The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-13

J welcome 10 ms meal. inns world would
+ long ago have been OyercrOwded if not for
+ the merciful removal of nations and gen
erations. What II all the books had lived
( that were ever written and printed and
/ published. The libraries would by their
immensely have INSTRUCTED intelligence
and made all research impossible. The
fatal epidemic of books was a mercitul
epidemic. Many of the state and national
. libraries to-day are only mOrEueS, in
which dead books are waiting for some
/ one to come and recognize them. What
/ if all the people that had been born were
/ still alive, We would have been elbOwed
/ by our ancestors of ten centuries ago, and
people who ought to have said their last
word three thousand years ago, would
/ ing here?" There would have been no
room to turn around. Some Of the past
| generations of mankind were not worth
I remembering The first useful thing
that-many people did was TO die; their
cradle a misfortune and their grave
boon. This world was hardly a cOmfOr-
table place to live in before the middle Of
the last century. So many things have
I come into the world that were not tit to
stay in, we ought to be glad they were
pat out. The waterso OF Lethe, the foun-
tain of fOrgetfulness, are a healthfm
draught. The history we have of the
world in ages past is always one sided
and cannot be depended on. History is
fiction illustrated by few struggling
facts. In all the Pantheon the weakest
goddess is Cid, the goddess of History,
and instead of being represented by sculp-
tors as holding q scroll,
might better be represented as
limping on crutches Faithful history
is the saving of a few things out of more
things lost. The Immortality that comes
from pOmp of obseques, or granite shaft,
EHnal sAa
page Of recognition in some encyclopaedia
is an Immortality unworthy of ones am
bitiOn, for it will cease, and is no immOr-
tally at all. Oblivion! A hundred
years, But While | recognize this univer-
sal submergence of things earthly, who
wants to be forgotten! Not one of us.
A bsent for a few weeks or months from
home, it cheers us to know that I'VE are
remembered there. II is a phrase we have
all pronounced: Il hope you missed me"
Meeting some friends from whom we
have been parted many years, we in
Quire: Did you ever see me befOre3N
and they say, ''G es,' and call us by
name, and we feel delightful sensation
thrilling through their hand into our
hand, and running up from elbow to
shoulder, and then parting. the one cur
rent of delight ascending to the brow and
the other descending to the foot
moving round and round in concentric
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 my boyhood. ] met
one whom | had not seen since we played
together at ten years of age and | had
peculiar pleasure in pulling him a little
as TO who l was, and l can hardly de
scribe the sensation, as, after awhile, he
stumbled out: Let me see. Yes YOU
are Dewitt" We all like to be remem-
bered
Now, have to tell you that this OBJ
liviOn Of which | have spoken has it's de-
feats, and that there is no more reason
why we should not be distinctly and Wv
idly and glOriOuslY remem bered five hun
dred million billion trilliOn quadrilliOn
quintillliOn years from now, than that we
should be remembered six weeks. | am
going to tell you how the thing can be
done and will be done.
We may build this everlasting remem-
brance, - as my text styles it. into the
supernal existence of those whom we do
kindnesses in this world. You must re-
member that this infirm and treacherous
faculty which we now call memory is in
the future state to be complete and per-
feet. Everlasting remembrance!n
Nothing will slip the stout grip of that
celestial faculty Did you help a widow
pay her rent2 Did you find for that man
released from prison place to get honest
work. Did YOU pick up child, fallon on
the curbstOne, and, by stick of candy
put in his hand, stop the hurt on his
scratched knee? Did YOU assure a bust
ness man, swamped by the stringency
of the money market, that times
would after awhile be betterl Did YOU
lead a Magdalen of the street into a mid
night mission, where the Lord said to her
Neither do | condemn thee. Go, and sin
no more Did you tell man, clear dis
cOuraged in his waywardness, and hope
less and plotting suicide, that for him was
nearby LAYER, in which he might wash
and corOnet of eternal blessedness he
might wear What are epitaphs in grave
yards what are eulogumS in presence of
those whose breath is in their nOstrils,
what are unread biographies in the al
coves of a city library compared
with the imperishable records YOU
have made in the illumined memories
of those to whom you did such kind
nesses Forget theme They cannot for
get them. Notwithstanding all their
might and splendor, there are some things
the glorited in heaven cannot do, and
this is one of them. They cannot forget
an earthly kindness done They have no
cutlass to part that cable They have no
strength to hurl into Oblivion that benc-
faction. Has Paul forgotten the inhabi-
tants Of Malta, who extended the island
hospitality when he and others with him
had felt, added TO a shipwreck, the
drenching rain and the sharp Cold3 Has
the victim of the highwayman on the
road to Jericho forgotten the Good Sa-
marian with the medicament of oil and
wine and Il free ride to the hostelry!
Have the English soldiers who went up to
! God from the Crlmean battlefelds for
| gotten Florence Nightingale, Through
all eternity will the northern and south
/ ern soldiers forget the northern and
southern women who administered to
the dying boys in blue and gray after the
awful fights in Tennessee and Pennsyl-
vania and Virginia and Georgia, which
turned every house and barn and shed
into an hospital and incarnadined the
/ Susquehanna and the James and the
! ChattahooChee and the Savannah with
brave blood The kindnesscs you do to
| Others will stand as long in the apprecia-
ton of others as the Gates of Heaven
will stand, as the House of Many Man
siOns' will stand as long as the Throne of
God will stand
Another defeat of Oblivion will be
found in the character of those whom we
/ rescue, uplift or save. Character is eter-
nal Suppose by a right influence we aid
IN transforming bad man into a good
man, dolOrous man into a happy man.
disheartencd man into courageous
man, every stroke of that work done will
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