Show HAYS peroration in his eulogy on the life of ex dent mckinley washington feb 28 secretary hay in liia peroration yesterday in eulogy of william mckinley said every young and growing people has to meet at moments the of its destiny whether the question comes as in egypt from a sphinx symbol of alio hostile forces of omnipotent nature who punishes with instant death our failure to understand her meaning or whether it comes as in jerusalem from the lord of hosts who commands that the past is past and experience vaine your fathers where are they t and the prophets do they live forever the fathers are dead the prophets arc silent the questions are new and have no answer but in time when the horny outside case which protects the infancy of a chrysalis nation suddenly bursts and in a single abrupt shock finds itself boating on wings which had not existed before whose strength it has never tested among dangers it cannot foresee and is without experience to measure every motion is a problem and every hesitation may be an error the past gives no clue to the future the fat liers where are they and the prophets do they live fore vert wo are ourselves alie fathers we arc the prophets the questions eliat are put to us we must answer without delay without kielp for the sphinx allows no one to pass i at such moments which have already occurred at least twice in alie brief history of our own lives we may be humbly grateful to have biad leaders simple in clear in vision as far as human vision can safely extend nig in knowledge of men supple and flexible under alie strains and pressures of society instinct with the energy of new life and untried strength cautious calm and above all gifted in a supreme degree with the most surely victorious of all political virtues alie genius of infinite patience the obvious elements which cnair into the fame of a public man are few and by no mean recondite the roan who fills a great station in a period of change who leads his country successfully through a time of crisis who by his power of persuading and controlling others has been able to command the beet thought of hia age so as to leave the country in a moral or material condition in advance of where ho found it such a mans position in history ia secure if in addition to this liis written or spoken words possess the subtle quality which carries them far and lodges them in mens hearts and moro than all if his utterance and actions while informed with a lofty morality are yet tinged with the glow of human sympathy alie fame of such a man will shine like a beacon through the mists of ages an object of reverence of imitation and of love it should be to us an occasion of solemn pride that in alie three great criada of our history such a man was not denied us the moral value to a nation of a renown baich as washington and lin coans and is beyond all computation no loftier ideal can bo held up to the emulation 0 youth with such examples we cannot be wholly ignoble grateful as we may be for what they did let us be still more grate ful for what they were while our daily being our public policies still feel alie of their work let us pray that in our spirits their lives may be voluble calling us upward and onward there a not one of us but fach prouder of nia native land because the august figure of washington presided over its beginnings ap one but vows it a love because lincoln poured out his blood tor it no one but must feel his devolin dev otin to his country renewed and kindled when he how mckinley McKin loy loved revered and served it in hia life how a citizen should live and in his last hour hauht us howa gentleman could die t A |