The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1893-11-30

child accomplished And God never vas
Jealous of a Joshua. never was jealous OF II
Paul. never was Jealous of Frances Haver-
Gal never was Jealous of a man or woman
who tried to heal wounds and wipe away
tears and lift burdens and save sous
and while all is Of grace and your SCI
abnegating utteraDce will be, NOT unto
u.s. not unto us. but unto my mime
O Lord. give cloryi'' you shall always
feel n heavenly satisfaction in every
good thing you did on earth, and II lcoho-
clasm. borne from beneath. should breaK
through the gates Of heaven and elface one
record of your earthly fidelity, metnlnIIKs
Christ would take one OF the nalls OF Ills
own cross and write somewhere on the crys
raj, or the AMETHYST. or the iacnth. or the
ehrvsoprasus, your name and Just under
fine Inscription OF my text "The righteous
shall be held in everlasting remembrance.
Oh, this character building You ana
are every moment busy in that tremendous
occupation, You are making me better or
worse. and I am making you better or worse.
and we shall through all eternity bear the
mark of this benediction or blasting.
Let others have the thrones of heaven
those who have more nightly wrought ior
God aud the trlth-but it will be heaven
enouoh for Won and me If ever and anon we
meet some radiant soul on the boulevards OF
the great CITY who shall say You helpe1
me once. You encouraged me when was
in earthly struggle. did not know that
would have reached this shining place had It
not been for you" And we will laugh with
heavenly elee and say: "Ha ha! Do you
really remember that talk? Do you remem-
her that warning? DO you remember thR
Christian invitation? What memory you
hayei Why, that must have been down there
in Brooklyn or New Orleans at least ten
thousand million years ago" And the an
swer will be. eyes, it was az long as that
Il
Yesterday"
oh, this character building The structure
lasting independent Of passing centuries, IN
dependent of crumbling mausoleums, indie
pendent 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 telescoped railway trains. and all the
wheels OF consultations and gaaxtes should
stop and down into one chasm OF immensely
all the suns and moons and stars should
tpspble like the midnight express ut Ashta-
49,. ,=sss5 would not touch us and would not
hurt God. FOR God is a spirit, and character
and memory are immortal, and over that
sraSg vi 81 wrecked material universe might
Faithfully be written, 1.-The righteous shall
be held in everlasting remembrance
o, Time we defy thee o, Death, we
stamp thee in the dust OF thine own sepul-
chers O. Eternity. roll on till the last star
has stopped rotating. and the last sun IS eX-
tinguished on the sapphire pathway. and
the last moon has illumined the last night,
and rs many years have passed as All the
scribes that ever took pen could describe by
IA 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 de-
feat for oblivion. and that is in the heart OF
God himself. You have seen sailor roll up
his sleeve and show you his arm tattooed
with the figure of q favorite 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 fortress which he was garrlsoned, ort
the face of a great general under whom hei
fought You have seen many hand tat !
tooed with the face of loved one before or
after marriage.
This tattooingi is almost as old as the world.
1t is some colored liquid punctured into the
flesh 50 indeibly that nothing can wash it
out. It may have been there fifty years, but
when the man goes into his coffin that pic
ture 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 char ter Of Isaiah, where God
says. "Behold have craven thee on the
palms of my hands !"
1t was a. lnucf, Us 10 say Ctilliob oPSh
Nv hand to help, but 1 thinl; of you. | can
not spread aoroad My hands TO bless, but l
think OF you Wherever | go up and down
the heavens I take these two pictures OF YOU
with Ne They are so inwrought into My
being that l cannot lose them. AS long as
My hands last the memory OF you Will last.
Not on the back of Ny hands, rs though to
announce you to others, hut 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 ndtmnk-
ing of you, | must have the other hand Tree
to protect YOU free to strike back your
enemy, freeto lit if you fall. Palms of NY
hands indelibly tattooed And though |
hold the Winds in Ny first no cyclone shall
uproot the inscription Of your name and
| your face. and though | hold the ocean In
the hollow of My hand its bilioWinS shall not
wash cut the record of My remembrance.
| 'Bahold have craven thee on the palms OF
Ny hands y"
| What Joy, what honor can there be com
! parable to that of being remembered by the
mightiest and kindest and loveliest and ten
derest ana most aifectiOnate being IN the
universe? Think Of it, to hold an everlasting
! place in tho heart OF God. The heart OF God
| The most beautiful palace in the universe.
! Let the archangel build some palace as
grand as that il he can. Let him crumble up
all the stars Of yesternlght and tomorrow
night and put them together as mosaics 1or
such palace floor. Let him take ali the sun
rises and sunsets of all the days and the
auroras of all the nights and hang them as
upholstery at its windows.
! LET him take all the rivers, ana All the
lakes. and all the oceans, and toss them into
the fountains of this palace court. Let him
take all the gold OF all the hills and hang it in
its chandeliers, and all the pearls OF all the
seas. and all the diamonds of all the fields,
and with them arch the doorways of that
palace. and then invite into it all the glories
that Esther ever saw at q Persian banquet, or
Daniel ever walked among III Babylonan
castles. or Joseph ever witnessed in Pharaoh's
tbroneroom. and then yourself enter this
castle OF archangelic construction, and see
howpoor a palace it is compared with the
greater palace that some Of you have already
found in the heart OF loving and pardoning
God. and into which all the music, and all
the PRAYERS. and all the sermonic considera-
tions of tins day are trying to introduce you
through the blood OF the slain lamb
oh. where is oblivion now? From the
lnrb. md ovarshadOyvino word that il seemed