The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-29
The Best Nonunsnt.

From fhe H7esleyaa CHRISTIAN 4drocate.
We have been thinking much of late,
concerning monuments, d memorials of
every sort. They spriag from a goOl III
stinct OF human Lature. They are IN
selfish.
To commemorate good deeds, or build
monuments 10 noble spirits who have gone
from Us, at once pays debt Of honor TO the
past and makes a safe investment
Tor the future. Jesus said, Where
ever this gospel IS preached
IN the whole world, there shall also
this that this woman hath done be told for
a memorial OF heIn-and thenceforth Mary's
monument was fixed firm as toe eternal
Word could make it. Thus tie devoted
woman's love was hon0red. as well as her
plety proDagated in millions of loving
hearts who have clme after her
But what shall be the form Of our monu-
ments! Good taste requires that there
should be congruity bet~ cen the monu-
ment and the dear one whose name and
virtues we would perpeJuate. The loving
words OF the Master we're the most fitting
stones for monument to Mary's loving
deed
1t seems to US cold stone is a sorry me-
moral for warm heart, and in this con-
nectlon we are reminded of a striking
passage in the sermon IF Freirick Robert
son, on The OrphanaGe Of Moses" Speak
ing of the tender caro- of Pharaoh's
daughter bestowed upon the Hebrew baby
boy, ne says: IN those days the Pharaohs
of Egypt raised their memorials in the
enduring stone Of the pyramids, which still
remain almost untouched by time. A
princess of Egypt raised her memorial
in a human spirit, and Just so far as
spirit is more enduring than stone, just SO
far IS the work of that princess more endur-
ing than the work If the Pharaohs; for
when the day comes when these pyramids
shall have crumbled into nothlnGness and
ruin, then shall tie spirit of the law Of
Moses still remain interviewer with the
most hallowed of human institutions"
We conclude that the best monuments to
christian men and women are christion
Institutions established u carry on the
christian cause they loved in life, and
DOUBTLESS love beyond the grave.
The best monuments of Lovick Pierce
| and George f. Pierce-illustrious father and
more illustrious son-are not the marble
shafts which mark their graves in Columbus
and Sparta, but 1.-THE Lovick Pierce Pro
fessorshlp # Mental and Moral Science, "
and The George +. Pierce Professorship Of
| English Language and Literature" at
Emory College-cnairs which George |.
Seney endowed.
How 'the old doctOfn did delight in
metaphysics! 1t is most fitting that hi,
name should 90 down to posterity in con-
| nectiOn with such a chair at Emory college,
| the school he loved SO well. Equally "Jne
bishop" reveled in the use of lofty English
style, and loved odd Emory" well. No
| Letter monument to his memory could have
been devised.
In the call of President Gambler for three
new chairs at Emory, there is a chance to
| build fitting monuments to Other g ID men
| land good women, tool, who have wrought
| righteousness and served well the cause f
| God among us. There h I'VE live and labored
in Georgia and Florida not few men and
women whose names are worthy 20 go dow
to poSterIJy along with the names of the
Pierces, indissolubly connected with the
cause of christian education.
! Indeed, Emory College ought to become
kind of West nins er Abbey to Georgia
and Florida Methodists, in which the good
| and great among us should find everlas ling
remembrance in useful foundations for
propagating sound learning and evangelical
| piety.
Does not Ignatus Few deserve to be thus
holored? What of the great Longstreet,
and the fervent Bishop Andrew? What OF
dear, faithful George w. W. Stone, who
wore his life out toiling for the church at
Emorys Would not the George w. w.
Stone professorship of applied mathemat-
| les" be noble monument to his memOrys
His old students ought to endow that chair
III less than six months.
| And there are others-less widely known
| than these but not less faithful--gOod men
and women whose memorials would be
most appropriately preserved by instrument
talities for educating the boys of Georgia
and Florida at Emory college Who Will
build their monuments.