Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1893 — Influence. [ARTICLE]

Influence.

How noble should be our action, how fajthful our thought, how restrained and true our speech! When we think of how many characters we shall form a part, how strongly should we build our own! When we think of our immortality in men, how eagerly should w\labot to be worthy of that lmmortantyl Being dead, you will speak—what sort will be your speech? Your works will follow you; ask yourself what kind of works will follow. To die, and know that men, when they think of you, will be gayer, truer, more loving, more pitiful, mdre God’s children—that would make death’s face look kind. To die, and know that when men think of of you no inspiration will arise, but only the memory of gloom, or hatred, or falsehood, or pitilelsness—that makes death terrible. He otherwise. Let you works follow jfou with inspiring power. Speak fr*m the grave to comfort, kindle and redeem.