The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1891-11-21


and broken hearts, and destroyed etern-
tiles. And "a tho pyramid still
rises, layers of human skulls piled
on top OF human skulls and
other mountains OF human bones
TO whiten the peaks reaching into
the heavens. hundreds OF thousands
OF people are building that pyramid.
So with the pyramid of righteousness
Multitudes of hands are toiling on the
steps--hands infantile. hands octoge-
marian. masculine hands, female hands
strong hands. weak hands. Some clang-
ing trowel. some pulling n rope, some
measuring the sides. Layers OF psalm
books on top of layers of sermons
Layers of prayers on top of layers OF
holy sacrifice. And hundreds OF thou
sands coming down to sleep their last
sleep, but other hundreds OF thousands
going up to take their places, and tho
pyramids will continue To rise until
the millennial morning gilds the com
pleted works, and the toilers on these
heights shall take off their aprons and
throw down their trowels, crying, 1t
is finished
Your business and mine Is not to
build n pyramid, but TO be one of the
hundreds of thousands who shall ring
trowel, or pull rope, or turn the
crank of u derrick, or cry, "io HEAVIER
while lifting another block to its elcva-
tons Though it be seemingly n small
work and brief work, IL is work
that will last forever. IN the last day
many n man and woman whose work
has never been recognized on earth will
come to n special honor The Ecumen-
ical Council, now in session ut WASH
ington, its delegates the honored rep
resentatives of 90 900, 900 Methodists
in all parts of the earth, will at every
session do honor to the memory of John
Wesley, but wonder ii any of them will
think to twist garland for the memo
ry of humble Peter Boiler, the Mora
Wan. who brought John Wesley into
the Kingdom of God rejoice that all
the thousands who have been toiling
on the pyramid of Righteousness will ut
last be recognized and rewardcd--the
mother who brought her children to
Christ, the Sabbath teacher who
brought her class to the knowledge of
saved soul Then the trowel will be
more honored than the sccpter. As n
great battle was going on the soldiers
were ordered TO the front, and a sick
man jumped ont of an ambulance in
which he was being carried To- the hos
pital. The surgeon asked him what he
meant by getting out of the ambulance
when he was sick and almost ready to
die The soldier answered.: Doctor, l
am going to the front had rather
die on the field than die in an ambu-
lance" Thank God, II we can not do
much we can do little.
Further, carrying out the idea OF my
text the pyramid is sign and n wit
ness that big tombstones are not the
best way of keeping ones self affection
atcly remembered. This pyramid and
the sixty nine other pyramids still
standing were built for sepulchers, all
this great pile of granite and limestone
by which we stand to-day, to cover the
memory of dead king. 1t was the
great Westminster Abbey of the an
clients. Some say that Cheops was the
king who built this pyramid, but 1t is
All that the world knows about him
could bc told in a few sentences. The
only thing certain is that he was bad
and that he shut up the temples OF
worship and that he was hated so that
the Egyptians were glad when he was
dead. This pyramid OF rock seven hun
dred and forty feet each side OF the
square base and four hundred and fifty
feet high wins for him norespect. II a
bone of his arm or foot had been found
in the sarcophagus beneath the pyramid
IL would have excited no more vcnera'
ton than the skeleton of camel
bleaching on tho Libyan desert; yea,
less generation, for when saw the car.
cass of camel by the roadside on the
way TO Memphis, said TO myself:
Poor thing, l wonder OF what II
died"
We say nothing against the marble
or the bronze of the metropolis Let
all that sculpture and fiorescence and
arborescencc can do for the places OF
the dead be done, IL means will allow
it. But IL after one is dead there Is
nothing left to remind the world OF him
but some pieces of stone, there Is but
little use. Some of the finest monu-
ments are over people who amounted ia
nothing while they lived, while some OF
the worthiest men and women have
not had above them n stone big enough
TO tell their name. Joshua, the greatest
warrior the world ever saw, no mon
ument; Moses, the greatest lawyer that
ever lived, no monument; Paul, the
greatest preacher that ever lived,
no monument; Christ, the Saw
Jour of the world and the rap
ture of Heaven, no monument A
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