Milford chronicle., 1893-11-17

PIE that had been born were still olir
we would have been elbowed bv our nj
u cestors Of 10 centuries ago, and people wi
y ought TO have said their last word 8O
l. years ago would snarl at us. saving. s.Wb,
are you doing here2" There would ba,
oeen no room TO turn around. Some of IN
g past generations of mankind were nc
worth remembering. The first useful thin
that many people did was to die tbair 80
ole misfortune and their grave a boon.
Ihis world was hardly a comfortabI
place to live in before the middle m tbs las
century So many things have come INF,
the world that were not fit to stav in ~
ought to be glad they were put out III,
waters Of Lethe, the fountain of forretfnI
ness, are a healthful draft The history
we nave otthe world in ages past is ALWAYS
one sided ana cannot Ice depended on. His.
tory is fiction illustrated by a few sfrag-
gilng facts. In all the Pantheon the weak.
est goddess IS Clio, the goddess Of history.
ana instead OF being represented by sculp-
tors as holding a scroll might better be rem
resented as limping on crutches.
Faithful history is thesavinQ Of n few
/ things out of more things lost. The i'm
| mortality that comes from pomp OF obse-
/ quies, or granite shaft, or building named
after its founder, or page Of recognition in
some encyclopedia is an immortality nm
worthy OF ones ambition, for it will cease
and IS no Immortality at ALL Oblivionl A
hundred years. But while / recognize this
universal submergenee Of things earthly
VINO wants to be forgotten? Not one of us.
HOW TO DE REMEMBERED CENTURIES.
ABSENT Tor few weeks or months from
nome II cneers us to know that we are re- /
l' ineiilDefeo there. 1t is phrase we have 4
az pronounced, Il hope you missed me. .
Meeting some friends from whom we have
been parted many years, we fp0l1ire "Did
you ever see me before?n and thev saw
Yes, and call us by name, and we feel q
delightful sensation thrilling through their
hand into our hand, and running m from
elbow to shoulder, and then parting. the
one current OF delight ascending to the
Drow and the other descending to the foot
moving round and round in concentrie cir I
'ies until every nerve and muscle and ca-
paclty Of body and mind and soul Is nern,o-
lted with delight.
"A lew days ago visiting the place of nv
loyhood, met one whom / had not seen t
lnce we played together ab 10 years Of ace {
M mad peculiar pleasure in puzzlinp him e
little as to who / was, and I can hardly n
escrlbe the sensation as after awhile he o
lumbied out; Let me see. Yes, Won are h
'e witt We all Ike to be remembered. /
now nave To- teIl oH al This oblivion q
[ whiCl 1 have spoken has ils dis af.ats. and p
lat Jhere is no li 2s 900 Hly ve should IA
OF be distinctly end yieidiy 3ad 4Iorouslv n
inehoefed uve hundred afli1n billion u
lllioh quadr--l9. .Iau years fron -1
'w Than that we shOu44 le uembered .
x x weeks am going TO tell you how the o1
ling can be done and will be done. LEI
w "a may huilT tT4.
ance, as my text styles it, into the sr- as
nal existence Of those to whom we ID as
ndnesses in this world. You must re-
smber that this indrm and treaeherous tu
'ulty which we now call memory is in the tu
lure state to be complete and perfect leu
'Yerlasting remembranceW Nothing viii sys
the stout grip Of that celestial faculty. WI
you help widow pay her rent? Did pie
4 ma Tor t1at man released from prison WI
lace to get honest work? Did Won nick era
a child fallen On the curbstOne. and bv n wa
* OF candy put in his hand stop the tlol
u on his scratched knee? Did Won as INT
business man, swamped by the strip- anC
ey OF the money market, that times the
I'D after awhile be betterP wol
nd you lead Magdalen of the street Coo
a midnight mission, where the Lord mel
to her; Neither do 1 condemn thee. ora
md sin no morew Did you tell man iuil
T discouraged in his waywardness and helc
eless and plotting suicide, that for him o
near by laver in which hemight wash. stan
a coronet Of eternal blessedness he chez
ht wear? star
lMPERIsHABLE RECORDS. Is eA
hat are epitaphs in graveyards. what and
sulogiums in presence of tbose whose hos nigh
tn Is in their nostrils, what are unread the
raphies in the alcoves of CITY library by a
pared with the imperisbable records all &
have made in the ilumined memories have
ose to whom you did such kindnesses2 glor,
et them? They cannot forget them. done
outstanding all their might and sDleu-
there are some things the glorifed of IN
en- cannot do and this is one of them teat
cannot forget an earthly kindness TOD
Ihey nave no eutlass to part that up nl
They have no strength to hurl into with
ion that benefaction the
5 Paul forgotten the inhabitants Of have
4, who extended the island bosDitaIitv show
he and Others With him had felt. add OF
a shipwreck, the drenching rain and the "a
larp coldY Has the victim of the high Tough
ian on the road to Jericho forgotten tooed
ood samaritan with medicament of alIer
d wine and free ride to the hostelrv; This
the English soldiers who went up to world
rom the Crimean battlefelds forgot into u
orence Nightingale2 wash
ough all eternity will the nortborr years,
,uthern soldiers forget tbe nortber tiler fin tha
outhern women who administered 70 or arm
7ing boys in blue and gray after the us upo
fights in Tennessee and PENNSYLVANIA meanA
irginia and Georgia, which turned Isaiah,
house and barn and shed into hos craven
and incarnadined the Susuuehanpa. 1t wa
e James, and the Chattahoochee. and my hal
with brave blood? The kind not spi
you do to Others will stand as long think
of others as the gates of the he
VIII stand, as the House of Many you wi
ms" will stand, as long as the throne my bel
will stand as my /
BUILD TEMPLES FOR THE SKY. last. \
her defeat Of oblivion will be found though
of those whom we rescue the pal
II save. Character is eternal SUP at aud
a right influence we aid in trans palm {
3 a bad man into good man, dol palms
ian into happy man, disheartened am lool
% courageous man-every stroke Of you, / n
ork done will be immortalized. tect yor
nay never be so much as one line in free to
paper regarding it, or no mortal indelibl
may ever whisper it into human winds /
wherever that soul shall 60 your the insc
)on 1t snail go, wherever that soul and tho
At Work on 10 VIII rise, and so long OF my I
soul viii last your work on it viii out the
hold / b
. suppose there will ever come such hands,
-c lapse in the history Of that soul
n that it shall forget that you in What
n to Christ; that you, by prayeror parable
ord, turned him round from the mightiei
ay to the right wayY No such in tenderes
III ever smite a heavenly citizen. the univ
half as well on earth known that lasting
her Wren planned and built St. heart Of
1t viii be known in all heaven IN the M
were the instrumentality Of build some pal
lple for the sky him crun
ch a Sabbath class. or mt n Chris. and tome
IN the hand of passerby, or tes- as mosaic
Christ in prayer meeting, or take all {
and 90 home discouraged. days and
Z nothing had been accomplished, hang thei
had been character building with Let hin
4 that no frost or earthquake or lakes an
the centuries can damage or brino into the f
him take