Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-11-30

,,.s;da of the world tne hos
Oh 'ne - t,a internal fire is digging un.
a. the foundation of the earen
"a ...;rr rs yvav out toward the SURFACE.
II surprises me to hear peopie s ~ he
do not think the world VIII mai a;,i eli
burned up. when all scientists VIZ
vou that il has for ages peen o
Svhv there is only a crust between
nd tho furnaces inside raging "
ont Oblivionl The world ltse,
roll into it as easily as schoo,
india rubber ball rolls down hiii' ano
when our world goes, it is SO in.e,
locked by the law OF gravita 'ion "a
other worlds that they Will 60 'oo' o.
60 far from having our memory pei 70
rated nv a monument OF Aperoesn
,,ran;te in this world, there is no "oriu
r. sioht Of our strongest telescope tina.
win be sure pediment for any 81.
communication of the fact lhat We
eyer lived or died at all. Our earn -
struck with death. The axle-tree Oh
10 consultations will break and lei
down the populations OF other worms
S..llar. lunar, solar mortality. ou'lN
ion, Item swallow and will swalio"
,-hole caiaxies of worlds as easily as
crocodile takes down frog.
W, ob won does not remove or swan
low ANYTHING that had better not be
,...,,,nved or swallowed. This old mon
ster is welcome to his meal The worm
would long ago have been overcrowae"
II not for the merciful removal OF ma
tions and generations. What If all the
hooks had lived that were ever written
and printed and published? The nora
ries would by their immensely have 90
structed intelligence and made all re-
search impossible. The fatal epidemic
of books was a merciful epidemic
Many of the state and national libra
ries to-day are only morgues, IN when
dead books are waiting for some one y
come and recognize them. What II al
the people that had been born were
still alive? We would have been ell
bowed bv our ancestors of ten centuries
ago. and people who ought ave
said their last word three thousa.
years ago. would snarl at us. saving;
''Nyhat are you doing here?' There
would have been no room to turn
around Some of the past generations
of mankind were not worth remember
ing. The first useful thing many
people did was TO die; their era
die a misfortune and their grave p
boon. This world was hardly com
Portable place TO live in before the MIC
die of the last century. So MANY
things have come into the world t..at
were not fit to stay in, we ought to be
glad that they were put out. The
waters Of Lcthe. the fountain OF for
retfulness are healthful draught.
The history we have of the world in
ages past IS always one-sided and can
not be derendei on. History is action
illustrated by few struggling facts.
In all the Pantheon the weakest god-
less is Clio. the goddess OF history, and
instead of being represented by sculp-
tors as holding scroll, might better
be represented as limping on crutches.
Faithful history is the saving of few
things out of more things lost. The
immortality that comes from pomp OF
obsequies, or granite shaft, or building
named after its founder. or page OF
recognition in some encyclopedia is an
Immortality unworthy of ones ambi-
ton. for il will cease, and is no immor-
tally at all Oblivionl A hundred
years. But while recognize this uni
versal submergence of things earthly.
who wants to be forgotten? Not one
of us Absent for a few weeks o.
months from home, II cheers us to
know that we are remembered
there. 1t is phrase we have
all pronounced: 81 hope you missed
me-" Meeting some friends from whom
we have been parted many years, we
inquire: did You ever see me before?''
and they say Yes" and call us bv
name. and we feel delightful sensa-
ton thrilling through their hand into
our hand. and running up from elbow
TO shoulder, and then parting. the one
current of delight ascending to the
brow and the other descending to the
foot. moving round and round in con-
centric circles until every nerve and
muscle and capacity of body and mind
and soul is permeated with delight. A
few days ago, visiting the place of
boyhood. | met one whom ] had not
seen since we PLAYED together at ten
years OF age and had peculiar pleas.
ure in puzzling him little as to who !
was. and can hardly describe the sen
sation. as. after awhile. he stumbled
out: LET me see. Yes, Won are De
Witt We all like TO be remembered
Now have to tell you that this obliv.
ion Of which ] have spoken has its
defeats. AMI that there is no more rea-
son why we should not be distinctly
and wildly and glorionslv remembered
five hundred million billion quadrii,on
ouin,iliion years from now. than that
we should be remembered six weeks
am goiug to tell you how the thing can
be done and will be done.
We may build this Everlasting re
semblance." as my text styles it. into
the supernal existence of those t.