The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-31

cur Other conditions may or may not
exist We may be rich or p0or; we may
be learned or ignorant; we may be happy
or wretched; but we all must ole. The
verdict has been pronounced by the mex
orable decree of an omnipotent tribunal.
without trial or opportunity for defense;
with 10 knowledge of the accuser, or the
nature and cause of the accusation;
without being confronted with the
witnesses against US, We have
been Summoned to the bar of life and con-
demued to death. There is no writ Of error
nor review. There is neither exculpation
nor appeal ALI must be reliuQulshed
Beauty and deformity, good and evil, virtue
and vice, share the same relentness fate.
The tender mother cries passionately for
her first born, but there Is no clemency
The craven felon sullsnly prays for a mo-
ment in which to be aneled, but there is no
reprieye. Toe soul helplessly beats its
wings against the bars, shoulders and disap-
pears.
The prescription extends alike to the in
dividual aud the type. Nations die and
races expire. Humanity itself is destined
to extinction. Sooner or later it is the in
struction of science that the energy of the
earth will be expended. and it will become
incapable OF supporting lie. A group of
feeble and pallid survivors in some. sheltered
valley in the tropics will behold the sun
glitter in the midnight sky. The last man
will perish, and the sun will rise upon an
earth without an inhabitaut. It's atmos-
phere, its seas, its life and heat, will vanish.
and the planet will he an idle cinder use
lessly spinning in its orbit.
Every hour some world dies unnoticed in
the armament; some sun smoulkers to en-
bers and ashes on the hearthstone of infinite
space, and the mighty maze of systems
sweeps ceaselessly onward in its voyage of
doom to remorSeless and unsparing destruc-
ton.
With the disappearance of man from the
earth all traces of his existence will be lost
The palaces, towers and temples be has
reared, the institutions he has established
the cities he has builded, the book, he has
written, the creeds he has constructed, the
PHILOSOPHERS he has formulated-all science,
art, literature and knowledge will be oblit-
Grated and engulfed in empty and vacant
oblivion.
The great globe itself.
Yea, all which it inherit shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded
IT ave not a rack behind
There is an Intelligence so vast and en-
during that the flaming intervals between
the birth and dea h of universes is no more
than the flash of fireflies above the meadows
OF summer; a colossal power by which these
stnpendous orbs are launched in the abyss,
AA0S oAODhOo OAO"u ny u Cullu III tub morn
Ing sun, and whose sense of justice and rea-
son cannot be less potential than those i'm
mutable statutes that are the law of being
to the creatures He has made, and which
compel them to declare that if the only OBJ
lect of creation is destruction, if infinity is
the theater of an uninterrupted series of
lrreparable calamiUies if the final cause of
life is death, then time is an inexplicable
tragedy, and eternity an illogical and in
defenslhle catastrophe.
Nc, Mr.. President, this obsequy is for the
quick and not for the dead. 1t is not an
inconsolable lamentatien. 1t is a strain of
triumph. 1t is an affirmation to those who
survive that, as our departed associate,
contemplating at the close of his life the
monument of good deeds he had erected,
more enduring than brass and loftier than
the pyramids of kings, might excIaim with
the Roman poet, non OnlniS mortar. So,
turning to the silent and unknown future,
he could rely with just and reasonable con-
fidence upon that most impressive and
momentous assurance ever delivered to the
human race, HE that believeth in me,
though he were dead, yet shall he live; and
whososver liyeth and beleveth in me shall
never die"