form
glowing with the transfiguration of a new manhood, exclaimed:

"There is but one supreme law in this world, and it is this: Love God
and your neighbour with heart, mind, soul, strength. There are but two
things worth living for: the glory of God and the salvation of man.
To-night I, who look into eternity in a sense which I will not stop to
explain, feel the bitterness which comes from the knowledge that I have
broken that law and have not lived for those things which alone are
worth living for. But God has sent me here to-night with a message to
the people which my heart must deliver. It is a duty even more sacred
in some ways than what I owe to my own kindred. I am aware that the
hearts of the people are shocked into numbness by the recent horror. I
know that more than one bleeding heart is in this house, and the shadow
of the last enemy, has fallen over many thresholds in our town. What!
did I not enter into the valley of the shadow of death myself as I
stumbled over the ghastly ruins of that wreck, my soul torn in twain
for the love of three of my own dear children? Do I not sympathise in
full with all those who bitterly weep and lament and sit in blackness
of horror this night? Yea; but, men of Barton, why is it that we are
so moved, so stirred, so shocked by the event of death, when the far
more awful event of life does not disturb us in the least? We shudder
with terror, we lose our accustomed pride or indifference, we speak in
whispers, and we tread softly in the presence of the visitor who smites
but once and then smites the body only: but in the awful presence of
the living image of God we go our ways careless, indifferent, cold,
passionless, selfish.

"I know whereof I speak, for I have walked through the world like that
myself. But death cannot be compared for one moment with life for
majesty, for solemnity, for meaning, for power. There were
seventy-five persons killed in the accident. But in the papers this
morning I read in the column next to that in which the accident was
paraded, in small type and in the briefest of paragraphs, the statement
that a certain young man in this very town of ours had been arrested
for forging his father's name on a cheque, and was a fugitive from the
law. Every day in this town and in every town all over the world
events like that, and worse than that, occur. Nay, in this very town
of ours more than seventy-five souls are, at this very moment, going
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