The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-04-10
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CHAPTER X,

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Mr.. Hardy began in a low, clear tone:
''Men and Women of Barton-To-
night am not the man you have
known me these % Years i'shave been
among you. | am. by the grace OF God,
new crea tur'e. AS stand here Il
have no greater desire in my heart
than to say what may prove to be
blessing to Ill my old townspeople and
to MY employees and to these strong
young men and boys. Within d few
short9days God slhasshownqn1e the Yseaf-
lshness of human beings heart, ana.
that heart was my own, and it is with
feelings none Of You ca1 ever know
that / look into your faces, and say
these words.H lffls ists l.a s..-.
Robert Hpaused "a moment asiif gath;
ering himself, up for the effort that fol-
lowed, and the AUDIENCE, startled with
an unexpected emotion by the strange
beginning, thrilled with excitement, as,
lifting his arm and raising His voice,
theJonce cold and proud man contig-
Jed, his face and form glowing with
the transportation OF new mahKood::
ri There gisf but one, supreme, law, sip
this world, ahdait IS this: Love God and
your eighbors with heart, amiad, soul,
strength. And there are but two things
worth Hlying fer.ssThs -gloryaof Godsand
the salvation of man. TonightsI, who
lo y 6,kt into InI6 eternify 10 ai;sensk which 4
viii not stop tOaexplain, i feel the bit
terness which comes from the knowl:
edge that ItihAyes, broken that law and
have net lived for those things which
alone are worth living -, s4s4ea ~
.But God has sent me here tonight
with a,messag the. people which my
heart must deliver. It is a dutyseyep
more sacred in some ways .thag what
Lowe to my Own; Kindred u am aware
thaEthe hearts of the people are shock
ed into npmbness BY the recent horror
I know that more than one bleeding
heart is in this house, and the shadow
Of the last enemy has fallen over many
thrssshoIdss inl 9th. ''}l town, What lid
Inot ENTER into the valley of the shadti
owsl Of death myself as i stumbled oYeetfl
the CHASTITY ruins. Off that, wreck, my
soul torn ii twain for the love Of three
ofl1ay own. deaf ehildren?s Do Iinot
sympathize in full with all those who
bitterly weep sand lamenEs and sit in
blaeknesss of horrorsthis night? u Yea,
but. men Of Barton. Whyais 1t that we
are SO moved, 80 stirred, go Shocked, by
the event ,of death when the ia, far more
awful event 81 life does not disturb us
ih tRA least?Sa y y az MI ~.
1--WE shudder with terror, we lose
our acc;uistt5m1d' ipffde ~ fhdiAerence,
we Speak ina whispers, andl'we tread
softlysi in the presence Of the visitor
who smitess but once and then smites
the the body a. only but in the awful pres
ence OF the lying Image Of GodgWe go
ouE ways careless ind fferent,u cold.
passionless, selfish.
II know whereofsd spsakjyfor have
walked through the.Morla, ike that NY
sell. land yet death fcannotIsbe conn
pared. sfof one .4noment1 wifi lffe foF
majesty, for so1emnitY, for meaning.
for power. here WeresT5 persons kill
ed in, the accident. But inlt the papers
this morning i Eead In the column next
\ to that IN whinhtfthe accident WAS
paraded in small type and in the brief
est Of paragraphs the statement that
a certain young manfin tlis,wery toMp
1 Of ours had been arrested for forging
4 his fathers name onsa check and was
infthe grasn.of the law. isAM d 2.tsV
sD.And every daS in,4his town sand: III
every town all over the world events
like that and worse than. that are of
frequent occurrence. b., Nay. IL this very
town of ours more than Is souls are at
this very moments going dSwn into a
far blaeker hell Of destruction than the
one down there under that fated
bridge, apd the community Is not hor
rifed oyer it. How many mass meet
ings have been. held in this. town. with.
in the last % years over the losses of
character, the death ofSputitM the de-
struction, of honesty? Yet they. have
outnnmbered the victims Of this late
physical disaster Enthusiastically " !,
d And what does mere death dos,. IT
releases the spirit from its house OF
arth,butsaside from that deRthJdoes
nothing to the persons. But,Mhat does
life DOB Life does everything& 1t PIG.
/ pares for heaven Qrrfor hellY-It starts
impulses, molds character, fixes char.
actter:: Death has no Kingdom without
cpd. Deatbrts only The last tehheemy, 81
the many enemies that life knows.
1 Death is ansecond life is an eternity.
1 o men, brothers, it, as isolemniy and
truly Delieys this IL The Last .oepportu-