Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-09
A SERMON ON SELFIS HNESS.
WRITTEN FOR THE prsPA rcH.l

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the great observatory. had it once in min
to erect beside the Pacific Ocean pyrami
OF marble, Digger 'hsh 1ne olReess one
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pounding that marpie pyr"niiu into SINAI
pisces OF unpictures4ue iIessone Le' u
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| Trait OF the Human Family.
| LICK wanted to be remembered. It is
a common, and not nm fgnoble, feeling. 1t
will really make no difference to us whether
| we are remembered or not. When the time
comes for friendship and acouaintance and
| reputation tn he translated into memory we
will be engaged in a tourney of discovery
whose interest will take our whole atten-
| tion- Even the most enternrfsine news.
papers have no subscribers in heaven.
Even the meanest newspapers, though we'll
| ntted 1or clrculat1on IN the metropols OF
| the deVli, nave no constituency IN neil. IL
| Is altogether likely that the devil reads the
papers, and is almost certainly engaged in
| editing some of them; yet, good or bad. 1t
| will not matter to the best or the worst OF
| us what kind OF an account Is given OF our
| funeral. We will never read 1t. Neverthe-
less we have desire to be remembered
1t would seem that in people Of good sense
this desire would be accompanied by wish
to be remembered for something worth re-
membering. Few men, probably, wish for
memory of maledictfon. But many seem
satisfied If only their names are handed
down. The historic places of the world have
been made the autograph albums of idiots
The monuments of Egypt are scrawled with
the initials of tourists the statues of great
Buddha are defaced by the pencils and jack
knives Of Brown and Jones and Robinson;
the coronation chair of England, under the
shadow of the shrine of Edward the Con-
fessor, is cut and marred by the names Of
empty-headed Puritans The fool, who as
pfres to immortalize his foolishness. has
even crept into the dark recesses of the
Mammoth Cave and have seen his name
there, with hundreds Of his brethren, writ
ten on stalactites and stalagnites.
Good and Bad Memoriols
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nitv or eIecration for the man who osnires
after that kind of memorial
I was somewhat taken aback, the other
day, at being informed that a man whom
had known slightly, who died recently, had
left provision in his will that there should
be tombstone set over his dead body at a
cost of $4,000. 1 can, of course, imagine
circumstances in which 1t would be we'll to
spend larger sum than that even for
tombstone. have never besrud9ed Maui
solus his marble horses and chariots. They
cost more than $4,000, but they have been
worth more than Sl5.OOO year to mankind
at large ever since They were permanent
investment. 1t is true that they have met
in some measure the fate which James
Lick feared might overtake his marble pyra-
mid; they have been bruised and battered.
They have to be pieced out by the imagin-
alton. But they were beautiful. They were
works of art. And art is worth while al
ways. L suppose that there were good
many poor people at Halicarnassus in the
year when Mausolus shut his eyes upon the
light OF the Greek sky. Artemes1a might
have invested her money in model tene-
ments or model conee houses: she might
have divided 1t up amongst her less favored
neighbors. 1 will not blame her, however,
for putting 1t into stone rather than into
bread. 1t has done more good.
Costly Tombstones Should Be Beautiful
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