Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-10-29

means will "a low il. but II afier one Is
dead there il nothing left to r..nind she
world of him but some pieces Of stone,
there is but little left.
| Some Of the finest monuments are over
people who Amounted 70 nothing while
they lived, bile some Of the wortlliest
men aud women have not had above them
stone big enough to tell their name.
| Joshua, the greatest warrior the world ever
Jaw, no monument: Moses, the greatest
LAWYER that ever lived, no monument; Paul.
the greatest preacher that ever lived no
monument: Christ, the Saviour of the
world and TIE rapture OF heaven, no monu.
nent 4 pyramid over scOundreliy Cheops.
| but only a shingle with lead pencil cpl
taph over many "A good mans grave. Some
of the finest obituaries have been printed
about the worst rascals Today at Brus-
sells there is a pyramid Of flowers on the
grave of Boulanger. the notorious llbertine.
| Yet il is natural 70 want TO Ire remembered.
MONUMENTS MORE ENDURING THAN MARBLE.
While there seems TO be no practical use
for post mortem consideration later than
the time OF ones REORGANIZATION, yet
no one wants 60 be forgotten AS soon MS
the obsequies are over. This pyramid,
which Isaiah says is a sign and
witness, demonstrates that neither lime
stone nor red granite are competent
to keep one afTectionately remembered:
neither can bronze; neither can Parian
marble; neither can Aberdeen granite
do the work. But there is something
out OF which to build an everlasting mon
ument aud that will keep one freshly re-
membered four thousand years-yea, for
ever and ever. IL does not stand IN mar
Bile yards. Ii is not to be purchased at
mourning stores. Yet it is 10 be found in
every neighborhood, plenty OF it, mex
haustible quantities of IL. IL is the great
est stuff in the universe to build monu-
ments out Of ! refer TO the memories Of
those 10 whom we can do a 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 If the world lasts
long enongh and If the world does not
last, then with the earth's dissolution the
pyramid will also dissolve. But the mem
cries OF those with whom we associate are
understandable. They viii be more vivid
the other side of the grave than this side.
II is possible for me 10 do you good and
for you 10 do me good hat will be vivid
in memory as many years after the world
Is burned up as all the sands of the sea
shore, 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 desire
and not to be crushed out, but implore
you, seek something better than the i'm
naturalization OF rock or bronze or book
Put yourself into the eternity Of those
whom you help for both worlds, this and
the next Comfort n hundred souls and
there will he through all the cycles of eter-
nifty at least hundred souls that viii be
your monuments. A 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 againF' VIII
il be possible for that one so invited to for
get the inyitvrs
A minister passing along the street every
day looked up and smiled TO a baby in the
window. The father and mother won
dered who it was that Thus pleasantly
greeted their child They found out that
he was the pastor OF church. They said
1--WE must 30 and hear him preach" They
went and heard him and both were con
verted to God. viii there be any power
in fifty million years to erase from the
souls Of those parents the memory Of that
man who by his friendiness brought them
TO Godf Matthew Cranswick, an eyangel
list, said that he had the names of two hun
dred souls saved through his singing the
hymn, "Arise, my soul, arise" Will any
OF those two hundred souls in all eternity
forget Matthew Cranswicks Will any of
the four hundred and seventy-nine women
and children imprisoned at Lucknow, In
dia, waiting for massacre by the Sepoys,
forget Havelock and Outram and Sir David
Beard, who broke in and effecteditheir res
cues
To some of you who have loved and
served the Lord heaven will be great
picture gallery Of remembrance. Hosts Of
the glorified will never forget you. All,
that is the way OF building monuments
that shall never feel the touch of decay.
do not ask you to suppress this natural de
sire of being remembered after You are
gone, but | only want You to put your me-
MORALS into a shape that shall never weak
en- or fade During the course of my min
istry ! have been intimately associated
in Christian work with hundreds of good
men and women.
My memory is hung with their portraits,
more accurate and vivid than anything
that Rembrandt ever put on canvas: Faith
er Grice, De Witt c. Moore, Father voor
hees, +. p. Hopkins, William Stephens,
John Van Rensselaer,, Gasherie De Witt,
DR.. Ward and hundreds of others, all of
them gone out of this life, Lut mold the |
memary of them and will bold them for
ever. They cannot escape from me. will |
remember them just as they looked on
earth, and | will remember many OF you
after the earth has been an extinct planet |
for ages infinite. Oh, what stuff the mem |
DRY is Tor monument buildng
THE ETERNAL PURPOSE.
As in 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 Gzeh. I
And you know there is something in the /
air toward evening that epeus nrofIuctixe