The Washington times., 1919-08-24

each day.
Busy with little things try to forget the big things
The terrible realities. But cannot forget.
Byron with his red hot poetry, his wild desires, his
painful conce about his lame leg and all the rest of it,
obliged to say Eternity forbids to forget"
And almost every other one of the men that have
thought and felt earth have felt most deeply eternity
that goes and time that end and that takes
US with it. d
At the end of this editorial you will find number of
quotations. each expressing briefly the effect that eternity
produces upon able mind may interest you to how
these thoughts compare with your as you contemplate
eternity and try realize that matter force ie AND YOU
go forever and ever changing in FORM in OcCupa
ton in locality going to sleep at night and dying Occa
sonally, but NEVER ENDING.
Mr. McCay in his picture endeavors to comply with the
editors request MAKE picture that will show your idea
of eternity, without beginning or end
He shows you Father Time leading strange procession
through the clouds and the stars, journey to last
forever
At this particular moment and on this particular little
earth Time he takes with him elephants tigers
rhinoceroses, birds, human beings
you had here few million years ago you would
have found Time leading different army. Not of the
creatures in this picture would have been visible then
Instead dinosaurs and other monsters
There are many words our language that taken by
themselves deep feeling Every word that
remember is the result Of long thinking and change Every
word of Importance represen the condensed of
thousands of years of thought
LIFE and DEATH are two great words The word
NEVER and the word HOPE you concentrate your mind
them will each bring thousand ideas and suggestions
PAIN is word that of itself takes you back through
suffering makes you think of the millions upon whom suf
fering has been inflicted.
SORROW is a word that brings on a certain mood of
pity, while the word HATE changes the mood entirely
the brows to contract and brings into the mind the
poison Of bitterness.
Of all the words carries with so much meaning
many thoughts of fear courage hope curiosity ave.
prehension and determination that word ETERNITY
written this picture
you could pronounce the word look into the mind of
the man that heard yOu and the effect that mind you
would know just what kind of he
When ambition hears the word Eternity it thanks
God that has time without end in which do something
worth while.
When tmdity hears that word it shudders and thinks
almost with pleasure of the waiting grave
AS for the mind to which the powerful word "ETER-
NIFY means nothing you may say quite safely that to such
a mind no word would have any real meaning.
After looking this picture and thinking about it, you
will read with interest the quotations that follow showing
how of character and intellect have briefly expressed
the feeling created in them by the knowledge that time can
end that began, and that in all probability
each of us must forever go on with it.
Cicero the Roman of keen brain who made the practical
mistake of opposing Caesar and lost his life in consequence
says truly that the greater the mind the greater interest
in the endless destiny ahead of us.
"'There is, l know not how, in the minds of men, a
certain presage as 1t were OF future existence; and
this takes the deepest root and is most dscOverab in
the greatest genuises and most exalted sous
One man contemplates eternity and moralizes For
instance:
Nothing is eternal but that which is done for God
and others. That which is done for self dies'
Another Bishop Heber sees eternal time as almost
living thing:
"Eternty has no gray hairs! The flowers fade the
heart witheTs, grows old and dies the world lies
down in the sepulchre of ages, but time writes
wrinkles the brow of eternity
Locke, whose work. Essay on the Human Understand
ing Is Of the worlds intellectual monuments reminds
you that short life here amounts little compared to
what is coming;