The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-07-02

1NE page OF the April issue OF
u Chicago periodical edited by one of
the abIest of newspaper men is de-
voted to the following:
IN MEMORIAAI.
Born March 20. Died March "a His
coming was JOY to his mother and me.
His going has helped us to understand
some things we did not know
To some this language may need
translation. but il will be understood
by the loving parents of living children
and it viii be seIf-interpretinS as it
strikes. a holy and sympathetic chord
IN the hearts of those who have loved
and lost
Language grows out of life-out of
its agonies and ecstasies, its wastes and
its weariness- Every language is a
temple in which the soul of those who
speak il is enshrined." How many.
many, fathers and mothers whose souls
are enshrined in the temple where was
spoken this eloquent memorial TO a lit
tie one, whose coming revealed the very
heights of love and whose going showed
what death really isl
The boy in his teens thinks he loves
when for the first time he makes bold
to go gathering the myrtle with Mary.
Mary whose heart he knows" the
youth thinks he loves when he presses
the engagement ring upon the finger of
his sweetheart and seals it with a kiss;
the young man thinks he loves when he
leads his bride to the altar And they
all do loVe-in their own way and in
the way of the moment.
But wait until the baby comes, There
is love, There the love for the bride is
increased a thousand-fold and conse-
Grated in the love for the mother, while
in the new-found affection for a little
child portals seem to have opened upon
new and strange yet holy ground. How
the world laughs at the antics Of man
who for the first time finds himself 10
be a father, But who cares for the
good-natured laughter of the world?
Certainly not the man who. after hours
| and perhaps days of Keen anxiety for
| the fate of his sweetheart, who has gone
| into the valley of deaths dark shadow
| in response to loves stern call, has been
| assured that ''all's we'll" He has OBJ
tanned a glimpse of real life; in his hori-
ZOn there is not one single cloud, the
| birds are singing, there is music every
where. He breaks from his work ana
| finds himself hurrylng to the bedside or
i the old love and to the cradle-side II
the new love As a rule he is und1gn1-
| fed in his haste, but what does a new
| made father care for dignity He
! knows there'n be ample time for that
/ when he is dead. He rather enjoys the
! tests of his associates; for just as the
| young lover likes to talk about his
| sweetheart the older lover likes to talk
I about his babe. 1t is a striking fact
/
| as il has in many homes. though child
| after child may be born, it is the same
! old story. The same birds are singing,
| the same music everywhere Tor the
/ father who finds himself Fastening to
/ his home TO greet one of those who have
| been likened to Gods apostles sent
| forth day by day TO preach of love and
! hope and peace. Wait until the baby
! comes and that is love, Wait until
more and more babies come and that
fl
| But if you would learn even more
| than that of love. wait until the baby
goes There is the -vOiceless grief that
| whispers the o'er-fraught heart and
| bids il break" But there is the grief
| that makes the tie that binds two
! hearts closer than any marriage words
yet spoken by a priest; the thing that
| ''knitS two hearts in closer bonds than
/ happiness ever cam for common sur
| ferings are far stronger links than
common joys"
Do we not know that a grave cannot
be so small that if fails to find in the
parents hearts the place which IN
Gods infinite wisdom has been set aside
for the memorial to every child of love
The parents obtains new interest in
every days development of the child
from birth TO the limits of babyhood :
he obtains new interest in every year 5
development of the boy, whether it be
from kits to knee pants. from knee
pants to long trousers, or from smooth
face to the first touch of dOWny beard
and every turn carries a new sensation
to the parents heart. How often, also
| has the sentence passed between father
! and mother as they anxiOusly bent over
the sick child's bed; Hes just at the
| age when it will be hardest to lose
| him" But it is because the parents
love best the child that is sick that they
think that death at that age would be
the hardest" At any age and at all
ages. from babyhood even unto man
hood, the death of a child calls into the
parents heart and the parents heart
always on guard in the child's interest
makes prompt and grief-stricken re-
Spouse.
Let those whose hearts do not ye
wear these scars imagine what they
would do if asked to choose one of theil
| children whom they could best spare
There is an old story, told in homelI
, | verse. that Illustrates this point well
A father and mother had been Offered
? | a house and land if i'm return from GU
- of their seven children one child shout,
, be given to the donor. Poverty seems
to have pressed heavily upon that hom
! and seven mouths to feed brought grea
respOnS ibilitieS. The mother suggeste Q,
: | that they choose among the little one
? | as they slept: so walking hand i'm hant
[ | they surveyed the inmates of thei
| household. First to the cradle Wher
! the baby slept: then beside the trun
die bed where one long ray of lamp
| light shed athwart the bOyish face
[ [ there, in sleep so pitiful and fair" an
. then from one to the other, from tn
/ first-born to the Benjamin of tn
= flock, the father and mother went, de
= claring beside each sleeping form: ''NO
y this one, no, not this one" Then turn
ing even to where poor Dick, ba
Dick, the hayward son, turbulent, reck
less. idle one" slept in spite of con
science bad, they asked: Gould he b
a spared?" and answered ma. he VIII
y gave bade us befriend him to his grave