The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-10-23

| hoht anu u 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, IL we cannot do much we can do
little.
REMEMBERED-AND FOR WHAT
! Further, carrying out the idea of my
text, the pyramid is sign and wit
ness that big tombstones are not the
best way of keeping ones self affection
ately remembered, This pyramid and
the sixty-nine 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 dead king 1t was the
great Westminster abbey of the an
clients. Some say that Cheops was the
king who built this pyramid, but it is
uncertain, Who was Cheops, anyhow
All that the world knows about him
could be told in few sentences. The
only thing cS'tain 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 generation, for when l saw the car
cass of 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 ar
borescence can do for the places of the
dead be done, if means will allow it.
But if after one is dead there is nothing
left to remind the world of him but
some pieces of stone, there is but little
left.
Some of the finest monuments are
over people who amounted to nothing
while they lived, while some of the
worthiest men and women have not
had above them stone big enough to
tell their name. Joshua, the greatest
warrior the world ever saw, no monu
iuent; Moses, the greatest lawyer that
ever lived, no monument; Paul, the
/ greatest preacher that ever lived, no
monument; Christ, the Saviour of tn,
world and the rapture of heaven, no
monument. A pyramid over seoun
drelly Cheops, but only a single with
a lead pencil episaph over many a
good mans grave. Some of the finest
obituaries have been printed about the
worst rascaIs. Today at Brussels there
is a pyramid of flowers on the grave
| of Boulanger the notorious libertine.
! Yet it is natural towant to be remem
| bercd.
While there seems to be no practical
use for post iiiorten consideration later
than the time of ones great-grandchil
dren, yet no one wants to be forgotten
as soon as the obsequies are over. This
pyramid which Isaiah says is a sign
and witness demonstrates that neither
limestone nor red granite is competent
to keep one affectionately remembered
Neither can bronze, neither can Pariar
marble, neither can Aberdeen granite
I do the work. But there is something
| out of which to build an everlasting
monument, and that will keep one
freshly remembered four thousand years
yea, forever and ever. 1t does not
stand in marble yards. 1t is not to be
purchased at mourning stores. Yet il
is to be found in every neighborhood,
plenty of it, inexhaustible quantities OF
| it, 1t is the greatest stuff in the uni
verse to build monuments out of. J
refer to the memories of those to whom
we can do kindness, the memories Of
those whose struggles we may alleviate,
the memories of those whose souls We
may save.
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 il
the world lasts long enough; and if the
world does not last, then with the
earth's dissolution the pyramid viii,
also dissolve. But the memories OF
those with whom we associate. are in
dcstructible They will be more vivid
the other side of the grave than this
side. 1t is possible for me to do you Il
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 tho
! sands of the seashore, and all the leaves
OF the forest and all the grass blade:
of the field, and all the stars of heaven
added together, and that aggregate
multiplied by all the figures that al! the
boolikeepers Of all time ever wrote.
''THEIR WORKS DO FOLLOW THEM"
That desire to he remembered aftel
We are gone is a divincly Implanted de
sire and not to be crushed out, but, !
implora you, seek something better
than the characterization of rock OF
bronze or book Put yourself into the
eternity Of those whom you help fol
both worlds. this and the next Com.
fort u hundred souls and there will be
through all the cycles of eternity a:
least Il hundred souls that will be YOU
monuments. \ prominent member OF
this church was brought to God by
some one saying to her at the church
door at the close of service, Come
again" VIII it be possible for that
one SO invited to forget the inviters
A minister passing along the street
every day looked up and smiled to a
baby in the window. The father and
mother wondered who it was that thus
plpaSantlv greeted their child They