Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-03-01

Won never hard Of. who are to-day In
~fuencinc schools. colleges churches.
nations. You can no more measure the
gracious results of their lifetime than
Won could measure the length. and
breadth. and depth Of the phosphoTes-
cence last night following the snip OF
the White Star line 1850 miles u TO
sea. How the courage and consecration
of others inspires us 10 follow, as a gen
eral in the American army. cool amid
the flying bullets. inspired a trembling
soldier. who said afterwards. L was
nearly scared 10 death but L saw the
old mans white mustache over his
shoulder and went on. Ave, we are all
following somebody. either IN right or
wrong directions. A few days ago l
stood beside the ~Carlauded casket OF
Il gospel minister. u IL my remarks
had occasion TO recall a snow night
in n farm house when | was 4 boy,
and an evangelist spending q night at
nv fathers house. who said son ethlns
so tender. and beautiful. and impressive
that II led me into the kingdom OF God.
and decided my DESTINY fer this world
and the next. You will. before twenty
four hours 90 by. meet Some mail or
WOMAN with a big pack of care and
z AAttAaf4E. 0AN NNA AAAAF "a '|-AN N-y
to him or her that viii endure until
this world shall have been so far lost
in the past that nothing but the stretch
Of an angelic memory will be able TO
realize that IL ever existed at all /
am not talking Of remarkable men
and women but Of what ordinary folks
can do. / am not speaking of the phes-
~phoresconce in the wake Of n Cam
pania," but Of the phOsphorescence in
the track of a Newfoundland fishing
smack. God makes thuuderbolts out
Of sparks. and out of the small words
and deeds Of \ small life he can launch
a power that will fash. and burn and
thunder through the ~eternities. How
do you like this prolongation OF your
earthly life by deathless influence?
Many a babe that died AZ six months
OF age by the anxiety created In the
parents heart TO meet that child in
realms seraphic. is living yet In the
transformed heart and life OF those par
ents. and will live on forever in the
history of that family. II this be the
opportunity OF ordinary souls. what is
the opportunity Of these who have
especial intellectual or social or none
tary equipment? .,.
Have you any arithmetic capable of
estimating the influence Of u coed
and gracious friend who a few days
ago went up to Test-GeOrge w. Childs
Of Philadelphia? From a newspaper
that was printed for thirty years with
out one word OF defamation or scurTil-
ity or scandal. and putting chief en-
phasis on virtue and charity and clean
intelligence. he reaDcd a fortune for
himself and then distributed q vast
! ~ mount ~ ~ prgNnnrp tho pprv a nd zty-rr-
Cling. putting his invalid and aged re-
porters on pensions. until his name
stands everywhere for large-hearted-
ness and sympathy and help and high
est style of Christian gentleman. In
an area which had in the chairs Of it's
journalism g Horace Greeley. and a
Henry J. Raymond. and a James Cor
don Bennett. and an Erastus Brooks,
and q George William Curtis. and an
Irenaeus Prime. none of them will be
longer remembered than George w.
Childs. Staying away from the unyeil-
ing of the monument he had reared at
large expense in our wood in
memory of Prof. Proctor. the astrono-
mer, lest I should say something in
praise Of the man who had paid for
the monument. BY all Acknowledged
q representative OF the highest Anieri-
can 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 he effect not only
upon those readers, but upon all whom
they influence for all time. while you
add to all 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 Celestial line Who
n tell the post-moriem influence of II
/ S~avonarola. 4 Winklereid. a Gutten-
berg. n Marlborough. a Decatu., Tous-
saint. q Bolivar. a ClarkSon. Il Robert
Raikes. n Harlem Page. who had los
Sabbath scholars. eighty-four Of whom
became Christians and six of them min
listers of the gospel. r.Fi
With gratitude, and penitence. and
worship. 1 mention the grandest life
that was ever lived. The ship Of light
was launched from the heavens nearly
1900 years ago, angelic hosts chanting,
and from the celestial wharyes the
ship sprang into the toughest sea that
ever tossed. Its pillows were made up
of the wrath of men and devils. Her
odic and Sanhedrimic prosecutions
stirring the deep with red wrath, and
all the hurricanes of woe smote ii, un-
til on the rocks of Golgotha that life
struck with a resound of agony that
appalled, the earth and the heavens.
But In the wake of that life what Il
phoSphorescence of smiles on the cheek
Of souls pardoned, and lives reformed,
and nations redeemed. The millennium
itself is only one ron of that irradiated
wave of cladness and benediction. In
the sublimest of all senses it may he
said of him, He maketh 4 path to
shine after him." A.
But / can not look upon that lumin-
osity that follows ships without r,saliz-
ing how fond the Lord is of life. That
fire Of the deep is life, myriads of
creatures all a-Twim, and a-play, and
a-romp in parks OF marine beauty laid
out, aud parterred, ard roseated. and
bloss0med by OmnipoteRce. What Is
the use of those creatures called by the
raturalists 'crustaceans" and cope
pods not more than one out of hun
1 lrals IF hi1Iiopc rf (which - Favur uann