Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Lebanon County Historical Society, Addresses Fifth Annual Banquet, December 16, 1902, Vol. 2: The Influence of a Historical Society on a Community; Poem, "What Makes a Fellow Homesick"; Our Ancestors
It seems to me that historic meditation, based upon the re corded facts of the ages, furnishes the-richest inspiration that comes to humanity in the struggle of life, except that which God gives, more directly through the agency of His Word and the ministry of the Holy Spirit. It brings before us men and women who breathe the breath of life, though they have been under the sod for centuries. It, affords vital and perpetual contact with the remote past - enables one to look through the eyes of a proud Roman, think with the faculties of an intel lectual Greek, and dream with the inspired fancy of a Hebrew prophet. On the high tide of such inspired re?ection the soul finds the sublime in morals, catches the heroism of a holy environment, and rejoices Over victories achieved by good men in perilous season, or under circumstances of great opposition. Indeed, it makes a man the embodiment of memories, which mellow his whole being into a fitness divine, and crowns his conception of human life, in its highest range. Of possibilities, with the dignity of an archangel.
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