Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-11-30
7,n,l,IuN AND IT'S DEFEATS
A comforting Sermon by Rev /
Dewitt Talmage, D. y.
HOW the Terrible Monster Oblivion eA
pefeated- The Good We Do o.he
This world win Cause Us
be Held In Everlasting
Remembrance.

In the i1TOOhl II
Rev. DIR. Talmage preached the io
inc sermon from the texts;
.ua shall he no more remembered 80
WV ~ ..The righteous shall be IN esei'-'7
,rc r. pnemhr.inee Psalms exii' b
oblivion and its Defeats is my SUP
ieet to-day. There is an OLD lnon''e
Thar swallows down everything ~
or,nches individuals, families. coIhinn-
nit;es states. nations, continents heini-
s,bares worlds. Its diet is MADE up
Of wears. of centuries of ages, OF cycies'
81 milleuniums, of eons. That mon,
s,er is called by Noah Webster ana al
the other dictionarians, OBLIVION
a steep down which everything roi'a'
II Is a confiagration in which every
thing is consumed. II is a dlrge IA
which all orchestras play, and perio'
Mt which everything stops. IL Is inc
cemetery of the human race. IL y pne
domain ~ forgetfulness. ooilvlohi az
times il throws shadow over all OF US.
and / would not pronounce it to-day Il
| did not come armed in the strehgt"
of the eternal God on your oehaii 70
attack il. TO rout il, TO demollsh IT,
why. Just look at the way the fami-
lies of the earth disappear. For Whiie
they are together, inseparable ana q
Zach other Indispensable. and then
thew part. some by marriage going 70
establish other homes, and some leaN
this life, and century is long enough
10 plant a family, develop IT, prosper
it and obliteratc it. So the genera
lions vanish. Walk up Broadway
New York: State street, Boston,
Chestnut street, Philadelphia; the
Strand. London. Princess street
Edinburg; Champs Elysees, Paris; IN
ter den Linden, Berlin, and you WIN
meet in this year eighteen hundred
and ninety-three not one person VINO
walked there in the year seventeen
hundred and ninety-three. what en-
gulfmenti All the ordinary Efforts AT
perpetuation are dead failures. Waiter
SCOTS ''old Mortality" may go round
with his chisel to recruit the faded ePi-
taphs on tombstones, but Old oblivion
has quicker chisel. with which h
can cut out a thousand epitapAs While
"Old Mortality is cutting in one cpl
taph. Whole libraries of biograp..es
devoured of cook worms. or unread OF
the rising generations. All the signs
of the stores and warehouses of great
firms have changed. unless the grand
sons think that il is an advantage TO
keep the old sign up, because the n 2
of the ancestor was more commenda-
tory than the name of the descendant
The city OF Rome, Italy, stands ,--.-ly,
but dig down deep enough. and Won
come to another Rome, buried, ana go
down still further. and you will find =
third Rome. Jerusalem stanls ,o-daN.
hut dig down deep enough, and YOU
win find a Jerusalem undern eath. ana
go on and deeper down. third Je.usa.
lem. Alexandria. Egypt, on the top OF
an Alexandria. and the second on the
top of the third. Many of the ancleD.
cities are buried thirty feet deo~. or
fisty feet deep. or one hnad~ed fes,
deep. What was the matter? Any
special calamity NJ. The W..
I'd wares and sand, aai flying
st are all undertakes and
grave. ggc..., ..-... i -Ae -. .s,-.-...a
long enough. The present .;rookiyn ara
New YORK and london vii have on
ton OF ihe-- II - n ard Now
vcr,-s. CO -a'.-a t. = :
yinr anl boring AMI blasting viii IT,
arclaolocist II far distant centuries
come down as fa~ IS The h..she.t sp.rcs
End dom 5, an t-.-f-.z D. 49, Pc -.
...nor.oaa en- ,..ro-7 ci...s CA..
the roll o, III. aslnies of Baldwin the
First. or % Char 5 Mar,eil. o. of Mari
borough. orcf Mithridates. or of Prince
Frederick, or of Cor;ez and not one an
swer will Won hcaw. Stand them in line
and cali the roll OF the ons million men
in the army of Thebes. Not one an
swer. Stand them in line the one NIL
lion seven hundred thousand infantry,
and the two hundred Thousand cavalry
of the Assyrian army under Minus. ana
call the roll. Not one answer. Stand
in line the one million men of Sesostris.
the one million two hundred thousand
men of Artaxerxes at Cunaxa. the two
million six hundred and fortv-one thou
sand men under Nerxes at Thermo
pyle. aud call the long roll Not one
answer. At the opening of our civil
war. the men of the Northern ana
Southern armies were told that IL they
fell in battle. their names would never
be forgotten by their country Out Of
the million men who fell in battle or
died ia military hospitals, YOU canno;
cal the names of thousand, nor the
names of five hundred, nor the names
of one hundred. nor the names of fifty
Oblivion. Are the feet of the dancers
at the ball of the Duchess of Richmond
at Brussels the night before Waterloo
all still? All still. Are all the ears
that heard the guns of Bunker Hin ali
deaf? All deaf. Are the eyes that saw
the coronation of George Ill. all closed.
All closed. Oblivion, A hundred years
from now, there will not be being on
this earth that knew we ever lived.
In some old family record descend
ant studying up the ances trial line may
spell out our name, and from the near.
ly faded ink. with great effort, find