The Ottawa Free Trader

Fame and Immortality.—The consequences which the actions of men bring after them commonly lie out of their power to compute. A small seed may grow to a great tree, a blazing fire may be smothered to ashes. Whether the victories of heroes have done more for humanity, than the unobtrusive life of love of an unknown man, is only seen by the All-Seeing eye above us. Let each one do the good that is in his path and in his calling, and his work shall remain, even if it seem to pass away, and will bear fruit in its time. Honorable fame, my best Elda," he continued, turning towards her a full and effective glance, "must not be confounded with immortality on earth. A name may be repeated by millions through centuries of years—that is fame. The good which you think and do, the spirit which goes from you, and which lives and perpetuates itself through endless generations, this is true immortality on earth."