Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-19

sides, and tnea 20 urve down great rs.
wedges, crushing against me till the whole
quarry quaked ana thundered. Then |
was piled out vii. crowbars and levers,
+ scores Of men pu, ing their weight on TIE
leverage. Then Chains were put around
me and ! Was E0isted with wheels that
groaned under the weight, and many
/ workmen bad their hands on the crauks
/ and turned until the muscles on their arms
| stood out in ridges, and the sweat rolled
/ from their dusky foreheads.
/ "Then was drawn by long teams ofoxen,
/ 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 no one can tell. Then / had to be
measured and squared and compassed
and fitted in before | was left here TO 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 TO this enforcement of innu-
merabe ages" Ny hearers, that is the
autobiography of one block of the pyramid
Cheops didn't build the pyramid. Some
boss mason in the worlds twilight 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-pyra-
mids 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 SUI
perabundance 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 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 Written
the peaks reaching unto the heavens, hun
drcds of thousands of people are building
that pyramid.
So with the pyramid of righteousness.
Multtudes of hands are toiling on the
sleeps, hands infantle, hands octogeuari-
an, masculine hands, female hands strong
hands, weak hands. Some Changing "A
trowel, some pulling a rope, some meas
uring the sides Layers of psalm books on
top of layers of sermons. Layers of prayers
on top of layers of holy sacrifice And
sleep their last sleep, but other hun
dreds of thousands going up to take
their places, and the pyramids will con
tinue to rise until the millennial morning
gids the completed work, and the toilers
on these heights shall take off their aprons
and throw down their trowels, crying, at
is finishedW
BUILDING FOR ETERNITY.
Your business and mine is not to build
pyramid but to be one of the hundreds of
thousands who shall ring trowel or pun
a rope or turn the crank of derrick, or
cry, "Yo, heaye" while lifting another
block to its elevation. Though it be seem,
iugly small work and brief work, it is
a work that shall last forever. In the last
day many Il man and woman whose work
has never been recognized on earth will
come to a special honor The Ecumtncal
council, now in session at Washington its
delegates the honored Representatives Of
fifty million Methodists in all parts of the
earth, will at every session dOhonor to the
memory of John Wesley, but l wonder if
any of them will think to twist a garland
for the memory of humble Peter Boiler,
the Morayian, who brought John Wesley
into the kingdom of God.
rejoice that all the thousands who have
been toiling on the pyramid Of righteous
ness will at last be recognized and re.
wurded-the mother who brought her chill
dren to Christ, the Sabbath teacher who
brought her class to the knowledge of the
truth, the unpretending man who saved a
soul Then the trowe will be more hon.
ored than the scepter. AS great battle
was going on the soldiers were ordered to
b1 giul- ,,F,,
ambulance in which he was being carried
to the hospital The surgeon asked him
what he meant by getting out of the am
bulance when he was sick aud almost
ready to die. The soldier answered doc
tor, ! am going to the front. had rather
die on the field than die in an ambulance" |
Thank God; if we cannot do much we can |
do n little
Further, carrying out the idea of my |!
text, the pyramid is a sign and a witness |
that big tombstones are not the best way |
of keeping ones self a1Iectionately remem
bered. This pyramid and the sXty-nine |
other pyramids still standing were built |
for sepulchers, all this great pile of granite |
and limestone by which we stand today, to |
cover the memory of dead king. 1t |
was the great Westminster abbey of the |
ancients Some say that Cheops was the |
king who built this pyramid, but it is un-
certain. 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 so 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 and fifty feet high wins for |
him no respect. If a bone Of his arm or |
foot had been found in the sarcOphagus |
beneath the pyramid it would have eX.
cited no more veneration tEau the sllele- |
ton of camel bleaching on the Libyau |
desert; yea, less ycneTatOn, for when | |
saw the carcass of a camel by the roadside |
on the way TO Memphis, | said to myself, |
Poor thing | wonder of what it died" |
We say nothing against the marble or the |
bronze of the metropolis Let all that seulp. |
ture and tlOTescevCe and arbOrescence can |
40 Tor the places of the dead be done, II |
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 monuments are over |
people who amounted to nothing while .
they lived, while some Of the worthiest |
mel and women have not had 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 monument; Paul, |
the greatest preacher that ever lived, no .
monument; Christ, the Saviour Of the .
world and the rapture of heaven, no monu- |
mrut. A pyramid over scoundreily Cheops, |