ist is asked, "Have you seen
Greeley? That is our ideal town."

During all the years of Mr. Meeker's residence in Colorado he remained a
staff correspondent of the "Tribune." Horace Greeley went to the West
and visited the Colony; and in the fine high school building of Greeley
to-day, there hang, side by side, the portraits of Horace Greeley and
Nathan Cook Meeker.

In this world in which we live events are not finished when they have
receded into the past. They persist in the texture of life. They stand
for certain fulfilments, and, like Banquo's ghost, they will "not down"
until their complete significance is worked out to its final conclusion.

"Say not the struggle naught availeth."

It always avails. It matters little as to amassing of possessions; but
it matters greatly as to the purity of a man's motives and the degree to
which he keeps faith with his ideals. Unfalteringly, even unto death,
did Nathan Cook Meeker keep faith with those ideals that revealed
themselves to him.

A noble work like that of Mr. Meeker is like the seed sown which is not
quickened except it die. Sown in weakness, it is raised in power; sown
in dishonor, it is raised in glory. The three years of the ministry of
Jesus on earth ended in defeat, disaster, and death. Was his life
thereby a failure? Who has won the triumph's evidence--Pilate or Christ?
Lincoln had to die that the nation might live. Heroism is forever being
crowned with martyrdom.

All life is better to-day for every noble individual life that has been
lived in the world. Nathan Cook Meeker was one who literally gave his
life to lofty ideals, and this hero whom the Silver State holds in honor
and reverence merits the recognition of the nation.

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[Sidenote: A Remarkable Mystic.]

"The only affections which live eternally are those of the
soul--those which have struck deep into the man and made part of
his inmost being. The loves of the earthly mind die with it and
form no part of the permanent man.... To enter the heavenly sphere
and to come into communion with souls a generated state is
necessary. There are four atmospheres surrounding us, and only in
the highest of these do we find the freed soul. Interior knowledge,
earnest aspiration, and purity of thought and life, are the keys by
which alone can be opened the gates of the inmost and highest
sphere. The lowest is enlig