The Progress., 1893-08-05

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@lGO,OOO,OOO. "lnasmuch as ye Ss
not" What of all the battles so Iiu II
now that the body has been laid Sd
grave: True. ne met his epenie, - Ile
great railroad battle. when oi.,.. "a Tie
pitted against giants, when ,n;r, r0s
were marshaled against milli,ns
on the issue hung inc tilnable f.r..ue eue
and he won on that Black r.:5e>
When thousand hearts a~ayr si,r. .,'a!'
death from Its horrors. his face ,..s. ,'l''
smiling above the chaos, 1nast.~ of ,7l ,7ea
dark hour. "d'
TO TIE LEVEL OF TIE HuD rAgprrp
True. he brought his ereui-s -.
feet and made them crawl on his
nifcent carpets and beg for mercy ,-hv
they had defied him. And Vet yba.9
it, that the battles are over. that Ts..
done, and he cannot occupy mrr5 - -
than six feet of Arth: The oa-ket ,S..
contains ms remains is no larger tbs,'
the caskct that contains the remairs- -
the hod carrier that removed rho s,rg,
from his back door. or of the I,.E..
that broke stones on the uava,nent :
front of his palace.
BATTLES OF THE A.F
"Ye did il not" Great in,-i+pt;,,.
We're built in his lifetime-bo,nitsi.
homes. asylums. colleges. One bnndr.J
million dollars We're his. and he dI
nothing. Philanthropists dreamed q
the alleviation Of human >gfferi,o
Their dreams crystallized in brick ami
mortar, stone and cement. Nilsson
aries went with their burning ,ness.n.
to foreign lands. In the dark ora,
ters of the city Jerry McAuley bujlt HI,
missions. Our Salvation Army carriol
its standard into the dark Quarters q
the city. Our missionaries built tbe;,
hospitals and homes. But this man ii
supreme commercial genius cared f.,
his fortune, and it grew apace. Peonl,
were oppressed. They cried in their do
spair, and others heard and tried 10 ~.
cue and to save. The world in his If.
time became a great whispering galleryiu
which every cry of suffering and listre-.
from earth's remOtest bounds rang IN
every other mans ears. 1t was his IN.
portunity to bless not only his own conn.
try, but foreign lands, in that broader
ministry of humanity. His yacht sailel
the seas of the world, looked On III
depths of the Mediterranean. circled tbe
earth in search of health for self,
Great reformers labored and battlel
for the uplifting of the people, for tbc
saving of the nation, FOR the saving Of
the city. Men bore on their shonlder.
the burden of an outcast world. They
visited the prisoner. They clothed tie
naked. They fed the hungry. They
to the sick. They sought The
strangers. But he did it not. A thou.
sand heroic lives were lived and thon
sand heroic deeds wrought through lin.
tied means, while $1O0 1000, 900. with all
its incalculable power over humanity
and for humanity, did nothing save ac
for some one else to use in tn
same selfish way.
MASTER OR SLAVE.
Is life worth living? What life:
To do good TO others? Yes. To live
for the race? Yes. To live for human.
ty, for country? Yes. To live merely
for self, in self, of self-our Boston
philosopher from his palace Cd
.he avenue is surely right in his coDcu-
non. Life is not worth living from sucL
| point of view. Suicide is the only log
cal conclusion TO a life of mere selfish
hess. The man who waits for death tc
rush him physically and spiritually il
merely the greater fool.
A man on a ship had belted around
lis body fortune in gold. A storm
struck the vessel, and it was wrecked
lie could have saved himself by casting
side this enormous weight of metal and
triking out for the shore as did Others
lie refused to part with his metal. He
'elted it closer about his body and
'lunged into the sea. The weight sOo1
arried him to the bottom. and he was
rowned. Did the man possess the gold,
+ did the gold possess him?