Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-12-04
MEMORIAL SERVICE
LAST EVENING
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ows of the dark; hope whose star
recalls anew bright promises of flu
ture joy, when clouds of ignorance
and doubt and fear shall fade away
and glad assurance of amending
life shall mark the coming of
eternal day.
AS man thinketh in his heart,
SO is he.
Man lives in thought and no.
where else. His thought may range
from grossest, basest materialism
to the highest concept of the spirit
ual life. Mans life is spiritual, but
while he thinks on earthly, selfish
things, his thought is dead to high
er, truer, unselfish aspiration,
But the active principle of life
is there, bursting the outgrown
shell Of thought, as forms of truth
arise on wider, stronger pinions of
light to manifest the glories of
newer, brighter day.
The ice-bound earth, clasped in
winters chill embrace, warns to
the sunny smiles of spring, while
all about the snow banks fade in
laughing rills on every mountain
side So fades the dross of hui
man greed and selfishness and
pride and all the baser thoughts of
erring, mortal life, before the love
portrayed by earth's pure model of
a man, the meek and lowly Jesus
on the Gallilena hills.
Within the secret chamber of our
hall of thought remains the hidden
germ of our best life, waiting the
quickening ray of spiritual love to
blossom to highest, truest flower.
Ruskin says:
He only is advancing in life,
whose heart is getting softer, his
blood warmer, his brain quicker
and his spirit entering into living
peace"
minds us that There is nothing
noble in being superior to some
ether man. The true nobility is be-
ing superior to your previous self. .
And the Apostle Paul concludes
For to be carnally minded is
death but to be spiritually minded
is life and peace"
love to think of this phase oil
mans existence, as compared will
the life of the diamond. Hidden
away in the dark recesses of the
EARTH covered with the ! accumu
lation of worthless dross 'uncountet
thousands of the hurrying years
had cast upon it, unobserved; sur
rounded by the dull, unlovely mat
riX. it shows no sign of beauty il
repulsive kaffir, Shaving for his pit
lance, turns it from it's bed anC
bears it to the light 1t yet car
give no hint of its true worth OF
excellence; but the work is beini
done which soon shall strip from
it all hindrance to its true express
sion. 1t must be separated from
its dark surrounding by the saw
the wheel and hard and forcefu
handling, e'er it will be to outward
view, the gem of purest ray Sc
rene.
Is it not SO with us? Are we no
overed with the impeding though
of every form of selfishness, grown
adamantine through the years?
And does it not hide the gen
derneath? For it is there. Ever
as the precious gem possessed it
chrystal purity and brllance, un
expressed within the numbering
ground, only awaiting rescue anC
the lapidary's art to mirror bacl
with joy unspeakable, the suns ad
miring kiss, SO We but wait thu
hard attrition of the cares of life
the sorrows needed for the break
ing up of our material natures
that we too may reflect and fee
the loving, tender rays, radian
from the sun of righteousness, ant
know the truth of the Apostle
words:
Behold, what manner of Low,
the Father hath bestowed on us
that we should be called the son
of God. And it doth no
yet appear what We shall be
but we know that we shall b.
like Him, for we shall see Him a
he is.
Could eulogist say more, eve
though some loving hand hal
touched his lips with living Goa
from off Gods altar?
My friends, my brothers, you
high estate is there; and none cal
take it from you, nor any max
afraid.
And it is to impress upon GU