Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-11-16

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| DO YOU suppose there will ever come such
an idiotic lapse in the history of that soul
in heaven that it shall forget that you in
| vited him to Christi that you, by nra yer or
! gospel word, turned him round irdm the
wroug way to the right way? No such in
| sanity will ever smite n heaven citizen
| 1t is not half as well on earth lli.uwu that
| Christopher Wren planned and quilt St
paul's as it will he known in all heaven
! that you were the instrumentalt,'o of build.
| ing temple for the sky.
/ We teach Sabbath class, or put Chris
/ tan trace in the hand OF II passerDr, or tes-
| tify for Christ i'll y prayer meeting, or
| preach Il sermon, and go home dissDu AGED,
rs though nothing had been accom- lshed,
! when we had been character building with
u material that no frost or earthC Jake or
| rolling of the centuries can damage or bring
/ down.
There is no Sublmer art on ca'th than
| architecture. With pencil and rule and
| compass the architect sits down aloie ana
+ IN silence. and evolves from his own brain
/ cathedral, or Il national capitol, or u mas
/ tive home before he leaves that bic, and
/ then he goes ont and uurollS his I,9lS, and
ralls carpenters and masons and artisans of
all sorts to execute his design, ami when it
d
| trlrc and sees the completion of he work
/ with high satisfaction, and on Il stone at
some corner Of the building he atrhitect's
naIle may he chi.clcd. l}ut the storlls do
their work. and time. tHap takes Gown CIV
. erNthiug, viii yet tHke dow II that structure
/ until there shall moi bo one stone 1T NpQn
/ another
THE EVERLASTING NOW.
I Eat there is u soul in heaven. Through
your instrumentality it was put there. Tn
der Gods grace you are the architect OF its
eternal happiness. Your name Is written,
not ON one corner of its nature, bat in
wrought into its every fiber and energy.
/ Will the storms OF winter wash out the
story of what You have wrought upon that
spiritual structure? No. There are no
storms in that land, and there is no winter.
/ VIII time wear ont the inscription which
shows Your fidelity? no, Time IS past,
anti it is an everlasting now. Built into
the foundation of that inperslable struc-
turc built into its pillars, built into its
capstonc, is your uamc-cith"r the name
you have on earth or the name Ivy which
celestials shall call you.
/ know the Bible says in one place that
God is a jealous God, but that refers to he
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 penciled, or a toy ship your child
hewed out or rccite the noble deed your
child accomplished! And God never was
jealous Of n Joshua, never was jealous of
"A Paul, never was jealous Of "A Frances
IIIerGal, never was Jealous of n man
or woman who tried TO heal wounds and
wipe away tears and lift burdens and
save souls; and while all is of grace and
your self abnegating uttcrancc will be,
Not unto us, not unto us, but unto thy
name, O Lord, give glOryl' you shall al
ways feel heavenly sat isfaCtion in every
: good thing you did ON earth. and if icono-
/ claSm, borne from beneath. should break
through the gates of heaven and eflace one
record of your earthly fidelity methinks
Christ would take one of the nails of his
own cross and write somewhere on the crys-
tai or the amethyst, or the iacinth, or the
chrysoprasus your name and just under it
the inscription of my text, "Ihc righteous
shall be held in everlasting remembrance"
Oh, this character building! You and
are every moment busy in that tremendous
occupation. You are making me better or
worse, and | am making you bet.er or
worse, and we shall through all eternity
bear tie mark of this benediction or blast
ing
MOMENT OF JOY.
Let others have the thrones of heaven
those who have more nightly wrought for
God and the trulh-but it will be heaven
enough for you and me if ever and anon we
meet some radiant soul on the boulcvarda
of the great city who shall say: You
helped me once. You encouraged me when
| was in earthly struggle. ! do not know
that | would have reached this shining
Il =
laugh with heavenly glee and say; "IIa!
ha. Do you really remember that talk?
DO you remember that warning? 10 you
remember that Christian invitation? What
a memory you have! Why. that mus. have
been down there in Brooklyn or New Or
leans at least ten thousand million years
ago. And the answer will be, Yes, it was
as long as that, but | remember it as well
as though it were yesterday"
Oh, this character building The struc
ture lasting independent of passing cen
turtles, Independent of crumGlng niauso-
leums, independent Of the whole planetary
system. Aye, it the material universe
which seems AL bound togcthe. iil,a one
piece oi machinery. should some Gay meet
with an accident that should SEM worlds
crashing into each other like telescoped rail
way trains, and all the wheels of constella-
tons and galaXes should stop and down
into one chasm of immensely all the suns
and moons and stars should tumb,e like
the midnight express at AShtablla, that
would not touch us and would not hurt
God, for God is Il spirit, and character and
memory are immortal, and over that grave
OF a wrecked material universe might truth
fully be written, Tine righteous shall be
held in everlasting remembrance"
Q, Time, we defy thee! ., Death, we
stamp thee il the dust of thine own sepul-
cheers! O, Eternity, roll on till the last
star has stopped rotating, AMI the last sun
is eXtinguished on the sapphire pathway,
and the last moon has illumined the last
night, and as many years have passed as all
the scrbes that ever took pen could describe
by as many figures as they could write in
oil the centuries of all time but thou shalt
have no power to eilace from any soul in
glory the memory of anything we have
done TO bring it to God and heaven!
TATroOED on GODS HANDS.