Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-10-19

good or evil. IOu mode. = sly. TIA
is true in regard TO the :.';'..t worker
for good or cv;l, and Of gigantic gen
fuses, Miltonian or Tale. :adiail. bt.
not of me. for | I've az! work GA
small scale" My hearei reinembe
that those vino built the pyramids <ccr
common workmen. Not one of ten
could lift one OF those great stones
1t took d 1s.zen + them ID III ont
stone, and others j.: / wieldal u trou,t.
clicking it on the hard edge, o. s;,il.s5tiI
ing the mortar between the layers
One hundred thousand men toiled OF
those sublime elevations.
If one of those granite blocks that
just touch with my feet Oh this Decem
Der morning in 1889, as the two Arab
pull me and the two other Arabs pus!
me, could speak out and tell its history
it would say The place of my nativ
ity was down in the great stone quar-!
of Mokattan or Asswan Then tAcJ
began to bore at my sides. and then I;
drive down great iron wedges cru$!lins
against me till the whole q.Inrry quakec
| and thundered Then | WAS pried Ou1
with crowbars ana levers, scores q
men putting their weight on the lever
age Then chains were put aroun,
me, and | was hoisted with wheels II 1
groaned under the weight, and n!;tny
workmen had their hands on Tx
cranks and turned until the muscles Oh
their arms stood out in ridges and tll
sweat rolled from their dus.ly fore
heads.
'sThen | was drawn by long teams Of
oxen, yoke after yoke, yoke after yoke
Then | was put on an inclined plane
and hauled upward, and how many
iron tools, and how many human arms,
and how many beasts of burden were
employed to get he to this place no
one can tell. Then | had to be meas
ured and squared and comprised and
fitted in before was left here to do
my silent work OF thousands of years.
God only knows how many hands were
busted in getting me from my geological
cradle in the quarry to this enthrone-
ment of innumerable ages.
AWFUL RESULTS OF LITTLE SINS.
My hearers, that is the autobiogra,
ply of one block of the pyramid.
Cheops didn't build the pyramid.
Some boss mason in the worlds twi
light didn't build the pyramid. One
hundred thousand men built it, and
perhaps from first to last two hundred
thousand men. So with the pyramids
now rising, pyramids of evil or pyra-
mids of good. The pyramid of drunk
enness rising ever since the time when
Noah got drunk on wine, although
there was at his time such a super
abundance of water. All the salOonists
of the ages adding their layers of ale
casks and wine pitchers and rum jugs
until the pyramid oversh;.dows the
great Sahara desert of desolated
homes and broken hearts and de
stroyed eternities. And as the pyrl-
mid still rises, layers OF human skulls
piled on top of human skulls and other
mountains of human bones to whiten
the peaks reaching unto the heavens.
hundreds of thousands Of people are
building that pyramid.
So with the pyramid Of righteous
ness MultitudeS of hands are tOiiilg
on the sleeps, hands inf;.ntie. hands
octogenarian, masculine hands. female
hands, strong hands, weak hands.
Some changing a troweI, some pulling a
rope, some measuring the sides Lay
ers of psalm books on top of layers of
sermons. Layers of prayers on top of
layers of holy sacrifice And hundreds
of thousands coming down to sleep
their last sleep, but other hundreds Of
thousands going up to take their places
and the pyramids will continue to rise
until the millennial morning glds the
completed work, and the toilers on
these heights shall take off their aprons
and throw down their trowels, crying
''It is finished"
Your business and mine is not to
build a pyramid, but to be one of the
hundreds of thousands vino shall ring
a trowel or pull a rope or turn the
crank of derrick or cry ''Yo, hcave!"
while lifting another block to its eleva-
ton. Though it be seemingly Il small
work and brief work. it is Il work
that shall last forever In the last day
many man and woman who's. work
has never been recognized on earth
will come to a special honor The
ecumenica council, now in session at
Washington its delegates the honored
representatives of fifty million Meth
odists in all parts of the earth, will at
every session do honor to the memory
of John Wesley, but wonder if any of
them will think to twist Il garland for
the memory of humble Peter Boiler,
the MoraviaE, who brought John Yves
ley into the kingdom of God.
[ rejoice that all the thousands who
have been toiling on the pyramid of
will at last be recognized
and rewarded-the mother who brought
her children to Christ, the Sabbath
teacher who brought her class to the
knowledge of the truth, the unpretend-
ing man who saved a soul Then the
trowel will be more honored than the
scepter. AS a great battle was going
on, the soldiers were ordered to the
front and a sick man jumped out of an
in which he waS being car
ried to the hospital. The surgeon
asked him what he meant by getting
out of the ambulance when he was sick
and almost ready to die, The soldier
Doctor | am going to the
front. had rather die on the field
than die in an ambulance Thank
God, if we cannot do much we can do
q little
Observation-Disclosures FOR WHAT?
Further carrying out the idea of my
text, the pyramid is sign and a wit
ness that big tombstones are not the
best way of keeping ones self affection
ately remembered. This pyramid and
the sixty-nine other pyramids still stand
ing were built for sepulchers, all this
great pile of granite and limestone by
which we stand today, to cover the
of dead king. 1t was the
great Westminster abbey of the an
clients. Some say that Cheops was the
king who built this pyramid, but it is
Who was Cheops, anyhow?
All that the world knows about him
could be told in Il few sentences. The
only thing certain is that he was bad
and that he shut up the temples of
worship and that he was hated SO that