The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-06-07
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selves there grew out Of them what
alone could grow, nation thriftless,
without wealth at the very mouth of
mines; without character abroad or
government at home, with nothing
better to hope for in the future than
they suffered in the past.
Look now to the simple beginnings
of our own country.
The immigrants brought to these
shores neither money nor merchan-
disc, but they came bringing. religion,
learning, law and the spirit of men.
Strong in their faith in God aud
their own heroic patience they began
their combat with danger and hard
ship.
Disease smote them but they
tainted not; famine came but they
feasted on herbs with a patient
spirit.
They built a house for God and
then for themselves.
They dedicated their sons and
daughters to God, through God to
virtue and through virtue to the
state.
Soon villages began to smile,
churches arose still further in the
depths of the wilderness; industry
multiplied her hands; colleges we're
established; the beginnings of civil
order developed into the majesty of
states and thus was a mighty nation
manifested; a nation of religion,
learning, law, art and industry
rushing upon career Of expansion
unparalleled in the history of man.
Throughout the land of Egypt,
that land of antiquity and mystery,
there are temples and monuments
covered with curious hleroglyphics
which for generations had been
objects Of interest to travellers.
Efforts had been made to interpret
their significance and declpher their
meanings.
In 1899 French engineer found at
Rosetta large, black stone mutilated
and covered with figures and writings.
This stone was taken to the British
museum where it became the subject
of careful study. AT length it was
discovered to be the key to the
Egyptian hieroglyphics. By means of
it the life, the thought and the his
tory of that far away age became an
open book.
What the Rosetta stone was to
Egyptian hieroglyphics personality is
to all history.
To most Of US Greece is not the
little leaf shaped portion Of land lying
in the Mediterranean, but it is the
land that gave to the world the
''republic Of Plato and the ethics Of
Aristotle, the parthenon of Phidias
and the Iliad of Homer" I"
Rome might have lived on among
the nations, as fixed as her own
eternal hills if she had kept the
emphasis upon the personalities of her
citizens.
The imperial personalities of the
world, who Through faith subdued
Kingdoms, wrought righteousness,
obtained promises, stopped the
mouths of lions, quenched the violence
Of fires, escaped the edge of the sword,
out Of weakness were made strong,
waxed valiant in fight, and turned to
fight the armies of the aliens were
not trained and disciplined by super
fetal methods.
They chad trial of cruel mockings
and scourgings, of bonds and impris-
onment. They were stoned, they
were sawn asunder, were tempted,
were slain with the sword; they were
destitute afflicted, tormented; they
wandered in deserts and in mountains
and In dens and caves Of the earth.p
These gigantic spirits were devel-
oped like
'Iron dug from central gloom
And heated hot with burning fears
And dipped in baths Of kissing tears
And battered with the shocks Of doom
To shape and use.
The Rhine sweeping impetuously
past the quays and under the bridges
Of Geneva conveys, by its very velocity,
the idea Of the great heights from
which it has come.
The Amazon by its breadth and
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