Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1893-11-25

De iOrgottenf NOT one OF US.
Absent for few weeks or months from
home, II cheers Us to know that we are re
membered there. 1t is phrase We have al
pronounced, 81 hope you missed me-" Meet
ing some friends from whom We have beer
parted many years. We inquire, "Did yoI
ever see me bsforeY' and they say. .'Yes.
aud call Us by name. and we feel q delight.
IN, sensation thrilling through their hand
into our hand, and running up from elbow
to shoulder, and then parting the one cur.
rent OF delight ascending to the brow and
the other descending to the foot, moving
round and round In oonoentrio circles until
every nerve and muscle and capacity otbody
and mind and soul Is permeated with do
liSbA
A -Ow days ago, visiting the place OF my
boyhood, l met one whom had not seen
since we played together at ten years OF age,
and had peculiar pleasure In puzzling him
a little az to who l was, and can hardly de-
scribe the sensation as after awhile he mum
bled out LET me see. Yes, you are De
Witt" We all like to be remembered.
Now, have to tell you that this oblivion
OF which have spoken has It's defeats, and
that there is no more reason why we should
not be distinctly and wildly aBd gloriousy
remembered five hundred million billion
trilllon quadrillion qutntillion years from
now than that We should be remembered six
Weth5. hn gong 10 tell you now tn6tning
can be done and will be done.
We may build this Everlasting remem-
brance," as my text styles 1t, into the super
nal existence OF those to whom we do krd-
masses in this world You must remember
that this inarm and treaoherous faculty
which we now call memory Is In the future
state to be complete and perfect. ever
lasting remembrance Nothing will slip
the stout grip Of that celestial faculty. Did
you help "a widow pay her rent2 Did you
| find for that man released from prison a
place to get honest work. Did you pick up
n child fallen on the curbstone, and by a
stick OF candy put In his hand stop the hurt
on his scratched knee? Did you assure
business man, swamped by the stringency OF
the money market, that times would after
| awhile be- better
Did you lead Magialen OF the street into
n midnight mission where the Lord said to
her Neither do | condemn thee go and sin
no moreY Did you tell q man, clear dis
couraged in his waywardness and hopeless
and plotting suicide, that for him was near
| by a LAYER in which he might wash, and a
coronet OF eternal blessedness he might
Hear2
What ara epitaphs In graveyards. what are
euloSiuns in presence otthose whose breath
Is in their nOstrlls, what are unread bioSra-
phins in tho alcoves Of city library. COM
| ltItl Win lue llupcTlSulDle RECORDS you
have made in the illumined memories OF
those to whom you did such klnduesses2
Forget them? They cannot forget them.
Notwithstanding all their might and splen-
dor, there are some things the glorlfed OF
heaven cannot do. and this is one OF them.
They cannot forget an earthly kindness
done. They haye no cutlass to part that
cable. They have no strength to hurl into
oblivion that benefaction.
TIau nj tab uhi go -
Malta. who extended the island hospitality
when he and others with him had felt added
to n shipwreck. the drenching rain and the
sharp cold? Has the victim OF the highway
man on the road to Jericho forgotten the
Good Samaritan with a medicament OF oil
and wine and a FREQ ride to the hostelry2
Have the English soldiers who went up to
God from tho Crimean battleields forgotten
Florence Nightingale?
Through all eternity will the Northern and
Southern soldiers forget the Northern and
Southern women who administered to the
dying boys in blue and gray after the awful
fights in Tennessee and Pennsylvania and
Virginia AMI Georgia, which turned every
house and barn and shed into hospital and
incarnadined the Susquehanna, and the
James, and the Ohattshoochee, and the Ga
vannan with brave blood2 The kindnesses
you do to others will stand as long In the APP
probation OF others as the gates OF heaven
will stand, as the blouse OF Many Mansions"
will stand, as long as the throne OF God will
stand
Another defeat OF oblivion will be found
In tho character OF those whom We rescue,
upliit or save Character is eternal. Sup
pose by right influence we Aid in trans
forming bad man into good man, a dol
orous man into happy mau, dishesrtenei
man into courageous man--every stroke oil
that work done will be immoralized. There
may never be 80 much as ono line in u news
paper regarding It, or no mortal tongue may
ever whisper IL into human car, but wlere-
ever that soul shall go your work upon 1t
shall 90, wherever that soul rises your work
upon it shall rise, aud 50 long as that soul
will last your work on 1t will last.
Do you suppose there will ever como such
an idotio lapse IN the history OF that soul In
heaven that 1t shall forget that you invited
him 10 Christ that you, by prayer or gospel
word, turned him roun1 from the wrong way
to the right way2 No such insanity will ever
smite heavenly citizen. II Is not hall as
well on earth known that Christopher Wren
planned and built st. Pauls as it will be
known in all heaven that you were the H.
! strumentality OF building temple for the
sky.
, We teach Sabbath GLASS, or put a Chris
tian tract In the hand OF passerDy, or tes-
: tify for Christ In a prayer meeting, or preaoh
sermon, and go homo discouraged, as
though nothing had been accomplished, when
r we had been character building with ma
terial that no frost or earthquake or rolling
OF the centuries can damage or bring down.
There Is no sublimer art in the world than
architecture. With pencil and rule and com
pass the architect sits down alone and In 81
lence, and evolves from his own brain a ca
} thedral or a National capitol, or a massive
} home before he leaves that table, and then he
goes out and unrolls his plans, and calls car.
pen,ers and masons and artisans OF oil sorts
, to execute his design, an whenit Is finished
| he walks around the vast structure and seet
the completion OF tho WORK with high salts
faction, and on a stone at some corner OF tht
, building tho architect name may be chtseled
But the storms do their WORK, and time, thai
, takes down everything, will yet take dowr
that structure until there shall not be on,
) stone left upon another
!, But there is soul In heaven. Through
,, your fundamentally 1t was put there. Un
dor Gods grace you arc the architect OF III
: eternal happiness. Your name Is written, no
on one corner OF its nature, but inwrough
into its every fiber and energy. Will tn,
storms OF winter wash out the story OF wha
, you have wrought upon that spiritual struc
ture2 No. There are no storms in that land
! and there is no winter. VIII time wear on
! ! No. Time is past, and 1t Is an everlasting
now. Built into the foun latfon OF that imper
ishable structure, built into its pillars, bull
into Its capstone, is your name-elther tn
name you have on Garth or the name b.
! which celestials shall call you.
| know the Bible says in one place tina
! God is a jealous Col, but that refers to thu
work OF those who worship some other god
true father is not jealous OF his child
With what glee you show tho picture you
child pencilei, or toy ship your chill
hewed ont or recte the monte deed YOU
child accomplished And Col never wa
Jealous Of a Joshua, never was jealous OF
Paul, never was jealous OF Frances Haver
gal, never was Jealous of man or woman
who tried to heal wounds and wipe ava,
tears and LIT burdens and save souls