Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1906-07-27
SUN B e A M s
ny } MAvIN NICHOLS.
Nll-Ights reserved In Alachua county

ruin IL no stronger bnhn I'VE IDChI'
nation.
Character Is q beautiful dream cut
into stone from human qIhrries
You can't see the heavens through
a telescope until fret you put out every
liRhl.
A nation Ia not To find its perms-
hence and support Ia real estate, but
IN men
Too many OF "a forestslI visions Of
higher things by an sbuornal self.
appreciation.
To listen to some saints pray you
would think God 10 running q cOmm;s-
sary department.
Some mems ambitions are no more
than will.o'.lhe-wisp fires thrown up
from the b"gs Of appetite aud passion,
IL the last analysis, thought 10 pow
er. Ponderous machinery Yes; but
az last, applied thought Think with
power
Nothing Ia more rational than our
tribute to great men. They represent
our hiStory-Our toils, trials and tri-
umphs,
The secret forces OF our civic, moral
and intellectual life in this new cen.
tury grant no possible quarter TO the
sluRgard.
Like immortal ships, the spirits OF
great men sail the ocean Of time,
They bear all the treasures u the age
that made them. =
Can you tell why2 From the same
lie one man sips the ELIXIR that for.
ever cheers; another, from that same
life drinks gall that embi,ters IL for.
cveT. Can you tell why?
In order to make the thing around
man mean anything to him, you have
got o enrich his mind, his spirit and
hi. nature, and then he turns his
money into higher forms.
The Texas of empirs.acrenge OF cot.
ton, corn aud gatherings, 10 one
thing; the Texas of John n Reagan
il another When the iir.i il forgot.
ten, the last shall be only dawninR.
Men make country,
Pleasure, asa secondary desire, Ia
worth ot your seeking But he who
makes pleasure the supreme end OF
life il unworthy oi the infinite possi.
blli,les with which this wonderful cen.
tHry endows him. That 10 an Intense
~ narrow lie whose extended boun.
DIARIES cover no more than the passing
pleasures oi the hour.
li'ome Hebrew dreamep had not
been taken captive into Babylon the
very name OF tina, magnificent empire
had doubtless passed from the mem.
ories ~ men Somebody must sufY-r
II . nation he great Lightning 10
never ~ bright ~ when drawn acro.s
the darkest cloud A nations history
~ mighty when seen against the back.
ground Of her martyrs and her heroes.
We live or die ~ We pcrpeiuate our.
selves IN the cn.cominR generation. A
country 10 no greater than her sons.
The tide Of civilization ebb. and dow.
with the rise and fall Of newborn
hearts Ancient Tyre was % busy
with her commerce of the seas that
The raised no sou To give eternal set.
ting In poetry. or history, ~ tomb, OF
Art. or religion tn her nov DARK. uo.
sounded and unlcttcrei TIE
Egypt relied upon her corn, Phoc.
Meta upon her purple dJes, Athens
ipon her splsndors, Rome upca her IN
armies but thrse have long
'incc passed away. ard their ancient
glory 10 but . memory Palestine had |
i'r Syrian sA,rs whose star hep,
'igils while humble shepherd. kept
watch on her sacred hills She lives
n her Christ ot the agrs True Al
carpenter, con and the child ~ peas.
Intry But Palc,line lisrs forever
,rcSuse the son ~ Maay walked tho
OF Jerusalem and along her