The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1889-05-30

being with its penetrating and purifying fire
carries his thoughts, affections, passions, to
higher levels of character. converts faith into
sight, that at last the mysteries of the super
natural world partially unrolled to his eager
gaze; he catches glmpses of glores almost too
bright for the aching to BEAR discerns right
truth and justice radiations from one awful
lovelness, and sees
Around His throne the sanctities of heaven
| beatitudes past utterance.
| Filled and stirred with these wondrous visions
he becomes a soldier of the chivalry of spirit,
patriot of the heavenly kingdom. The true
pilgrim of eternity. burdened beneath the weight
of his rapture, until it finds expression in those
electric deeds whose shock is felt all over the
earth, amazing time itself with thrill from eter
nifty. But the full power of this awful beauty of
holiness is only and felt in the virtues it
creates. In the felicity with which it transmutes
calamties into occasions for the exercise of new
graces of character In the sureness of its glance
into the occult secrets of life; in the solid patience
which exhausts all the ingenuity of persecution,
in the serene audacity which dares all the prin-
cipalities of earth. and defes all the powers of
he'll; in the triumphant faith which hears the
choral chant amidst the torments of the rack,
and sees cherubc faces through the glare of the
fires of martyrdom.
We have thus attempted to present the heroic
spirit, as its creative glow successfully animates
the soldier, the patriot and the saint. We have
seen that this spirit is spirit OF love- beauty and
, power, giving the human soul its finest expression
while its glorious inspiration illuminates history
f with the splendors of romance, it is prolific
source in humble life, of heroic deeds which nc
history records. All these rise before the souls
! eye, glorious company of immortals from the
battefelds of unsefsh fame. They press upon
us, not dead memories of the past, but a:
O living forces of the present, to stream into ou
spirits the resistless energies which gladdeneC
= theirs
/ {" Filling the soul with sentiments august,
The beautiful. the brave, the holy and the just
He who had conflict demanding the herosn
r of the ages, who had a patriotism commensurate
with an heavenly country, who had an ey,
piercing to eternal r+alities and aheart and sou
- to encircle a world, said, Remember Me-
! ne war is over, ana heroes nave scars Il
show. Onehero rolls back his sleeve and show
gunshot fracture another pulls down his cola
and shows where he was wounded in the neck
n another says l have never had the use of m
e limb since was wounded at the battle of Get
1t tysburg. When the last day comes when a
lie the battles over will we have any wound
lie for Christ? Some have wounds for sin, wound
Is got in fighting on the wrong Side Have W
m scars can show. gotten in the battle for Chri:
re and for truth. Christ will have plenty of seal
es to show for you and for me. Scars on his hand
lg scars his feet, scars on his brow. He wi
Of pull aside his robe of royalty and show the sea
d. on his side, and all heaven will break down wit
lie emotion and gratitude in one great sob. Whe
E. we are confronted, at the last day. with ii
# crimson lips of his wounds, they will interroga
i'd us with the question: d" Did you remember N
Ill in the dire conflict with evil to herocally an
h. bravely contend for and defend truth and II
IS. right. fighting the good fight of faith Then,
IN our wounds answer back yes, all heaven w
h. shout. The righteous shall be in everlastir
lie remembrance