The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-09-04

begins her flow in stately cities that were
unmapped undreamed of in their school boy
days. They have lived to see the sun of
Appomattox flood the planet with its warming,
Frightening beams. They have lived to know
that the wars immortal hero touring round
the earth, commanding homage from kings
ana emperors to his majestic personality
penetrated no region so remote that his fame
had not preceded him, visited no populations
TOO ignorant to comprehend the significance
or his victories They have lived to read
that in mud novels in the deepest heart of
Africa, in matched huts on the banks of the
Gangesin cabins buried among Siberian SHOWS
portraits of Lincoln are found, venerated by
benighted millions as the saint of a new
dispensation. They have lived to see the
horizon strewn with wrecks of stricken dy-
naStleS, crowns crumblng thrones trembling
the whole fiimsy remainder of hoary despot-
isms shriveiling like gossamer scroll They
nave lived to see the flag of the great re-
pubic hoating resplendant in the zenith as
token that the Union lives and that liberty
reigneth forever They have lived to see
the humhlest survivor of the host which
fought for that flag hailed as priest in the
temple of freedom, a prince in the Kingdom
OF glory. And their lifted vision then will
meet the glow of gladness in the smile of
justice as she comes to reign, with a bridal
coronet upon her brow, and her feet in the
dew OF the miiiennial morning
they marched, and camped and fought and
CONQUERED They died or lived as heaven
complete in its dimless radiance:
NO fear Of them! In our lower field
Let US lOll Win arms unStaiQed
mat at last we be worthy to stand with
them
On the shining heights they've gained"
In life they have, been true to their youth
1ui conservation. They have shared their
priceless inheritance with those who profaned
and sought to destroy it. They have fratern-
lzed with former enemies now brethren he
loved, on the acknowledged and only logical
basis that the yictors were eternaIIy right and
the losers deplorably wrong. They have en-
riched the country with the fruits of their Ia
Dor, and strengthened it with their TEACHINGS
of patriotism.
This patriotism is more than sentiment.
II is an Inspirations living animating spirit.
crime does our Heavenly Father nurture this
blessed spirit. Not there; but out on broad
prair1es, where fresh breezes blow and clear
water runs, and where the green of grass
and gold and crimson of flowers lie mirrored
IN the melted blue of the sky; up on high.
Tree mountains, where splintered cliffs of
granite dare the fury OF lightning and storm:
down by the river side where flying shuttles
ana whirrlng saws are working out under
mans skillful hand his deathless doom of
toll; over in classic halls, where science with
telling of its pulse beats to a listening
throng; across In temples of worship. where
divine evangel is speaking hope and mercy
TO the sinners groaning heart. Here and
there and wherever avenues to the ex-
panding mind are open to the ingress of hoIv
truth, this spirit of patriotism comes and
grows and sways, lifting even the dullest as
the song-note lifts the lark, whose nest is in
the furrow, but whose home is in the sky
Here 1T finds welcome, and everywhere
whispering in the breezes, laughing in the