The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-12-09

tence that mas become lOdInSoHle 10
him and useless to the world.
"AdoVn the dim corridors of the
ages history is not all as some have
painted it, a tale Of woe-of signs and
lamentations. Everywhere the an
nailed records of time pulsate with
sweeter strain, that, blending with the
refrain of care hallows and transforms
it into benisons of love.
This grand refiner comes to the
man with the accompaniment of mys-
tic music that is modulated to varied
strings. Sometimes it is the human
bowling in alteration of the divine for
numberless blessings that crown the
pathway of existence. Anon it is the
parental love watching, with emotions
too holy for conception and too fond
for utterance, the growth of the child
to sturdy manhood or beauteOus wo-
manhood Of what feelings unutter-
able, of what lofty blisses transcen-
dant is not a mothers sacred love the
symbol and the synonym? 1t guards
and guides through the weary marches
of life and reaches across the revolu-
tiOns of time into the pearly portals
OF the fOreVermore.
again we view the reciprocal love
of the child for the parent, or of broth
ers and sisters who have gathered
around the same hearthstone in child
hoods happy hours.
Another phase presents the rever-
ent love of the unfortunate and the
down-trodden for the benefactor or
the hero champion who has alleviated
distress or placed the glory -decked
crown of victory upon the brow of
liberty standing respondent upon the
form of PROSTATE tyranny.
"On yet another page is displayed
that love of mutual friends which has
entWined the laurel wreath Of eternal
fame around the constancy of Damon
and Pythias. Some have been rem
dered illustriOus by that answering
love of all that is honorable in con-
ception and noble in action-that pre-
bity which gave to Camillus triumphs
yet more decisive than the brilliant
successes he had won by arms.
Pure love of country has been the
animating power that has induced
many Of carths heroes, not only in
classic but in all ages, to dare every
extremity for the affairs, the homes.
and the nresides of fatherland.
"Lconidas and Themistocles; Pau
sanias and Epaminondas; Horatius at
the bridge, and ScaeVola with his hand
upon the lurid altar: Cincinnatus, the
wise, and Fabius, the prudent; Regu-
lus, whom no terror or torture could
swerve from the path of duty, and the
Brutl, who know how both to live and
die for their nation, have found their
echo in John Hampden, challenging the
iuiqGities of the Star Chamber, and in
the calm march Of Sydney to the
block: in Boliver and Garibaldi; in
KoSsuth and Lafayette: in Washington
and Grant; in Sergeant Jasper, the
valiant, and Joseph Reed, the incor
ruptible.
But ii the warm mood of admira-
ton is given to mortals who have
loved those eudearsd by ties of Atm
ity or nationality and who have dared
dangers in their behalf; TO those who
have freely given on the altar OF home
or fatherland. life anu fortune. how
indispensable the emotions caused by
witnessing the human love to human
ity, in its widest range, which, en-
bodying its code Of theology and phil
UsOphy in the dictum. man is the
brother OF his fellow man" aims 10 eie-
vate the degraded, 20 champion the
cause of the victim Of unjust power.
TO sOoth the sadness Of the sorrowful,
and TO transplant into earths most
desolate spot some of the fair flowers
of Eden.
1T was the development Of the be-
lief in tine fraternalism of humanity
that enabled Socrates TO quaff with
calmness the hemlock cup which in
gratitude forced TO his lips: and that
walked with John Howard through the
prisons and pest houses of England
and the continent. Ii kept its vigil
with the hunted martyrs sheltered in
the catacombs of the pagan city of the
Caesars; l1nelt with Florence Nightin-
gale beside the couch Of pain, and ir-
radiated with rays resplendent the
benefactions of Peter Cooper and Ste
phen Girard. Yet, these and such as
these were but eXpOnential heroes of
aspirations, old as time, that seek in
universal brotherhood for universal
good.
But humanity's love with its multi
form manifestations. becomes a tantal-
izing myth. were il as transitory as
earthly existence. 1t finds its compile
ment and key in that which gives it
durability and intrinsic superiCrity-in
Immortality.
What recks man Of the struggles
and storms Of time; what recks he of
occasional Bullets and life barks tossed
on tempestuous shoals if he knows
that the loves which encompass him
with their strong arms of protection
shall outlive all these and survive for
ever, as pure, as firm, as immortal as
Immortality itself?
Each chord of earthly love has its
responsive chord Of hope that that love
can never chill. The maternal love that
has watched each successive develop
ment of the child knows no cessation