Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-10-24

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for me, for live and work on small
scale" Ny hearers, those who built
the pyramids were common workmeh'
Not one OF them could lift one Of those
great stones. One hundred Thousand
workmen toiled on those sublime eie'
vations. II one OF those granite BLOCKS
that I 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 out and
tell its history II would say: 1.-THE place
OF my nativity was down In the stone
quarry OF Mokattam or Asswan, Then
they began to bore at my sides, and than
to drive down great iron wedges,
crushing against me till the whole
quarry ouaked and Numbered. Then
was pried out with crowbars and levers,
scores OF men putting their weight on
the leverage. Then CHAINS were put
around me and | was hoisted with
wheels that groaned under the weight,
and many workmen had their hands on
the cranks, aub turned until the mus
Giles on their arms stood out In ridges,
and the sweat rolled from their dusky
foreheads. Then was drawn by long
teams of oxen, yoke after yoke, yoke
after woke. Then was put on an IN
cline plain aud hauled upward and how
many iron tools, and how many human
arms, and how many beasts Of burden
were employed to get me TO this place
no one can tell. Then l had TO be
measured. and squared and compassed.
and fitted in before | was left here 10
do my silent work OF thousands OF years.
God only knows how many hands were
busted in getting me from my geologi-
cal cradle in the quarry TO this en-
thronement OF innumerable ages" My
hearers, this is the autobiography oil
one book 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 200, 900 men.
rejoice that all the thousands who
hare been toiling on the pyrmid OF
righteousness will at last be recognized
and rewarded. Then the trowel will DO
more honored than the sceptre. AS u
great battle was being fought the sol
diers were ordered TO the fSont. q sick
soldier jumped out OF the ambuienos
which was taking him to the h0sprtni:
The surgeon asked what he meant, ana
lie replied: Il nm going 70 the front. l
had rather die on the Rsh than In an
ambulance" ThaRk Coo II we cannot
DO much we con do little.
Further carrying ont the idea Of my
text, the pyramid Is sign and wit
ness that big tombstones are not
the best way OF keeping ones
self afTectionately remembered. This
pyramid and the sixty-nine other pyra-
mids still standing were built for sepul-
chres, all this great pile OF granite and
limestone by which we stand to-day, 10
cover the memory OF dead king. 1t
was the great w estminster Abbey OF
the ancrients. 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 q few sem
fences. The only thing certain is that
he was bad and that he shut up the
temples OF worship and that lie was
hated so that the Egyptians were glad
when he was dead. This pyramid OF
rock, 74O feet each side of the square
base and $50 feet high. wins for him no
respect. II q bone os his arm or foot
had been found in the sarcophagus be-
meath the pyramid, it would have ex-
cited no more veneraticn than q skele-
ton OF camel bleaching on the Libyan
desert; yea, less veneration, for whdn
saw the carcass of camel by the road
side on the way to Memphis, / said to
myself: Poor thing, wonder OF what
it died"
Will any OF the 40 women and chill
dren imprisoned at Lucknow, India,
waiting for massacre by the Sepoys, for
get Havelock and Gutram, and Sir Da-
vid 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 remem-
brance. Hosts OF the glorifed will new
er forget you. All, that Is way OF
building monuments that shall never
feel the touch Of decay. l do not ask you
to suppress this natural desire OF being
remembered after YOU are gone, but /
only want you to put your materials in
to shape that shall never weaken or
fade. During the course OF my minis
try | 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 Rem
brandt ever put on canvass:
Father Grice, Dewitt G. Moore,
Father voorhees,, E. p. Hopkins,
William Stevens. John Van Rensselaer,,
Gasherie Dewitt. DR.. Ward, and hun
dreds Of others, all Of them gone out OF
this life, but l hold the memory OF them
and will hold them forever. They can
not escape from me. l will remember
them just as thep looked on earth, and
/ will remember many OF you after the
earth has been I'm extinct planet for
ages infinite. o, what stuff the men,
DRY is for monument building!
81 have not one word to say about any
astronomer vino studied the heavens
from my heights or anv king who was