The times., 1897-08-22


isIa, Is here.
Without the all-pervading thought,
will, purpose, power, no form has been
made. Single clear concepts Of this In.
conceivable Wilderness are Vedas, Truth
or Ideas, which are immortal. Our friend
here had come 10 be recognized, at home In
his own country, and here among his
friends, rs patriot, not a reVolutiOnist;
not an ambitious man. seeking personal
aggrandizement;n not devotee af one idea,
but lover OF his country and his people.
BY the sacrifice OF his own life he would
| have been glad to save many from the
| sins Of ignorance and the burdens o iii.
| 9erited superstition, custom and pr rejudice.
| For this he started from his home of
| wealth. honor and ease, taking with hun
| princely patrimony. that he might first
| know the great world and take back it's
! wisdom to his people. His next journey
| was after tile hot, mad rush OF an at
| tempted revolution; he went alone, II
| fugitive, ON foot, In snow and darkness,
saved from arrest only by being hidden
| in the hold Of friendly ship under a bur
| den of merchandise until beyond the shores
! of his country. OF his sufferings in exile
| 1T is needless and painful to speak. His
| friends knew that las greatest. his Con
| slant suffering was hunger for his home
and his people. II is not generally known
| that after be had become an American
| citizen he thought seriously of going
| home as Christian missionary. He
| could see the universalty OF the mystic
! truth contained i'll that wonderful colec-
| ton of spiritual aphorisms we call the
| Sermon on the Mount, but when he was TO
be examined as to his adherence to any set
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could not conform.
1 $50 the last straw OF hope failed; and
his life oseaIiie one OF simple, uncomplaining,
heroic endurance. His one great ersonal
| longing was for life in one of the many
! temples OF his own country life OF peace,
OF pure thought and eontempla ton; teach
| ing those who might co NE to him for light.
In regard to all religious Id ca his position
was perhaps best explained by an express
| sion often used by him. II e w as accustomed
| TO speak OF religion as the one spiritual
life, and of the many so-called religious
| as the various superstitiCns of the world
The real life of this. our friend can
| not be measured by any petty standards II
! re admire the oldlegend or philosophy, we
must admire hira, No Epictetus no Marcus
| Aurelius, was greater in the CalmnesS
| of perfect self control If the acme Of
philosophy is tie attainment of altruistic
! denial OF self, then he was 4 philosopher
| ii II be admitted that in the last analysis
| of Christianity, Blessed are the pure in
heart, for they shall see God, covers all,
then we may feel that the clear perceptive
| faculties OF his heart and soul saw God,
and now sees God. If eternal life be rlie
gift OF God, all life is no less that gift. and
to be c9nsciou us of this 5 thatIhore hundant
life which the great Nazarene said he catne
to bring. He that loveth and belicveth in
the spiritual life, though he were dead,
Yet shall ne live. II is but the soul OF the
old Greek myth of the Phoenix, life rising
from the aches OF form The soul the in
dividuality, which we have known in this
form which we are now to consign to the
elements, will live as it has lived, a proyes.
siye center OF force, ca use and an effect,
i'll all the lives it has influenced and in the
indefinitely far future orlife in form all the
lives thai these youngarlives may influence
The old Stoic philosopher said If jus.
tice lives, | live: if mercy lives, | live
In the eternal progression of individual.
lied being the soul has or is all that il
has overcome. So we may know that In
these young minds, where was lately cen
tered all his hope and effort for his coun-
try, he VIII live as a working force in
what we call idealisrn. They viii see him
az Patriotism, Self denial, as Patience.
under all trials and discoura gements, and
they VIII see him in the grandest OF az
forms in the undying POWER of the pure
life.
tine Buddha said There are twenty
difficult things in the world: Being poor,
: TO be charta BILE, being rich and great,
fn I'm F.Ityi fta
lures: TO be born when Buddha is in the
world: to repress lust and Danish desire;
to see an agreeable object and not seek
to obtain 1t: to he strong without being
rash. to bea- insult without anger: to move
in the world without setting the heart OH
1t: TO investigate matter to the very lot
tom; not to oontemn the ignorant; thor
, oughly to eNtirpate self-esteem to he good
and at the same time TO be learned; wise
to see the hidden principles in the profess
ing religions; to attain ones end without
[ | exutation, to show in the right way the
; doctrine OF expediency; to save men by
converting them in heart and life to a void
= controversy.
IF these he the twenty HercuIean la
bors that must be accomplished, then we
who know this soul best would hail him
[ as liberated to his rest. But as he Judged
no man, we viii not judge him. Yet 1t is
given US to see that when the time comes
! that his beloved country shall have be-
come the home OF free and enlightened
' people; ben she shall have become, through
| time an ndinstruaentalities one of the powers
s OF the earth, her sons honored In the world
5 great congress ofthought, then will the name
OF our friend shine forth conspicuIously
[ among the Chosen few of her Inartyed patriot
sons. And we here, no have known him
1 in adversely as well as in prosperity: we,
/ who have been happy in thinking that at
1 times We have been able to help a brother
E may come TO know that instead of the
z helpers, we have been the helped and that
t it has been our good fortune to have en-
s tertained unaw ares one of the worlds
s great souls. Now, to that which was his,
: but is not he, we say goodbye
E ''R E. WHITMAN, U.SA.n
a InJudicious Impatience.