Milford chronicle., 1891-10-23
MILFORD. DEL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER %, 1891.

quarry Quuked ana bnuuueteN' 4Hch
was pried out with crowbars and levers
scores of men putting their weight on the
leverage. Theu chains were put around
me and / was hoisted with wheels that 4
proaned under the weight, and many 1
workmen had their hands on the cranks
and turned until the muscles on their arms I
stood out in ridges, and the swens rolled
from their dusky foreheads.
'sThen was drawn by long teams ofoXeni
yoke after yoke, yoke after yoke. Then
was put on an inclined plane and 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 eompassed
I and fitted in before was left here to 90
my silent work OF thousands OF years. God
| only knows how many hands were busted
4 in getting me from my geological cradle IN |
/ the quarry to this enthronement Of innu-
! merable ages" My hearers, that is the
] autobiography Of one block OF the pyramid.
| Cheops didn't build the pyramid. Some
boss mason in the worlds twilight didn't
4 build the pyramid. One hundred thousand
/ men built 1t and perhaps from hrst 70 last
/ two hundred thousand men.
So with the pyramids now rising-pyra
| mids Of evil or pyramids Of good. The
/ pyramid Of drunkenness, rising ever since
/ the time when Noah got drunk on wine,
although there was at his time such su-
perabundance of water. All the salOonists
! Of the ages adding their layers OF ale Casks
and wine pitchers and rum jugs until the
| pyramid OvershadOws the Great Sahara
desert OF tiesolated homes and broken
hearts and destroyed eternities. And as
the pyramid still rises, layers Of human
. i - hrrrn ulrfTlIu and
other mountains Of human bones to whiten
the pealzs reaching unto the heavens, hun
dreds of thousands of people are building
that pyramid.
So with the pyramid of righteousness.
Multitudes OF hands are toiling on the,
gteeps hands infantile, hands octogeuari-
an. masculine hands, female hands, strong
hands, weak hands. Some changing
trowel, some pulling a rope, some meas
uripg the sides. Layers of psalm books on
ton Of layers Of sermons. Layers Of prayers
on top Of layers Of holy sacrifice. And
hundreds of thousands coming down TO
sleep their last sleep, but other hun
dreds Of thousands going up to take
their places, and the pyramids will con
tinue to rise until the millenplal morning
gilds the completed work, and the tolers
on these heights shall take off their aprons
and throw down their trowels, crying, 1T
is fnishedW
BUILDING FOR ETERNITY
Your business and mine is not to build a
pyramid but to be one Of the hundreds OF
thousands who shall ring trOwel or pull
a rome or turn the crank Of derrick, or
cry. "Yo, heaveW while lifting another
block to its elevation. Though it be seem
innly a small work and a brief work, 1t Is
n work that shall last forever. In the last
day many man and woman whose work
has never been recognized on earth will
come to a special honor. The EcumC nical
council. now in session at Washington, its
delegates the honored representatives OF
fftv million Methodists in all parts OF the
earth. will at every session do honor TO the
, /, memory of John Wesley, but l wonder u
| any of them will think to twist garland
I for the memory Of humble Peter Bohieri
the Moravian, who brought John Wesley
into the kingdom of God.
rejoice that all the thousands who have
been toiling on the pyramid Of righteous
ness will at last be recognized ana re
warded-the mother who brought her chill
dren to Christ. the Sabbath teacher who
. brought her class to the knowledge Of the
truth. the unpresending man who saved a
souI Then the trowel will be more hon
ored than the scepter. As great battle
. was going on the soldiers were ordered t6
the front and a sick man jumped out OF al
ambulance in which he was being carried
to the hospital. The surgeon asked him
{ what he n e4nt by getting out Of the am
bulance when he waa sick and almost
u ready to die The soldier answered: Doc
= tor. am going to the front. had rathe
. die on the field than die in an ambulance
/ Thank God; if we cannot do much we car
4 do little.
Further, carrying out the idea Of M
{ text, the pyramid is sign and a witness
u that big tombstones are not the best wal
: of keeping ones self afectionately remem
y bered. This pyramid and the sixty
Il other pyramids still standing were bull
u for sepulchers, all this great pile OF granit
% and limestone by which we stand today, =
7 cover the memory of a dead king. /
80 was the great Westminster abbey OF tn
J. apcients. Some say that Cheops was th
king who built this pyramid, but It IS un
, certain Who was Cheops anyhow Al
= that the world knows about him could b
n told in a few sentences. The only thin
u certain is that he was bad, and that h
- shut up the temples Of worship, and tina
y he was hated 50 that the Egyptians wer
y glad when he was dead.
~ This pyramid Of rock seven hundred az
- forty feet each side of the square base an
y four hundred and fifty feet high wins 70
= him no respect. If bone OF his arm q
u foot had been found in the sareophagu
4 beneath the pyramid, it would nave 81
~ cited no more veneratiOn than the skei'
V ton of a camel bleaching on the Libya
= desert; yea, less veneratIon, for when
~ saw the carcass Of a camel by the roadsid
oi on the way to Memphis, l said to mysel
"Poor thing, wonder Of what 1t died
ls We saw nothing against the marble or u
q hronze OF the metropolis. Let all that scull
~ -. ture and horescence and arborescenee ca
Is 10 for the places of the dead be done,
re means will allow it. But II after one
sir dead there is nothing left to remind Il
st world of him but some pieces Of ston
CD there is but little left.
.y. Some OF the finest monuments are oV'
people who amounted to nothing Whi
We fhev lived. while some Of the worthie
m men and women have not had above the
tv a stone big enough TO tell their nam
N. Joshua. the greatest warrior the world ev
nj qavv no monument: Moses, the create
or LAWYER that ever lived, no monument; Pau
tb the greatest preacher that ever lived,
flo monument; Christ, the saviour OF u
a world and the rapture Of heaven, no mon
nd ment. A pyramid over scoundreily Cneol
AU but only SmnBte VIII teA4 Po"o'. -
taph over many good mans grave son
are Of the finest obituaries have been print
i'd. about the worst rsscals. Today at Brt
we sells there is pyramid OF howers on I
All grave Of Boulanger, the potorlous lioerui
we Yet it is natural to want to be remembers
me MONUMENTS MORE ENDURING T. MARBl
std While there seems TO be nt " ctic'tl u
'0h for most uortem consideration litfer tn
ent the time OF ones great-grandchildren,
MD No one wants to be forgotten as soon
the obsequies are over. This pyram
1t which Isaiah says is sign and
the witness, demonstrates that neither I'm
axe stone nor red granite are compete
not 70 keep one affectionately remember
tou neither can bronze; neither can Pari
to marble; neither can Aberdeen gran
OF do the work But there Is somethi
ley ont of which to build an everlasting me-