The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1891-10-27
LAURENS, S. O.. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1891.

hundreds of thousands who shall ring a
trowel or pull rope or turn the crank
OF derrick, or cry, "Yo, heavew while
Lifting another block to its elevation.
Though 1T be seemingly small work
and brief work, it is a work that shall
last forever. In the last day many O
man and woman whose work has never
been recognized on earth will come to
a special honor. The Ecumenical
council, now in session at Washington,
It's delegates the honored representa-.
tiYes OF fifty million Methodists in all
parts OF the earth, will at every session
DO honor to the memory OF John Wes-
Icy, but wonder If any of them will
ory of humble Peter Boiler, the Mo-
ravian, who brought John Wesley into
the kingdom of God
| rejoice that all thu 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 a soul. Then the
trowel will be more honored than the
scepter. AS q great ba tie was going
on the soldiers were ordered to the
|
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 an
swered: doctor, l am going to the
front. L had rather die on the field than
Ole III an ambulance" Thank God; if
we cannot do much we can do little.
This pyramid Of rock seven hundred
and forty feet ach side Of the square
base and four hundred and fifty feet
high which was the tomb OF Cheops
wins for him no respect. IL bone
OF Of MS ls arm n, OF or foot had been found in
the sarcOphagus beneath the pyramid,
1T would have excited no more venera-
tlon than the skeleton of a camel
bleaching on the Libyan desert; yea,
less veneration, for when L saw the car
casS or a camel by the roadside on the
way to Memphis, said to myself "Poor
thing, wonder Of what it died. We
say nothing against the marble or the
bronze of the metropolis. Let all that
sculpture and tlorescence and artore-
scence 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.
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 earth's dissolution the pyramid
Will so dissolve. But the memories of
thoSe with whom we associate are indie
structible. They will be more vivid
the other side OF the grave than this
side. 1t is possible for me to do you a
good and for you to do me good that
Will be vivid in memory us many years
after the world is burned up as al 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 ali the
bookkeepers of all time ever wrote.
| That desire to be remembered after
we are gone is diyinely implanted de-
sire and not to be crushed out, but,
lmplore you. seek something better
than the lmmortalization of rock or
bronze or book. Put yourself into the
eternity of those whom you nelp 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 men, Der of
this church was brought to God by
some one saying to her at the church
door at the close of the service, Come
again" viii it be possible for that one
SO invited to forget the invite?
| n minister passing along the street
eVerV day looked up aud smiled to
DaOy In the window. The father and
mother wondered who il was that thus
pleasantly greeted their child. They
found out that he was the pastor Of a
church. They said, I'VE must 20 and
hear him preach" They went and
both were converted to God Will there
be any power in fifty million years to
erase from the souls of those parents
the memory of that man who by his
lriendliness brought them to God?
Matthew Cranswick, an evangelist, said
tnat he had the names of two hundred
souls saved through his singing the
hymn, Arise, my soul, arise" Will
any OF those two hundred souls in all
eternity forget Matthew Cranswick?
| Will any ofthe four hundred and sew
enty-nine women and children impris.
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 glorilied will never forget you.
An, that is the way of building monu-
inen'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 put your memorials into il shape
that shall never weaken or fade. Dur
ing the course Of my ministry | have
been intimately associated in Christian
work with hundreds Of good men aud
| 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 that 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! !!
My voice Is the voice of God. He design
ed me. Isaiah said would we be a
sign and witness. / saw Moses when
he was lad. | witnessed the long pro-
cession of the Israelites as they started
to cross the Red sea and PharaOh's host
in pursuit of them. The falcons and
the eagles of many centuries have
brushed my brow. | stood here when
| Cleopatra's barge landed with her sor-