this humble being closely and see
what is in the heart or hear what words it
is repeating to itself, what a hymn it is
chanting to its own bosom. The words
are: "a brother is born for adversity,"
and There is friend that sticketh closer
than brother" IL have not called
YOU servants, but l have called you
friends" The soliloquy runs over the
centuries, and from all the mighty souls
that have lived, inspired and uninspired,
picks out such golden words. This hum.
bic being who has to chant alone because
the world is too cold or busy to Join in
the song, is called Friendship, the =" Neg
lected Genius of Christianity. Beyond
doubt years are coming which will crowd
back mauy doctrine which has puzzled
the intellect or chilled the soul of man.
kind, and will make this least to he great.
est, and this last to be first. This beauti-
full Cinderella, sitting in the ashes to-day
while her vain sisters, which one may
name Philosophy and Metaphysics, are
decorating themselves for the dazzling
feast, will on the morrow he found to be
the real beautiful body and soul of the
group, and will be led up into the palace
life OF higher civilization. What rich.
ness there is in the human heart will at
last become manifest. Gold which was
trampled over for thousands of years bv
brute and savage, at last shines forth in
The coins and jewels of enlightened man;
and SO the virtues covered up in the soul
will rise up in majesty before God will
permit the drama of earth to close He
would not have planted the seeds had he
not contemplated q harvest. The seeds
have long been lying in the mind. Even
when old Cyrus was King, and had taken
captive ON the battlefield the Prince of
Armenia, to Cyrus, who asked the Prince
what sum he would give if he spared his
life, he said, "All MY property!' "What
will you give if will spare your family?"
g N.Y. lJer' The reply SO struck
the conquer0r that he released at once the
captive. St. John saw this half concealed
virtue when he said, "Greater love hath
no man than this, that man lay down
his life for his friends :" and Paul dreamed
Of it when lie said that " peradventure for
, good man sume would even dare to die.n
Thus the seeds of this flower have long
lain in the soil of earth, and doubtless be-
fore US somewhere will come blossom.
ing that will fill the air with perfume and
the worlds autumn with fruit.
And no dying for friends will be de-
No such sacrifice follows friend
ship more than one day in thousand;
but this quality will find in the houses of
business, in the streets, in the social cir.
Gle, in the church, in the relations of
Christians. in the sermons of the pulpit,
in the columns of the religious press, in
the breadth of Christian creeds, in the
equality of the churches, ample field for
its evOlutiOns. 1t will come to mitigate
The per cents. of the Shylocks, to do away
with an ethics of business that shall diff
fer from the ethics of q brotherhood; it
will come to make business transaction
IS pleasant as an exchange OF greetings
On the street; 1t will come to soften Grill
cism OF each other, and to crowd into OBJ
livion the religions of large prosecutions
for small distinctions; it will come to help
. true idea of Christ to penetrate the in
most spirit of humanity.
Pictures Of Death.
liz the temple of Juno, at Elio, Sleep,
md his twin brother, Death, were repre-.
rented Is children reposing in the arms Of