The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-03

couipldlHt Will recelVe tnelr just TtWaru
in the temple Of eternity" These he
roes and heroines belong to the "un-
recognized nobility to that peerage Of
God who suffer today but who rejoice
tomorrow.
Our brothers who have crossed the
river Of the valley of the shadow OF
DEATH modest In the obscurity Of their
homes and their daily pursuits hum
Bile perhaps in fortune without high
position to herald their good deeds, with
every trace of human sacrifice forever
lost, possess more of the elements Of
true heroism than the victorious OPP
pressor of rights and liberties Of man
kind. Unrewarded by judicious fiattery
bestowed, unsullied by vain pomp;
there are characters in the world, men
and women formed in the obscurity of
the home, In retirement, who exemplify
in their lives those Christian virtues
which marked the entire life of Him
who rebuked the Pharisees and said to
the woman THY sins are forgiven
thee" Men and women whose lives
are marked by that charity that wipes
away the tears of sorrow, that heals
the pang of disappointment by gener-
GUS encouragement; whose aims are
given ''at midnight's holy hour" that
the pride Of Him who receives shall not
suffer the mock sympathy of a heart
less world; by the charity that suffereth
long and Is kind. Such lives are dearer
In the eyes of heaven than those more
illustrious who regard the world as a
field Of selfish conquest and who exist
simply for themselves alone.
The drying of single tear has more
OF honest fame than the shedding of seas
of blood"
Mans twofold nature to different things
appeals
When the Soul Languishes. as.
The one regards only the fulfillment
of every worldly desire, the great graf
ification of every poisonous passion.
Every thought, every impulse and every
act and deed points downward, Is in
correspondence with the world and Is
worldly; with such environment the
soul must languish. 80.
In the other and better nature there
Is what Is termed an upward striving, a
looking up to God, and in proportion the
man becomes divine Every beautiful
thought uttered here tonight, every
song sung, every strain of music that
charms the senses; these flowers and
every contrivance that lends Its par
ticular attraction to produce this beau
tiful scene and to complete this men,
oriaG service, appeals not to our baser
nature but to our better, to our higher
selves, Such associations enlarge the
understanding and dispel the gloom
that, like a thick cloud, hovers around
the soul.
There lies den,
Beyond the seeming confines of the space
Made for the soul to wander in and trace
Its own existence, of remotest glooms.
| Dark regions are around II, where the
tombs
OF buried griefs the spirit sees, but
- scarce.
One hour doth linger weeping for the
pierce
OF newborn woe ii feels more inly smart
And in these regions many venomed
dart
At random flies; they are the proper
home
OF every i'll: The man is yet to come
| Who hath journeyed in this native hell
The worlds desire rests in common
faith in one God and an universal be-
| lief in the brotherhood of man.
II dreamed
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These are among the last lines OF the
great laureate or England, Tennyson,
| and behind these beautiful lines we see
the prophet VINO was inspired 10 write
| them
An Age Of Tolerance.
This 10 an aga of to,erance ToIer-
ance in art tolerance in science, toll
rance In nolitics tolerance In religion
II is an age when reasonab bile men are
| willing r. coma topather for a com
harrison of convictions upon the great
est and most serious questions that can
engage the attention. or tax the under
standing NJ the nhiIosonber the scholar
or the sage n Is an age when small
nation nf limited rasources with q
nonmlat,o of thirty millions of neonle
Wins to subiect,on nation of folIr
hundred miiIions of neonIe and com.
nels the oldest and most nowerful em.
hire in the world to sue for neace and
imn,ores the little victor to state her
terms and 70 name her indemnity. but
hees her not to- take away her domin.
ions, In the meanwhile ali Europe
and Great Britain watch the game of
war with fhe keenest interest HIT nevar
leaves the ..side lines" nor interferes
with the nIavers
And moreover. this is the Eurone of
Nicholas of Russia of Frederick VIII.
ia m Of GermanvInnd of Nanojaon ot
France. But how changed the times. II
Is an age OF intelligence against force,
OF light against darkness. 1t Is the
age when rlch men ana women build
hospitals ana asylums Tor the MANNED
| FOR the SICK ana the weak In mind, and
round colleges and great universities
FOR the educatloh OF thelr KIND, without
money ana wllhout price, ana leaye be-