The Newtown bee., 1905-06-30
TOWN TOPICS. SOCIAL TOPICS.
MEMORIALS.-BY o. o. WRIGHT.


 Other men labored and we have entered into their labors; we are labor ing and others will enter into our all we dO-a kind of immortality which belongs to this earthly estate. We are linked together in the relations of successive generations. We inherit, and we transmit to others the things of life; and the things of this life stand in vital relations to all life, divine and human. We are not only co-laborers together, but we are cO-partnerS in all the interests of our race.
 And so, when we wish to measure the worlds progress, and study the real attachments of any town, or state, or nation, we look for the simplest en-
 bodiment of the character of the people
 in their memorials, and anniversaries,
 and public institutions. And in these | things we find the foundation of our education. The culture of travel takes | us back through the lands of ancient
 history; amid the scenes described in Holy Scriptures; to the wOndrous pyra- midS, mysterious ruins, monuments, tombs, palaces, cathedrals, chur ches, museums and libraries, that we may most effectually enter into the personal possession of the natural inheritance
 of our modern life.
 The divine method of the evolution
 of the moral, spiritual life in us is by
 means of history teaching bv example. Every great movement in the progress of the world centres in the experience
 of some great one who embodies and | illustrates the truth which our Father
 in heaven wishes to impress upon the
 minds and hearts of mankind. The spirit of Truth works in and through the common earthly life in all the generations; and here little, and there little, "by divers portions and in divers mannerS," the children of earth a"e cultured for the spiritual life of the spiritual world. The divine nature is made known to us in and through our common human experience.
 AS in the history of Gods people at large, so in the records of our town and munity embodied in it's memorials, and perpetuated in it's anniversaries, which remind us of the past, and beckon us on into the future. We live in our memories and our hopes. The present is little more than 8 point of contact between that which we havo realized, and that which we anticipate. As the
 parents live in and for their. children, so in turn the children live in and for their parents. The stream Of life is like the flowing river. Little by little its flood of conscious thought and feel ing is gathered into it's channels of faith, hope and love, and held on its course, and directed in the divine Providence: and each generation lives and labors, and having added its contributions to the common family history is gathered to the resting place of the fathers The church=yard tells the story. It is written upon head stones, monuments, and in the tomb.
 The founders, and the leaders in their several generations, one by one, rest from their SPbors, and their children, and child n's children read with reverence the names upon tab lets, Tn church win Sws, in the family Bibles, or in the healogies; which are the sacred mend ials of their faith and endeayours. ey gave of their subste nee; they the foundations of our inheritan they embodied their hopes; they bolized their con- and we-t0NP Pmemorate them now in the anniversaries which we eel ebrate. And we honor ourselves and our children, as we exalt and emulate the labOrs, attainments, ideals and vir. tues of those who have lived before us and for us. We'll has it been said: ''MartyrS have died flor us, brave men have feHghft it, for nF P prophets have
 What then are we doing, in these days of the largest opportunities, for the good and the glory of those who