The Baptist headlight. (Topeka, Kan.) 1893-1894, 1893-12-01

90, YOUR WORK upoA ~ ~0.lx ~, :. /
sve,. that soul rises your work on u |
will rise. and so long as 1naV ooui VII
last your work on II Will Iast.
NJ S,o,, Snnnose there will ever come |
s,nb an ;diotic lapse in the history OF
tbo+ som i, Heaven that 1t snail Tor
n4 +bo+ vc. invited him to Christ: that
s.on nv nraver or gospel word turned
him r9nnd from the wrong way TO the
~ vravo No such insanity VIII ever
s+9;+e a heavenly citizen. 1t Is not
hoif a. we'll known on earth that
Hh,.;stonher Wren planned and built
g Pauf,s as it will be known in all
Heaven that you were the instrument
+oEtv Of building temple for the sky.
We teach a Sabbath class, or put a
CHRISTIAN tract in the hand of a passer-
nv or testify for Christ In prayer
meeting. or preach a sermon ana go
home discouraged. as though nothing
had been accomplished, when we
had been character building with ma
| terial that no frost or earthquake or
rollino of the centuries can damage on
bring down.
oh, this character building. 1on
and I are every moment busy IN that
| tremendous occupation. You are max
| mo me better or worse, ana | am max
! inc YOU better or worse. and we snail
through all eternity bear the mark OF
this benediction or blasting. Let
! others have the thrones of Heaven
chose who have more nightly wrought
fo, Cod and the tluth-but it will be
Heaven enough for you and me if ever
and anon we meet some radiant soul on
the boulevards of the great city who
shall say: "YOu helped me once. You
encouraged me when was In earthly
strnoole. | do not know that | would
have reached this shining place had it
not been for YOU" And we will laugh
with Heavenly glee and say: "Ha. ha.
DO YOU really remember that talk? Do
Won remember that warning? do you
remember that Christian invitation?
What memory you have. Why, that
must have been down there III Brook
lvn and New Orleans at least ten thou
sand million years ago" And the an
swer will be. Yes, it was as long as
that. but [ remember it as well as
though it were yesterday"
oh, this character building. The
structure lasting independent of
passing centuries, independent OF
crumbling mausoleums, independent
of the whole planetary system. Aye,
if the material universe, which seems
all bound together like one piece of
machinery, should some day meet with
an accident that should send worlds
crashing into each other like tele-
scOped railway trains, and all the
wheels of consultations and galaXles
should stop. and down into the chasm
of immensely all the suns and moons
and stars should tumble like the mid
night express at Ashtabula, that would
not touch us and would not hurt God,
for God is a spirit. and character and
memory are immortal and over that
grave of wrecked material universe
might truthfully be written. The
righteous shall be held in everlasting
rem brance.
O Time. we defy thee. O Death, We
stamp thee in the dust of thine owl
sepulchers! O Eternity, roll on till the
last star has stopped rotating, and the
last sun is eXtinguished on the sapphire
pathway. and the last moon has IL
lumined the last night, and as many
wears have passed as all the scribe'
that ever took pen could describe b,
) as many figures as they could write II
all the centuries of all time, but thor
shalt have no power TO etface from an,
; soul in glory the memory of anything
we have done to bring it TO God anC
heaven.
\ FrOwn Followed by "A Kiss.
There is another and more com
:. plete defeat for oblivion. and that is il
| the heart of God himself You have
; seen a sailor roll uD his sleeve an,
: show YOU his arm tattoOed with tn,
= figure of "a favoritc ship-perhaps tn
a first one in which he ever sailed. 1Ol
have seen soldier roll up his slecv,
: and show YOU his arm tattOOed will
: the picture OF fortress where he wa
; garrisoned, or the face of a great gen
u eral under whom he fought. You hay,
u seen many u hand tattOOed with tn
:" face Of loved one before or after mar
riage.
!. This tattoOing is almost a. old as til
y world. 1t is some colored liquid pune
, tured into the flesh so indelibly tina
" nothing can wash it out. 1t may hav
:, been there fifty years, bat when tn
= man goes into his coffin that punctur
= will 20 with him on hand or arm
: Now. God says that he mas tattoOed II
! upon his hands. There can be n
II other meaning in the forty-ninth char
u ter of Isaiah, where God says. "B,
= hold, | have craven thee on the palm
- of my hands"
1t was a. much ~ To say: II cannC
= open my hand to help. but | think {
- You. | cannot spread abroad my hand
~ 10 bless. but | think OF you. Whei
d" ever 20 up and down the heavens
take these two pictures Of YOU wit
= me. They are ~ inwrought into IN
" being that / cannot lose them. A
long a. my hands last the memory
YOU will last. Not ON the backs Of IN
=, hands. as though Ia announce YOU
- others. but on the palms OF my hand
-. for myself IN look III and study an
=. love. Not ON the palm Of one han
= alone. but on the palms Of both hand
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