The Iola register., 1891-10-30

limestone by which we stand to-day. to
cover the memory of Q dead king. IL
was the great w estminster Abbey Of
the ancrients. Some cay that Cheops
was the king who built this pyramid,
but it Is uncertain. Who was Choops,
anyhow? Ali that the world knows
about him could be told in a few SEN
tences. The only thing certain is that
he was bad and that he shut up the
hated SO that the Egyptians were glad
when he was dead. This pyramid OF
rock, 740 feet each side of the square
base and 450 feet high, wins for him no
respect. If bone os his arm or foot
had been found in the sarcophagus be-
meath the pyramid, it would have ex-
cited no more veneration than a skele-
ton Of q camel bleaching on the Libyan
desert: yea, less veneration, for whdn |
saw the carcass of camel by the road
side on the way to Memphis, said to
myself: 'Poor thing, l wonder of what
it died"
Will any of the 479 women and chill
dren imprisoned at Lucknow, India,
waiting for massacre by the Sepoys, for
get Havelock and Outram, and Sir Da-
vid Beard, who broke in and effected
their rescue? To some Of you who have
loved and served the Lord, heaven will
be great picture gallery Of remem-
brance. Hosts of the glorified will new
er forget you. Alb, that is a way OF
building monuments that shall never
feel the touch of decay. l do not ask you
to suppress this natural desire Of being
remembered after YOU are gone, but
only want you to put your materials in
to a shape that shall never weaken or
fade. During the course of my minis
try 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 Rem
Father Grice, Dewitt c. Moore,
Father Voorhees,, E. P. Hopkins,
William Stevens, John Van Rensselaer,,
Gasherie Dewitt, DIR. Ward, and hun
dreds of others, all of them gone out OF
this life, but hold the memory OF them
and will hold them forever. They can
not escape from me. 1 will remember
them just as thep looked on earth, and
] will remember many OF you after the
earth has been an extinct planet for
ages infinite. o, what stuff the MEM
Org Is for monument building!
AS in Egypt that December after.
noon. 1889, exhausted in body, mind
and soul, we mounted to return to
Cairo, we took our last look OF the pyr-
amid at Gizeh. And you know there is
something in the air toward evening
that seems productive Of solemn and
tender emotion, and that great pyra-
mid seemed to be humanized and with
lips of stone it seemed to speak and cry
out: Hear me, man, mortal and i'm
mortal! MY voice is the voice OF God.
He designed me. Issiah said I would
be O sign and witness, / saw Moses
| when he was lad. / witnessed the
long procession OF the Israelites as they
started to cross the Red sea and Phar-
aoh's host in pursit Of them,
The falcons and the eagles of many
centuries have brushed my brow.
stood here when Cleopatra's barge
| landed with her sorceries and Hypatia
for he virtues was slain In yonder
streets. Alexander the Great, Sesos-
iris and Ptolemy admired my proper
tions. Herodotus and Pliny sounded
my praise. I am old, II am very old.
For thousands of years have watched
the coming and going OF generations.
They tarry only little while, but they
make an everlasting impression. !
bear on my side the mark OF the trowel
and chisel of those who more than
| A h a
you do, o man! For what you do will
| last long after you are deadl IL you
would be affectionately remembered af-
ter you are gone, trust not to any earth.
| ly commemoration.
81 have not one word to saw about any
astronomer who studied the heavens
from my heights or any king who was
sepulchred in my bosom. / am slowly
passing away. am dying pyramid,
! shall yet lye down in the dust OF the
plains and the sands OF the desert shall
cover me, or when the earth goes ]
will 90. But you are immortal. The
feet with which you climb my sides to-
day will turn to dust, but you have q
soul that will outlast me and all my
brotherhood pyramids. Live for eter-
nifty. Live for God! With the shsd.
ows of the evening now falling from my
sides, l pronounce upon you a beue-
diction. Take it with you across
the Mediterranean. God only is great
Let all the earth keep silence before
Him. Amen"
And then the lips of the granite
| hushed, and the great giant Of masonry
wrapped himself again in the silence Of
ages, and as rode away in the gather
ing twilight, this course of sermons
| was projected