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African tribes, or a Sedgwick and Wadsworth under the
battle-field's hail of death, but rather are to be found
everywhere, where a human spirit quails before the tempter, or
wavers in its allegiance to God ? If a painter with the most
consummate art should draw you two scenes?one, that of a Columbus
returning triumphant from his voyage of discovery, with the riches
and treasures of a New World in the hold of his vessel, and the
crowded docks alive with men shouting his welcome home?the other,
that of some foundering Arctic, going down with its freight of
human life amid the rush of waves, the blaze of lightnings and the
thunder of the storm, ?the contrast would but symbolize the
different fate of human beings, starting from the same harbor, with
equal capabilities, with common hopes, and with the same favoring
breeze. One passes away as it were in the triumph of a successful
voyage, with words of lofty cheer in his feeblest whispers, while
the port of rest greets and cheers his dying eye?the other sinks
silent and hopeless beneath the waves and storms of life, leaving
no memorial perhaps behind but the bubble of his parting breath.
One stands on Pisgah conversing with angels. The feet of the other
stumble on the dark mountains. One leaves behind him such memories
of goodness as make every place of his earthly sojourn fragrant for
generations?the other is thought of only as a Pilate, a Gallic, or
a Demas. What makes this difference? Why does the world never weary
to hear of Mount Vernon, the tomb of Washington ? Why does the
latest generation keep still well- worn the path by which for
centuries the noblest of earth have hasted to lay the freshest
flowers on the graves of the martyrs; while of one of the very
ablest of England'sgifted statesmen (Walpole) the historian has
bee...
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