Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-04-23

moment to face the end TRANQUILITY
Nearer My God to Thee!" Can wa
realize to the full what it meant to
the sixteen hundred?
Proud of theml Yes, we can feel
proud of them all, men and women
and children, rich and poor, mighty
and humble. Millionaires and paupers
stood together like men and brothers.
Money had not eaten the grand primal
instincts of courage out of the breasts
of the former We can well revise our
opinions upward, think better of mill
lonaires, feel that when duty calls
they stand ready to respond like true
men. Beautiful the picture they pre-
sent. We need not condone whatever
is unworthy in their lives to applaud
what was noble in their end. Col.
John Jacob Astor presents a never
| dying picture of how to die. Where
can there be more beautiful picture
than that Of Isidor Strauss and wife,
a picture of love, of fidelity, of true
devotion, "eyen unto DEATH" that
might well find a place in every court
house as a silent rebuke to those clam
oring for divorce. Willingly united in
death as they had been in life, they
must live in our memories, a nobIa
portraiture of a true union of man
and woman, of husband and wife
1t all makes us think better of folks
in general. The whole race seems thu
nobler for what these men and women
passed through People are sinful, bet
under it all oh, how much nobleness
and tenderness there is, how deep the
foundations on which can be built
a grand superstructure of self
sacrifice when the icy waters stand
ready to swallow them up forever
The rule of the sea was obeyed to
the Women first" Life is
sweet to man. The fact that he stands
ready to sacrifice it for woman is
mans highest tribute to her character.
Men, in a sense, have more to live fo~
than women, families and others de-
pendent upon them, great business in
terests in their hands But above all
these considerations stood the chiv-
alric sense of duty. to high ideal per-
sonified in woman. The sacred regard
for woman has not been destroyed by
modern competition, by the feverish
haste of life, by the invasion of woman
into mans spheres of activity Man
recognizes woman as the embodiment
Of purity 1t is for that ideal he dies.
Woman should respond. should aspire
to higher and nobler things. should
cast aside the frivolous, the petty, the
unworthy, and be what man in his in
ner heart wants her to be, tender,
thoughtful, great hearted, pure, sweet
of mind and soul, the perfection of his
reachings out for things not of earth.
That is the ideal that should never
pass away-the ideal that lies under
the rule of the sea, the ideal that sent
strong men to death that women
might live. Woman should seek to DC
worthy of such a sentiment, should
seek to lift men to an even higher
appreciation of what God designed
Woman to be. The love of man for
such a woman can make him tender,
brave, heroic, facing death with 4
smile, proud to die that she may sur
vive Woman must realize her place,
her power, her duty.
Man, too, realizing what men ex-
pect of them, what women expect Of
them, drawing inspiration from the
story of the Titanic, must measure up
to the high standard With Gods help
they can so strengthen themselves, 50
build up character, that in any great
crisis of life they will not be found
wanting. Men should live above sin
| above all that is unmanly They should
e realize what magnificent sacrifice and
: noble courage they may be called up
/, on to show at any time and should
9 equip themselves day by day for the
: supreme ordeal when it comes. NO
$ man knows what may be demanded q
e him some day. Readiness for the enl-
} ergency must be created day by day.
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