Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-10-24

aGuSC LOSclllST, tilu tIittG e1SSA SSseIS
multiplied by all the figures that all the
bookkeepers Of I'LL time ever wrote.
THEIR WORKS DO FOLLOW THEN
That desire to lie remembered after
we are gone is u divinely implanted de-
sire and not to be crushed out, but, l
implore YOU, seek something better
than tho characterization Of rock or
bronze or book. Put yourself into the
eternity of those whom you help for
both worlds. this and the next. Com
fort hundred souls and there will be
through all the cycles of eternity ut
least hundred souls that will be your
monuments. A prominent member OF
this church was brought to God by
some one saying to her at the church
door ut Che close of service, Come
ugain!" VIII it be possible for that
one so invited TO forget the inviteri
4 minister passing along tile street
every day looked up and smiled to a
baby in tile window. The father and
another wondered who it was that thus
pleasantly greeted their Child. They
found out that lie was the pastor of a
church. They said, We must so and
hear him preach" They went and
heard him and both were converted to
God. Will there be amy power III fifty
,nillion years to erase from the souls Of
those parcrts the memory of that man
who bv his fr;cndlincsS brought them
to God? Matthew Cranswick, :n evan
geiist, said that he had the names of
two hundred souls saved through his
singing the hymn, Arise, my soul
arise!' VIII any of those two hundred
souls in all eternity forget Matthew
Cranswickl Will any of the four hum
dred and seventy-nine women and
children imprisoned at Lucknow, India,
waiting for massacre by the Sepoys,
forget Havelock and Outran and Sir
David Beard. WHO broke i'll and effect
ed their rescue?
70 some of you who have loved and
served the Lord heaven will be Il great
picture gallery of remembrance. Hosts
IF the gloritied vii! never forget you.
..h. that is q way Of building lnonu-
.nents that shall never feel the touch
CT decay. Go not ask you TO sup
press this natural desire of being re-
l4cliibered after YOU are gone, but
ouly want you TO put your memorials
into . shape that shall never weaken
ii iadc During the course of my min
istry have been intimately associated
il Christian work with hundreds OF
good men and women.
Nv memory is hung with their por-
traits more accurate and vivid than
anything that Rembrandt ever put on
canvas-Eather Gricc, De Witt c.
lloore. Father Voorhees,. E. P. Hop
kins, William Stephens. John Van
Rensselaer,, Gasherie De Witt, DR.. Ward
and hundreds of others. all of them
gone out of this life, but | hold the
llcnory of them and will hold them
forever. They cannot escape from ne.
| will remember them just as they
looked on earth. and will remember
,nany of You after the earth has been
an extinct planet for ages infinite. Oh,
what stuff the memory IS for monu-
lncnt building.
THE SOUL TO oUTI4AST THE PYRAMIDS
As in Egypt that December after
room, 1882. exhausted in body, mind
and soul, we mounted to. return to
Cairo, we took orr last look Ut the
pyramid at Gizeh. And you know
there is something in the air toward
evening that seems productive OF
solemn and tender emotion, and that
great pyramid seelued to be huinanized
and with lips of stone it seemed to
speak and cry out:
Hear Inc, man, mortal and immor-
tai. Ny voice is the voice OF God. He
designed me. Isaiah said would be q
sign and witness. saw Moses when
he was a lad. | witnessed the long
procession of the lsraelites rs they
started to cross the Red sea and Pha-
raotl's host in pursuit Of them. The
falcons and the eagles OF many cen
turtles have brushed my brow. 1
s:ood here when Cleopatra's barge
landed with her sorceries. and Hypatia
for her virtues was slain in yonder
streets. Alexander tine Great, Sesos-
iris and Ptolemy admired ,ny proper
tons. Herodotus and Pliny sounded
Try praise I en- old, am very
cid. For thousands of years | have
watched the coming and going OF
generations. They tarry only a little
while, but they make everlasting inl-
preston. bear on my side the mark
ol the trowel and chisel of those who
more than four thousand years ago ex-
PRED Beware what you do, oh, man,
for what you do will last long after
you are dead. If you would be atfec-
tionately remembered after you are
gone, trust not to any earthly com-
lnelnoration have not one word to
say about any astronomer who studied
the heavens from my heights, or any
King who was sepulchred i'll my bosom.
/ am slowly passing away. am a
dying pyramid Shall yet lie down in
the dust of the plain and the sands Of
the desert shall cover me- or when the
earth goes will 60 But you are i'm
mortal. The feet with which you
climbed my sides today will turn to
dust, but you have soul that will out
last me and all my brotherhood Of
pyramids. Live for eternity Live for
God! With the shadows of the even
ing now falling from my side, | pro-
nounce upon you benediction. Take
it with you across the Mediterranean.
Take it with you across the Atlantic.
God only is great! Let all the earth
keep silence before him. Ainenw