Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1905-09-14
LESSONS FROM TWO llvEs,

shall be your servant, xx:
20, ~
"And he spake OF trees, from the
cedar that 10 In Lebanon even unto the
hyssop that springeth out OF the wall;
| he spoke also of beasts; and OF fowl
aud OF creeping things, and OF fishes"
II Kings lv;SS.
Ninety-slx years ago, the 18th of
February, two remarkable buds ap-
peared on the wondrous tree Of Life,
Long since they hlosomed into beauty
and ripened into glory, Long since tie
delicious exhalatlons filed the cham.
hers OF many minds and swcetcned the
| lahyrinths OF many hearts, Long since
the rich perfume wldened to the plan.
cts utmost bound aud bids fair to
lengthen TO the length Of all the cen
turtles OF recorded time, For as the
water when disturbed goes rippllng on
and on IN overwhelming undulatlons
80 the influence Of Lincoln and par.
win Is waxing more aud more, They
are leading performers In that glorious
choir whose music Is the gladness OF
the world. One was born In home
OF culture, refinement and gllttering
wealth; the other IN hut OF logs
without a floor or window, In Il vlrgin
forest beyond the rim OF civilization
One had rich and famous ancestry.
with all the traditions OF English arls,
tocracy back of him, and all the priv
other had shlftless. lighting, coarse
and ignorant father. As one grew he
had FOR his companions boys Ns highly
favored as himself, As the other grew
he was forced TO mingle with fight
ing drinking bulles whose stories
were ingralned with oaths and whose
conversations savored OF the sewer
One had all the advantages of the
great universities and OF walking the
tlowery meads OF literature and the
lovely gardens OF epic and lyric song.
To the other such intellectual luxuri"s
had not even dawned on his imagina-
ton, or star-like lit up the vacant
spaces of his heart One was Tapped
In luxury and fed with nectar and
am6rosla: the other lived as pioneers
and mountaineers do In lonely wIlds,
and as scouts on dangerous frontiers.
And yet from these homes so utterly
unlike there came two towering per-
sonalities, two exceptional and illus
trlous men. One broke the shackles OF
ignorance and superstition. enlarged
the horizon Of human thought, unlock
ed mysterious doors and ushered in an
epoch on the worlds calendar com
pared with which the golden ages OF
Pericles, Augustus, Leo Y. and of
England's virgin queen were only lead.
The other, with the spirit of God upon
him, proclaimed liberty to the cap
tives and the opening OF the prison 10
them that were bound. He not only
liberated the enslaved and was as n
wall Of fire to the defenseless, but lie
pioted the vessel of state through n
tempestuous and maddened sea to the
port Of peace. He saw the storm grad
ually lull and sweetly subside, until
an imperturbable serenity enwreathel
the deep like a smile from the face of
God
Lincoln and Darwin were Providen-
tlal men called OF God 10 play impor-
tant parts on the central stage Of the
worlds great theater. For the work
they did circled the nineteenth century
with wonder and crowned 1t with
glory. They are enrolled as benefac-
tors Of the race and belong to the i'm.
mortals Of history.
II to be just, loving, kind and true
to our fellowmen is to be religious
then these men were religious clear to
thesocketsof their souls. Standing neal
4 the grave Of Darwin, in the famous
pulpit of the Abbey, Canon Farrar
said: "If high purity and rigid per
fOrmance Of duty constitute blessed
career; if what God requires OF us Is
to do justly, love mercy, and to walk
humbly with him; II to do unto men
whatsoever we would that they
should do unto us be the law and the
prophets then do not hesitate to say
that, rather than by the side Of any
journalist or any Pharisee, whose daily
words belle his vaunted orthodoxy
and make men turn with scorn from
his religion of denunciation and Of
: hate, /, for one, would rather take my
; stand at the Great Assize with one
who may have borne the stigma Of 6
hereto, but who showed the virtues
OF a saint" What he said Of Darwin
can be applied with equal force tC
Lincoln. And 80 these twin-borl
mates of February 12, 1900, one WELD
ing jewel-hilted lance Of light, the
other bearing an Ithuriel spear, helped