Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-10-29

stone nor red granite are competent
/ 10 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 mon
ument and that will keep one freshly re.
membered four thousand years-yea, for
ever and ever. 1t does not stand In mar
/ Bile yards. IL is not 20 be purchased at
mourning stores. Yet it is 10 be found in
every neighbOrhoOd, plenty OF it, mex
/ haustible quantities Of it. It Is the great
[ est stuff in the universe TO build monu-
ments out Of / 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.
| All around Cairo and Memphis there ara
the remains of pyramids that have gone
down under the wearing away Of time, and
this great pyramid Of which Isaiah in the
text speaks will vanish if the world lasts
/ long enough; and if the world does not
last, then with the earth's dissolution the
| pyramid will also dissolve. But the mem
| ories of those with whom we associate are
indestructible. They will be more vivid
the other side of the grave than this side.
1t is possible for me to do you good and
for you to do me a good that will be vivid
in memory as many years after the world
is burned up as all the sands of the sea
shore, and all the leaves of the forest and
all the grass blades of the field, and all tho
stars of heaven added together, and that
aggregate multiplied by all the figures
that all the bookkeepers of all time ever
wrote.
| That desire to be remembered after we
are gone is a divinely implanted desire
and not to be crushed out, but, implore
you, seek something better than the i'm
naturalization of rock or bronze or book.
Put yourself into the eternity Of those
whom you help for both worlds, this and
the next. Comfort a hundred souls and
there will be through all the cycles of eter-
| nifty at least a 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 againp' Will
it be possible for that one so invited to for
get the inviter?
A minister passing along the street every
day looked up and smiled to baby in the
window. The father and mother won
dered who it was that thus pleasantly
greeted their child. They found out that
he was the pastor of a church. They said,
1--WE must go and hear him preach" They
went and heard him and both were con-
verified to God. Will there be any power
in fifty million years to erase from the
souls of those parents the memory of that
man who by his friendliness brought them
to God? Matthew Cranswick, an evangel-
ist, said that he had the names of two hun
dred souls saved through his singing the
hymn, "Arise, my soul, ariseW Will any
of those two hundred souls in all eternity
forget Matthew Cranswick? Will any of
the four hundred and seventy-nine women
and children imprisoned at Lucknow, In
dia, waiting for massacre by the Sepoys,
forget Havelock and Outram and Sir David
Beard, who broke in and effected their res
cue?
To some Of you who have loved and
served the Lord heaven will be a great
picture gallery of remembrance. Hosts of
the gloritied will never forget you. All,
that is the way of building monuments
that shall never feel the touch of decay, |
do not ask you to suppress this natural de-
sire of being remembered after you are
gone, but l only want you to put your me-
MORALS into a shape that shall never weak
en- or fade. During the course of my min
istry | have been intimately associated
in Christian work with hundreds of good
men and women.
| My memory is hung with their portraits,
more accurate and vivid than anything
that Rembrandt ever put on canvas: Faith
er Grice, De Witt c. Moore, Father Voor-
hees, e. 2. Hopkins, William Stephens,
John Van Rensselaer,, Gasherie De Witt,
Dr. Ward and hundreds of others, all of
them gone out of this life, but hold the
memory of them and will hold them for.
ever. 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 mem
ory is for monument building!
THE ETERNAL PURPOSE.
As in Egypt that December afternoon.
| 1885, exhausted in body, mind and soul,
we mounted to return to Cairo, we took
our last look of the pyramid at Gizeh
And you know there is something in the
air toward evening that seems productive
of solemn and tender emotion and that
great pyramid seemed to be humanized
and with lips of stone it seemed to speak
and CRY out:
''Hear me, man, mortal and immortal!
My voice is the voice of God. He designed
me. Isaiah said [ would be a sign and a
witness. saw Moses when he was lad.
witnessed the long procession of the Is
raelites as they started to cross the Red
phnrnnh)G 10 in Nf + tl,n,
The falcons and the eagles of many CEN
turies 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, ,Seostris and Ptolemy admired my
proportions. Herodotus and PHny sound
ed nay praise. l am old, am very old
For thousands of years | have watched
the coming and going of generations
They tarry only a little while, but they
make everlasting impression. / bear
on my side the mark of the trowel and
chisel of those who more than four
thousand years ago expired. Beware what
you do, oh, man! for what you do will last
long after you are deadI If you would be
afectionately remembered after you are
gone, trust not to any earthly commemora-
tion. l have not one word to say about
any astronomer who studied the heavens
from my heights, or any king who was sep
ulchered in my bosom. am slowly pass
ing away. am dying pyramid. shall
yet lie down in the dust of the plain, and
the sands of the desert shall cover me, or
when the earth goes will CO. But you
are immortal. The feet with which you
climbed my sides today will turn to dust,
but you have a soul that will outlast me
and all my brotherhood of pyramids Live
for eternity! Live for God! With the
shadows of the evening now falling from
my side, | pronounce upon you benedic-
tion. Take it with you across the Medi-
terranean Take it with yon acrnss the At.