The Rev. Alfred Cookman With Some Account of His Father, the Rev. Georage Grimston Cookman (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Rev. Alfred Cookman: With Some Account of His Father, the Rev. Georage Grimston Cookman
The lives of the good and great are the heritage of the ages. While they are with us they enrich us with our choicest treasures. When they depart from us they bequeath the still richer legacy of the memory of their noble deeds and exalted virtues - richer, because what was little and ignoble in them perishes with their dust; while only what was good and pure remains, taking on greater lustre after their translation. From their thrones in the heavens they shed down upon us a more potent influence than that which they excited when they were journeying the vale of our earthly suffering with us. They do not more really live in their far-off homes than in our memories and fond affections. We do not see them or touch them - much as we long to - but we feel their presence and power. We persuade ourselves that invisibly they linger in our homes as ministering angels - if not sharing our sorrows, at least watching in loving vigils over us.
As when they were alive we wanted every one to know and love them, so, being dead, we desire to transmit to unborn ages the knowledge of them. The desire, I take it, is not more natural than beautiful - not more honoring to the dead than ennobling to the living.
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