Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-11-30

encouraged me when / was in earthly
struggle. do not know that | would
nave reached this shining place had it
not been for you,' and we win laugh
with heavenly glee, and say, 'Ha. ha.
Do you really remember that talk? DO
You remember that warming? DO You
remember that Christian invitation
What memory you have. Why, that
must have been down there IN Brook
iyn or New Orleans at least ten million
years ago" And the answer will be-
Yes, it was as long as that, but re-
member as well as though it were yes
terday." o, this character building
The structure lasting independent of
passing centuries independent of crnm-
Ding mansions, independent of the
whole planetary system. Aye, II the
material universe, which seems all
bound together like one piece of ma
chinery, 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 galaxies
should stop, and down into one chasm
OF immensely all the suns, and moons
and stars should tumble like the mid
night express at Ashtabula, that would
not tonch 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
remembrance. 0, Time, we defy
thee o, Death. we stamp thee in the
dust of thine own sepulchers! o, Eter-
ternity, roll on till the last star has
stopped rotating and the last sun is
extinguished on the sapphire path
way, and the last moon has illumi-
mated the last night, and as many
years have passed as all the scribes
that ever took pen could describe by
rs many figures as they could write in
all the centuries of all time, but thou
shalt have no power to efface from any
soul in glory the memory of anything
we have done TO bring it to God and
Heaven.
There is another and more complete
defeat for Oblivion, and that is in the
heart of God himself. You have seen
a sailor roll up his sleeve and show his
arm tattooed with the figure Of fa-
vorite ship perhaps the first one in
which he ever sailed. You have seen a
soldier roll up his sleeve and show you
his arm tattooed with the figure of a
fortress where he was garrisoned, or
the face of great general under whom
he fought You have seen many a
hand tattooed with the face of a loved |
one before or after marriage. This tat
tooing is almost as old as the world. II
is some colored liquid punctured into
the flesh so indelibly that nothing can
wash it out 1t may have been there
fifty years, but when the man goes into
his coffin that picture will go with him
on hand or arm. Now, God says that
he has tattooed us upon His hands.
There can be no other meaning in the
forty-ninth chapter of Isaiah, where
God says: Behold, have craven thee
on the palms of my hands" 1t was
as much as to say: II cannot open
my hand to help but think of
you. cannot spread abroad my hand
to bless, but think of you. Wherever
/ go up and down the heavens l take
these two pictures of you with me.
They are so inwrought into my being
that / cannot lose them. As long as
my hands last, the memory of you will
last. Not on the back of my hands, as
though to announce you to Others, but
on the palms of my hands for myself
to look at and study and love. Not on
the palm of one hand alone, but on the
palms of both hands, for while | am
looking upon one hand and thinking
of you, | mnst have the other hand free
to protect you, free to strike back your
enemy, free to lift if you fall. Palms
of my hands indelibly tattooed. And
though hold the winds in my fist, no
cyclone shall uproot the inscription of
vour name and your face, and though
| hold the ocean in the hollow of my
hand. its billowing shall not wash out
the record of my remembrance Be
hold have craven thee on the palms
of my hands," What joy, what honor
can there be comparable to that OF
being remembered by the mightiest !;
and kindest and loveliest and tenderest
and most affectionate being in the
universe. Think of it, to hold an ever
lasting place in the heart of God The
heart of Godl The most beautiful pal J
ace in the universe. Let the archangel
build some palace as grand as that il
he can. Let him crumble up all the |
stars of yesternight and tomorrow
night, and put them together as mosaics
for such palace floor. Let him take
All the sunrises and sunsets of all the I
laws. and the auroras of all the nights.
and hang them up as upholstery at
is windows. Let him take all the
-ivers aud all the lakes and all :
he oceans and toss them into the
fountains of this palace court Let
,im take all the gold of all the hills
md hang it in its chandeliers. and
Ill the pearls of all the seas. and
Ill the diamonds Of all the fields and :,
With them arch the doorways Of that ,