The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-12-06

and standing ready to dash out her
/ life by the fearful leap to the stones
| below il the fierce Tcmpiar advanced
| one step in his assault upon her
! honor.
With Damon crossing the Pacific
! and seeking the desolation of Molokia
/ TO minister Ia the deserted Ierers and
| dying with them in the name of broth.
erhood and for the sake of his Lord
and Master.
. With Mrs. Rallington Booth, tn.
friends Of the outCasi and convict. Civ
ing courage To the weak and crrinC.
and consolation tn the wrstched and
depraved. she. who breaches the
blessed doctrines. Il: is human t. err.
but divine to forgive.
With Saint Martin dividing his cloak
with u beggar. With Sir Philip Syd-
ncy wounded unto death. taking the
untasted draught of water from his
parched lirs and handing it over to
! the mansied. dying soldier. with the
| immortal words. The necessity is vet
greater than mine
The world is fun of heroic men
and women to whom sacrifice is a
pleasure and who do not fear death.
II is the few who let the candied
tongue lick absurd pomp and crook
+ amid pregnant hinges of the knee.
that thrift may follow fawning.''
Industry, fragality and temperance
are the landmarks Of liberty and re-
ligion: charity. kindness and graft
tude are the Jewels that deck the per-
feet man.
The great law of human conduct un-
der charity is extended and lives made
happy is the divine commandment.
! Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy
self"
1t Is this law that gave mankind
the glories of its Christian civilization
1t has elevated women to her place ms
the equal If not the superior of man.
II has glorified motherhood and faith
erhood. 1t has made a reality of the
vision of happy home. wherein study
and research are sweetened. pictures
and art filled with life's full meaning
and song. made sacred amid the
household gods. where childhood wor-
ships and sweet affection offers in
sceIsc to the hottest of ties. II has
cared for the crippled. the blind, the
helpless. the insane. and built hospitals
and homes for them. II has inspired
every noble action that assuaged grief
and has turned mourning into glad
ness. 1t has been behind every effort
In behalf of peace and kindness. 1t
tempers justice with money and has
redeemed the fallen and lost.
Why should man fear death? Caesar
is made to say In the play
towards die many times before their
death.
once,
heard,
1t seems to me most strange that men
should fear:
Seeing that death. n necessary end
win como when it will come"
\ We often hear il said that death f.
everywhere. Aye. the pale rider on
the black horse comes in tn sunshine
and i'm the darkness; in the fury OF
the storm. in the fire. in the flood. in
every form where life Is found. with
out warning and with warning, moth
Ing certain as to when or where or
how. but nothing more certain than
It's coming. We are told that as n
man lives so shall he die. The picture
only part of the story.
Consolation.
Our belief in n God and a hereafter
strengthens and sustains us in the
tempest and storm. in sickness and
health. in darkness aud daylight. in
every manifestation of the clements
and of matter. 1t is the consolation
OF this belief that leads us to say
with the poet:
He. who. from zone to zone.
Guides through the boundless sky thy
certain flight
In the long way that / must tread
alone
VIII lead my steps Alright"
And. my friends. when that hour
comes. when the lights grow dark and
the shadows fall. when. as Blaine said
to Garfield. In the silence of the re-
eeding world We hear the great waves
breaking on the further shore and feel
already on our wasted brows the
breath Of the eternal morning" NAV
II then be said of MS. HE had always
dones his duty. and he was not afraid
to die
"As the long train of ages glio,
away.
The sons of men. the youth In lifc's
green spring.
And he who goes in the full strength
of years.
Matron and maid. the gray-haired
man
And toe sweet babe. shall one by one
Be gathered Ia thy side. those
VINO IN their turn shall follow them;
So live that when thy summons comes
To join the innumerable caravan that
moves on
To that mysterious realm where each
shall
Take his chamber in the silent halls
of death
Thou 60 not like the quarry slave at
night.
scourSed 10 his dungeon. but sus-
tanned and soothed
By an unfaitcring trust. approach thy
grave
LAKE, one who wraps the drapery of
his couch about his body
Ana lies down To pleasant dreams"