The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-10-23

ma Workeu az IL only rev years ant
then put down the trowel, and the com
pass and the square and lowered tn,
derrick which had lifted the ponderou
weights; but forty centuries has thei
work stood, and it will be good fo
forty centuries more. All Egypt he
been shaken by terrible earthquake
and cities have been Frustrated 81
swallowed, but that pyramid has delieC
all volcanic paroxysms, 1t has looked
upon some of the greatest battles eve
fought since the world stood, Where
are the men who constructed iti Theil
bodies gone to dust and even the dus
scattered. Even the sarcophagus ii
which the kings mummy may have
slept is empty.
So men die, but their work lives on
We are all building pyramids, not tc
last four thousand years, but fort!
thousand, forty million, forty trillioE
forty quadrilion, forty quintillion. Fol
awhile we WELD the trowel, or pound
with the hammer, or measure with the
yardstick, or write with the pen, oil
experiment with the scientific battery,
or plan with the brain, and for awhile
the foot walks and the eye sees, and
the ear hears, and the tongue speaks.
All the good words or bad words we
speak are spread out into one layer fol-
Il pyramid. All the kind deeds or ma
levolent deeds we do are spread out
into another layer. All the Christian
or I'M Christian example we set is spread
out in another layer. All the indirect
Influences of our lives are spread out
in another layer. Then the time soon
comes when we put down the nipple
ment of toll and pass away, but the
pyramid stands.
The Twentieth century will not rock
it down, nor the Thirtieth century, mol
the One Hundredth century. The
earthquake that rocks this world to
pieces will not stop our influence fol-
good or evil. You nodestly say, THAT
is true In regard to the great workers
for good or evil, and of gigantic gen
fuses, Miltonian or Talleyrandian, but
not of me, for | live and work on a
small scale" My hearer, remember
that those who built the pyramids were
common workmen. Not one of their
could lift one of those great stones
1t took a dozen of them to lift ons
stone, and Others just welded trowel
clicking it on the hard edge, or smooth
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 on this Deem
Der morning in 1889, as the two Arabs
pull Inc and the two other Arabs push
me, could speak out and tell its history,
it would say; 1.-The place of my nativ.
ity was down in the great stone quarry
of Mohattam or Asswan. Then they
began to bore at my sides, and then to
drive down great iron wedges, crushing
against Inc till the whole quarry quaked
and Numbered. Then l was pried out
with crowbars and levers, scores OF
men putting their weight on the lever
age. Then chains were put around
Inc, and | was hoisted with wheels that
groancd under the weight, and many
workmen had their hands on the
franks and turned until the muscles on
their arms stood out in ridges, and the
sweat rolled from their dusky fore
heads
'Then 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 me to this place no
one can tell Then l 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 he from my geological
cradle in tie quarry to this enthrone
nclit of innumcrable ages.
AWFUL RESULTS OF 1I1TLI. sINS.
My hearers. that is the autobiogra
ply of one block of the pyramid
Chepps 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 pyramid:
now rising, pyramids of evil or pyra
mids of good The pyramid of drunk
enncss rising ever since the time wher
Noah got drunk On wine, although
there was at his time such a super
abundance Of water. All the saloonist:
Ct the ages adding their layers of ale
casks and vino pitchers and rum jug:
un:il TIE pyramid overs!adows the
GREAT Eallara desert of desolatct
homes and broken hearts and dc
stroyed eternities And as the pyra
mid still rises, Layers OF human skull
piled on top Of human skulls and otliel
mountains Of human bones to whites;
tie peaks reaching unto the heavens
Hundreds Of thousands of people are
building that pyramid.
So with the pyramid of righteous
ness. Multiti,ips Of hands are toilin.
on the sleeps, hands infantile, hand
octCScilar,su. masculine hands, female
hands, strong hands, weak hands
Some changing. Il trowcl some pulling j.;
rope, some measuring the sides. Lay
crs Of psalm books on top of layers o
sermons. Layers Of prayers on top O
layers of holy sacrifice. And hundreds
of thousands coming down to sleeI
their last sleep, but other hundreds o
thousands going up to take their places
a,id the pyranids will continue to rist
until the miilennial morning gildS tht
completed work, and the toIcrs OF
these heights shall take off their apron
and throw down their trowels, crying
"lc is finished.
Your business and mine is not t.
bui!i II pyramid, but to be one of tin
hundreds OF thousands who shall rim;
n trlWel or mil n rome or turn tia