The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-04-05

wings and soft air. Obeying these
voices, the fish swims, the bee hives
Its sweets, the bird builds its nest
Having never once been deceived
by these instincts, the vegetable and
animal realm attain the end Of their
being and fulfill their destiny.
From these instincts In the crea-
ture, science learns how to interpret
the plan of the Creator, and each OBJ.
server returns from his survey, feel
ing that his hopes are Gods guarantee
OF immortality.
1T Is as if all nature had broken
into voice and through the soul, ut
tered her everlasting yes He who
meets the birds wing with air that
bears it up, the fish's fin with water
that yields to its movement; he who
meets the eye with sunlight and
beauty; the ear with sweetness and
melody; hunger with bread, and thirst
with flowing springs, hath filed the
soul with hunger for immortal life,
with thirst for eternal love. At times
this hunger is so great that man could
stretch up his hands and eat the
planets like small cakes: his thirst so
deep that the earth itself is but a
small sup for the soul to drink in.
Enigma without Immortality.
Human life is colossal enigma
without Immortality. The hypothesis
of a future life alone can explain mans
troubles and solve his mysteries. The
Inequalities of society battle all in
tellects. Bad men rise to thrones, the
good are forced to the wall. Tyrants
dwell in kings palaces, heroes star !'e
In dungeons. Often vice wears purple
and fine linen; sometimes virtue eats
crusts and wears rags. Why is 1t that
tn, heroes of liberty and religion
have been hunted like patridges upon
the mountains? Why did Nero light
up his garden with blazing martyrs
Where are your fathers, who sleep a,
Shiloh and Gettysburg, where the
hillsides are all billowy with graves!
What about the mound in the forests
LOT Africa where Livingston fell? II
death ends all, what compensation
had Savonarola and William the Sill
ent and Abraham Lincoln?
Our physical atmosphere is ladeo
with SCOT and smoke. No statue in
the park but is blackened, no picture
on the wall but holds some CRIME
Every marble in the gallery has some
black dust on the white forehead
Thus mans mortal world is full Of
Ignorance and sin. 3 Every mind hath
suffered some injury, and every heart
is heavy with some pain. Trouble is
big with mystery. But death brings
compensation, and beyond all wrongs
may be righted. Beholding in the per
fected race the fruitage Of their toll
the patriot and martyr will find In
their continued lire the explanation
of life's every i'll.
Realization Is to Come.
Moreover if man is immortal
his ideals and aspirations, unful1lled
here. may be realized hereafter. II
imag nation every plan is complete
and every ideal perfect. Each pur
pose hangs before the minds eye
like a heavenly vision. But by the
time the plan has passed through
mans mind and been formulated, 1t is
crippled and sadly disfigured. The
generations have gazed enraptured
upon Raphael's Sistine Madonna. But
the artist painted it with anxious
face and left it with troubled and dis
appointed heart. Try as he would
the painting as we see it, is only a
photograph of the vision Raphael saw
but could not fully realize upon the
canvas.
What poet or prophet ever fully