Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-11
No Good Thing IsEver Lost
Brave Men and Women Live Struggle Die and Are Forgotten
But No Good Thing Is Ever Lost
Nothing good is EVER lost


the truth force ndestrucbe When you
log of your fireplace you destroy the shape
You destroy wood Not Of it is lost. The
moisture changed goes up the chimney And
that be changed into the and hydro
gen. of which is madebut not atom to exist
off the form of certain solid parts
reduced ashesnothng LOST The matter changes from
one form another and will enrejust it If it
possible destroy the by burning the earth would
long have disappeared for the bulk of wood and coal
through the would than equal the bulk of the
world Nothing is lost.
When you blow out candle there no oss-the light Of
the fame and the heat of the flame still exist IN another form
of energy.
When you strike your violently together the force
that you use the blow changed heat the hands
meet no particle of force is lost
probable that particle of any force Of
any kind created destroyed.
universe a great endless infinite combination with
beginning and without end mdesructible.
Nothing in the physical world is destroyed
Nothing in the world of the spirit is lost
The architects and the artists built temple 1t fell and
vanished But its beauty and power still exist the written
that the temple inspired and the better thought hand
ed down the generations that survived the temples fall
A child is born eagerly awaited warmly welcomed 1t dies
and the feel that the world has
nothing is worth while The earth swallows the chlds
body swallows the stones of the fallen temple But moth
ing lost
The love Of the parents for the child; the power and
beauty that have disappeared persist another form Kindness
other children sympathy for unfortunate mothers greater
devotion and for the children that remanhose things
prove that the dead child did live die in vain.
Hospitals have been built schools established charities of
all kinds have been organized of children that have
died
child has disappeared like the fallen temple But the
beauty and the power exist another form the flame and the
the substance of the burnout fire still and still
do useful work elsewhere.
The real work of the world the only work that the
comparison with which that of all the great men
nothing IS THE WORK OF THOSE TITAT ARE NEVER
HEARD OF, THOSE WHO TOO OFTEN BELIEVE THEY
LIVE IN VAIN.
No good thing is lost Kindness the poor mselfsh
devotion children justice and generosity the wethese
manifestations of the highest force the
spirit force indestructibe forever
like forceS-heat light elecrcity-tha
not be destroyed.
Foolish they that long for praise That which
known and apparently forgotten important the deed
most widely advertised.
The temples of Babylon and monuments Greek
beauty entirely vanished exist today and do their work
day Just when the first stone of each laid.
The slave who fire the temple in order that his
be remembered burned the temple but did
stroy it
The religious vandals of the Middle that
magnificent the the wonderful books the
poems believed falsely that they had destroyed
writers But they did destroy Il lives in the de
scendants of those that read the books It lives in the civza
ton and the better thought of today.