More from Graceland Cemetery. Here we have:
Victor Lawson, 1850 - 1925
A Lorado Taft sculpture, “Crusader,” stands guard over the grave of newspaper publisher Victor Lawson, whose Chicago Daily News pioneered in sending reporters throughout the world for news. Lawson contributed anonymously to many of Chicago’s charitable causes, and even his grave is unmarked, except for the statue and the phrase, “Above all things truth beareth away the victory.” It refers to a story in the Book of Esdras, King James Bible Apocrypha, about a discussion of what is strongest.
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Let's hear it for citing the book of the bible that could have been written by Salvador Dali. I like the anonymous charity bit. One of the things that most impressed me about Islam when we first visited a Muslim country was our guide telling us that charity was expected, and it was expected to be anonymous.
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