News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-10-22


verse to build monuments out of.
refer to the memories of those to whom
we can do kindness, the memories o
those whose struggles we may alleviate
the memories of those whose souls WI
may save.
All around Cairo and Memphis ther,
are the remains of pyramids that have
gone down under the wearing away o
time, and this great pyramid of which
Isaiah in the text speaks will vanish i
the world lasts long enough; and if the
world does not last, then with the
also dissolve. But tie memories O.
those with whom we associate are in
destructible. They will be more vivid
the other side of the grave than thi,
side. 1t is possible for me to do you &
good and for you to do me a good tina,
will be vivid in memory as many years
after the world is burned up as all 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
multiplied by all the figures that all the
bookkeepers of all time ever wrote
THEIR WORKS DO FOLLOW THEM"
That desire to be remembered after
we are gone is a divinely implanted de,
sire and not to be crushed out, but,
inplore you, seek something better
than the characterization of rock OF
bronze or book. Put yourself into the
eternity of those whom you help for
both worlds, this and the next. Com
fort a hundred souls and there will be
through all the cycles of eternity at
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 at the close of service, Come
againW VIII it be possible for that
one SO invited to forget the inviter?
A minister passing along the street
every day looked up and smiled to a
baby in the window. The father and
pleasantly greeted their child. They
found out that he was the pastor of a
church. They said, I'VE must go and
hear him preach" They went and
heard him and both were converted t.
God. Will there be any power in fifty
those parents the memory of that man
who by his friendliness brought them
to Code Matthew Cranswick, an evan
gelist, said that he had the names O.
two hundred souls saved through hi,
singing the hymn, Arise, my soul
arise!" Will any of those two hundred
souls in all eternity forget Matthew
Cranswick3 Will any of the four hun
dred and seventy-nine women and
children imprisoned at Lucknow, India.
waiting for massacre by the Sepoys
forget Havelock and Outram and Sir
David Beard, who broke in and effect
ed their rescue?
To some of you who have loved and
served the Lord heaven will be great
picture gallery of remembrance Hosts
of the gIorified will never forget you.
All, That is a way of building monu.
ments that shall never feel the touch
of decay. l do not ask you to sup
press this natural desire of being re-
membered after you are gone, but ]
only want you to put your memorials
into a shape that shall never weaken
or fade. During the course of my mln
istry have been intimately associated
in Christian work with hundreds of
good men and women.
My memory is hung with their por-
traits more accurate and vivid than
anything that Rembrandt ever put on
canvas-Father Grice, De Witt c.
Moore, Father voorhees,, E. p. Hop
kins, William Stephens, John Van
Rensselaer,, Gasherie De Witt, DIR. Ward
and hundreds of others, all of them
gone out of this life, but | hold the
memory of them and will hold them
forever. 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 memory is for monu-
ment building
THE SOUL To oUTLAsT THE PYRAMIDS.
As in Egypt that December after
noon, 1889, exhausted in body, mind
and soul, we mounted to return to
Cairo we took our last look at the
pyramid at Gizeh. And you know
there is something in the air toward
Df
solemn and tender emotion, and that
great pyramid seemed to be humanized
md with lips of stone it seemed to
tpeak and cry out:
Hear me, man, mortal and immor-
hi My voice is the voice of God He
designed me. Isaiah said l would be
sign and witness | saw Moses when
he was a lad | witnessed the long
procession of the Israelites as they
started to cross the Red sea and Pha-
raOh's host in pursuit of them. The
falcons and the eagles of many cen
turtles have brushed my brow.
stood here when CleOpatra's barge
landed with her sorceries, and Hypatia
for her virtues was slain in yOnder |
streets. Alexander the Great, Sesos-
iris and Ptolemy admired my proper
lions. HerodOtus and Pliny sounded |
my praise. | am old, | am very
old. For thousands of years | have |
the coming and going of |
They tarry only little
while, but they make everlasting inn
preston. | bear on my side the mark
Of the trowel and chisel of those who |
more than four thousand years ago ex-
pred. Beware what you do, oh, man,
Tor what you do will last long after
you are deadl If you would be affec-
Jionately remembered after you are
gone, trust not to any earthly com
| have not one word to
'ay about any astronomer who studied
,he heavens from my heights, or any
King who was sepulchred in my bosom.
am slowly passing away. l am a
lying pyramid. / shall yet lie down in
he dust of the plain and the sands OF