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

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Some changing a trowel, some pulling
rope, some measuring the sides. Lay
ers OF psalm books On top of layers Of
sermons. Layers of prayers on top of
layers of holy sacrifice. And hundreds
of thousands coming down to sleep
their last sleep, but other hundreds Of
thousands going ap to take their places,
and the pyramids will continue to rise
until the millennial morning gilds the
completed work, and the toiiers on
these heights shall take of their aprons
and throw down their trowels, crying,
st Is finished"
Your business and mine is not TO
build n pyramid, but to be one of the
hundreds OF thousands who shall ring
a trowei or pull "a rope7Cr turn the
crank Of derrick or cry "Yo, heave!'
while lifting another block TO It's eleva-
ton Though it be seemingly a small
work and a brief work, it is n work
that shall last forever. In the last day
many man and woman, whose work
has never been recognized on earth
will come to a special honor. The
ecumenical council, now In session at
Washington, its delegates the honored
representative of fifty million Meth
odists in all parts of the earth, will at
every session do honor to the memory
of John Wesley, but | wonder if any Of
them will think to twist a garland for
the memory Of humble Peter Boiler,
the Moravian, who brought John Yves
ley into the kingdom of God.
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 Sabbath
teacher who brought her class to the
| knowledge of the truth, the unpretend-
ing man who saved a soul. Then the
trowel will be more hOnored than the
scepter AS great battle WAS going
on, the soldiers were ordered to the
front and a 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 cannot do much we can do
o little.
REMEMBERED-AND FOR WHAT
L h., ,e
text, the pyramid is q sign and wit
ness that big tombstones are not the
best way of keeping ones self affection
ately remembered. This pyramid and
the sixty other pyramids still stand
ing were built for sepulchers, all this
great pile of granite and limestone by
which we stand today, to cover the
memory of a dead king. 1t was the
lgreat Westminster abbey of the an
clients Some say that Cheops was the
king who built this pyramid, but it is
uncertain. Who was Cheops, anyhow2
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.
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. If a
bone of his arm or foot had been found
in the sarcophagus beneath the pyra-
mid, it would have excited no more
veneration than the skeleton of camel
! bleaching on the Libyan desert; yea,
{ less veneration, for when saw the car
cass of q camel by the roadside on the
: way to Memphis, / said to myself
3 Poor thing, wonder of what it died.
We say nothing against the marble o.
& the bronze of the metropolis. Let al
r that sculpture and florescence and ar
Q borescenee can do for the places of tn,
0 dead be done, if means will allow it
r But if after one is dead there is nothin!
t left to remind the world of him bu
8 some pieces of stone, there il but littl
i left
t Some of the finest monuments ar
o over people who amounted to nothing
r while they lived, while some of tn
@ worthiest men and women have 10
n had above them stone big enough t
!. tell their name. Joshua, the creates
e warrior the world ever saw, no monU
j ment; Moses, the greatest lawyer tina
/ ever lived, no monument; Paul, tn
DO
n monument: Christ. the Saviour of th
world and the rapture of heaven, n
I monument. A pyramid over scour
l. drelly Cheops, but only shingle wit
IS lead pencil epitaph over many
b good mans grave. Some Of the fines
,, obituaries have been printed about til
, worst rascals Today at Brussels ther
V Is a pyramid of flowers on the gray
Y of Boulanger, the notorious ibertint
O Yet it is natural towant to be remen
o bered.
d While there seems to be no practic;
It use for post norton consideration late
If than the time of ones great-grandchi
r dren, yet no one wants to be forgotte
d as soon as the obsequies are over. TIL
It pyramid which Isaiah says is sig
" and witness demonstrates that neitht
10 limestone nor red granite is competer
n to keep one affectionately remembered
le Neither can bronze, neither can Paria
e. marble, neither can Aberdeen grant
do the work. But there is sonethin
Of out of which to build an everlastin
e. monument, and that will keep or
le freshly remembered four thousand yea
~ yea, forever and ever 1t does M
8, stand in marble yards 1t is not to /
re purchased at mourning stores. Yet
10 Is to be found in every neighborhoo,