1 PATHFINDERS r ERS 1 S 0 Sr 4 i J 1 r GREAT WORK WORKS 00 S J Jf f ss ns Drawn r lv n From the hc Explorations of Lewis Levi and Clark WORK YET TO BE DONE i TERRITORY RY WON IS If STILL TO BE DEVELOPED 5 S rf BEj At Unity hail haU ha Y at y Rev Frank Fey Fay E dy concluded d s rios of I after bern ons 1 A With a n die dis discourse course on eu the of A Century After Lewis and Clark Cl Tho 10 o musical Included a tailor to or Sob M soo O by Mr Joseph Poll pon and an lip anthem by Unity quartette S Mr Eddy Ed touched u the lie factors facto s that entered into the tho chase of tile tIe Louisiana tract and Us Ite extent and act wealth In natural resources He Ife said the most important factor fa ctol was WU that we e I had bred on wr frontiers a w u tY 9 of men fitted to master matet this wilderness The explorers composed tho tim Lew s sand I and Clark expedition were fair fall exam examples pIes ples The course coure coutte of ot ot tho the explorations I was vas 03 briefly followed d and then Mr II Eddy drew certain lessons saying In part as follow S After One Hundred Hun red Years The contrast contraiL between the aspect f the wilderness entered by this little baid 1 of ot hardy explorers aid the egme JJ I region as it appears after atter a II hundred years brings homo home to us the thought of the higher urea of or laud land All civil chU civilization I Is founded on this It Its ia Is a question of or bringing together the man I with his plow and ax n his sude 3 anI pickax and the time land hand with its faryle leapt loani Its forests or its mines 8 0 Of 0 the heroIc aspects of ot the und r taking tailing Mr Mc Eddy said sal It was an on undertaking for strong strongmen strongmen men adventurous yet patient capable of ot endurance and anti But it must be remembered they thoy were raised in an environment that peculiarly fit fitted fitted fitted ted to overcome the difficulties involved in this long Ions journey A thousand menas men menas menas as fit for tor the th task could have been boon easily secured The pioneers pioneer and fron Iron frontiersmen of n a l century an ury ago lIgo go were a heroic he lie role race quite as os interesting Int and re ro remarkable m as the Vikings S and nd they 1 would appear as itS poetic if they w were ere not flOt go so near us s in iti pf of o time In the t IC rough tough school of he frontier men were bred to alarm tho th wilderness had no terrors Call of the Great Unknown There Is isa a call of ot the unknown that must have been be felt in the hearts of this band of explorers ro rora although i it finds little expression In ln the matter of fact journals of the expeditions Kip Kipling Kiplin ling lin Is considered and arid justly a u poet of tho the English people But at least one pOem cm is purely American In Inspiration tion Uon It is S The Explorer r In which is recounted how one living on the frontier hears h arsa a voice as bad as con conscience conscience science whispering to him that there Is Is something hidden behind the ranges anti and he must go and find it It is 16 told loM how he ascended the mountains and anti how his puny pony Y dies dl and how bow he ite descends the slopes and faces Caces the tho th desolations of tho the desert and reaches the green and bountiful country be beyond beyond beyond yond After him came the pioneers a 8 dozen at A time who tracked me mc meby meby by the tho camps I quitted used the water holes hotes Id hollowed 5 0 To them he hc yielded the honor and anti tho the tholand theland land but nothing could rob him of the satisfaction of or exploring first the tho hith hitherto erto unknown God Odd took care to hido hide that country till he ha judged his hie people ready Then lIe he chose ono one for far or his whisper and anti Ive found it and Its yours So wide Ide und and true are the impulses of human sympathy thy that almost a cen century century century tury afterward a poet of ot the land that coveted the hie c wilderness they explored L wrote w otc te c is 1 of 4 Or the t c heart Ui t t lived d dIJ Ju it IJ the Low Lim Lols is and Claras men Foresight For sight of Jefferson Jeffers Another Jesson I was thai th of the uses of ot the prophetic Imagination as displayed by Jefferson In iL conclusion sion Mr Eddy saId saIdOn On Floyds Bluff near Si Sioux ux City In InSa Sa a n shaft arises marking the thelast thelast thelast last resting place of Sergeant Floyd the only member of ot the of i who into died on the tte journay journey MuM Amra whispering n far from the haunts of ot men in ii l the tho of LowIs county Toun Tonn fittingly stands st i broken column on a pyramidal bask of rough rou h granite and this maiks the site of 6 the he herno grave rno of the th adventurous young Low Lew Lewis Lowis w wIs is A few months ago at Portland a beautiful monument was unveiled of a tho the faithful pati nt little HUla littlebird littlebird bird women whose jes war Invaluable In to tp the ex or 1St In Ih ways wt s we honor this little band hand of ex explorers Q e and itis It Is to lo our cur l H Owl flUt we WI orect t such testimonials In 5 stuns arid and Rn tJ S 1 Conquest Not Complete C But ut there then is a 0 Ul i ito to be more moro important thoo th lt these those that must Y b relt away awa by the tho tooth of time We Ve mu continue the time conquest conque t bi br thorn thom begun bogun 1 It Is ours ouis to till 1111 the th farms fa Ii to lo found titles to probe probo into the mountains heart for or precious ores roa to fell the tho ov atS mid and to send our GUI ships s with wRit then th ft white pinions reinforced by beating hearts of steam over the seas But we must do it for fot the tile glory glovy of God and the good of men JUen if we wo auter ft t r Into an full heritage It is not us to breach the unknown w s to trace the to Lo their source sou s und to 10 brave the desolations of or the desert Another work is In Ip our oui cit alt cities cities altIs ies Is there thele must be honor in our courts court justice in our homes virtue In tn our Oat churches cs a U natural house of worship anti and animating all out our social socia life Uto high ideal of brotherhood 1 To pUsh this is to buld that enduring monument demanded by the time race raco of or le ke It keroes roes roos l oe In out our past Just