The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-06-17

tails" and we thank God, and look
out hopefully to the inconceivable fu-'
ture. "Out of life into death, out
death into life;" and ever higher and
higher presses on the race.
Among the teachers of tolerance
and philosophy we think of Spinoza
who lived so humbly and thought so
highly ofLesing and Maimonides,the
latter driven out of Europe and forced
TO find refuge in africa, whence he |
still sent his winged words to lift
up the souls of men. We remember
Chrysostom, the golden, fnouthed,"
uttering his sentences so sweet that
according to legend the honey bees
would settle upon his lips. Amidst
the snow and wastes ofthe Caucasus
we recall the faithful Prince Ferdi-
nand, of Portugal, who chose to die
slave among the Moors, who had
captured him in battle, rather than
to allow Portugal to ransom him by |
the gift of the city Centa which was
demanded by the captors as the
price of his liberty; but Ferdinand
refused to allow ga Christian city
with alters of God, and thousands
of helpless women and children to
be exchanged for his poor life"
Calderon made this the subject of a
famous dramma entitled The faith
full Prince A full account can be
found in Marianne and in the POr-
tugese chronicles Of Ring de Riva in
the archives of Madrid.
Egbert, the. Saxon King of Hesse,
had visited and lived in the court Of
Charles the Great. There he learn
ed much in that school of states
manship and intellectual activity.
he represents in England the advance
, from barbarism, strife and anarchy
into peace, order and the reign of
, law. Alfred the Great was the no.
blest of the Kings of Hesse; he set
f the standard of an English ruler; he
thought not of himself, but of his
charge and duty; he did nothing for
show and sought not his own glory,
, but gave himself wholly to the inter
est of his kingdom and the du les of
, his station. He had most trOub-
led life, but he stamped the impress
| of his character upon his people,
f and is vet the ideal prince of En-
gland, a model for his successors.
The immortals are the highest
, organisms Of the life of each people,
and so they lift up the ideal of the
, race and serve to shape its growth
II and character. The highest gift a
. hero gives his race, is to have been
) a here. Happy are the people who
have made for themselves noble
, history--wL have contributed many
p to the worlds crowned throng OF
heroes.
, The immortals of to-day have a
e lvaster arena for action than those
!. of the earlier ages. Steam, electric
a | itv and the almost incalculable pow
II er of the press have brought the peo-
piles of the world so close together
a that what is felt and done to-day in
: America is known to its antipodes
ell tomorrow and as the plane Of the
d masses of men becomes elevated, the
S ability of the individual who rises
o above his fellows and becomes q
I leader must be grander and more
eel versatile. So it follows that while
IS we have many men among us Of
d more than fair ability, we have but
e rarely true "Immortal" to come
d out from our midst. The great man OF
e to-day must meet all the requisi
tions of our complex civilization
n The press takes the part Of the old
k bards and bestows the mead OF fame
i where it may be recognized, not only
n in a nation, but all over the world
!. wherever men think and read. II
. discusses, analyses, sifts, doubts
n enouires, and so in the conflict OF
le utterances the mans true level is
l. eventually found, and he is judged
$. before his death, not according tc
% the manner of the Egyptians, after
q his decease.
~ In sketch so slight and brief as
le this, nothing more is intended thar
g to make suggestions for more ex-
y, haustive research. 1t would be i'm
possible to do more than. to give
le coup deil over the past panorama
d of the worlds history, and to select
d such names as strike our eyes at
le glance.
y Washington is one Of the rare ex
If ceptions of great leader who dice
in peace. He wore the worlds
lie crown of thorns only while in active
N service and in office. He abdicated
le and dropped the sceptere. and Will
n it the pain. Bus in so doing, he
D ceased to be any longer useful tt
d men except as an object of quie
: veneration.
e, The social life of man is ever al
Y tering, and forever progressing. Th'
= masses of the people are pressing
> upwards perpetually nations an'
r peoples forced on by the power o
n. their individual leaders, who worl
re and think, and speak, before them
m and thus become archetypes of eve
w lutions for each people. have sal
er it was good for any people to max
of a noble history, so l feel that it
ld good for us to review now the glor
IN of onr country during the past twel
in ty years. No people have made
1t, grander record. No people have ha
lie a greater or sublimer leaders. TN
l names of statesmen and warriors
~ the South shine gloriously on the go
be den roll of honor. The phantom
of our dead heroes set side by sid
OF with equal dignity in the line {
or Earth's Immortals. Scipio and Han
ch ibal. Alexander and Caesar will max
room for Jackson and Polk and LIZ
MS and Sidney Johnston. There is sti
form which has lead us in tn
storm of battle, and in the council
ess of State, form venerable, but sti
erect, whose hand yet clasps til
" sceptre of pain, and upon who's
pc, snow white hair we see I'll
IDS dim outline of the crown of thorn
The Immortals wait to welcome hi
ms as their own forever in the world
tn Valhala.
Oh AT San Jub:, Texas, Mr.. Roun'
ofl tree, with his wife. daughter, anot
er young lady, and two three al
ch six year old boys, took refuge in
a. cave during rain stern, and ii