Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-10-22


spread out into one Layer for Il pyramid.
All the kind deeds or maeVoIcnt deeds we
do are spread out into another layer. All
the Christian or unit Christian example we
set il spread out in auOthc layer All the
Indirect influences Of our lives are spread
out in another layer. Then the time soon
comes when "" put down TIN" implement
of toll and pass away, but the pyramid
stands.
The Twentieth century will not rock 1t
down, nor the Thrticth century, nor the
One iluudrcdth century. The earthquake
That rock. this world to pieces Will not
pup our influence for good or evil \ OF
mOdcstlv say, "ilHt is true in regard to
the greet workers for good or evil, aud OF
gigantic geniuscs. Niltonian or Talley
randiau, hut not Of me, for live and work
on "A srnall scale" My nearer, remember
that those who built the pyramids were
common workmcn. BOT one of them
could lift one of those great stones. 1t
took a dozen of them to lift one stone, ana
others Just welded trowel, clicking 1t on
the hard edge or smoothing the mortar be-
tween Inc layers. One hundred thousand
men tciled on those sublime elevations.
II one of those granite blocks that just
touch with my feet on this December
morning in 1889 as the two Arabs pull me
and the two other Arabs push me, could
speak ont and tell its history it would say:
"rhc place of my nativity was down in the
great stone quarry of Mokattam or AS
swan Then they began to bore at my
sides, and then to drive down great iron
wedges, crushing against me till the whole
quarry quaked and numbered Then |
was pried out with crowbars and levers,
scores of men putting their weight on the
leverage. Then chains were put around
Inc and | was boosted with wheels that
groancd under the weight, and many
worNmcn had their hands on the cranks
and turned until the muscles on their arms
stood out in ridges, and the sweat rolled
from their duslly forehceds.
"Thcn | was drawn by long teams ofoXen,
yoke after yoke. yoke after yoke. Then |
WAS put on an inclined plane and hauled
upward and how many iron tools, and how
many human arms, and how many bea st,
of burden were employed to get me to this
place no one can tell. Then | had to be
measured and squared and comprised
and fitted in before | was left here to dc
my silent work of thousands of years. God
| only knows how many hands were busted
in getting me from my geological cradle IN
the quarry to this enthroncment of innu
merable ages" My hearers, that is the
autobiography Of one block of the pyramid
Cheops didn't build the pyramid. Some
| boss mason in the worlds twilight didn't
| build the pyramid. One hundred Thousand
men built it and perhaps from first to last
two hundred thousand men,
So with the pyramids now rising--pyra
mids of evil or pyramids of good. The
| pyramid of drunkenness, rising ever since
the time when Noah got drunk OH wiue
| although there was at his time such su
prrabundance of water. All he saloonist,
! OF the ages adding their layers of ale cask,
and wine pitchers and rum jugs until tn,
! pyramid OvershaGows the Great Sahara
| desert of desolated homes and broker
| hearts and destroyed etcrnties. And IA,
the pyramid still rises, layers of human
skulls piled on top Of human Skulls an,
! other mountains of human bones to whittier
the peaks reaching unto the heavens, hun
drcdS of thousands of people are building
| that pyramid,
So with the pyramid of righteousness
Multitudes Of hands are toiling on tn,
sleeps, hands intantile hands octogenari
an, masculine hands, female hands, strong
hands, weak hands. Some changing
trowel, some pulling rope, some meas
uring the sides. Layers Of psalm books OF
top of layer. Of sermons. Layers of prayer
on top Of layers Of holy sacrifice. Ant
| hundreds of thousands coming down I,
sleep thrir last sleep but other hun
dreds of thousands going up to talk
their places, and the pyramids will con
time to rise until the mllennial mornn.
! gids the completed work, and the tuilpr
| on these her hts shall take OF their apron
/ and throw down their trOWels, CRYING, " |