The Monte Vista journal., 1898-01-08

Heed spoke upon the subject OF Flo
quence" at the Broadway theater yes.
terdny morning. The speaker chose for
his text, Matt. 2i:34: Heaven and
earth shall pass away, bu; my words
shall not pass away"
Mr.. Reed said: There were no stem.
ographers In the time OF Jesus Christ ;
there were no longhanG reporters.
There Ia no evidence that any disciple
kept n Journal. Matthew's life Of Je-
suS Christ was written at least twenty
years nfter the events. Jesus commit
ted his words TO the memory Of those
who heard him. A good memory ought
to have holes in Ii. What IL temporary
and local ough. TO slip through. lf you
are seining for white fish you do not
want net full Of herring. Let the
minnows escape and grow. An aver
age memory can bc trusted. \ student
OF Williams College walked with Ralph
Waldo Emerson II few mornings and
thirty years after made book Of what (
the man said. or course. Emerson said
Good morning. and Good night. -
and please pass the salt" but we do
not want the small change of great
mans conversation.
\ verbatim repor; of all that Jesus
SAID would make a bulky and unwieldy
book-too big TO get into II state
house. l can remember the good and
noble things that my father and mother
said. All thnt is valuable sticks In
someone's memory. OF my vest pocket
poems, worn out and lost, do no, de.
spair. In some newspaper they will re-
appear. Several times have lost John
10 In Nj
Hands and Wait" bu, ! get 1t again.
Some country editor. tired Of county
politics. rescues 1t and ! clip II. l have
been waiting for some thirty years to
hear "1.orena" sung properly and The
other night at the assembly OF the
broadway Temple Association at John
FoOle's heard II.
The moral is that Il good thing lives.
outlives granite. Shakespeare and Rob.
inson CrusOe will be erect and aieri
when the pyramids have fallen down.
The Hebrews for centuries would no:
put the Talmud In print. The teacher
taught 1t to the people. the father TO
the child. What was Of The day dropped
out; what was for all the days re-
mained. 1t does not add TO the value
OF anything to us that a thing has been
dug up somewhere In old Egypt. What
il there In It:
The printing press Is responsible for
much preserved twaddle and drivei. l
would like four-pngc Sunday news
paper. l want 10 know what Is going
on and edi; 1t myself. The trouble
with the Sunday newspaper Is that 4;
II JUS. Interesting enough to make u
man read II. And the uhor; winter day
Is gone. Perhaps you have read pres
idents message and never read the
sermon on the Mount" Life Is not
long enough for Sunday editions.
Jesus Christ had confidence in the
memory Of the people he was with. The
Sermon on the Mount IL not whn; he
said al one time, bu, what he said now
and then. Matthew Arnold said Of
these garncred. threshed and famed
sayings They have n certain inefYacc-
able stamp Of reality upon them"
Jesus sees what he is talking about. He
Is citizen OF Gods universe. We tnlk
Of the late Judge Beltlen. There In no
late or early with that good man. The
captain is on the bridge. III my bark
sinks II In TO another sea" Quit that
talking about "late people" For a good
reason one Of my children is over the
ocean. He Is out Of sight but he Is no:
the late" For some good reason some
OF our friends have vanished. DO not
get under the influence of crepe. What
ever has lived Ii alive. This In not
much Of planet we arc on. II ranks
low-cmlgrani ear. You can beat a
dogs brains ou;-sroil the machine.
Bu; what have you done with his nfYec-
tion: You cannot reach that loyalty
In him with u club. The only man !
called upon In Scotland was the author
OF ''l,nb and His Fricnls." lie was a
celebrated surgeon. bu; his fame rests
OH the story well told Of good dog
DO not waste time on the book OF n
day or n year. Many weak children
die In Infancy. Working hard. you
canno, get through with the hooks that
are for nll the years-ihc sayings that
do moi pass away. count that day
lost when I have no; read a little Of
Job and Shakespeare and Jesus Christ.
The burnin. OF the great library OF
Alexander WIS worlds blessing. II
rid the world Of vast deal OF literary
lumber. We must shed the had. and the
Indifferent. and the worthless. I have
no time In which To read Seven Buck.
cts Of Blood. or the Hop Picker's Re.
vcngc." The ncw.loy-the train
bntcher-looks over me nnd piles my
sea: In the ear with that kind Of coagu.
lated stun. When travel hereafter
! am going 10 wear n white necktic.
"Ncvcr man spakr like this man."
My apprehension Of Jesus ID this: lie
talked In u low tone. do not think
that he SrriisSi The sky aud tore up the
earth. That Kind of orntory In going
out. ] stand hcrc and tell you Of some.
thing I have heard Ei,out. That II not
80 Interesting ms when I tell you Of
something hnvr seen. and I must sec
Il while tell I; to you. Vain In amy de.
ncription unless. N, the time I scc II.
When Miss lhcmcr rrciics Victor Ilu.
gos story OF the Paris gamin. Gnv-
roche. I see the boy chanting his little
song. "'Tis the fault of voltairc." aud
gathering up cartridges FOR the men b.
hind the bnfrlcalc who shoot straight
and smilc-Erin nj death. I do no, sup.
pose That i.ndy Jane Grey was amy bet.
ter than she ought tO i1. but she
spnnnrd her slight neck with her iin.
gers nnd smiled Ia the man with the nx
that his tn.k WAS easy" ! like her.
Hhc wns woman after my own heart.
I have been In the room where II NIL
hnppcncd-whcrc kir Waller Raleigh
said: 1T does nut Mnk" any differ.
cncc how the head lies" These uncon.
Vnrrablc souls help me. Technically.
they did no, know anything Of Chris.
ilan science or il,co~opiiy. bu, they Ind
arrived. not NJ the name. hut at tiss
thing. MY mind to me kingdom is."
a. a. A.