Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-12-12


row, in order to pay their respects to
and revere the memory of brother
lodgmen who have gone to the great
beyond. The services, which were
held in the pavilion, were largely at
tended, and were most impressive
throughout. There was a number of
excellent and suitable selections by a
double quartet, a number of memoir
ial addresses by prominent members
Of the Elks lodge, of which the adj
dress by Hon. Hugh Brown, being in
a part a eulogy of the late Governor
Sparks, who was an Elk, was the
most notable. Mr.. Brown touched
the heart strings of every one in the
hall, his address so excellent that we
give its context, although put in cold
type 1t will not carry the sentiment
it bore when delivered by the lips of
an orator who felt, and put into his
expression, a most sincere regard for
and admiration Of, the late John
Sparks. His address was as follows:
Exalted Ruler, My Brother Elks,
Ladies and Gentlemen:
you who have seen the dramati-
cation of Dickens Tale Of Two
Cities will recall, in the closing act,
when the jailer called Number 49,
summoning to the guillotine a PAM
pered favorite of the Bourbon court,
the gay Frenchman lecked the dust
from his sleeve, and turning to his
fellow prisoner, Sidney Carton, rev.
erently said: In another and better
world | hope we have more knowl-
edge of thee
1T was a brave hope, brayely ut
tered; and men have striven from
the dawn, and will strive on and on
until the dusk, to inform their NOR
tai lenses if it was fulfilled.
Thus far, no answer has come to
us a V that which comes through
faith and the affections. The mortal
intellect has failed to fathom the
immortal plan, and only surmises
dimly what lies beyond the Silent
sea.
"Assuredly no human voice has
spoken with credible authority, save
that we reverently may harken to
the greatest intellectually in human
history, a Galilean, who said: L go
to prepare a place for you
Whether the thought of an after.
life be only a legend come down
from ancient days, or whether the fix
ed trust clinging to the spirit of man
kind be a symbol of the greatest
truth in the universe, we do not
know. But throughout the history
OF the race there ever has been an in
domitable force within the heart of
man, battling the power of speech
and thought. striving to break its
bonds, and weakly manifesting it.
self in creeds, customs, rituals and
formulas which, in their final anal
ysis, were voiced by the thief, breath
ing his last upon Golgotha-I be-
lieve.'
We may well conceive that an In
finite Wisdom has decreed that the
conception of immortality shall dwell
forever in the faith and affection of
men rather than in the category of
revealed and demonstrated fact: for
by faith and love the lives and char
acters of men are disciplined and en-.
nobled. But, however, this NAV be
the eyes of modern science are peer.
ing deep into the shadow, and their
message to the world is hopeful. By
the simple law of the conservation
and persistence of energy they teach
us that energy may change it's form.
u never perish. The great physical
forces of the earth are constantly
changing their forms, but they never
cease to exist.
Life is the highest type of energy
within our ken, and personality is
the most persistent form of energy
we know. Then who will say that
life and personality constitute the
n great exception to an otherwise
universal law? If the smallest seq.
ment of a circle, visible to the eve of
a mathematician, enables him to CON
struct the whole circumference; If
n bone of a fish in Agassiz's hand.
enabled him to define the whole or
ganism, who will say that from one
clear law of the universe we may not
project an elemental concert Of the
after life?
AT this juncture the cold dictum
OF the scientist and the feryent son
OF the poet seem to be blending to-
ward a common harmony. Matthew
Arnold, speaking Of his great father.