Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-11-26
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SCENE 1.
(a). Yesterday,
CO. To day,
lc) And forever.
Starting from the hour Of s o'clock
P. NJ, on this % dayof November,
in the year OF our Lord 1896, let us
begin a journey back through the
days, and weeks, and months, and
years, and decades, and centuries,
and cycles OF centuriess out Of nine
teenth century civilization and mod
ern European civilization, through
the period Of the Reformation and
the English hrrnaissance past thefall
of Constantinople, through the
Dark Ages-into the tenth and the
ninth, and theeighth centuries, ,and the
foundations OF modern European
states; past the Empire Of Charlie
magne, and the zenith OF the Mos
lenn's power; through the period OF
barbarian ascendancy, and pause for
an instant to measure the glory and
the power OF the enthroned mistress
OF the World. On yonder hill stands
the cross Of Calvary. Now we are
among the philosophers Of Greece
in the DAYS Of her free,inm. Through
Macedonian triumph, 'and Persian
and Babyloni,ln and Mtdian glory
we take our way; the empire Of As
syria breaks upon our view and re-
cedes; Chaldpa fades; We are among
The pyramids .ef 1gxPt The Hebrews
Fss FoiiIing bensat E Is tfe ~ askmasters;;
on and on and on, past the knowl-
edge of history, past tile gleam of
tradition; out into the reign of prime
val grandeur AMI prilneval darkness
and primeval solitude. The creation
Of man is now Il something afnr in
the dim f,,ture;we fail totind his foot
print, and the s1umbering echoes
have not yet answered to this voice;
on and on, through centuries ofsilence
to the period Of the evolution Of
the earth, on back to the period Of
the evolution III the planets OF the
system, Mercury, and Mars, and Ven
us, and Saturn, and Jupiter back
to the period Of the evolution Of the
great sun-on hack through the
cycles OF centuries to the period when
there was no sun, no planets, no
satellites, no earth, nosmoon, 'er
yet they had been swungso out in their
dizzy orbits or caused the vacant
realms OF space to echo with the music
OF their motion; past the period OF
the advent OF light, into the period
OF the unbroken reign OF darkness-on
and on and on, back OF all animate
life, back OF all inanimate life, back
OF all vestige OF existence or beginning
OF being in these worlds Of ours. back
unto when, out OF the abyssmal deeps
OF uninhabited space and unknown
void, silence deep, silence prolonged
silence through d million years un.
broken. unto the silence OF yet Other
abyssmal deeps Of void: spake, and
no ear heard, and 10 eye saw, bu,
only silence echoed, where? for there
was no night and there was no day
and there was no being and there
was no sound; there was no call, ther.
was no answer and there was no sigh
none to see, none to hear, and non,
to know s..5s. *
Let us advance one step and away
from out the frmaments born,
across the horizons there comes I
sound OF music and a ringing-it j,
the singing of the stars; it is th'
song Of creations dawn; it is tn
music Of the morning; it is the telling
Of the coming oflife,of being, OF ex
1 istence, OF the power to know, an,
/ looked down and saw, and in hi
place ablaze with maiesty and glor.
there shone the sun; amo ongg 8 the star
Try ornaments he held his way, Will
about him swung in paths tremlsen llls1