News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-10-22

a pyramid All the kind deeds or m5
levolent deeds we do are spread on
! into another layer All the Christia
or un-C Christian example we set is sprea
out in another layer. All the indirec
| influences of our lives are spread on
in another layer Then the time 500
comes when we put down the imple
ment of toll and pass away, but til
pyramid stands.
! The Twentieth century will not roc
| it down, nor the Thirtieth century, no
| the One Hundredth century. Th
earthquake that rocks this world t
pieces will not stop our influence 70
good or evil. You modestly say, '"Tha
is true in regard to the great worker
for good or evil, and of gigantic ger
fuses, Miltonian or Talleyrandian, bu
not of me, for | live and work on
small scale" My nearer, remembe
that those who built the pyramids wer
common workmen. Not one of then
could lift one of those great stones
1t took q dozen of them to lift on
stone, and others just welded a trowe
clicking it on the hard edge, or smooth
ing the mortar between the layers
One hundred thousand men toiled OF
those sublime elevations.
If one of those granite blocks that
just touch with my feet on this Decem
Der morning in 1889, as the two Arab
pull me and the two other Arabs pusl
me, could speak out and tell its history
it would say: 1.-The place of my natiy
ity was down in the great stone quar-
of Mokattam or Asswan. Then the
began to bore at my sides, and then t.
drive down great iron wedges, crushing
against me till the whole quarry quakeC
and Numbered. Then | was pried GU
with crowbars and levers, scores o
men putting their weight on the lever
age. Then chains were put arounC
me. and | was hoisted with wheels tina
groaned under the weight, and man.
workmen had their hands on tn
cranks and turned until the muscles OF
their arms stood out in ridges, and tn,
sweat rolled from their duslly fore
heads
''Then l was drawn by long teams o
oxen, yoke after yoke, yoke after yoke
Then | was put on an inclined plane
and hauled upward, and how many
iron tools, and how many human arms
and how many beasts of burden were
employed to get me to this place NJ
one can tell. Then | had to be meas
ured and squared and comprised and
fitted in before | was left here to dc
my silent work of thousands of years.
God only knows how many hands were
busted in getting me from my geological
cradle in the quarry to this enthrone-
ment of innumerable ages
AWFUL RESULTS OF LITTLE SINS.
My hearers, that is the autObiogra-
ply of one block of the pyramid.
Cheops didn't build the pyramid.
Some boss mason in the worlds twi-
light didn't build the pyramid. One
hundred thousand men built it, and
perhaps from first to last two hundred
thousand men. So with the pyramids
now rising, pyramids of evil or pyra-
mids of good The pyramid of drunk
enness rising ever since the time when
Noah got drunk on wine, although
there was at his time such a super
of water. All the saloonists
of the ages adding their layers of ale
casks and wine pitchers and rum jugs
until the pyramid overshadows the
great Sahara desert of desolated
homes and broken hearts and de-
stroyed eternities. And as the pyra-
mid still rises, layers of human skulls
piled on top of human skulls and other
of human bones to whiten
the peaks reaching unto the heavens,
hundreds of thousands of people are
building that pyramid.
So with the pyramid of righteous
ness Multitudes of hands are toiling
on the sleeps, hands infantile, hands
Octogenarian, masculine hands, female
hands, strong hands, weak hands
Some changing a trowel, some pulling a
rope, some measuring the sides. Lay
ers 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 hundreds of
thousands going up to take their places,
and the pyramids will continue to rise
until the millennial morning gilds the
work, 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 a pyramid, but to be one of the
hundreds of thousands who shall ring
a trowel or pull rope or turn the
crank of a derrick or cry ''Yo, heave!"
while lifting another block to its eleva-
ton. Though it be seemingly a small
work and a 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
council, now in session at
its delegates the hOnored
of fifty million Meth
Odists 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 think to twist garland for
the memory of humble Peter Boiler
the Moravian, who brought John Yves
ey into the kingdom of God
Irejoice that all the thousands who
nave been toiling on the pyramid of
righteousness will at last be recognized
and rewarded-the mother who brought
ler children to Christ, the Sabbath
eacher who brought her class to the
of the truth, the unpretend-
ng man who saved a soul. Then the
,rowel will be more honored than the
cepter. As great battle was going
IN, the soldiers were ordered to the
ront and sick man jumped out of an
in which he was being car
led to the hospital The surgeon
lsked him what he meant by getting
,ut of the ambulance when he was sick
md almost ready to die. The soldier
Doctor, l am going to the
ront. had rather die on the field
han die in an ambulance" Thank
5od, if we cannot do much we can do
/ little.
RENIEMBERED-AND FOR wHAT2
Further, carrying out the idea of my
ext, the pyramid is a sign and wit
less that big tombstones are not the
pest way of keeping ones self affection
Ltely remembered. This pyramid and
he sixty-nine other pyramids still stand
ng were built for sepulchers, all this
,reat pile of granite and limestone by
which we stand today, to cover the