The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-26

love is not Is poorer than the poorest mans hovel where love dwells. The love Of community is yours if you will earn 1t with the deeds and loves of a good man.
 If you were a great man, truly great man. could not say this. One of the heavy prices a truly great man, as a rule, has to pay for his greatness Is to suffer misrepresentation and islander and hate. Most of the contemporaries of John Milton never could appreciate the truo worth of the blind sage, who in the black exile of national contempt had to go to his study for comfort until his blinded eyes saw more of the glories of heaven than the two eyes of any inspired writer have ever seen since apostolis times. Many q soiled statue In Westminster ab- bey could be washed as white as the driven snow if it were only possible to collect all the tears which once fell from the eyes of those whose bodies are now sleeping under wonder cold marble. Those tears were shed in the days of neglect and ostracism and poverty. Only the other day l ran across an editorial writ ten by one of the most famous of north ern writers, who afterward became one of the greatest eulogists of our martyred President Abraham Lincoln. This editorial was written in the heat of the civil war. Any man who would go down to Wash ington and shoot the stupid fool in the White House would be comforting an inestimable service on the American peo- pie were 1t not for the fact there was bigger bloclShead in the vice prisdential chair" Ah yes, the bitterest of exeera- tions were hurled at Lincoln when he was alive as the most fulscme of eulogies are given to him now he is dead.
 Injustice of the Public.
 Though the world often has been un- just and bitter to the great men, have always felt that this persecution and this bitterness were not due. as rule, to the innate meanness of the human race, but rather to it's inability at certain times to appreciate the heroes and hero ines who were sacrificing their lives for the good of their fellow men But. my friend, you need not be afraid that the world will be unable to appreciate your good words, if you are doing any good works. You are not a great warrior, great statesman, a great reformer. You are only an ordinary man, living an or dinary life in an ordinary place. There fore if you are kind and loving and gentle and forgiving and helpful to your fellow men they will be kind and loving and forgiving and gentle and helpful to you. Why? Because each day of your life you come into personal touch with your little world, and the friends and the people of your communities see you just as you are.
 Would you not like to be loved by the people of the community in which you live? When you go to sleep tonight. would you not like to feel that some tired, sick woman who Is tossing around on her bed unable to sleep is smiling over the good cheer you brought her this af- ternoon by your visit and your saying God bless you, God bless you?' Would you not like to have people always speak Ing your name and saying, "No one Is ever in trouble but he Is ready to help them if he can?" You can win this love If you will. Come get a good name for kindness and love. Come, make the people by whom you are surrounded love you The love of those with whom we come in contact is one of the most price lsss boons offered to man. whether he lives in palace or hut.
 Taking another step forward in my sub ject, I declare that a good name Is the most glorious of all inheritances which a man can leave his children. It means more, infinitely more, than gold. It means more than anything else on earth that you can give. Most of us want to leave our children the best we can. We must not forget to give them this treas ure which is of more value than great riches
 Greatest of Inheritances.
 How can parents financially poor leave to their children the greatest of inherit ances? Let them explain more In detail. The adjective good comes from the substantive God" To be good in the highest sense means to be "goodlike' or