The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-10-22

fort hundred souls and there viii be I
through all the cycles of eternity at /
least hundred souls that viii be your !
monuments 4 prominent member Of
| this church was brought 10 God by !
some one saying to her at the church
| door at the. close Of service, Come |
again," win it be possible for that |
one so invited to forget the inyiterl
A minister passing along the street
/ every day looked up and smiled 20 a
/ baby IN the window. The father and
mother wondered who it was that thus
pleasantly greeted their child. They
| Eound out that lie was the pastor Of a
/ church. They said, we must go ana
hear him preach. They went and
heard him and both were converted to
Cod Will there be any power in fifty
million years 70 erase from the souls of
those parents the memory of that man
who by his friendlincss brought them
to Godl Matthew Cranswick, an evan
gelist, said that be had the names OF
two hundred souls saved through his
singing the hymn, ARISE, my soul,
I w
souls in all eternity forget Matthew
Cranswicls2 VIII any of the four hun
dred and soventy-nine women and
children imprisoned at Lucknow, India,
waiting for massacre by the Sepoys,
forget Havalock and OutTam and Sir
David Beard, who broke in and effect
ed their roscue2
| " r I'D o,,I
served the Lord heaven will be a great
picture gallery Of remembrance. Hosts
Of the glosided viii never forget you.
All, that is n way Of building inonu-
ments that shall never feel tie touch
of decay. | do not ask you to sup
press this natural desire OF being re-
membered after you are gone, but |
only want you to put your memorials
into q shape that shall never weaken
or fade During the course of my min
is1ry | have been intimately associated
in Christian work with hundreds of
good men and women.
Ny memory is hung with their por-
traits more accurate and vivid than
anything that Rembrandt ever put on
canvas-Father Grice, De Witt G.
Moore, Father Voorhees,, Z. p. Hop
kins, William Stephens, John Van
Rensselaer,, Gasherie De Witt, Dr. Ward
and hundreds of others, all Of them
gone out Of this life, but l hold the
memory Of them and will hold them
forever. They cannot escape from me.
| will remember them just as they
, looked Oh earth and l will remember
many of you after the earth has been
an extinct planet for ages infinite. Oh,
: what stuff the memory is for monu
ment building!
THE SOUL TO OUTLAST THE PYRAMIDS.
, AS in Egypt that December after
, noon, 1885, exhausted in body mind
and soul, we mounted to return to
} Cairo, We took our last look at the
5 pyramid at Gizeh. And you know
7 there is something in the air toward
/ evening that seems productive of
3 solemn and tender emotion, and that
| great pyramid seemed to be humanized
f and with lips Of stone it seemed to
t speak and cry out:
s Hear me, man, mortal and immor-
tai! My voice is the voice of God. He
designed me- Isaiah said l would be a
ign ond witness | saw Moses when
he was O lad | witnessed the long
procession of the Israelites as they
started to cross the Red sea and Pha
raoh's host i'll pursuit Of them. The
, falcons and the eagles of many CEN
l turtles have brushed my brow. I
, stood here when CleOpatra's barge
: landed with her sorceries, and Hypatia
. for her virtues was slain in yonder
!, streets. Alexander the Great, Sesos-
iris and Ptolemy admired my proper
4 lions. Herodotus and pliny sounded
Il my praise | am old, l am very
: old. For thousands of years l have
{ watched the coming and going Of
. generations. They tarry only little
s while, but they make everlasting i'm
u preston. l bear on my side the mark
70 of the trowel and chisel Of those who
more than four thousand years ago ex-
= PRED. Beware what you do, oh, man,
. for what you do will last long after
~ y, you are dead! IL you would be affec-
- tionately remembered after you are
~ gone, trust not to any earthly COM
- memoration | have not one word to
- say about any astronomer who studied
- the heavens from my heights, or any
king who was sepulchred in my bosom.
- [ am slowly passing away. I ain a
~ 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 I will go. But you are i'm.
- mortal. The feet with which you
- climbed my sides today will turn tc
10 dust, but you have soul that will out
- last me and all my brotherhood OF
. pyramids. Live for eternity! Live fol
" God! With the shadows of the even
ing now falling from my side, pro
>, nounce upon you benediction. Take
~ it with you across the Mediterranean
y Take it with you across the Atlantic
~ God only IS great! Let all the earth
- keep silence before him. Alnenl"
~ And then the lips of granite hushed
- and the great Giant of Masonry
~ wrapped himself again in the silence Of
4 ages and as | rode away in the gather
-, ing twilight this course of sermons was
r. projected.
10 Wondrous Egypt! Land OF ancient pomp ani
. pride,
~ Where Beauty walks by hoary Ruins side,
ne Where plenty reigns and still heseasons smile
-, And rolls-rich gift of Cod-exhaustless Nile
OF MORE THAN THAT.