The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-10-21

Of the earth, will at every session do
honor to the memory Of John Wesley,
but ! wonder II any of them will think to
twist a garland for the memory Of hum
BILE Peter Boiler, the Moravian, who
brought John Wesley into the kingdom
Of God. rejoice that all the thousands
who have been toiling on the pyramid
OF righteousness will at last be recog-
nized and rcwarded-the mother who
broughthe children to Christ, the Sab
bath teacher who brought her class to
the knowledge OF the truth, the unpre-
tending man who saved soul Then
the trowel will be more honored than
the scepter. AS great battle was go
ing on the soldiers were ordered to the
front and sick man jumped out Of An
ambulance 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 answered:
''Doctor, am going to the front | had
rather die on the field than die in an
ambulance" Thank God, If we can not
do much we can do little.
Further, carrying out the idea of my
text, the pyramid is a sign and witness
that big tombstones are not the best
way Of keeping ones self affectionately
remembered. This pyramid and the
sixty-nine other pyramids still standing
were built for sepulchres, all this great
pile of granite and limestone by which
we stand to-day, to cover the memory
| Of dead king. 1t was the great West
minister Abbey Of the ancients. Some
say that Cheops was the king who built
this pyramid, but it is uncertain. Who
was Cheops, anyhow? All that the
world knows about him could be told
in 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 the Egyp-
| tians were glad when he was dead
This pyramid OF rock seven hundred and
forty feet each side of the square base
and four hundred and fifty feet high
wins for him no respect II bone of
his arm or foot had been found in the
sarcophagus beneath the Pyramid, it
would have excited no more veneration
than the skeleton of camel bleaching
on the Libyan desert; yea, less vener-
alton, for when saw the carcass OF a
camel by the roadside on the way to
Memphis, | said to myself: Poor
thing, wonder OF what IL died" We
say nothing against the marble or the
bronze Of the metropolis. Let all that
sculpture and horescence and arbor-
escence can do for the places OF the
dead be done, If me ms will allow it.
But II after one is dead there Is
nothing left to remind the world oi
him but some pieces Of stone,
there Is but little left Some Of
the finest monuments are over people
who amounted to nothing while they
:. lived, while some OF the worthiest mer
and women have not had above them {
stone big enough TO tell their name
Joshua, the greatest warrior the worlt
ever saw, no monument; Moses, the
greatest lawyer that ever lived, no mon
! ument; Paul, the greatest breaches
! that ever lived, no monument; Christ
the Saviour OF the world and the rap
! ture OF Heaven, no monument A pyra
} mid over scoundrelly Cheops, but onl,
a shingle with a lead pencil epitapi
: over many good mans grave. Som
, of the finest obituaries have beer
] printed about the worst rascalR To-da,
J at Brussels there is pyramid OF flow
: ers on the grave OF Boulanger, the no
torious libertine. Yet II is natural Il
want TO be remembered.
While there seems TO be no practica
use for post-mortem consideration late
than the time of ones great grand
children, yet no one wants to be for
gotten as soon as the obsequies ar
over. This pyramid which Isaiah say
is sign and witness demonstrate
that neither limestone nor red granit'
are competent TO keep one affectionate
ly remembered; neither can bronze
neither can Parian marble; neither cal
Aberdeen granite do the work. Blu
there Is something out Of which TO built
an everlasting monument, and that vii
keep one freshly remembered foul
thousand years; yea, for eve
and ever. IL does not stant
in marble yards II Is not Il
be purchased at mourning stores. Ye
. Il is TO be found in every neighborhood
, plenty Of II, inexhaustible quantities o
. II. It is the greatest stuff in the uni
verse TO build monuments out Of re
. fer 10 the memories of those TO whom
we can do q kindness, the mem
ories Of those whose struggles we ma!
alleviate, the memories Of those who's
, souls we may save. All around Cairt
and Memphis there are remains Of pyr
amids that have gone down under tn,
) wearing away of time. and this grea
pyramid OF which Isaiah in the tex
: speaks will vanish II the world last
long enough, and II the world does no
last then with the earth's dissolution
, the pyramid will also dissolve. But tn
memories OF those with whom we asso
ciate are iudestructibe They will b
J moro vivid the other side OF the grav
J than this side. IL is possible for me h
do you good and for you TO do me
good that will be vivid In memory a
many years after the world is burne,
up as all the sands OF the seashore an'
) all the leaves OF the forest and all th,
grass blades OF the field and all the star
Of heaven added together, and that ag
gregate multiplied by all the figure
that oil the bookkeepers Of all time eve
wrote.