Tombstone epitaph., 1917-04-08

damaSk gave joy alike to the appre- ciative eye and the touching hand, where countless silver gleamed. where glass sparkled like the diamonds that | il approached in value. and where the daintiest china of France supported | fish. flesh and fowl of two continents { and two seas. IL has been my honor. | now and again, tn sit at the tables of the great. where men of intellect and fame and women of intellect and charm have made an hour unforget- able and have taught one more than whole university of mere classrOoms
 could do. It has been my profit to sit at banquets where hundreds sat about | the tables and listened tO the words Of | heroes, heroes of war and heroes of ! peace. captains of soldiery and cap tains of industry. and felt the while | they listened. that they were in touch with the men and the forces that move the world. IL has been my benefit to ! sit at meat in the homes of the huTI- ! ble. in log cabins and huts. dining off metal plates and plain fare, and there to learn that not circumstances. but ! characters make men and women. It has been my delight to sit about the ! table of the grass, in forests and will ! dernesses, the campfire ut hand and ! the yiands won from stream or forest | only by gun.or rod. But when l con- | template the circumstances of that
 morning meal beside the lake of Cali
 lee and realize the realities that were | there present-things. emotions. sights, that surpass words to describe-I know l that I had rather have been one of | those men that ate the bread the Lord | baked. the fish his hands caught and | cooked for them, that saw what they
 saw and heard what they heard. than
 that wealth ever bought or meal that ! the friends of ones bosom prepared
 for friendships tribute.
 "Why so? Tell me. who were there
 Tell me whom that group consisted of '" .'Oh, a group of coarse fishermen, | fagged out by nights work. listening to chanc. rabbi who is
 getting breakfast for them while he
 talks" Yes: you can make that an-
 swer If you Lave succeeded in wiping
 Easter day out of your calendar.
 Who were there? "Oh. let's see,
 wasn't that the time ween Jesus met his disciples and the miracle of the great draft of fishes occurredf"
 i It was: and that Is about the way | the average churchgoer tshall l have | to say the average ChristianD would
 answer.
 Who was there? Listen, Men were there that had seen the man in their midst die in pain on the horrid cross | of a Roman criminal execution. had witnessed his writhings of agony, had seen the sweat of blood, had heard | from those very lips at which their | eyes now gazed as if enchanted the | last scream as the body sank lifeless | in the nail-suspended collapse of death. Men sat there who had taken that ! body down in tears and dismay and in | the shock of disillusiOned hopes had buried IL and gone away feeling as if | their universe had tumbled in wreck about their heads. murmuring to oue
 another as they went: And this is the ! end of him whom We hoped that 1t
 had been he that should have redeemed
 Israeli" And that man sat there be | fore them alive! Alive? He had | caught fish and made a fire and baked
 bread and helped them to make one
 of the great hauls of their fishermen's
 experience. and now while they sat
 stunned, amazed. astounded. incapable
 almost of realizing what had occurred I-incapable. as they afterward wrote, of speaking syllable of inquiry-he