Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-04

IF YOU ask. how can we best express
that sentiment. l reply. by seeking out
the noblest lessons of their lives. and by
applying tnose lessons to tle service of
the living.
What. then. are these lessons. the les
sons of this day. the lessons of history:
All experience proc!ainls the splehaiu
truth. that the noblest pleasure ana the
truest fame are the twin offspring of gem
erous and worthy deeds. The surest
way to happiness is to make others hap
py.
Life is a strange thing. 1t best, It is
a mystery. We cannot see beyond the
veil. From that undiscovered country
no travele has returned. Blu We do
know. if we can read anything by the
lamp of experience. that every lie mas
a mission. Upon every heart rests a
duty. at once sweet and sacred. 1t is to
add to the sum of human happiness.
However small the gift. yet is it great. II
III proportion to the means. SO. every
one must do something to make the
world brighter. Each II must add a
ray to the sunshine of life. In tlis Hes
both duty and pleasure. For IL IS 1he
sweetest truth in human LII" thar every
gracious deed returns to bless the heart
that prompted it. If there IS any les
son taught by six thousand years OF his"
tory. il is that no other pleasure that
comes to the human heart is 50 sweet
and noble as that which follows in the
train Of Cnod deeds.
THE most useful life is at once the
noblest and the happiest life. ans IS
heavens great law Of compensation. Inc
highest pleasure is the service of Others.
Not hy the giving e aims merely-th2t is
the poorest form of charity. But by every
deed and word Of life.
After all. money is the cheapest ard
poorest form of wealth. It's piling UP by
the cruel hand of greed, taking it from
The mout of hunger. and the back OF
i need. is the shame of the century. HoW
every man and woman of heart brain
d~esp.scs its tirsel and affectation! Ills
possession is no virtue: often 1T is II
crime. The giving of it is the poorest
form Of rharity. The world needs charity
Of opirion more than charity Of bread.
The greatest philanthropist and the
truest gentleman in history is the Car
pcnttr Of Nazareth. who had not Whara
ID lay his head. The highest royalty is
tina which enohles human life in every
age. The nohlest builder of character is
sacrifice. True charity is the highest
good. The sword Of heroism was never
drawn in the service OF Se'f
"Gaorsr Eliot SAYS. what do we live for,
if nct to make life less difficult for each
other?' How roor and unworthy is re
who lives for sc!f alone! What an empty
life! How unworthy Of applause! HOW
lacking in every clement that appeals 10
(Et CDl|Stltjitt Az II - ~ 't''-'
no approval from the spirit of goodness
and truth tina sits within every human
breast. The divine in man turns away
from the service of self. How. then,Jcdn
we believe, men of the world, men 81
affairs. that in the unknown and unknoW-
able future. the Infinite Spirit of Love
and Truth Will approve that life which
has been for self alone?
The ord of such a life-face to face
With tho C,yctprioJIS the unknown vet
tremendous future-hoW empty igno-
Bile. There come 10 us the words of Sfr
Walter Raleigh, %, eloquent. just. AND
mighty death--whGm none could advise,
thou hast persuaded: what none hath
dared. thou hast done: and whom all the
world hath battered. thou only hast cast
out of the world. and despised; thou hast
drFwn together all the far-stretchea
greatness. all the pride. cruelty. and am
h.tion or man. end covered il over with
these TWO narrow words, 'Hic Jacct.'
AS we said to the great Assyrian mon
arch, He that wore a mitre is now a
little heap of dust
"All that live must die, passing through
nature to eternity.
And so. let us live. doing as little harm
and causing as little pain as may be, and
Offering as many hours as we can upo
the ALTAR Of usefulness to our fellow men.
''In the doing Of good deeds is there ex-
'ceeIinn great reward. Not in the worlds
gratitude, for that is too often withheld.
Emerson, the WisFst and gentleSt of
American philosophers, says that the
reward Of a thing. well-done is to have
done it, Even he who did more to
brighten life TO sweeten sorrow. and fill
the world With sunshine, than all the
kings and queens of history. carried his
own cross up the steep side OF Calvary.
And how true it is, my friends, that from
the minimizing world those who give
most seem to receive least. How true 1t
is that those who give of their time, of
their talent, and Of their lives, for the
entertainment and instruction and up
lifting of their fellow men, often receive
nothing but the ashes of ingratitude.
The teachers of the world. the prophets
of humanity, those who pour out their
hearts for all men, often die in desola-
ton and friendless and alone. How true
is it that the benefactors of mankind are
often crucified.
And yet. they We're not without their
reward. They found it in their own
great hearts. They found it in the well
done of the. Infinite Spirit that judges
all things we'll.
and 50, l say. mans first duty is to do
what he can to make life brighter and
better for his fellow men. Mans high
est ambition should be to serve his fell
lows. MOI the service Oh SELL, Dut OF
mankind, is the noblest purpose. No
other act of man contributes in such
superb measure to his own glory.
Eager in pursuing the sunshine. how
long is man learning how to do it right?
Some one has said that centuries of
breeding are necessary to produce a |
gentleman. After all. man is a slow
learning animal. With hurried step he
seeks the secret of true happiness. TO
find it has been his dearest dream
through weary centuries. But he can
never find it among thistles of selfish
ness. Yet ready to his hand the secret