Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-02-12
Of its 90.000.000 of

Of its 100000 Of people"
Swayed by the truth and force Of the sepuagenarians
utterance. the large company OF distinguished guests
elderly men Of action broke into cheers. The words
and the cheers were not the careless demonstrations Of
cheap sentiment Rpened OF action think and teei
most strongly tine essential recude OF AS they
look back what they have they rejoice that the
nation remains in worthy custody.
Scofng and next repinIng, this minute affecting
the knowing quzzical glance Of the skeptc and then
hercey divertng itself with the wrongs it has witnessed,
the world of talk pessmstic; but the world OF action
wiser than talk will admit Man act without be.
Ieving in the good Of mankind, The higher man has
climbed the he his fellows. Life is constant
lookout through the misis' through the falling shad
ov till one comes the shining top, where the logs t
and the shadows tighten and the view is undistlrbed
AT the darkest little place, the mountalns base,
where the quaking solitary fears and doubts his owT
strength he cannot help feeling then the love ana
truth Of a thousand homes in the sunlight under the
glorious canopy Of light and blue In city country ne
hears and in his soul acknowledges the moving forward
Of vast honest Masses who laboring loving serving
building keeping their word and responding to the call OF
God and country and neighbor.
In false shame to be thought ignorantly innocent and
false wearing Of much shrewdness, profess cyni'
cism Who are the consistent pessimsts! The worthless
who do nothing live obscure and die unknown Napoleon
prince Of cyncs in aecaton, trusted lavishy the people
Of France the soldiers OF his aFy the captains and held
marshals whom he might see, but to whom he musi
assign the execution OF designs vi them he even pc
eved the impossbiies; that they could overrun Russia
and unite under one sway the Of Europe. Byron,
royal among scofeTs and porphyrogest misnuan-
thropes performed hisong hours labor because he be-
lieved and delighted in the intelligent appreciation OF q
kindly race Of men whom he proessed to despse, but
apart from whose admiration or astonshment he never
thought Of living
Not an engineer can project railway, not cunning
and cold calculator can set up bank not politician
can aspire the honors and gains Of office without In
his heart implicitly trusting the sustained honesty morality
ard industry Of men, No two or three planners plot
ters through their talk may be reeking with the wicked
ness Of cynicsm can meet without basing every plan
plot upon the better qualities Of inanty. If we're not
so the race would stop and fall nosate in dissolution
The farm would cease producing store would neither
buy nor SELL the capitalist would with disgust from
his vaults, and the empires and * bfcs would crumbe.
Even seeing how action pulses confidence that man
will work pay, love Loyalty and s. noby, the thinker
must often be humble and abashey at the he7osm the
sacr6ce the unyelding courage the Stubborn per
ssence Of men, So much has heard Of surfac.
talk filed with evanescent little ac atoms Of human d
feet his own faith has been co,. When he looks
straight at the planest groupings e commones lac !
he comprehends that in the sal onward march
through the individual is lost the itude is many ind \
viduals The man falls and d and is forgotten; b
mankind still moves still worlds revove and the wi1
Of God is done in earth and heaven.