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Show TWO EPITAPHS. i The estimate of a man's life, after he has passed away, is based not upon his creed, but upon the life he has lived, the -vork he has done. j There j two remarkable epitaphs to be se.-ii in England, but a few hours' journey apart. I Near the village of Leamington. Warwickshire, in a small country churchyard, connected with a beauti- I ful ivy-covered church, may be found j a stone on which is this Inscription: I Here lies a miser who lived for him- S self, And cared for nothing but gathering I pelf. st Now, where he is, or how he fares, " Nobody knows and nobody cares. I How little this man's neighbors h cared for his creed, and how much impressed they were with his life this I epitaph shaws. t The other epitaph is.in St. Paul's cathedral in London. Among the many monuments to England's heroic dead which this building holds Is one which at once arrests attention by its simplicity sim-plicity and beauty. It is a plain sarcophagus, sar-cophagus, on which rests a recumbent statue of noble presence. Beneath the figure are these words: ' Sacred to the memory of General Charles George Gordon, who at all times and everywhere gave his strength to the weak, his substance sub-stance to the poor, his sympathy to the suffering his heart to God, W'as there ever a more beautiful and significant epitaph? Not a word as to thia man's creed, but what volumes as to his life! Not by the faith we profess, but by. the deeds we do; not by what we have achieved for ourselves, but by what we have done for others shall we be judged by those who come after us. Youth's Companion. |
