Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-12-21
The Tabernacle PulD.t.

! The Tabernacle Pulpit.
| Rov. DR.. Tai image last Sunday
preached a sermon OF unusual and mar
vclous cOnsOlat.on to the usual throngs
after they had sung:
There is no sorrow that Heaven cannot cure.
The subject was "Oblivion and Its
Defeats" The texts selected were Job
xiv, 20, He shall be no more remem.
| bsEsdi- and Psalms cxii, &, THE
righteous shall be in everlasting re-
memDrance. -. lA--..sS
! oblivion and Its Defeats is my sub
| ject today. There is an old monster
that swallows down everything. Il
crunches individuals, families. commu-
mites, states. nations. continents, hem
lspheres, worlds. It's diet is made up of
years, OF centuries, Of cycles, Of mil
leniums, of cons. That monster is
called by Noah Webster and all the
other dictionarians oblivion 1t is a
steep down which everything rolls. 1t
Is confiagration in which everything
is consumed. 1t is a dirge in which ali
orchestras play and period at which
everything stops. 1t is the cemetery
OF forgetfulness. Oblivion! At times
1t throws shadow over all of us, and
| would not pronounce it to-day if
did not come armed in the strength of
the eternal God "a your behalf to at
tack it. to rout it, to demolish it.
| Obllvion's Work.
| Why, just look at the way the fami-
lies of the earth disappear. For
awhile they are together. inseparabe
and to each other Indispensable, and
then they part. Some by marriage,
going. to establish other homes, AMI
some leave this life, and century is
| n nj fn, L.,
it, prosper it and obliterate it. So the
| generations vanish.
Walk up Broadway, New York; State.
street, Boston; Chestnut street, Phila.
delphia; the Strand, London; Princess
street, Edinburgh; Champs Elysees,
Paris: Inter den Linden, Berlin, and
| you will meet in this year 1893 not one
person who walked there in the year
1893. What engulfment. All the ordi-
failures. Walter Scott's "Old Nor
tality" may go round with his chisel
to recut the faded epitaphs on tomb
stones, but Old Oblivion has quicker
chisel with which he can cut out a
thousand epitaphs while "Old Mortal
ity" is cutting in one epitaph. Whole
libraries of biographies devoured of
bookworms or unread of the rising gen.
| eratiOns.
| AL INC Signs vi inc stores ana ware
houses of great firms have changed.
unless the grandsons think that it is
an advantage to keep the old sign up
because the name of the ancestor was
more commendatory than the name of
the. descendant. The city of Rome
stands to-day, but dig down deep
enough and you come to another Rome,
buried, and go down still farther and
| you will find third Rome.
| Jerusalem stands to-day, but dig
down deep enough and you will find
Jerusalem underneath, and go on and
deeper down third Jerusalem. Alex
andria on the top of an Alexandria, and
the second on the top of the third
Many OF the ancient cities are buried
30 feet deep, or so feet deep, or 100
feet deep What was the matter?
| Any special calamity? No. The winds
and waves and sands and flying dust
are all sndertakers and grave-diggers,
and ii the world stands long enough
the present Brooklyn and New York
and London will have on top OF them
other Brooklyns and New Yorks and
LOEdons, and only after digging and
boring and blasting will the archieolo-
gist OF far distant centuries como down
as far az the highest spires and dOmes
| and turfets OF our present American
and European cities.
Call the roll of the armies of Bald
win l. or OfCharles Martel, or of Marl-
borough, or of Mithridates, or of
Prince Frederick, or of Cortez, and not
one answer will you hear. Stand them
in line and call the roll of the 1000, 600
men in the army of Thebes. Not one
answer Stand them in line, the /, 1OO,-
600 infantry and the 100000 cavalry of
the Assyrian army under Minus, and
cali the roll. Not one answer. Stand
in line the 100000 men of Sesostris,
the 100000 men of Artaxerxes at
Cunaxa, the 2,64l,O00 men under
| Xerxes o.. Thermopyla, and call the
long roll. Not one answer.
| At the opening of our Civil War the
men OK the Northern and Southern
armies were told that if they fell in
battle their names would never be for
| gotten by their country. Out of the
million men who fell in battle or died
in military hospitals you cannot call
| the names of 1000, nor the names of
| 500 nor the names of 100, nor the
names of SO. Oblivion. Are the feet
| of the dancers who were at the ball of
the Duchess at Richmc nd at Brussels
| the night before Waterloo all still?
| All still. Are all the ears that he's d
the guns of Bunker Hill all deaf? All
deaf. Are the eyes that saw the coro-
nation of George III. all closed. All
| closed. Oblivion! A hundred years
| from now there will not be being on
this earth that knew we ever lived.
Welcome to His Meal 81
In some old family record descend
ant studying up the ancestral line may
| spell out her name. and from the nearly
| faded ink, with great effort, find that
some person of our name was born
somewhere between 1910 and 1890, but
they will know no more about us than
| we know about the color of a child's
| eyas born last night in village in
Patagonia. Tell me something about
your great-grandfather. What were
his features? What did he do? What
| yoar was he born? What year did he
die? And YOUR great-grandmother
VIII you describe the style OF the hat
| tlat she wore and how did she and