Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-10-23

! the raSe changed only from Io4 1cet 10
74o feet and the most of that eighteen
feet taken of by architects to furnish
stone for building in the city OF Cairo.
The men who on ,iructed the Pyramid
worked at II only a few wears and then
put Gown the trowel and the compass
and the squai Q and lowered the rrIclx
which had lifted the ponderous weights;
but forty centuries have their work
stood and IL will be good for forty
centuries more. All Egypt has been
shaken in terrible earthquakes and
cities have been FRUSTRATED or swal-
lowed, but that Pyramid has defied all
volcanic paroxy ms 1t has looked
upon some of the greatest battles ever
fought since the world stood. Where
are the men " no Quilt it? Their bodies
gone to dust and even the dust
scattered. Even the sarcophagus in
whi h the kings mummy may have
slept is empty.
20 men die but their work lives on.
We are building pyramids not TO last
four thousand years, but forty thou
sand. forty million, forty trillion, forty
quadTillion. forty quint,llion For
while we WELD tie trowel or pound
with the hammer or measure with the
yard-stick or write with the pen, or
v :
or plan with tue brain, and for u while
the foot walks and the eye sees, and
the ear hears and the tongue speaks.
All the good words or bad words we
! speak are spread out into one layer for
pyramid. All the kind deeds or
malevoient deeds we do are spread out
in o anotl er layer. All tae Christian
or unchristian exam pie we set is spread
! out in another LAYER. All the indirect
influences of our lives are spread out
in another layer. Then the time soon
/ comes when we put down the nipple
ment of toll and pass away,
but the pyramid stands
Your business ami mine is not to
build a pyramid but TO be one of the
hundreds of thousands who shall ring
trowcl, or pull a rope or turn a crank
of derrick, or cry ~ o heave" while
/ lifting an, Their block TO its elevation
/ Though it be seemingly a small work
/ and a brief work, it is work that
| shall last forever. In the last day
many a MAJ and woman whose
work has never been recognized on
earth will come to special honor.
! i he Ecumenical council, now n ses-
sion at Washington, ITS delegates the
honored representa- yes of fifty mil
| lion Methodi Is in all parts of
the earth, will al every session
do honor TO the memory of John
! Wesley, but i wonder If anv of them
will think To twist n garland for the
memory of hum lie Peter Boiler, the
Moravian, who brought John Wesley
into the Kingdom of God l rejoice
that all the thousands no have been
to ling on the pyramid of righteous
ness will at last be recognized and re-
warded-the mother who brought ner
children to Christ the Sabbath school
teacher who brought her class To The
knowledge of the truth, the UMPIRE
tending man who saved n soul.
Then the trowel will be more honored
thas tie sceptre.
Further, carrying out the idea of my
text, the Pyramid is a sign and IA wit
ness that big tombstones are not the
lest way of keepings ones self affec-
tionateiy remembered. This Pyramid
and the sixty nine other pyramids
still standing were built for sepul-
chres, ali this great pile of granite and
limestone by . hich We stand to day,
to cover the memory of a dead kisg.
1t was the great Westminster Abbey
of the ancients.
But if, after one is dead, there is moth
but some pieces of stone, there Is but
little left Some of the finest monu-
ments are over people who amounted
u no hing while thew lived, while
some of the wCrtkiest men and vomC n
have not had above them stone big
enough to tell their name. Joshua,
the greatest warrior The world ever
saw, no monument Moses, the greatest
lawyer hat ever lived, no monuments;
aul the greatest preacher that ever
lived, no monument Christ, the ia
viour of the world and the rapture of
! heaven. no monument. A pyramid
over scoundrel y Cheops, but only
Single with a lead pencil epitaph
over many a good mans grave. Some
of the finest obituaries have been
printed about the worst rascals To-
day at Brussels there is pyramid of
flowers on the grave of Boulanger, the
notorious libertine. Yet it is natural
to want to be remembered
While there seems to be no practical
Use for post mortem consideration later
than the time of one great grand
children, yet no one wants to be for
gotten as soon as the obsequies are
over. This pyramid which Isaiah saws
10 sign and witness demonstrates
lnaJ nelLner limestone nor red granite
are competent to keep one Affect on
ately remembered; neither can bron e;
neither can Iarian marble. neither can
Aberdeen granite do the work. But
there is some hing out of which to
build an everlasting monument and
That will keep one freshly remembered
four thousand years, yea, for ever and
ever. 1t does not stand in marb
yards II is not TO be purchased at
mourning stores Yet IL is to he lound
in every neigh borhood plenty of it. in
exhaustible quantities OF it 1t Is the
grea est stuff in the universe to build
I monuments out of. i refer to the
memories of those TO whom we can do
kl dness, the memories of those
whose struggles we may alleviate, the
memories OF those whose souls we may
save. All around Cairo and Memphis
there are the remains of pyramids that
have gone down under the wearing
away of time, and this or, at Pyramil
of which Isaiah in the text speaks will
van sh IL the world lasts long enough;
and If the world does not last, then
with the earth's dissolution the Pyra.
mid will also dissolve. But the memo
rieS of those with whom uva aoeo.,o..