Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-10-19

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yrsaE ssoas quarry II Iokxstsm or As
swaa. Tnea th<y began 70 tore as my
ssdes. saS shea a. arive down Exs<t irsa
weiges, cr9ssi,s asatnst me III the sAols
quarry aussea znd tAanlsrsa- Thea
Ma ggisa eas vita eFcshsFs AID levers.
scorss OF Iasz Pas,sRg shesr wssxat o. tie
leverage. Th<s chains were put around
ne aad l was hoisted with Wheels that
groansG Erder TIE weight. and n~ay
workrssn had their hands ca the czSnxs
and tarred antil the muscles en- their arms
stood cur IN ridges. sxd the sweat relied
from their dusky fosehsahs-
'.fhsn was drawn BY long teams OF oxen,
yoke after yoke. yoke after yoke. Then
was pat on al isclineS plane and hauled
upward ard how ma ~ iron tools. and how
mzay human arms, IND how many beasts
Of harden were employed 10 ger me 10 this
place 10 ore can teli. Then I had to be
measured and squared and compassed
and fitted in before / was left here TO 10
my silent work OF thousands Of years. God
only knows how many hands were busted
in getting TIE from my geological cradle in
the quarry 10 this snthronement Of innu-
nerable ages" Ny hearers. that is the
autobiography Of o1e block Of the pyramid.
S>Ont0
boss mason in he worlds twilight didn't
build the pyramid. One hundred thousand
men bails IL and perhaps from first to last
two hundred thousand men.
so with the pyramids now rising-pyra-
mi6s 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-
perabundenee Of water. All the saloonists
OF the ages adding their layers of ale casks
and wine pitchers and rum jugs until tho
pyramid overshadows the Great Sahara
desert OF dssolstad homes and broken
hearts snd destroyed eternities. And as
the pyramid still rises, layers Of human
skulls piled on top Of human skulls and
other mountains of human bones TO whi,en
the peaks reaching unto the heavens, hun
dreds Of thousands Of people are building
that pyramid.
So with the pyramid Of righteousness.
Mnltitudes Of hands are toil.ng on the
sleeps. hands infantile. hands octogenari-
an, mascuiipe hands, female hands. strong
hands. weak hands. Some Changing q
trowel. seme pulling a rope, some meas
urina 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 thousands coming down to
sleep their last sleep, but other hun
drsds Of thousands going mp to take
their places. and the pyramids will con-
tinue to risa until the uillennial morning
gilds the completed work, and the toiiefs
on these heights shall take of their aprons
and throw down their trowels, crying, ut
is fniskcdf'
BUILDING FOR ETERNITY.
Your business and mine is not to build q
pyramid but to be one Of the hundreds Of
thousands who shall ring trowel or pull
a rope or turn the crank Of derrick, or
CRY, "Yo. hsavcp' while lifting another
block to its elevation. Though it be SEEM
ingly q small work and a brief work, it 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 n special honor. Tho Ecume nical
council, now in session at Washington, its
delegates the honorsd representatives Of
nifty million Methodists in all parts Of the
earth, will at every session do honor to the
memory Of John Wesley, but wonder if
any OF them will tank to twist . garland
for the meuory Of humble Peter Boiler,
the Moravian. who brought John Wesley
into the kin gdom Of God.
Irejoice that all the thousands who have
been toilinR on the pyramid of righteous
ness will at last be recognized and re-
warded-the mother who brought her chill
drcn to Christ, the Sabbath teacher who
brought her class to the knowledge Of the
truth. the unpretending man who saved a
soul. Then the trovel will be more hon
ored than the sceptcr. As great battle
was going On the soldiers were order red 20
the front and sick man jumped out of M
ambulance in which lie was being carried
to the hospital. The surgeon asked him
what he meant by getting out OF the am
buiance when he was sick and almost
ready 70 die. The soldier answered.: "Doc-
tor. am going 10 the front. l had rather
die on the hsld than die in an ambulance. I"
Thank God; II we cannot do much we can
do little.
Further, carrying out the idea OF my
text, the pyramid Is u slgn and a witness
that big to:nbstones are not the best ray
OF kcc piag ones self affectionately remcnl-
bored. This pyramid aud the sixty nine
other pyramids still standing were built
for sepulohers, all this great pile OF granite
and limestone By which we stand today, to
cover the memory Of q dead king. II
was the great Westminster abbey of the
ancicnts. Soma say that Cheops was the
king who built this pyramid, but It Ia un-
certain. Who WAS Cheops anyhow All
that the world knows about him could TO
told Ia few sontencex. The only thing
certain IL tina: no was bad, and that he
shut up the temples of worship, and that
hc was hated 30 that the Egyptians were
rlad w ncn he vus den1
This pyramid Of rock seven hundred and
forty feet each side Of the square base and
forr hundred and ffty feet high wins for
him no respect. II bone OF ais arm or
foot hah bsen found In the sareophasus
beneath tho pyramid, IL would have sx-
cited no moro vensrxtion than the skSls-
ton Of camel bleachinG on the Libyau
dcseft; yea, less vcnerstlop. for when
saw the csrcass Of camel by the roadside
on ths way 10 Memphis, said to mysslf,
"Poor thihs, I wonder Of what IL died"
We say nothing against the marble or the
bysn n of Ire metropolis. Let oil that sculp-
turc and hor.sccnos and arbcrescsnes can
90 for che pineex OF the dead be done, II
mesns will allow IL. hut II AFTER QUE y
dead there u nothing left to remind the
world OF him hut soms pieces Of stone.
there n eut little left.
Some Of the rnsst monuments are over
people who amounted 10 nothing while
they llvad, while some Of che worthieht
men and women have not had above them
a ssons big enough TO cell their nssnc
Joshus, the greatest warrior the world ever
sag M rnonurnept. Moees the greatest