Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1906-07-30

= telescope until fir'tyou put out every
lighl.
A nation lie not TO find lie perma.
nence and support ia real estate, but
in men.
Nothing is more rational than Our
tribute to great men, They represent
our history-our tolls, trials and tri-
umphs
The secret forces OF our civic, moral
and intellectusl life in this new cen.
tury grant no possible quarter to the
sluRRard.
Like immortal ships the spirits Of
grea. men sail the ocean OF time.
They hear all the treasures Of the age
that made them,
The worlds great heart is like an
organ vast the sweep OF the ndi-
vidual hand will prodnce either hsr.
mony or discord,
In ordeHto make the thing around
man mean anything to him, you have
got 10 enrich HE mind, HE spirit and
hi. nature, and then he turns his
money into higher forms.
Pleasure, az a secondary desire, IA
worth OF your seeking Bot he who
makes pleasure the supreme end OF
life il unworthy OF the infinite possi.
bilities with which this wonderful cen-
tory endows him, That 10 an intense
y narrow lie whose extended boun.
daries cover no more than the passing
pleasures OF the hour.
The sdelwei" is a little perennial,
white, woody plant that grows high up
among the Alps, II grows only when
bosomed in eternal SHOWS and nursed
by the tempests, All, here's the para.
doI OF life. Some OF the sweetest,
purest, nobleIt souls Of earth are like
reeds shaken in the wind, The great.
erthe storm the grander the life. How
indeHnable, yet how often seen.
We live or die 40 We perpetuate our.
selves in the on.coming generation. A
country 10 no greater than her sons,
The tide OF civilization ebbs and flows
with the rise and fall OF newborn
hearts. Ancient Tyre was 80 busy
with her commerce OF the seas that
che raised no son TO give eternal set.
ting In poetry, or history, or tomb, or
art, or religion to her now dark. up.
sounded aud unlettersd life,
Can you tell why there should come
TO you the thought OF soma one miles
away Can you tell why the sweet
insiStcnce OF ensmory should force be-
fore you visions OF loved ones in the
long agoS They are our loved and loSt
for q little while. These hallowed
forms pass before ~ in the nighttime
OF our pilgrimage here We could not
live without them. We cannot live
apart from other dAyS oar hearts are
intsTtwined Destinies are interlinked.
Egyp, relied upon her corn, Phoe.
nicis upon her purple dyes, Athens
upon her splendors, Rome upon her in
vincible armies; but these have long
Iipee passed away, and their ancient
glory 10 but memory. Palestine had !
her Syrian skies whose stars kept
vigilS while humble shepherds kept
watch on her sacred hills She lives
IN her Chriss ~ the ages True A
carpenters son and the child OF peas.
antry But Palestine lives forever
because the son OF Mary walked the
highwAys OF Jerusalem and along her
roads.
Each heart 10 born 10 pursue its own
appointed way Circumstance that
favor you might prove disastrous 10
another II were wrong Ia sigh Tor
otheS' places. and wi'h that they
might take you're. Iourctsit sails not |
alone on lite, vide sea A thousand |
fleets from every zone are out upon As
many seas Whs, for you 10 = favor.
ms breeze might dA,h another upon |
the shoah The Sery thought itself IL
sweet Our batGue'. driven by their
Own isvoring winds, may glide in vide. /
~ separated courses But ,omewhere
and somehow, we shall cas-, snchOr la |
eommoa hArboF where the waters
lave the sands % gold.
The human mind does not achieve |
lie victories by one single sfor, Fron /