Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-10-30

membered four thousand years-yea. for.
ever and ever. 1t does not stand in marble
yards. 1t is not to be purchased at mourn
ing stores. Yet it is to be found In every
neighborhood. plenty OF it, inexhaustible
quantities of it. It is the greatest stuff in
the universe to build monuments out of.
refer to the memories of those to whom we
can do kindness, the memories of those
whose struggles may alleviate, the mem
Dries of those whose souls we may save
A minister passing along the street every
day looked up and smiled TO baby in the
window. The father and mother wondered
who it was that thus pleasantly greeted their
child. They found out that he was the pastor
of church. They said. I'VE must 90 and heer
him preach" They went and heard him and
both were converted to God Will there be
any power in fifty million years to erase
from the souls of those parents the memory
of that man who by his friendliness brought
them to God? Matthew Cranswick. an
evangelist, said that he had the names OF two
hundred souls saved through his sin ying the
hymn, Arise, my soul, ariser' VIII any o.
those two hundred souls in all eternity forge:
Matthew Cranswick? viii any of the fou"
hundred and seventy-nlne women and chill
dren imprisoned at Lucknow, India, waiting
for massacre by the Sepoys, forget Havelock
and Outram and Sir David Beard, who broke
in and effected Their rescue?
AS in Egypt that December afternoon
1889. exhausted in BODY. mind and soul. we
look of the pyramid at Gizeh. And you
know there is something in the air toward
evening that seems productive of solemn an
Eender emotion, and that great pyramid
seemed to be humanized and with lips OF
stone it seemed to speak and cry out:
Hear me, man. mortal and immortal
My voice is the voice of God. He designed
me. Isaiah said l would be a sign and
witness. l saw Moses when he was a lad.
witnessed the long procession of the Is
oil tnSo how or rod To or0S he Pa6 Soa
and Pharaohs host in pursuit of them.
The falcons and the eagles Of many CEN
turtles have brushed my brow. stood
here when Cleopatra's barge landed with her
slain in yonder streets: Alexander the
Great, Seostrls and Ptolemy admired my
proportions. Herodotus and Pliny sounded
my praise I am old, am very old. For
thousands Of y ears I have watched the COM
ing and going of generations. They tarry
only little while. but they make everlast-
ing impression. bear on my side the mark
of the trowel and chisel of those who more
than four thousand years ago expired. Be
ware what you do, oh, man! for what you
do will last long after you are dead
If you would be affectionately re-
membered after you are gone, trust
not to any earthly commemoration.
I have not one word to say about
any astronomer who studied the heavens
from my heights, or any king who was sep
away. anna dying pyramid. I shall yet
lie down in the dust of the plain, and the
sands of the desert shall cover me, or when
the earth goes will go. But you are i'm,
mortal. The feet with which you climbed
my sides to-day will turn to dust, but you
have soul that will outlast me and ali my
brotherhood of pyramids. Live for eternity!
Live for God! With the shadows of the
evening now falling from my side, pro
nounce upon you a benediction. Take 1t
with you across the Mediterranean. Take it
with you across the Atlantic. 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 sermons was pro jected.
Wondrous Egyptl Land of ancient pomp and
pride,
Where Beauty walks by hoary Ruins side,
Where plenty reigns and still the seasons smile,
And rols-ricb gift Of God-exhaustless Nile.