Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-19

! of that pyramid has single fact in astron-
omy or mathematics been found TO contra
| dict the wisdom of that structure
GODS FIRST BIBLE.
Yet they had not at tine age when the
| Pyramid was started an astronomer or
| an architect or q mathematician. Who
planned the Pyramid" 1t must have
| been God. Isaiah was right when
he said in my text "a pillar shall be at
| the border of the land of Egypt and it shall
| be for sign and witness The Pyramid
| Is Gods first bible.
| a sign and n witness? Among other things:
| OF the prolongation of human work COM
pared with the brevity OF human life. In all
| the 1900 years this Pyramid has only lost
| Is feet in width. one side of its square at the
base changed only from I64 feet to 1s6 and
| the most Of that Is feet taken of by archi-
| tects to furnish stone for building in the
city of Cairo.
| SO men die but their work lives on. We
are all building pyramids not to last four
thousand years, hut forty thousand, forty
| million, forty trillion, forty quadrillion,
! forty quintillion. All the good words or bad
words we speak are spread ont into one
layer for n pyramid. All the kind deeds or
another layer. All the Christian un-
christian example we set is spread out in
another layer. All the indirect influences
or our lives are spread out in another layer.
THE WORK OF MANY HANDS.
Some boss mason in the worlds twilight
didn't build the Pyramid. One hundred
thousand .men built it and perhaps from
first to last 100000 men. So with the pyra-
mids now rising, pyramids of evil or
pyramids of good. The pyramid of drunk
enness rising ever since the time when
Noah got drunk on wine, although there
was al this time such a superabundance of
water. All the saloonists of the ages adding
their layers of ale casks and wine pitchers
and rum jugs until the Pyramid over
shadows the great Sahara Desert of DESC
lated homes. and broken hearts and destroy
ed eternities. The pyramids will continue
to rise until the millennial morning gilds the
completed work, and the toflers on these
heights shall take off their aprons and
throw down their trowels, crying, at is fin
ished."
Your business and mine is not to build
q pyramid but to be one of the hundreds
of thousands who shall ring a trowel, OF
pull rope or turn the crank of q derrick.
The Ecumenical Council, now in session at
Washington, its delegates the honored re-
presentatives of 5O,OO6OOO Methodists in all
parts of the earth, will at every session do
honor to the memory of John Wesley.
wESLEY'S JOHN THE BAPTIST.
1 wonder if any of them will think to twist
a garland for the memory of humble Peter
Boiler, the Moravian, who brought John
Wesley into the kingdom of Coz?
! rejoice that all the thousands who have
been toiling on the pyramid of Righteousness
will at last be recognized and rewarded-the
mother who brought her children to Christ,
the Sa bbath 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
Sceptre.
Further. carrying out the idea of my text,
the pyramid is sign and a witness that big
tombstones are not the best way of keeping
ones self atrectionately remembered. This
ii mud Mt fhnr dc Stf
standing were built for sepulchers, 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 Westmin-
stcr Abbey of the ancients. Some say that
Cheops was the King who built this pyramid,
but it is uncertain. Who was Cheops any
how? 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 Egyptians were glad
when he was dead.
NO MONUMENTS FOR THE GREATEST.
Joshua, the greatest warrior the world
ever saw, no monument: Moses, the greatest
lawyer that ever lived, no monument; Paul,
the greatest preacher that ever lived, no
monument: Christ, the Savior OF the world
and the rapture ef heaven, no monument.
4 pyramid over scoundrelly Cheops. but
only shingle with lead pencil epitaph
over many good mans grave. Some of the
finest obitua ries have been printed about
the worst rascals. To-day at Brussels there
is pyramid OF flowers on the grave of Bolt-
langer, the notorious libertine. YET it is
natural to want to be remembered.
am slowly passing away. l am dying
pyramid. / shall yet lie down in the dust of
the plain and the sands OF the desert shall
cover me, or when the earth goes 1 will go.
But you are immortal. The feet with which |
you climbed my sides to-day wifi turn to |
dust, but you have a soul thai will outlast |
me and all my brotherhood of pyramids.
Live for eternity Live for God! With |
the shadow of the evening now falling from |
my side, pronounce upon You benedic- |
tion. Take it with you across the Mediter- |
Tanean. Take 1t with you across the Allan
tic. God only is great! Let all the earth |
keep silence before him. Amenr" And then
the lips of granite hushed and the great
Giant OF Masonry wrapped himself again |
in the silence OF ages, and as l rode away In
the gathering twilight, this course of SER
mons was projected.
''Wondrous Egypt! Land of ancient pomp and
pride.
Where Beauty walks by hoary Ruins side,
Where plenty reigns and still the seasons smile,
And rolls-rich gift of GOd-exhaUstless Nile.n