Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-11-16

and let down the populations IF other
worlds. stellar, lunar, solar mortality.
ObliviOnl 1t can swallow and will swallow
whole galaNies of worlds rs casilyss croc-
odilc takes down frog.
THE FATAL EPIDEMIC or BoCEs
Yet oblivion does not remove on sW allow
anything that had better not bercinovcd or
swallowed. The old monster is welcome to
his meal. This world would long ago have
been overcrowdcd if it had not bee, for the
merciful removal of nations and genera
tions. What if all the books had lived that
were ever written and printed aud pub
lshpd? The libraries would Inv rhcir inn
mensty have INSTRUCTED intcllic, nee and
made all research impossible. She fatal
epidemic of books was Il merciful epidemic.
Many of the state and national libraries
today are only morgues in which dead
books are waiting for some one TO come
and recognize them. What if all the pco-
pie that had been born were sti ii alive?
We would have been elbowcd ly oar an
tcstorS of 10 centuries ago. and people who
ought to have said their last word 5000
years agovoIld suarl at us, saying, what
pre you doing hcre?' There would have
been no room to turn around Sorc of the
past generations of mankind Ncrh not
that many people did was to die, their era
die a misfortune and their grave r. boon
This world was hardly a comfortable
place to live in before HE middle Of tie last
I century. 80 many things have come into
the world thai were not Ill to eta- II, We
ought to hr glad they were put ont. The
waters of Lcthe. the fountain Of lur-ctiul-
ness, are healthful draft. The history
we have of the world in ages past aS always
one sided and cannot be depended IN. His
tory is fiction illustrated by fc5 strag-
Cling facts. In all the Pantheon tnewcak-
est goddess is Clio. the goddess of history,
and instead of being represented ty ,culp-
tors as holding scroll might better e rep
resented As limping on crutches.
Faithful history is the saving If n few
things out Of more things lost Tie inn
mortality that comes from pOmr Of obse-
quics, or granite shaft, or building named
after its founder, or page of recognition in
some eucycCz,"dia is an imnortali y I'M
worthy of ones ambition, for it VIII cease
and j. no immortality at all. Obliyicn A
| hundred years. But while | recognize this
universal submergence of things earthly
who wants to he forgotten? Not one of us.
HOW TO PIE REMEMBERED CENTURIES.
Absent for a few weeks or months from
nome, III CnctrS US 10 KNOW JHaU we are re-
| mem bered there 1t is q phrase we have
all pronounced, II hope you missed me. ="
Meeting some friends from whom we have
been parted many years, we inquire, Did
you ever see me bcforc>' and they say,
Yes" and call us by name, and Nc feel a
delightful sensation thrilling through their
hand into our hand, and running mp from
! elbow to shoulder, and then parting. the
one current of delight ascending to the
brow and the other descending to ,hn foot
moving round and round in concentric cir
Giles until every nerve and muscle and ca
| pacity of body and mind and soul is pcrme-
ated with delight.
| \ few days ago, visiting the place Of my
boyhood, l met one whom | had NOT seen
| since we played together ut 10 years of age,
and mad peculiar pleasure in pu22ing him
! Il little as to who was. and | can hardly
| describe tn" sensation as after awhile he
| mumhled out: "Iet me see. Yes, YOU are
| De Witt" We all like to he remember
| Now, have to tell you that this oblivion
! of which have spoken has its defcat- and
that there is no moro reason why We should
| moi bcdi-tincj Iy and wildly and goriou sly
remembered five hundred million billion
trillion quadrillion qllintillon years from
now than that we should be remembered
/ IN "V'NS' "i' s"'lS 10 ven ou no" Ihe
| 'hll0 can ne uohe ana Will ne uouc'
| we may pUIid TINS everlasting remem-
J prahcc' rs my text Styles IT, INTO the SUI
( pcrnal existence OF those to whom we do
klh"hessrs IN 'hi' world You must re-
/ nIehlpcr tnaC inns lhllflu ana lfcachtrouS
faculty winch we now eau memory Is IN the
! luture state TO DE complete ana perfect.
ENerlastlnG remem Dfahce! Nothing VIII
| snip the stout grip OF that celestial faculty.
Did you help WHO" pay hcr rent; Dld
you ma Tor tha' man released lrom prison
II place 10 gct honest work? Dld You pick
ZIP Hchlld lalieh on the curbStohe, anu by "A
suck OF candy put IN ms hand stop the
hurt on ms scratched Knee? Did YOU as
sure business man. sWamped by the Strn-
gehcy OF the money market, that times
would after aWhhe be better?
Dld you lead Magdalen OF the street
INTO midnight mission where the Lord
sad to her; Neither do | condemn thee;
90 and SIN no moreF DID you tell man,
clear discouraged IN ms WaywaroncSs and