The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-11-06


and look after those patients. Holis told
to lie down, bat he lights his attendants
until he falls back, and Is weaker and
weaker. and dies for people with whom
he had no kinship. and far away from
his family, and 10 hastily put away in .
strangers tomb, and only the
fifth part Of . newspaper line
tells rs Of his sacrifice, his name
just mentioned among five. Yet he has
touched the turthest height Of sublimity
In that three weeks Of Humanitarian ser
vice. He goes straight "a an arrow to the
bosom Of him who said: ~ was sick. and
ye visited me-" Life for life. Blood for
blood. Substitution.
In the legal profession see the same
principle Of self. sacrifice. In 1916, VIM.
Freeman, paupsrized and idiotic negro.
was at Auburn, N. Y, ON trial for muir.
der. He had slain the entire Van Ness
family. The foamipg wrath Of the COM
munity could be kept OF him only by
armed constablss. Who would volunteer
to be his counsel No attorney wanted TO
sacrifice his popularity by such an un.
grateful task. All were silent save one, q
Jung 1aWy0I WIN ACOOAO vOASOe ,SAsses
could hardly be heard outside the bar, pale
and thin and awkward It was VIM. b.
Seward. who saw that the prisoner was
idiotic and irresponsible and ought to b
put In an asylum rather than put 10 death,
the heroic counsel uttering these beautiful
words: II speak now in the hearing Of .
people who have prejudiced the prisoner
and condemned me for pleading in his b.
half He is . convict, pauper, negro,
without intellect. sense or emotion. Ny
child. with an aifectionate smile. disarms
cross my1 threshold. The begger in the
street obliges me to give, because he says,
God bless you.' IS Ipass. My dog caresses
mo with fondness il will but smile on him.
My horse recognizes me when al his
manger. What reward, what gratitude,
what sympathy and affection can expect
heref There the prisoner sits. Look at
him. Look at the assemblage around you.
Listen to their Unsurpassed censures and
their excited fears, and tell me where,
among my neighbors or my fellow.men,
where even in his heart I can expect to
find sen timent, a tn ught, not to say of
reward or acknowledgement. or even Of
recognition? Gentlemen, you
may think of this evidence what you
please; bring in what verdict you can,
but asseverate, before Heaven and you,
that o the best Of my knowledge and be.
lief, the prisoner at the bar does not at
this moment know why it is that my shad :
ow falls on you instead of his own" The
galiows got IT'S victim, hut the post NOR.
tenn examination OF tho poor creature
showed to all the surgeons and to all the
world that the public were wrong and
VIM. H. Seward was right, and that hard,
stony step Of ObloQuy in the Auburn court
room was the first step Of the stairs Of
fame up which he went to the top, or to
within one step of the top. that last do.
MED him through the treachery Of Amer.
lean politics. Nothing sublimer was ever
seen in an American courtroom than
VIM. II. Seward, without reward, stand.
ing between the fury of the populacs and
the loa.hsome imbecile. Subs tuition.
In the realm Of the fine arts there was
as remarkable an instance. A brilliant
but hypercriticised PAINTER. Joseph vii.
liam Turner, was met by volley of abuse
from all the art galleries of Eu ope. His
paintings, which have since won the APP
plause of all civilized nations. "The Fifth
Plague of Egg pt." FISHERMEN on Lee
Shore in Squally Weather." "Calais Pier -
1.-THE Sun Rising Through Mist" and ''Dido
Building Carthage" were then targ tt for
critics to shoot at. In defense of this out.
abused man q young author of
twenty -iour years, just one year out of
college, came forth with his pen and wrote
tue ablest and most famous essays on art
that the world ever saw, or ever will see
John Ruskin's "Modern Painters" For
seventeen years this author fought the
battles of the maltreated artist, and after
in poverty and broken heartedness the
painter had died and the public tried to
undo their crueIties oward him by giving
him o big funeral and burial at st. Paul's
Cat hedral, his old-time friend took out of
a tin.box 1900 pieces of paper conta ming
dr. awnings by the old painter, and through
many weary and uncompensa,ed months,
and arranged them for public
People say John Rus.
kin in his old days Is cross. mis-
and morbid. Whatever he
may do that he ought not to do,
and whatever he may say thai he ought
not to say between now and his death, he
will leave this world insolvent as far as it
has any capacity to pay this authors pen
for its chivalric and Christian defense of
q poor painters pencil. John Ruskin for
william Turner. Blood for blood. Sub.
stitu,ioD.
What an ex alting principle this which
leads one to suffer for another. Nothing
so kindles enthusiasm, or awakeLs elo-
quence, or chimes poetic canto. or moves
nations. That principle is the dominant
one in our religion-Christ the martyr,
Christ the celestial hero, Christ the de-
fender, Christ the substitute. No new
principle, for it was as old as human ma.
ture, bat now on grander, wider, higher,
deeper and more understanding scale.
The shepherd boy, as champion for Israel.
with . sling toppled the giant Of Philis-
tine braggadocio in the dust, but here Is
another David, who, for all the armies
hurls the Goliath of hell into de-
feat, the crash of his brazen armor like
an explosion at He'll Gate. Abraham
had, at Gods command, agreed to sacri.
tices his son Isaac, and the same God,
just in lime, had provided . ram o: the
thicket as . substitutes; but here is an.
other Isaac, bound to the altar, and no
land arrests the sharp edges Of lacera.
ton and death, and the universe shivers
and quakes and recolls and eroans at
the horror. All good men have for CEN
uries been trying to toll what this sub.
,t.tute was like. and every cOmpari.
son, inspired and uninsp red. evangelis-
tic, prophetic, apostolic and human. falls
short, for Christ was the great unlike.
Adam type of Christ, because he came
from God; Noah type Of Christ.
because he delivered his own family from
deluge; Mslchisedeck q type OF Christ,