Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-11-13

at all Our earth IS struck with denth
| The axietree Of the consultations will break
| and let down the populations Of Other
worlds. Stellar. lunar, solar mortality.
! Oblivionl Il can swallow and will swallow
whole galaxiea Of worlds as easilyas n croc.
odile takes down frog.
THE FATAL EPIDEMIC OF BOOKS.
Yet oblivion does not romoye or swallow
anything that had better not be removed or
| swallowed. The old monster Is welcome 10
his meal. This world would long ago have
been overcrowded n 1t had not been for the
merciful removal OF nations and genera.
tions. What u all the books had lived that
were ever written and printed and pub
lished, The libraries would by their i'm
mensity have obstructed intelligence aud
made all research impossible. The fatal
epidemic Of books was n merclful epidemic.
Many OF the state and national libraries
today arc only morguea In which dead
books arc waiting for some one to come
and recognize them. What n all the peo-
pie that had been born were still alivei
We would have been elbowed by our an
cestors OF 10 centuries ago, and people who
ought TO have said their Inst word 5000
years ago would snarl at us, saying, what
are you doing herew There would have
been no room TO turn around. Some Of the
past generations Of mankind were not
worth remembering. The first useful thing
that many people did WINS to die their era.
die misfortune aud their grave boon.
This world was hardly a comfortable
place to live in before the middle Of the last
century SO many things have come into
the world that were not NJ 10 stay in, we
ought TO be glad they were put out. The
waters Of Lethe, the fountain Of forgetful-
ness, arc healthful draft. The history
we have Of the world in ages past is always
one sided and cannot be depended on His.
tory Is fiction illustrated by few strag-
Cling facts. In all the Pantheon the weak
est goddess is Clio, the goddess Of history,
md instead Of being represented by sculp-
tors us holding a scroll might better be rep
resented as limping on crutches.
Faithful history IS the saving Of n few
things out OF more things lost The i'm
mortality that comes from pomp Of obse-
qules, or grauite shaft, or building named
after It's founder, or page OF recognition In
Rome encyclopedia Is An immortality un-
worthy OF ones ambition, for II will cease
mud is no immortality at ALL Obllvioni A
hundred years But while recognize this
universal submergenoe OF things earthly
who wants to he forgotteni Not one Of US
HOW TO BE REMENDERED CENTURIES.
Absent for few weeks or months from
home It cheers ua 10 know that we are re-
membored there. IL IS n phrase we have
all pronounced y hope you missed me-
Meeting some friends from whom we have
been parted many years. we Inquire did
you ever see mo befOraW and they say,
Eyes, aud call us by name, aud we feel a
delightful sensation thrilling through their
hand into our hand. and running up from
elbow 10 shoulder, and then parting, the
one current Of delight ascending to the
brow aud the other descending 10 the foot,
moving round and round In concentric cir
cles until every nerve and muscle and ca
pnclty Of body and mind and soul Is perme.
ated with delight
few daya ago, visiting the place Of my
boyhOod, mot one whom had not seen
bInce we played together AZ 10 years Of age,
and had peculiar pleasure In puzzling him
little "a 10 who | WAS, and | can hardly
describe the sensation as after awhile no
mumblod out Let me scr. Yes, you arc
De Witt" We all like TO be remembered.
Now, have TO tell you that this oblivion
OF which have spoken has its defeats, and
that there " no more reason why we should
not bedistinctly and wildly and glorlously
ANAANAAANNNN'A NV AAAAINA NlAllllbu Union
trillion quadrillion quintillion years from
now than that we should be- remembered
six weeks | am going 10 tell you how tho
thing can be done and viii be done.
We may build this Everlasting remem-
branee,p as my text styles IL, into the su.
pcrnal existence OF those to whom we do
kindnesses In this world, You must re.
member that this inflrm and treaoherous
faculty which wenow call memory Is In tho
future state to be complete and perfect.
Everlasting rcmombnncew Nothing will
slip the stout grip Of that celestial faculty.
DID you help widow pay her rcntp Did
you find for that man released from prison
place to get honest work. Did YOU pick
upnchild fallen ON the ourbstonc, and hy a
stick Of onudy put In his hand stop the
hurt on his scratched kueei Did you as.
sure business man, swampcd by the strln.
gcncy Of the money market that times
would after awhil. he botterf
Did you lend u Aiagdalon Of the street
into midnight mission, whero the Lord
taid to hori Neither do ! condemn thee,
10 aud sin no morci" Did you tell a man
clear discouraged In his waywarlness and
hopeless md plotting suicide, that for him
was near hyn LAYER In which hcmight wash,
and coronet OF eternal blcssedness hs
might Woari
MPrRieHABLE RECORDS.
What are epllaphs In gravcyards, what
are culogiums Ia presence OF thoso whose
breath y In their nostrils, what are unread
biographies In the alcoyoa OF n city library,
compared with the impcrishable records
you have made In tho illumined memories
OF those 70 whom you did such kindnessesl
Forget thcmf They cannot forget them.
Notwithstanding all their might aud splon.
dor there are some things the gloraed Of
heaven cannot do, and this Is ono Of them.
They cannot forget au earthly kindness
done, They have no cutlass TO part that
cable. They have no strungth to hurl into
oblivion that honcaotiou.
Has Paul forgotten the inhabitants Of
Malta, who extended the island hospitality
when he aud othcrswith him had felt, add.
ed to shipwrcck the drcnohing rain and
the sharp eoldf Has thevictim OF the high.
wayman ON tho ruad TO Jericho forgotten
the Good Samaritan with medicament Of
oil ana wine and q free ride to the hostelryi
Have the English soldiers who went up 10
God from the Crimesn hattleaelds forgot,
ten Florence NightinIaloP
Through all eternity will the northern
and southern soldiers forget the northern
and southern women who administered 60
the dying boys In blue and gray after the
awful lights In Tennessee aud pennsylvanla
and Virginia and Georgia, which turn, 1
every house and barn and shed into a hos.
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