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ERE is a picture of a fallen temple
The faint dotted lines show the
nohle building as it used to he, in its
beauty and power. The dark lines
* * * show the ruin of to-day.
The sheen graze, and the shepherd sits in
mental dullness, where philosophers walked
and great thoughts were born.
The movement of the world, the growth of
civilization. *be progress of humanity, thought.
n<rht. have moved far from this old
temnle site.
In *he daytime the sun shines on ruins that
«nt into the ground, ort stones that are crum
bling.
And nt night the old stars, that saw’ the
birth of this young planet, look down on appar
ent desolation.
Once this plain was a solitude where men
bpd never walked.
Tb on came the great race with great think
ers. architects and artists. The temple was
built, the statues were carved, the walls were
na'ntod ' ,n d thought, the one real force,
flourished.
And. the force lessened, and disappeared
with the swinging of time’s pendulum. The
temnle fe’’. and that spot went back once more
to desolation and decay.
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Travellers look upon a scene like this in
sorrow and bitterness. They think, “What
effort wasted, what beauty lost, everything
passes, vanishes, effort is useless and time de
stroys all.’’
But it is not so. .
Nothing good is EVER lost. The wisdom
that rules this universe forbids loss absolutely.
The scientists can prove to those intelligent
enough to see the truth that matter and force
are indestructible. When you burn a log of
wood in your you destroy the shape.
Y>u do not destroy that w ood. Not one atom
of is lost. The moisture is changed info steam
and np the chimney. And that steam mav
Temples Fall and the Grass Grows Over Them.
Children I\e and the Grave Swallows Them. Brave
Men and Women Live, Struggle, Die and Are For
gotten. But No Good Thing Is Ever Lost. Science
Tells Us that Matter and Force Are Indestructible.
The Sou. Teaches Us that Goodness, Beauty and
Truth Are Indestructible Also.
be changed into the gases, oxygen and hydro
gen. of which water is made—but not an atom
ceases to exist. The carbon may go off in the
form of gas. certain narts are reduced to
ashes—nothing is LOST The matter changes
from one form to another and still exists en
tire—just as it was. If it were possible to de
c<rov matter by burning, the earth would long
since have disappeared, for the bulk of wood
and coal burned through *he ages would more
than equal the bulk of the world. Nothing is
lost.
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When you blow out a candle there is no loss,
the light of the flame and the heat of the flame
still exist in another form of energy.
When you strike your hands violently to
gether. the force that you use in the blow’ is
changed into heat as the hands meet; no particle
of force is lost.
It is probable that not a particle of mat
ter or any force of any kind was ever created
or ever destroyed. •
The universe is a great, endless, infinite com
bination without beginning and without end,
indestructible. c#
Nothing in the physical world is ever de
stroyed.
Nothing in the world of the spirit isever lost.
The architects and ihe artists built the tem
ple. It fell and vanished. But its beautv and
power still exists in the written words that the
temple inspired, and in the better thought
handed down to the generations that survived
the temple’s fall.
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A child is horn, eagerly awaited, warmly
welcomed. It dies, and the father and mother
feel that the world has come to an end, that
nothing is worth while. The earth swallows the
child's body as it swallows the stones of the
fallen temple. But nothing is lost
The love of the parents for the child: the
PQwer and beauty that have disappeared persist
in another form. Kindness to other children,
sympathy for unfortunate mothers, greater de
votion and care for the children that remain—
those things prove that the dead child did not
live or die in vain.
Hospitals have been built, schools estab
lished. charities of all kinds have been organ
ized in memory of children that died too soon.
The child has disappeared, like the fallen
temple. But the beauty and the power exist in
another form, as the flaYne and the heat and the
substance of the burnt-out fire still exist and
still do useful work elsewhere.
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In this picture, rightly interpreted, there is
comfort and consolation for the millions of
nen and women, devoted, patient, unselfish, of
whom the world never knows, concerning
w hom history w ill not have one line, and who-e
spirits are often weighed down with disap
pointment and bitterness.
The real work of the w orld, the only wo’ k
that counts, the work in comparison with which
that of all the “great men” is nothing IS THE
WORK OF THOSE THAT ARE NEVER
HEARD OF, THOSE WHO TOO OFTEN BE
LIEVE THEY LIVE IN VAIN.
No good thing is ever lost. Kindness to the
poor, unselfish devotion to children, justice and
generosity to the weak—these are manifesta
tions of the highest force in the universe, the
force of the spirit. And that force is indestruct
ible, it lasts forever like the common forces,
heat, light, electricity, that science tells us can
not be destroyed.
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Foolish are they that long for praise. That
which is unknown and apparently forgotten is
as important as the deed most widely advertised.
The temples of Babylon and the first monu
ments of Greek beauty, now entirely vanished,
exist to-day and do their work to-day just as
when the first stone of each was laid.
The slave who set fire to the great temple in
order that his name might he remembered
burned the temple, but did not destroy it.
The religious vandals of the Middle Ages
that burned the magnificent works of the
ancients, the wonderful books, the noble poems,
believed falsely that they had destroyed the
w ork of the writers. But they did not destroy
it. It lives in the descendants of those that rer-d
the books. It lives in the civilization and the
better thought of to-day.
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NO GOOD THING IS EVER LOST.
Remember that truth, the most important
and encouraging of all truths. Your life may
not seem worth while, the sacrifices that you
male for others may not seem worth whi.'e.
But NO GOOD THING IS EVER LOST. And
he who does his duty contributes FOREVER
to the sum total of that which is good in the
universe.