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

tnOuSaiiQS gong up TO Take lilelr DaceS,-
and the pyramids will continue to rise
until the milIennial morning. gilds the
completed work. and the toilers on
these heights shall take off their aprons
and throw down their trowels, crying,
ut is finished"
Your business and mine is not to
build pyramid, but to begone of the
hundreds of thousands who shall ring
a trowel or pull rope or turn the
crank Of a derrick or cry "Yo, heare!"
while lifting another block to its eleva..
ton. Though it be seemingly small
work and q brief work, it is a work
that shall last forever In the last. day
many man and woman whose work
has never been recognized on earth
will come to special honor. The
:. ecumenical council, now in session at
Washington, its delegates the llonored
representatives of fifty million Meth
Eodists in all parts of the earth, will at
every session do 9lionorst to the memory
of John Wesley, but / wond Ter if:any Of.
4 theln.will think to twist a garland for
!. the memory, of humble Peter Boiler,
the Moravian, who brought John Yves
ley into the kingdom of God.
Irejoice that all the thousands who
have been toiling on the pyramid of
righteousness will at last be recognized
and rewarded mother who brought
her children to Christ, the Sabbath
teacher who brought her class to the
! knowledge of the truth, the unpretend-
ing man who saved u soul. Then tile
trowel will be more honored than the
scepter. AS great battle was going
on. tile soldiers were ordered to the
front and a sick man jumped out of an
ambulance in which he was being car
ried to the hospital. The surgeon
asked him what lie meant by getting
out of the ambulance when he YVES sick
and almost ready to die. The soldier
answered: doctor, am going to the
front. had rather die on the field
than die in an ambulance" Thank
God, if we cannot do much we can do
a little.
UNDERGRADUATE FOR wEAT2
Further carrying out the idea of my
text, the pyramid is a sign and wit
ness that big tombstones are not the
best way of keeping ones self affection
ately remembered. This pyramid and
the sixty-nipc other pyramids still stand
ing were built for sepulchcrs, all tliis
great pile Of granite and limestone by
which we stand today, to cover the
memory of dead king 1t was the
great Westminster abbey of the III
clients. Some say that Cheops was the
king who built this pyramid, but it is
uncertain Who was Cheops, anyhow?
All that The world knows about him
could be told in few sentences. The
only thing certain is that he was bad
and that he shut up the temples of
worship and that lie was hated so tllat
the Egyptians were glad when he was
dead
This pyramid of rock, seven hundred
and forty feet each side of the square
base, and four hundred and fifty feet
high, wins for him no respect. If q
bone of his arm or foot had been found
in the sarcophagus beneath the pyra-
mid, it would have excited no more
vcneration than the skeleton of a camel
bleaching On the Libyan desert; yea,
less veneration. for when saw the car
cass or camel by the roadside on the
way to Memphis, said to myself,
Poor thing, wonder of what it died"
We say nothing against the marble or
the bronze of the metropolis. Let all
that sculpture and horescence and ar
borescence can do for the places Of the
dead be done, if means will allow it.
But if after one is dead therei is nothing
left to remind the world of him but
some pieces of stone, there is but little
left
Some of the finest monuments are
over people who amounted to nothing
while they lived, willie some of the
worthiest inen and women have not
had above them stone big enough to
tell their name Joshua, the greatest
warrior the world ever saw, no moEu
ment; Moses the greatest lawyer that
ever lived, no monument; Paul, the
greatest preacher that ever lived, no
monument; Christ. the Saviour of the
world and the rapture of heaven, no
monument. A pyramid over scoun-
drelly Cheops, but only single with
lead pencil epitaph over many
good mans grave. Some of the finest
obituaries have been printed about the
worst rascals. Today at Brussels there
is a pyramid of flowers on the grave
of Boulanger, the notorious libertine.
Yet it is natural towant to be relnem-
bered.
While there seems to be no practical
use for post mortem consideration. later
than the time of ones great-grandchil-
dren, yet no one wants to be forgotten
as soon as the obsequies are over. This
pyramid which Isaiah says is a sign
and a witness demonstrates that neither
limestone nor red granite is competent
to keep one affectionately remembered.
Neither can bronze, neither can Parian
marble, neither can Aberdeen granite
do the work But there is something
out of which to build an everlasting
monument, and that will keep one
freshly remembered four thousand years
yea, forever and ever. 1t does not
stand in marble yards. 1t is not to be
purchased at mourning stores. Yet it
is to be found in every neighborhood,
plenty of it, inexhaustible quantities of
it. 1t is the greatest stuff in the uni
verse to build monuments out Of. I
refer to the memories Of those to whom
we can do kindness, the memories Of
those whose struggles we may alleviate,
the memories of those whose souls we>
may save.
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