The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-10-23


have been toiling on the pyramid OF
righteousness viii at last be recognized
and revvsrded-the mother who brought
her children TO Christ. the Sabbath
school teacher who brought her class
to the knowledge of the truth the un-
pretending man who saved soul.
Then the trovyeI will be more EOnOrsd
than the scepter.
Further, carrying ont the idea Of my
text, the pyramid is sign and q wit
ness that big ombstones are not the
best way of keeping ones self affection
ateIy remem bered. This pyramid and
the sixty-nine other pyramids still
standing were built for sePu1chres, AL
this great pile of granite and limestone
by which we stand to-day, to cover the
memory of a dead king. Il was the
great Westminster Abbey of the an
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 a few sentences The
ONLY thing certain is that he was bad
and that he shut up the temples of
worship and that he was hated 50 that
the Egyptians were glad when he was
dead
We say nothing against the marble
or the bronze of the metropolis Let
all that sculpture and horesCsace and
aEDOECEEGGG5 can 10 4OE eAA@ BAsGIfl u
the dead be done, il means Will allow
it But If. after one Is dead, there IS
nothing left to remind the world of
him but some pieces OF stone, there is
but little left. Some of the finest mon
unents are over people who amounted
to nothing while they lived while some
of the worthiest men and women have
not had above them a stone big enough
to tell their name. Joshua, the great
est warrior the world ever saw, no
monument; Moses, the greatest lawyer
that ever lived, no monuments 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 scOundrel-
| ly CheOps, but only a single with a
| lead pencil epitaph over many q good
mans grave. Some Of the finest Obitu-
| aries have been printed about the worst
| rascals. To-day at Brussels there Is q
| pyramid of flowers on the grave of
BOulsnger, the notorious HOertine- Yet
| it is natural to want to be remem bered.
| While there seems to be no practical
use for post norton consideration later
| than the time of ones great-grandchil-
drsn, yet no one wants to be forgotten
| as soon as the obsequies are over. This
! pyramid which Isaiah says is sign
! and q witness demonstrates that neither
| limestone nor red granite are com
petent TO keep one affectionatelY
| remembered; neither can brOnzei
neither can Parian marble; nei-
Their can Aberdeen granite do the
work. But there is something out of
which to build an everlasting monu-
ment and that will keep one freshly
remembered four thousand years. 1t
does not stand in marble yards 1t is
not to be purchased at mourning
| stores Yet it is to be found in every
I v,Tav1fvT of ~ 81 /
BILE quantities of it, 1t is the greatest
| stuff in the universe to build mOnu-
ments out of. refer to the memories
! of those to whom we can do a kind
ness, the memories of those whose
struggles we may alleviate, the memo
ries 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 great pyramid Of which
| Isaiah in the text speaks will vanish
| if the world lasts long enough; and il
| the world does not last, then with the
| earth's dissolution the pyramid will
, also dissolve. But the memories Oh
, those with whom we associate are indie
structible. They will be more viviG
the other side of the grave than thil
side.
; viii any OF the 479 women and chill
dren imprisoned at Lucknow, India
t waiting for massacre by the SepOys
} forget Havelock and Outram, and Sil
( David Beard, who broke in and effected
their rescue? To some of you who have
loved and served the Lord, Heaven vii
. be great picture gallery of remem
: brance. Hosts OF the glOrifed vii
2 never forget you. All, that is a way o
t building monuments that shall never
. | feel the touch of decay. I do not ash
S you to suppress this natural desire to b,
- T-vrE
4 only want you to put your material
S into a shape that shall never weaker
or fade.
As in Egypt that December after
t / noon, 1889, exhausted in body, mine
- and soul, we mounted to return t
, / Cairo, we took our last look of the pyra
E mid at Gizeh. And you know there
r something in the air toward evening
e that seems productive of solemn ant
e tender emotion, and that great pyra
E | mid seemed to be humanized and witt
s lips of stone it seemed TO speak and or.
] out: Hear me. man, mortal and i'm
] | mortal! My voice is the voice OF God
? | He designed me. Isaiah said woul
= be q sign and n witness I saw Nose
t | when he was a lad I witnessed tn
= long procession of the IsraeIites as the,
= started to cross the Red Sea an
j PharaOh's host in pursuit of them
: THE falcons and the eagles of man,
! centuries have brushed my brow.
8 stood here when Cleopetra's barg
= landed with her sorceries and Hypati
9 for her virtues was slain in yonde
streets Alexander the Great, SesOs
q iris and PtOiemy admired my proper
d tiOns. Herodotus and Pliny sOunde
= my praise. I am old, am very old
!. | For thousands OF years have vvatche
- the coming and going of generations
o They larry only a little while, but the
= make an everlasting impression I bes
t on my side the mark of the trovvel an
K chisel of those who more than 4. 90
e years ago expired Beware what 70
Il do, o mani For what you do viii las
2 long after you are deadl If you woul
e be affectiOnately remem bered ate
d you are gone, trust not to any sarthl
J. cCnmemmoration-
e II have not one word to say abou
It any astronomer who studied the heal
d ems from my heights or any king VIII
Il was sepufchred in my bosom. ! At
slowly passing away. I am a dyin
,. pyramid, I shall yet lie down in tn