| Show 4 1 plea I 1 ar more chariei Ch ariti uncle job lob was around tin yester i 11 and a nd his garrulous gair at ulous way went on us follows you remember re that St lenton when in his old age grew grow ani talked in this way wherefore I 1 praised the dead autere utere than the living which aro are yet now in a different tense from front w hat solo solomon moti meant the world has een doing the same ever since somehow when we look on a dead fice or hear bear that a mortal whom we knew has ceased to live that he can no iio more answer it ws we speak to hain to tie more rl resent bent our words if we say ride things of him that the eyes are closed and the hands clasped all that it this world in which he lie de to struggle for f fur foi fol gold is is nothing any mon morl 1 him that the mystery which al luman all human hearts li have ave yearned in vain to have explained has been pierced hy by him then even if ho he were our enemy no words of reproach come to our lips and for a little while we realize that is not very much after all in quarrel ing among creatures who have just sprung up irom the dust and w who h 0 in a little while are going brck brek ao 0 o that same dust and yet we to be more charitable to the living und and less considerate of those who have passed to where neither words of affection or disdain ever echo the world mould be better and hold less heartaches to its I 1 cast the living are worth more after all than the dead line out of ten of the flu aniels of the earth come from irom ignon ignorance nee we judge our neighbor by the few outward signs which ho he reveals and know nothing of the heart with its hopes and its lorows or aws which he lie keps hidden within his breast our own feelings too have their influence few hearts are areal al together desti destitute tuto of those passions o aich warp arp the judgment and bias the mind and so disagreements arise which stormy passions feed until men put aside their better natures and surrender themselves to the influence int luence of tho original wild beast which is in every human heat t the he one thing which the world has not yet learned is charity and it is tho one thing which all allmor mortals tah most need praise the dead if it you please akst at bo be more merciful to the living because there are but two or three things in this world worth quarreling about if your neighbor has less than you in this worlds comforts surely mutely he is miserable eno enough tigh if ho he has more ho lie will have all the more regrets at parting with his treas treasures utes when the narrow house which is just ahead op opens ns for him hini do not pra praise ise the dead lead which are already dead more than the living which aie nie yet alive because the dead do not need your codi compassion passion whereas there are few who are yet alive who do not need you for a friend good goodwins wins weekly |
