The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1910-06-02
The Lesson of The Fire.
(Contributed)

Among all the unrest, the ferment
of present day conditions perhaps the
minority only are considering the pur-
pose being worked out by the inhering
forces of eternal Good in their ire
sistible forging ahead under the i'm
mutable law of progress.
This great purpose is the recognition
of and regard for the humanity of
Man, the imperiality of that humanity.
To this end we are called upon to note
in any one who evinces this character
istic the proof of its existence, the
Importance of it, the nobility of it..
The life of a human being is pre-
cious. To be sure we cannot put any
thing out Of life because life is self
existent, but we are called upon to re-
gard life in the physical as precious
and to be preserved as long as possible,
therefore when anything occurs to
interrupt it we impulsively, by a law
of Nautre, see to arrest the intruding
difficulty This occurs under all con-
ditions but the usual conditions are of
the moderate order. When, however,
an emergency arises and swift work
is called for then it is that the develop
ment of soul. is evidenced in highest
degree. Then supreme endeavor shines
out in all its glory and the Deifc
proportions of the man or woman
stand out clear against the sky of self
seeking and self protection.
When one human will risk his life
to save that of another that one has
written out in characters ablaze with
pOwet his own apotheOsis. In the pres
ence of such we grow still; words can
not speak our admiration, our appre-
citation. We simply worship, and this
is worshipping the only true and
living God, the God that is in, not
outside, anything. How great the
privilege to serve such being, - any
man, woman or child that sees first
the other, not himself, not herself.
Where then shall we place the man
who, regardless of his own life, sought
to bring out of the burning building
the other day his brother man who,
to him, was worth the endeavor. For
getting that he, himself, might be
sacrifice he braved the flames to res
cue his fellow workman and only
when the flesh slipped from the arms
he was holding with his own hands also
burning and the smoke and flames
binding him, did he give up the strug-
gel. How many when they were once
out would have gone back into the
flaming building to possibly rescue
their fellow? Anyone, who would, has
made us all his debtor. Even one
who sweeps room by the law of
Good
Makes law and action fine"
Stand at close range and view the
individual who places his brother man
before himself and you have the
earnest of the millennium, you have the
key to human happiness, for it will
come no other way, there is nothing
by which to create it.
This is the lesson all must learn.
In it is the solution of all the problems
of life, problems commercial, problems
social, problems political, problems
religious.
1t is the keynote of all; sound it,
attune all actions to it, and the atroci-
ties, the disgraces of the day will
cease, there will be no further pro-
blems, they will disappear as fog be-
fore the sun, for Love is the only "Sun
of Righteousness" there is and it h as
power supreme.
So let us honor the name ever more
of the man who has painted plain upon
our vision another proof of Godhood
and left us again to learn the lesson
ignored so Systematically by the rank
and file of the human race.
Mr.. Boggess will wear the marks of
his nobility as long as he inhabites the
physical body, but those scars are his
crown of glory, and that crown will
never lose its luster, no, not through
the eternities awaiting him. We
may not all have such crowns to wear
but we can all become radiant in our
human love and care for each other
and for all that is. 1t is the new
commandment" and it gives life and
fullness to every other.
Mrs. M. A. Congdon.