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

unseen rock and i'm an instant hear
the pillows roar above n sunkcn ship.
For. whether iii mid-ssa or among the
breakers of the further shore. Il
wreck at last must mark the end of
each and all.
And every life. no matter if its ev-
cry hour is rich with love, and every
moment jewclled with joy. will. at its
close. become tragedy as sad and deep
and dark as can be woven of the
wrap and woof OF mystery and death.
or our dead we say with Scott:
Soldier. rest-thy warfare DER.
Dream of fighting fields no more.
Sleep the sleep that knows no break
ing,
Morn of toll, nor night of waking"
II there is one thing our order has
taught me above all else. it is to be
gentle to the feelings of the living.
those who struggle on from year to
year amid the trials and temptations
of our stormy existence. Better far to
say three sentences of Kindness and
encouragement to our brother while
his blood is warm and his pulses beat.
than to write book about his virtues
after the grave closes over him The
world at best is bitter i'm its COM
ments. and often knows neither pity
nor charity. Many a tired spirit has
fallen never to rise, many n sad soul
has gone out npon the dark waters.
waiting and yearning for the smile of
gladness. hoping for the generous
charity that never comes. Selfishness
has been too busy, pity too far hid
den in the mad race for power and
place. cant and hyprocricy have pos
sessed the hearts of the thoughtiess,
and oblivion closes over the SORROWS
and failures of worthy men and
women-''The insolence of office and
the spurns that pttient merit OF the
unworthy take" have cowed and brok-
en- many brave heart.
George Elliot. with 4 brutal frank
ness and eloqucnce. stabs the folly of
sneers and curses for the living, and
praise and tears for the dead:
While the heart beats, bruise il.
IT is your only opportunity; while the
eye can still turn toward YOU with
timid. moist entreaty. freeze it with
an icy. unanswered gaze: while the
ear, that delicate messenger of the
inmost sanctuary of the soul, can still
take in the tones of kindness. put il
off with hard civility or sneering COM
piiment or envious affection of indif-
ference: while the creative brain can
still throb with the sense of Injustice
with the ycarning for brotherly recog-
milton, make haste. Cypress Ii with
Your ill-considered judgments. Your
envious comparisons. your careless
Misrepresentation: the heart will by
and-by he still. the eye will cease to
,entreat, the ear will be deaf. the brain
Will have ceased from all want as
from all work. Then your charitable
speeches may find vent: then you may
remember and pity the toll. and the
struggle and the failure"
This OCCASION would be of no value,
these ceremonies largely mockery,
did | not speak more To the living
than of the dead. The stranger asks,
why does this order exist? We an
swer that its cardinal principle is I'M
"stentatiouS charity. not alone OF
deeds. but Of words and example. We
swear that we will not reveal from
what brother We receive charity. nor
to what brother we extend it, but ".
must TO charity.
Charity.
l hate the charity, so-called. that
gives to the poor. the hospital. the
church or the school. and carries an
advertising scheme with it, The Sc
cret gift to the widow or orphan. the
homeless outcast or the needy friend
Is thousand times more acceptable
on earth or in heaven than the char
lty that advcrtises a purse proud iron
monger or casS-oil monopolist /
nave no patience with the corbi1i
wealth Of the unctious Pharisce who
thanks God that he is not his broth
er's keeper. l desnise the creatures
who enjoy the comforts and luxuries
of life, often ..wrung from the hard
hands of peasants" and who remain
insensible and deaf to the cry of hun
ger and cold and wrctched poverty.
What answer do these people make
to the cry of King Lear:
Poor naked wrctches, where Ger YOU
are. that bide amid peltings of
this pitiisss storm.
How shall your homeless heads and
united sides.
Your looped and Widowed raggedncss
Defend YOU from such seasons as
these
Rather thousand times would /
stand afar off with the poor Publican
and ask for mercy. than in furs and
silks knecl i'm the inner temples and
close my heart IL the miseries Of the
Poor or leave the poor to the city or
state To care for them.
This age is fast becoming one that
worships at the shrine of the golden
calf. far more dangerous than the !.
image set up when the children III
Israel were wandering in the ancient
days. We sometimes forget the home !
~. rugged virtues that ennobIe man
kind and swecten civilization. We are
prone to SHIFT our responsibilities.
We cannot wash our hands and deny
our obligations to our families. our
neighbors and our country. These
demand our best thoughts.
our nobiest labors. our highest aspi-
rations-
one of the sorry figures of history
Is the Roman governor sitting in the
judgment hall in Jerusalem and in fn..