Year: 1867

synopsis as reported to the Chicago
Tribune .tfHtE .gslsy9Ehh Ill 1909 aa7


~ The lecturer said he intended to say
something about the everlasting life ON
earth-as good q thlhg In Its degree as
the everlasting life in hcaven-the life
on earth and how to get at it, atti3
ia It was stated that In New England
the old life is dying out, and that the
country eventually is to depend on q
He hoped that this was not true but III
ed ed Of its T.. danger In order that It might
oa A man once said to DIR. johnson, IN
reply to rebuke for stealing some
thing to eat, ''Sir, j must live,' and
DIR. Johnson replied, / don't know as
that Is necessary" So everything here
seemed to have given way to the neces-
sity Of living. lniditsa 9'i1 b7AVgI iall
The speaker had Visited the British
Museum, and spoke of some Of the in
terestiiig antiquities there. 1t was q
new era In the life of any man to see
such an exhibition. 1t was like turn
ing back the hours Of time, aud stand
ing face to face with the men of old.
And 1t was wonderful to see these MEM
orials or the past gathered In the capi-
tai Of q mighty nation that did not ex-
list when they were made, You wan
der through these halls with the roar of
London about you, and wonder II Lon
don or Chicago will ever pass away as
these cities OF antiquity have done.


He had visited an old English home
stead that had stood since the middle
ages. The church near by was full OF
| the memorials OF the representatives OF
the family who stumbered there. He
stood In the garden musing over the de-
cay of the old mansion and the family
which has mo1ldered away, leaving
nothing but the tombstones in the
churchyard, and wondered Ii this law
of decay is universal and inevitable.


Every fnss must ask himself the ques-
tion, Will the nation of which / am


n part endure, moving on with the


stream of time and becoming illustri-


Gus, or will IL, after time, pass away,


leaving only q few old ruins to mark


itself?h This is question which the


American asks himself, and he proba.


bly, answers that, very likely, the time


will come when IL will pass away and


give place to new country. Nations


die like men, and families like nations,
and we have no reason to hope to es-
cape the common lot. But. ii we live


rs some of those of old did, we shall


not have lived In vain, and when the


time comes, we may be willing to pass
out of existence, leaving good name


for the future. But the speaker did


not believe that this nation was to die.


The belief among the people that we
are to be perpetual would do much ia


keep as alive. The true American
should no more believe that his coun-
try Is to die than that the sun should
stop I'm his course. 1t is true of life ms
of liberty, thar eternal vigilance 10 Its
price; and IL will be found that when
o nation has died it was through the
fault OF the people. The nation Is
nothing II the man Is nothing and as
the man and woman and child are, so
is the country. The speaker Related
instances of the continuance of pecu-
liar traits In families for many genera
tions. In one family, Ave hundred
years ago, child was born with an
enormously large mouth, aud In nearly
every generation since there had been
one child with such mouth.


The question of continued national
life could be reduced by two generali-
ties-the right home and the right
training. Too much stress could not
be placed upon the Importance OF a
right home. The place that could
reach over forty-five hundred miles of
space and forty years of age, and touch
his heart more than anything else, was
little cottage In Scotiand. Were we
aware how the home life OF the chill
dren was to cast its influence over all
subsequent years? Ii the home is to
be the foundation OF the State, what a
man could do In the first seven years of
his childrens lives, and the first seven
years before they were born, was the
most important of all. In the welded
life soul should blend with soul as two
drops sof dew In one. The speaker
drew vivid picture of the home of an
unc0ngenial pair, and of true home
made happy and sacred by affection.


The second thing necessary to make
both the nation and her family ever
lasting, was life suited to such a boon
as hc had described First of all we
must stick TO the thing we have to do,
and do 1t with all our might No man
can go so slow towards hell as by neg
Iecting his duty---unless it Is to go to
Washington and hunt office. Many a
man becomes d butterfly instead of d
bee. Show him man who had no set
tied purpose, and he would show you a
man who could not be trusted. Some
men are like an engine that will work
beautifully alone, and is polished to
perfection, especially about the brass
ornaments, but Is good for nothing
when it Is attached TO something to be
m0ved-it cannot move except alone.
A life, by and for itself, is on the out
side track. What one Ii doing, he
must do the very best that he can.
whether it amounts TO anything or not


Whoyt AfxSso Fl. 80 la, L. A., \ L.
side track, though he does not earn
more than q dollar day,


There is secret, too, Of making
work not only duty, but a pride and
joy--learning to love ones work. Mere
pleasure, of Itself, always has the out
side track. Ones enjoyment can come
In connection with his duty as Ii can
come in no other way. As the man
stands steadily at his duty, comes his
happiness. Not at Saratoga or New
York Is happiness, but La the work
where he earns his, daily bread. The
man that lnarrieA d woman because hn
loves her, aud does not daily about ID,
and builds up true and happy home.
can be sure that he is doing what he
can to lay deep and strong foundations
for his country. sa9S = h53al HFfsl
qi He was struck, I'm visiting his old
home, In seeing men plodding along
with the same odd implements, and in
the same old way, believing that moth
ing better was to be found. One OF his
own rly-desires was to come to this
country, because he knew that here
men and things were not standing still,
but moving along towards better
things. As be looked at those men op-
posed TO any new tangled notions, he
was thankful that he was o citizen Of
America. A good dld motto was = Be
sure you are right--and then 60 ahead.
q promise as this that Is breaking ever
America, ~ her nIeu and women 20 on
In the path Of duty. He believed that
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