Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-11-13

Christopher Wren planned and built st.
Pau's az 1t will be known in all heaven
that you were the fundamentally Of build
Ing temple for the sky.
We teach Sabbath class, or put Chris
tian tract In the hand Of II passerby, or tes-
tify for Christ in a prayer meeting, or
preach a sermon, and go home discouraged,
as though nothing had been accomplished,
when we had been character building with
material that no frost or earthquake or
rolling Of the centuries can damage or bring
down.
There Is no suhlimer art on earth than
architecture. With pencil and rule and
compass the architect sits down alone and
IN silence, and evolves from his own brain
n cathedral or Il national capitol, or mus
slvo home before be leaves that table, and
then he goes out and uHrolls his plans, and
onlls carpenters and masons and artisans OF
all sorts 70 execute bis design, and when IL
Is finished he walks around the vast struc.
ture and sees the completion Of the work
with high satisfaction. and on stone ut
some corner Of the building the architects
name may be ohisuled. MT the storms do
their work, and time, that takes down ev-
erythlng, will yet take down that structure
until there shall not be one stone left upon
another.
THE EVERLASTING now
But there Ia soul in heaven Through
your fundamentally IL was put there. I'm
der Gods grace you are the architect OF its
eternal happiness. Your name Is written,
not on che cornor OF it's nature, but in
wrought into its every fiber and energy
Win the storms of winter wash. out the
story OF what you have wrought upon that
spiritual struoturcs No. There are no
storms In that land, and there Is no winter
VIII time wear out the Inscription which
shows your lldelityf No. Time is past,
aud 1t Ia nm everlasting now. Built into
the foundation OF that imperishnblo struc-
ture. built into Its pillars, built into it's
capstone, Is your nHme-elther the name
you have on earth or the name by which
celestials shall call you.
know the Bible says IN one place TINT
God is u jealous God, but that refers to the
work of those who worship some other
god. A true father Is not jealous OF his
child. With what glee you show the picture
your child peuciled, or II toy ship your child
hewed out, or r0cite the noble deed your
child accomplished And God never was
jealous OF Joshua, never was jealous Of
Paul, never was jealous OF a Frances
Havergal, never WAS Jealous OF man
or woman who tried to heal wounds and
wipe away tears and lift burdens and
save souls, and while all Is OF grncc, and
your self abnegating uttornnce will be,
mot unto rs, not unto uR, but unto thy
name, o Lord give glory" you shall al
waya feel a heavenly satisfaction in every
good thing You did on earth, and Il icono-
elasm, borne from beneath, should break
through the gates Of heaven and eiFace one
record OF your earthly fidelity, mcthinks
Christ would take one OF the nails OF his
own cross and write somewhere on the crys-
tai, or the amethyst. or the jacinth, or tho
chrysoprasus, your name and Just under it
the inscription OF my text. "rhe righteous
shall be held in everlasting remembrance"
Oh this character bullding You and |
Gre every moment busy In that tremendous
occupation. You are making me better or
worse, and l am making you better or
worse, and we shall through all eternity
bear the mark of this benediction or blast.
ing
AMoAtENr OF JOY,
Let others have the thrones OF heaven
those who have more nightly wrought for
God and the truth-but It will be heavca
enough fory and me II ever and anon we
meet some radiant soul on the bonlevards
OF the great city who shall say; "You
helped me once You encouraged me when
was In earthly atruggle, ;, do not know
that | would have reached this shining
place had IL not been for you And we will
laugh with heavenly CLEO and say; "Hai
hal Do you really remember that talk
Do You remember that warningf Do you
remember that Christian invitation What
memory you havel Why, that must have
been down there In Brooklyn or New Or
leans at least ten thousand million years
ago" And the Rnswer will be, "Yes, It was
as long as that, hut remember it as well
~ though IL were yesterday
oh, this character buildingl The struc.
ture lasting independent OF passing cen.
turtles, independent Of crumbling mauso-
leums, independent OF the whole planetary
system. Aye, II the material universe.
which seems all bound together like ono
piece OF machinery, should some day meet
with an accident that should send worlds
crashing into each other like teiescoped rail-
way trains, and all the wheels Of constella.
lions and galaxies should stop, aud down
into one chasm OF immensely all the suns
and moons and stars should tumble like
the midnight eSpresa at Ashtabnla, that
would not touch us and would not hurt
God, foT God Is a spirit, and character and
memory arr immortal, and over that grave
Ola wrecked material universe might truth.
iully be written, "The righteous shall be
held In everlasting remembrance
o, Time, we defy thoel o, Death, We
stamp thee In the dust Of thine own sepul-
ohersl o. Eternity, roll on till the last
star has stopped rotating, and the last sun
is eStinguished on the sapphire pathway,
and the last moon has illumlned the last
night, and as many years have passed as all
The seribes that ever took pen could describe
by as many figures as they could write 10
All the centuries OF all time, but thou shall
have no power TO efface from any soni 10
glory the memory Of anything we have
done to bring Il 70 God and hoaveni
rArTooED OK cons HANDS.
There Is another and more complete de
teat Tor oblivion, and that Is in the heart OF
Sod himself You have socn a sailor roll
up his sleeve and show you his arm tattooed
With The ngure Of a faxerite ship- perhaps