The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-10-28

| Though 1t be seemingly small Work
and a brief work. it is q work that shall
last forever. In the last day many a
man and woman whose work has never
been recognized cn earth will come to
IA special honor. The Ecumenical
council, now in session at Washington,
its delegates the honored representa-
tlves of fifty million MethodiSts IN all
parts OF the earth, will at every session
Go honor to the memory OF John Wes-
lev, but | wonder If any of them will
think to twist garland for the mem
ory of humble Peter Boiler, the Mo-
ravian, who brought John Wesley into
the kingdom OF GOO.
I 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 q soul. Then the
trOwel will be more honored than the
scepter. AS a great battle was going
on the soldiers were ordered to the
front and a sick man jumped out Of All
ambulance in which ne was being car
ried to the hospital. The surgeon asked
him what he meant by getting out OF
the ambulance when be was sick and
almost ready to die The soldier au-
swered: doctor, | am going to the
front. had rather die on the field than
die in an ambulance" Thank God; II
we calno. do much We can do little.
This pyramid of rock seven hundred
and forty feet each side Of the square
base and four hundred and fifty feet
high which was the tomb OF Cheops
wins for him no respect. Ii bone
of his arm or foot had been found in
the sarccphagus beneath the pyramid,
it would have excited no more venera-
ton than the skeleton of a camel
bleaching on the Libyan desert; yea,
less yeneration, for when | saw the car
caSS of a camel by the roadside on the
way to Memphis, said to myself, ''Poor
thing, l wonder Of what it died" We
say nothing against the marble or the
bronze Of the metropolis. Let all that
sculpture and florescence and artore-
scence can do for the places OF the dead
! be done, if means will allow it. But 1t
after one is dead there is nothing lett
to remind the world of him but some
pieces of stone. there Is but little left.
All around Cairo and Memphis there
are the remains OF pyramids that have
gone down under the wearing away OF
time, and this great pyramid Of which
Isaiah in the text speaks will vanish
If the world lasts long enough;
and if the world does not last. then
with the earthS dissolution the pyramid
will so dissolve. But the memories of
those with whom we associate are inde-
structible. They will be more vivid
the other side OF the grave than this
side. 1t is possible for me to do you
good and for you to do me a good that
will be vivid IN memory as many years
after the world is burned up as all the
sands of the seashore, and all the leaves
OF the forest, and all the grass blades Of
the field, and all the stars of heaven
added together, and that aggregate
multiplied by all the figures that all the
bookkeepers of all time ever wrote.
That desire to be remembered after
We are gone is divinely implanted de-
sire and not to be crushed out, but, l
implore you, seek something better
than the characterization of rock or
bronze or book. Put yourself into the
eternity of those whom you help for
both worlds, this and the next. Com
fort hundred souls and there will he
through all the cycles Of eternity at
least hundred souls that will be your
monuments. A prominent member OF
some one saying to her at the church
door at the close of the service, Come
again!' Will it be possible for that one
so invited to forget the invite?
\ minister passing along the street
everv day looked up and smiled to a
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 a
church. They said, I'VE must go and
hear him preach" They went and
both were converted to God. VIII there
be aEy power in fifty million years to
erase from the souls of those parents
the memory of that man who by his
triendlineSs brought them to God?
Matthew CransWick, an evangelist, said
that he had the names of Two hundred
souls saved through his singing the
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any of those two hundred souls in all
eternity forget Matthew Cranswick?
Will any of the four hundred and sew
enty-nine women and children imprls.
oned at Lucknow. India, waiting for
massacre by the Sepoys, forget Have
lock and Outram and Sir David Beard,
who broke in and effected their rescue.
To some of you who have loved and
served the Lord heaven will be great
picture gallery of remembrance. Hosts
Of the g!oriied will never forget you.
All, that is the way OF building monu-
uen,s that shall never feel the touch OF
decay. l do not ask you to suppress
this natural desire of being remember
ed after you are gone, but | only want
you to pu, your memorials into ashape
that shall never weaken or fade. Dur
ing the course Jf my ministry | have
been intimately associated in Christian
work with hundreds Of good men and
women.
Asin Egypt that December afternoon.
1889, exhausted in body, mind and soul,
| we mounted to return to Cairo, we took
our last look Of the pyramid at Gizeh.
AND you know there Is something in the
air toward evening LnaC seems prOduc-
tive Of solemn and tender emotion, and
that great pyramid seemed to be hu-
manized and with the lips Of stone it
seemed to speak and cry out:
Hear me, man, mortal and immortal.
Ny voice IS the voice OF God. He design
ed me- Isaiah said | would We be a
sign and a witness. I saw Moses when
he was lad. l witnessed the long pro-
cession Of the Israelites as they started
to cross the Red sea and Pharaon's host
in pursuit of them The falcons and
the eagles Of many centuries have
brushed my brow. stood here when
Cleo patra's barge landed with her sor-
ceries, and Hypatia for her virtues was
slain in yonder streets. Alexander the
Great, Seostris and Ptolemy admired
! my proportions Herodotus and Pllny