The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-11-16

the shadow. his heart-strfngs cracking
and his lfe-b1ood ebbing. he fought
with that sublime desperation which
only the consciousness of the approach
Of death could give. 1t was stupendous
the immense enterprise. the intense
nergy Of this marvellous martyred
man. Pure. ~purposeful. strenuous.
fearless ~ fate, invincible a. destiny.
unchanged by public and private re-
verses. defeat for him had no terrors,
death no sting. the grave nc victory.
1t 10 not OF the slightest consequences
az to whether one agreed with all his
teachings IN life or not. We are united
in the knowledge that he was an hon.
est and honorable man whom money
could net terrify or tempt. We know
that every story OF wrong wrung his
heart We know that he was a nan
OF high ideals. We know that he low
ed the common people, OF whom the
good Lord made so many, and that
while in reality no ~respecter Of persons,
regarding prince and pauper alike. ne
was always interested in a recital of
the short and simple annals Of the
poor" We know his purpose was pure,
his hands were clean, his heart was in
the right place.
Henry George. sage, philosopher,
economist and publicist. was an age in
advance Of his time. He was such a
philosopher that theosophists might see
in him the soul OF Diogens re-incar--
mated. I don't know that he was an
authodox and conventional religionist
any more than Thomas Jefercon was.
The clanishness OF caste and sect and
the tYammels of ritual and form no
doubt repelled him. But. though Pagan
in Life and stole in death, he had
reached that plane OF Intellectual and
spiritual exaltation where he had no
country but the world and no religion
but doing good. Careless. in attire,
having no thought for the merely ex-
pure and profound man adhered to the
regimen Of a philosopner-plain living
and high thinking.
Henry George believed that all men
were born n remained primarily n
~intrinsfcally equal He believed hat
the earth was the Lords and the full
ness thereof and he denied to man,
"frail tenant of an hour" the right of
proprietorship in it. Some called him
a dreamer. They said his life was filled
with theorems and equations; and what
Of it?He dreamed noble dreams Of ulti-
mate equality and universal liberty.
In his dreams he pondered problems
now thought i~nsoluble, but which will
yet be settled in 'the parliament Of
man, the federation Of the world" A
few more such masterful and epOchal
dreamers and doors as he and we
would be ready for the millenial ad-
vent.
I heard him once only and at once
yielded to his magnetism. He was ad-
dressing a club of single takers in PEN
sacola, Fla. Captivating as a speaker
and writer, he popularized old and dry
problems by clothing them in all the
~iridescense of romance, n yet withal
he was terribly, too tragically, in earn
est to ever c~OnSentzAtO appear trivial,
frivolous or impractical. He was a
nan with an idea-a mission. His po-
tentiality was centripetal and not GEN.
trifugal. He was the pioneer of a new
philosophy. He vas the Messiah Of a
new movement. He came to blaze the
pathway Of a new century. He came
| as the herald of a new, a beautiful, a
larger and a living faith for mankind
from which the old, dead c~hrysaiis of
obsolete, outwOrn forms and dogmas
had fallen away.
Beautiful as was his life, nothing SC
became him as the leaving it. He died
as befitted such a man-in harness
Death came suddenly to him in the full
exercise of his powers, yet we cannot
say that 1t inopportunely curtailed his
career. Death alone could perhaps
further emphasize and Muse the ma
jestic message with which he was
charged. Death alone might have ex.
acted hat universal homage to him
self and his cause which in life hac
been withheld.
Henry ~George-dying as he had lived
sustained by his p~hilosophy-is a nota.
BILE mar Of this country n this cen
fury. He. made the world better fol
having lived in it. He was an homes
man., whom nature had clothed in he
own majesty. His memory is as gentl'
as the calm which follows a storm
His death will quicken the growth o
his cause and whether a mOnumen
sines over his dust or not his worth a.
work will live. his name inheriting i'm
mortality like unto that which hi
spirit has entered. upon beyond.
EDWARD GILLIAN.
Waynesboro, Pa, Nov, 8, 1897.
Having used three bottles Of p. p. T
for impure blood and general weakness
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