Connecticut western news., 1891-10-22

Who from it's first foundation stone to it's capstoGe erected everything? It must have been God. Isaiah was right when he said in lily text, "A pillar shall be at the border of the land of Egypt and it shall be for a sign and wit ness." The pyramid is Gods first bible. Hundreds, if not thousands of years before the first~line of the Book of Genesis was written, the lesson of the pyramid was written.
 THE SIGN AND SYMBOL OF ETERNITY.
 We'll, of what is this Cyclopean ma sorry sign and a witness2 Among other things, of the prolongation of human work compared with the brev- ity of human life. In all the four thousand years this pyramid has only lost eighteen feet in width, one side of it's square at the base changed only from seven hundred and sixty-four feet to seven hundred and forty-six feet, and the most of that eighteen feet taken off by architects to furnish stone for building in tue city of Cairo.
 The men who constructed the pyra- mid worked at it only a few years and then put down the trowel, and the com pass and the square and lowered the derrick which had lifted the ponderous weights; but forty centuries has their work stood, and it will be good for forty centuries more. All Egypt has been shaken by terrible earthquakes and cities have been prostrated or swallowed, but that pyramid has defied all volcanic paroxysms. It has looked upon some of the greatest battles ever fought since the world stood. Where are the men who constructed it2 Their bodies gone to dust and even the dust scattered. Even the sarcophagus in which the kings mummy may have slept is empty.
 So men die, but their work lives on. We are all building pyramids, not to last four thousand years, but forty thousand, forty million, forty trillion, forty quadrillion, forty quintillion. For awhile we wield the trowel, or pound with the hammer, or measure with the yardstick, or write with the pen, or 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 for 3 pyramid All the kind deeds or ma levolent deeds we do are spread out into another layer. All the Christian or un-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 ,olnes when we put down the imple- ment of toll and pass away, but the pyramid stands.
 The Twentieth century will not rock it down, nor the Thirtieth century, nor the One Hundredth century. The earthquake that rocks this world to pieces will not stop our influence for good or evil. You modestly say, That is true in regard to the great workers for good or evil, and of gigantic gen uses, Miltonian or Talleyrandian, but aot of me, for I live and work on a small scale" My nearer, remember 5hat those who built the pyramids were
 
 could lift one of those great stones 1t took dozen of them to lift one stone, and others just wielded a trowel clicking it on the hard edge, or smooth ing the mortar between the layers One hundred thousand men toiled on those sublime elevations.
 If one of those granite blocks that 1 just touch with my feet on this Decem- Der morning in 1889, as the two Arabs pull nc and the two other Arabs push nle, could speak out and tell its history, it would say: ''The place of my nativ ty was down in the great stone quarry | of Mokattam or Asswan. Then they began to bore at my sides, and then to | drive down great iron wedges, crushing against me till the whole quarry quaked and thundered. Then was pried out with crowbars and levers, scores of men putting their weight on the lever | hge. Then chains were put around Lle, and was hoisted with wheels that groaned under the weight and many workmen had their hands on the cranks and turned until the muscles on | their arms stood out in ridges, and the sweat rolled from their dusky fore | heads.
 '"Then I was drawn by long teams of oxen, yoke after yoke, yoke after yoke. Then l 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 I had to be meas ured and squared and compassed and l fitted in before was left here to do my silent work ot thousands of years. God only knows how many hands were busicd in getting me from my geological cradle in the quarry to this enthrone- ment of innulnerable ages.
 AWFUL RESULTS OF LITTLE SINS.
 My hearers, that is the autobiogra phy of one block of the pyramid. 1 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- ulids 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 overshadows the great Sahara desert of desolated homes and broken hearts and de stroyed etcrnities. And as the pyra mid still rises, layers Of human skulls Diled on ton of human skulls and Othe,