The Elbert County tribune., 1913-12-26
WHAT DOES FATHER
TINE HOLD IN TILE
OTHER HAND?

build their air castles without any fear of any
dissillusonment "for over the sea lies Spain"
We get all the exaltation which came to
Abou Hassan when the amable deception Of
Haroun-al-Raschid played upon him, without
any of the Ill effects which may presume came
to him when his dream of power dispelled itself.
The day and the scene invites to enjoyment.
and to contribute to the enjoyment of others. For
this one day at least, of the year the golden age
Is no myth. 1t Is here with u.s. and must uti-
lize 1t while 1t stays. This is the hour when life's
wireless teegraphy carries greetings OF good will
between all the individuals and all the peoples of
OF the earth To every of the world
stretches forth the glad hand and sautes with
May you live long and prosper"
The old prophets conceived the sublime thought
that the Creator set the heavenly bodies in their
places to mark for man the progress of time. The
early leaders of the human race who watched the
stars In their courses. and from their movements
worked out the division OF the days and years.
left blessing behind them for all time to come
For II we are to believe the records of the rocks
and clays the first men who lifted their faces to
the skies In profound awe and with germs of
thought stirring in their brains had little II any
more conception of time and of the moving planets
than the brutes that shared with these primitive
savages the the huts which were all
the houses they had 1t took long ages to learn
that the sun is a fixed body as regards our earth
to divide the globe into degrees and the day into
"a hours. The seasons came and went and savage
man had no conception OF why beyond the SUMS
decenson below his zenith and the return of the
fiery orb to place high above his head Then
from the crude superstitions of astroogy men Of
high civilization worked out our year and set the
day that, as this we now live. marks the beginning
of a new circle Of the four seasons.
The crudest savage needed no prophet with
message from the skies to teach him that II he
desired to prolong his life he must work He
was the man of all generations who knew best
that "in the sweat of his face he must "eat
bread II he ate at all. Stored-up wealth there
was none. Each generation began practically
where the last did with no Inheritance to profit
by. Nor was there spark of charity to minister
to the needs of age or sickness. The child born
with low vitality met its fate early in its career
The man who met with an accident sufficient to In
capacitate him for the chase for was left
to perish miserably where he fell When age
dimmed the eye or made the hand nerveless the
useless one was not permitted to be a burden on
society. As the wounded deer is left as the aged
wolf is abandoned, so the wounded man or
the toothless woman Parentage other relation
ship counted nothing
AS civilization climbed the path of progress to
higher levels toll became constant more
pressing. The savage has few needs and there
fore much leisure. He needs weekly day of
rest. With increasing needs to meet man had to
bend his back more necessarily and to strain mus
cle tendon and lgament. Life had more enjoy
ment at the cost Of longer hours toll that made
rest seem very sweet. Then the leader OF
meh tne reiorner, tne teacner. philosopher
prophet who ordained that there were times
and seasons so there should be days OF rest II we
were to run the world around would find many
Sabbaths. The follower OF Mohammed takes his
rest on Friday, the Hebrew Saturday the Chris
tian on Sunday. And the of advanced ideas
who gave man his Sabbath was a leader and
benefactor In very deed.
The man who stands in the Escorial m Spain
and looks on the sepulchers of kings reaching
back 300 years. has span about long as the
most ancient history OF America. When he goes
to Granada he is face to face with the times of
the Moors. whose invasion OF the peninsula was
centuries before Columbus born. As he looks
on some paved road some aqueduct he is car.
ried back to the Scipios to Hannibal, and backito
his forefathers who moved about here; and SO
we go back to Carthage. which was great CITY
before Rome was founded and Carthage takes
us over the sea to Asia where Moses people and
some Philistines came into combat And we go
back to Egypt and Its pyramids to the Pharaohs
and Jacob and his children. and on back to Abra.
ham and the nomad chiefs who fed their focks in
the fat plains of central Asia long before the
Christian era as 1t Is from the year 1911 In these
lands, among these races of men, grandfathers
and great-grandfathers count for little One meets
men whose ancestors took part in the expulsion of
the Moors. with others whose ancestors resisted
them when they first invaded Spain and still
others whose forbears were in the armies of the
Scipios or Of Hannibal. The mind loves to dwell
on the memory of these far-away days aud to
dream Of the way of life of men and women who
died SO long ago. and to whom we owe our being
and our civilization. The Oldest title lands in the
Pacific states do not 60 back far There are
here are owned by families who come down d.
rectly or cO1lateraIIv for a0oa To tba.o 4. -.