The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-10-19

after yoke. Then was put on au inclined
plane aud hauled upward and how many
iron tools, and how many human arms aud
how many beasts OF burden were employed
to get NE to this place no one can tell,
Then had to be measured, and squared,
and comprised and fitted in before l was
left here 70 do 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 10 TINS en-
| thronement Of iLnumeraole ages" my
! hearers that is the autobiography OF one
block of the pyramid. Che0ps didn't build
! the pyramid. Some boss mason in the
worlds twilight didn't build the pyramid.
! One hundred Thousand men built 1t aGd
perhaps from first to last two hundI ed thou
sand men. So with the pyramids now ris-
ing, pyramids 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
superabundance Of water. All the saloon
lists Of the ages adding their layers of ale
casks Gld wine pitchers and rum
jugs until the pyramid overshadows
the Great Sahara desert of DESC
lated homes, and broken hearts, and
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 whiten the peaks reaching
unto the heavens, humid eds of thou
sands OF people are building that
pyramid. So with the pyramid
Of Righteousness. Multitudes of handsrare
toillng the sleeps, hands i1fantlle, hands
octogenarian, masculine hands, female
hands, strong hands, weak hands. Some
Changing trowel, some pulling a rope,
some measuring the sides. Layers of psalm
books on top Of layers of sermons. LAYERS
Of prayers on top of holy sacrifice. And
hundreds of thousands coming down TO
sleep their last sleep, but other hundreds o:
thousands going up to take tbeir places, aud
TIE pyramids will continue to rise until the
mnlennlal morning gilds the completed
work, and the toilers on these nights shall
take off their aprons aud throw down their
trowels, crying "It is finished
Your business aud mine is not TO build
a pyramid but to be one Of the hundreds of
thousands who shall ring trowel. or pull
a rope or turn the crank Of a derrick, or
cry "Yo heave!" while lifting another
block to its elevation. Though it be SEEM
ingly small work and brief work, it is a
WORK that shall last forever. In the last
day many a man aud woman whose work
has never been recognized on earth will
come to special honor. The ecumenical
council, now in session at Washington, its
delegates the honored representatives of
fifty million Metnodis.s in ali parts of the
earth, will at every session do honor to the
memory OF John Wesley, but I wonder if
any of them will think to twist q garland
for the memory of humble Peter Boiler,
the Moravian, who brought John
Wesley into the kingdom Of God. I
rejoice that all the thousands who have been
toiling on the pyramid Of Righteousness will
at last be recognized aud rewarded-the
mother who brought her children to Christ,
the Sabbath teacher who brought her class
TO the KNOWLEDGE of the truth, the unpre-
tending man who saved a soul. Then the
trowel will be more honored than the
scepter. AS a great battle was going on the
soldiers were ordered to the trout, and a
rich man jumped out of an ambulance in
which he was being carried to the hospital.
The surgeon asked him what he meant by
getting out of the ambulance when he was
sick and almost eady to die The soldier
answered: doctor, am going to the front.
| had rather die on the field than die in an
ambulance Thank God, if ne cannot do
much we can do a little.
Further, carrying out the IDEA of my
text, the pyramid is a sign and a witness
that big tombsrones are not the best way of
keeping ones self affectionatelY remem-
| bered. This pyramid and the sixty-nine
other pyramids still standing were built for
sepulchers. all this great pile Of granite and
| limestone by which we stand to-day, to
| cover the memory of dead king. IL was
the great Westminster Abbey Of the
| ancients Some say that Cheops was the
King who built this pyramid. but it is I'M
| certain. Who was Cheops. anyhow2 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 snut
! up the temples of worship and
that he was hated 30 that the Egyptians
were glad when he was dead This pyramid
of rock seven hundred and forty feet each
side OF the square base and four hundred
| nd b. III, g.
IL bone OF his arm or foot had been found
in the sarcophagus beneath the pyramid it
| would have excited no more veneration
than the skeleton of camel bleaching on
the Libyan desert; yea, less veleratiop, for
| when l saw the carcass OF camel by the
roadside on the way to Memphis, I said to
myself: Poor thing, | wonder of what it
| died." We say nothing against the marble
| or the brOnE3 of the Metropolis. Let all
that sculpture and 1orescence and arbor-
escence can do for the places of the dead
| be done, If means will allow it. But il 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
monuments are over people who amounted
to nothing while they lived, while some of
| the worthiest men and women have not mad
above them stone big enough to tell their
name. Joshua, the greatest warrior the
world ever saw, no monument; Moses, the
| greatest lawyer that ever lived, no monu-
ment; Paul, the greatest preacher that ever
lived, no monument; Christ, the savior of
| the world and the rapture of heaven, no
| monument A pyramid over Scoundrelly
| Cheops, but only a Single with a lead pencil
epitaph over many good mans grave
| Some of the finest obituaries have been
printed about the worst rascals. To-day at
| Brussels there is a pyramid of flowers on
| the grave of Boulanger, the notorious
libertine. Yet it is natural to want to be
| remembered
While there seems to be no practical use
| for post norton consideration later than
the time OF ones great~grandchildren, yet
no one wants to be forgotten as soon as the
obSequies are over. This pyramid, which
Isaiah says Is a sign and witness, demon
strates that neither limestone nor red granite
are competent to keep one affectionately
remembered; neither can bronze; neither
can Parian marble; neither can Aberdeen
| granite do the work. But there is some~
thing out of which to build au everlasting
monument and that will keep one freshly
remembered four thousand years; yea, for
ever and ever. 1t does not stand in marble
! yards. 1t is not to be purchased ct mourn
| ing stores. Yet it is to be- found in every
neighborhood, plenty Of it, inexhaustible
! quantities of 1t. It is the greatest
stuff in the universe TO build
monuments out OF. Irefer to the memories
of those to VIII 1m we can do kindness, the
memories of those whose struggles we may
alleviate, the memories of those whose souls