El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-02-13

never let the memory OF q qooc
! man perish. 1t is worth too much IA
the living age to be allowed 70 &c
; down with him to the grave! We or
ten lament the arts that are lost,
The annals of Science teach us that
the ancients had MANY arts OF which
we know nothing We ask with won.
der by what machinery the pyramids
were built, by what process such huge
shafts were reared as now stand
here and there in the waste OF ruin
that has crumbled to pieces in the an
Client world. We enquire IN vain for
combinations OF color such as appear
fresh and beautiful as yesterday
after a burial of eighteen hundred
years at Pompeii. Many OF the boasted
inventions and discoveries OF this
are but reproductions OF arts that
were lost generations ago.
But it is a less calamity to lose
arts than the memory of large-hearted
great souled meh. The arts can be re.
produced, but great men are sent by
God The world is full of Inventions
and patent rights, and wonderful dis
coveries, but only here and there is a
great mar towering above the heads
0fthe common millions, as d NOM.
tain sometimes towers above its fel-
lows Of the vrocky range. "A war
sweeps over a world and leaves stand
ing high n or two, only one or two,
great men,, A century passes away,
and as you look back over It how fewl
great men are seen rising above its
level plane of thought and action.
The history 9of American Civilization
stretches back to 1620,-to Plymouth
Rock, and has developed character
faster than any nation ever did be-
fore but few have been the great
meni mo American Momer; Virgli,
Dante, Copernicus. Shakespeare, Ba-
the world. These mighty geniuses
seem to be exceptions in the history
Of the human mind. Favorable cir
cumstances do not produce them, nor
does the absence Of favorable circum
stances prevent their appearance
Homer rose in the Dawn of Grecian
Culture; Virgil flourished in the Court
Of Augustus, Dante ushered in thee
birth of Modern Europe literature
Copernicus was reared in a Polish
cl0ister; Shakespeare was trained in ,
the green room Of a theatre; Milton
was formed while the elements of /
English thought and life were fer
menting toward a great prDfligacy Of {
the Restoration. Ages may elapse be-
fore any country will produce a mind :
like these; as two centuries have !
since the last mentioned OF !
them was born. Hence, when one Of I
the marked characters pass away, Z
memory, not his body, should be 7
embalmed, and his life should be in I
corlorated into the lives OF the men !
who have seen him in his towering :
excellence. +
If there be but one washington in t
the history Of America, that one !
should 9 be kept before the Ann i
erican mind. If Scotland had but d
one John Knox, England but one VIII Il
b~eforce, and Germany but one Luther. q
men should not be allowed to i
lie. y
There Is an indisputabie fact "The n
Dead Speak," The covering up of a Il
mans body In the grounds the sus- h
Of his physical functions, Il
Toes not consumate his work nor s,
inish his existence, nor terminate his D,
influence. A good man always lives 81
Ifters he is dead. The tombs Of our
leroes, statesmen, martyrs, are all 4
Their occupants are dead, :
nut they speak! Few heard them
While they lived now they speak to
Millions. The humble men and women
Tho appear in the beautiful narratives
{ the New Testament,-the poor wild
W who put into the treasury all the nj
wing that she had; the woman who fe
roke the alabaster box and poured bi
he ointment on the Sayiour's sacred al
ergon; Lazarus, who lay at Dives Ii,
ate, full OF sores; Mary, who linger bi
d longest at the cross and came nj
oonest to the tomb, have all passed in
way; no one can find a stone Of the lie
snements in which they lived, but dc
ley speak to every language and to pc
very cline. 20
Paul is dead His old pulpit on Mars &c
ill is tenantless; the Ephesian Craft SD
len are not disturbed by his pres.
He has escaped perils by sea en-
nd perils by land. He is beyond the So
old chill of the Mamertine prisons, in
le wild beasts OF the Amphitheatre, lei
nd the headman's axe. He is a du
~conqueror ON high, but he is
ill to earth a preacher of the UNI qu
God. His voice is heard in tic
over the graves OF the martyrs ce
echoes over India, in its corruption go
sin, and it penetrates the black mi
light Of Africa and makes Ethiopia
with salvation. ur
Mahomet is deadl He made his last sh
llgrimage to Mecca, twelve hundred Qn
ears ago; his bones were sepulcher to
! in Medina twelve centuries since, Sa
ut he still speaks, and millions OF AT
nman beings obey his voice as IL 1t DIR
ere the voice Of God; a whole empire, Gu
its capital on the banks OF the tn
osphorus to the most distant harem
mong the sands of Egypt, or in the an
of Arabia, is thrilled by the
.-terahces OF the long buried prophet.
Luther Is dead Three hundred years y
20 Melancthon pronounced over his
otionless body an eloquent eulogy
Id, to the Universal grief of all Ger
any, q conquered foe, that iron
anne was inferred at Wirtemburg
III the soul of Luther goes marching
in the majestic strikes of the Re tne
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