Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 134, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1915 — Worthy Memorial. [ARTICLE]

Worthy Memorial.

The great Swedish dramatist August Strindberg—who died in 1912 a Christian, although having been most of his life identified with free thinkers —was to have Had a splendid grave monument from the Swedish people. But on his death he asked that instead, there should be raised over his grave a simple cross of wood with a wreath on it in which should be carved the words Ave Crux Spes tlnica. In one. of his last works (“The Blue Book”) he wrote: “Summa summarum. Pray and work. Suffer, but hope. Have one eye on earth, the other on the stars. Set not your roots fast here, for here we have a foot journey, not a home. Seek truth, for it can be found. But it is found in only one place, with him who him'self is the way and the truth, and the life.”