Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-03-02


Childs- Staying away from the unveil-
ing OF the monument he reared at
large expense in our Greenwood in
memory of Prof. Proctor, the astron-
omer. lest I should say something in
praise of the man who had paid for the
monument. By all acknowledged a
representative of the highest American
journalism. If you would calculate his
influence for good you must count how
many sheets of his newspapers have
been published in the last quarter of a
century, and how many people have
read them, and the effect not only
upon those readers, but upon all whom
they shall influence for all time,
while you add to ali that the work
of the churches he helped build, and
of the institutions of mercy he helped
found. Better give up before you start
the measuring of the phosphorescence
in the wake of that ship of the celes-
tial line. Who can tell the post-mor-
tenn influence of a Savonarola, Win
klereid, Gutenberg, Marlborough,
a Decatur, a Toussaint, a Bolivar, a
Clarkson, a Robert Raikes, Harlem
Page, who had one hundred and TWEEN
ty-five Sabbath scholars, eighty-four
of whom became Christians and six of
them ministers of the Gospel.
Make one person happy every day,
and do that for twenty years and you
will have made seven thousand three
hundred happy. You know man who
has lost all his property by an unfor-
tunate investment, or by putting his
name on the back of friends note?
After you have taken brief nap,
which every man and woman is en-
titled to on a Sunday afternoon, go
and cheer up that man. You can, if
God helps you, say something that
will do him good after both of YOU
have been dead a thousand years.
Shine! You know of a family with a
bad boy who has run away from home.
10 before night and tell that father
and mother the parable of the prodigal
son, and that some of the illustrious
and useful men now in church and state
had silly passage in their lives and
ran away from home. Shine!
You know of a family that has
lost child, and the silence of
the nursery glooms the whole
house from cellar to garnet. Go before
night and tell them how much that
child has happily escaped, since the
most prosperous life on earth is
struggle. Shine! You know of some
invalid who is dying for lack of an APP
petite. She can not get well because
she can not eat. Broil a chicken and
take it to her before night, and cheat
her poor appetite into keen relish.
Shine! You know of some one who likes
you, and you like him, and he ought
to be Christian. Go tell him what
religion has done for you and ask
him if you can pray for him. Shine!
Oh, for disposition so charged with
sweetness and light that we can not
help but shine! Remember if Won can
not be leviathan flashing the ocean
into fury, you can be one of the phos- !
phori, doing your part toward making
a path of phosphorescence.
Then will tell you what impression
you will leave when you pass through
this life and after you are gone l will |
tell you to your face, and not leave it
to the minister who officiates at your
obsequies. The failure in all eulogium
of the departed is that they can
not hear 1t. All near 1t except |
the one most interested. This. |
in substance, is what | or some
one else will say of you on such an
occasion: 1--WE gather for offices of re-
spect to this departed one. 1t is inn
possible to tell how many tears he
wiped away; how many burdens he
lifted; or how many souls he was I'M
der God instrumental in saving. His
influence will never cease. We are all |
better for having known him. That |
pillo'~ of flowers on the casl1et was !
class, all of whom he brought |
to Christ. That cross Of flowers at the |
head was presented by the orphan asy-
lum which he befriended. Those three |
single tiowers-one was sent by IA poor
for whom he bought ton of !
coal, and one was by Il wait of the |
street whom he rescued through |
the midnight mission, and the 9TH
Err was from prison cell |
which he had often visited to en-
courage repentance in a young man
loose flowers mean quite as much as
the costly garlands now breathing |
their aroma through this saddened !
home, crowded with sympathizers.
Blessed are the dead who die IN the
Lord; they rest from their labor,
and their works do follow them
Or if it should be the more solemn !
burial at sea, let it be after the sun has |
gone down, and the captain has read !
the appropriate liturgy, and the ships !
bell has tolled, and you are let down .
from the stern of the vessel into the
respondent phosphorescence at the
wake of the ship. Then let some one
say, in the words of my text: Gle
naketh path to shine after Kim
NO ROOM TO EXPLAIN.