Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-11-13
OBLIVION DEFEATED.
DR. TALMlGgS SERMON ONE OF UNUSUAL
INTEREST.
B, Follows Q Vivid Portrayal Of Oblivion with
tao Statement: "The Righsops Shall Be in
Everlasting Remembrance"

BRooELYN, November 70, 1s93.-Rey.
DR., Talmage to-day preached a sermon
Of unusual and marvellous consolation
20 the usual throngs, after they bad
sung;
There Is no sorrow that heaven cannot cure.
The subject was Oblivion and its De-
feats. The texts selected were job 24:-
90; "He shall be no more remem bered;n
and Psalms 1926; The righteous shall
be in everlasting remembrance"
Oblivion and it's Defeats, is my sub
iect to-day. There Is an old monster
that swallows down everything. II
crunches individuals, families, cOpmu-
mites, States, nations, continents,
hemispheres, worlds. It's diet is made
up OF years, OF centuries, OF ages, OF
cycles, Of millenniums, of gens. That
monster is called by Noah Webster ana
all the other dictiOnariOus, Oblivion. It
is q steep down which everything rolls.
It is q cOnaagratiOn 10 which every
thing is consumed. Ii is q dirge Ia
which SIT orchestras play, and period
at which everything stops. IL is the
cemeter Of the human race. It is the
domain of forgetfulnesS. Oblivion. AT
times 10 throws q shadow over all OF us,
and / would not pronounce it to-day, il
did not come armed Ia the strength of
the Eternal God on your behalf to at
tack IL, TO rOut it,
TO DEMOLISH IT.
Why. Just look az the way the fam
illes of the earth disappear. For
while they are together, inSeparable,
and % each other Indispensable, and
shen they part, Some by marriage 60
ing 20 establish other homes, and some
leave this life, and a century is long
enough % plant a family, develop Il,
prosper it and Obliterate 10. So the
generations vanish. Walk up Broad
way, New York; State street, Boston;
Chestnut street, Philadelphia; the
Strand London; Princess street, Edin-
burgh; Champs Eiysees, Paris; Inter
den Linden, Berlin, and you will meet
IN this year 1893 not one person who
walked there in the year 1898.
What engulfment! All the ordi-
nary effort at perpetuation are
dead failures. Walter ScOtt'S sold
Mortality" may 60 round with his chiSel
70 recut the faded eptaphS on tomb
stones, but Old Oblivion has quicker
chisel with which he can cut out a
thousand epitaphs while "Old Mortal
ity" is cutting in one epitaph Whole
Libraries OF biographies devoured of
bOokWorms or unread OF the rising gen
erations. All the signs of the stores
and warehouses Of great firms have
changed, unless the grandsOnS think
that 10 is an advantage 20 keep the
old sign up because the name OF the
ancestor was more cOmmendatory than
the name Of the descendant
THE CITY or ROME,
Italy, stands to-day, but dig down deep
enough, and you come 20 another Rome
buried, and 20 down still further, and
you will ind a third Rome. Jerusalem
stands to-day, but dig down deep
enough, aud you will find a Jerusalem
underneath, aud go on and deeper
down. third Jerusalem. Alexandria,
&c. ssa5I1SS ftOp Of an Alexandria,
and The second on the top OF the third.
Many o. the ancient stiles are buried
thirty feet deep, or fifty feet deep, or
one hundred feet deep. What was the
matter? Any special calamity? No.
The winds and waves and sands and
flying dust are all undertakers and
grave.diggerS, and II the world stands
long enough, the present Brooklyn and
New York aud London, will have
on top of them other
Brooklyns and New YOrks and LOndOns,
and only after digging and boring aud
blasting will the archGOlOgiSt Of far
distant centuries come down as far as
the highest spires and dOmes and tur-
rets OF our present American and Eu-
ropean cities. Call the roll OF the
armies Of Baldwin the First, or OF
Charles Martel, or of Marlborough, or
OF Mithridates, or OF Prince Frederick,
or of COrtez, aud not one answer will
Won hear. stand them iu line and cal
the roll of the one million men In the
army OF ThebeS. Not one answer
stand them ia line, the one million,
seveR huBdred thousand infantry and
she Two hundred thousand cavalry OF
the Assyrian army under Minus, and
call the ROLL Not one answer. Stand
I'm line the one million mon Of S9SOstriS,
the one million TWO hundred thousand
men OF Artaxerxes at Cunaxa, aud two
million, six hundred and fOrty-One thou
sand men under Nerxes, az Thermopyl3,
and
CALL THE LONG ROLL
Not one answer. At the opening OF
our civil war. the men OF the Northern
and Southern armies were told that II
they fell in battle their names would
never be forgotten by their country.
Out of the million men who fell in bat
tie or died in military hospitals, you
cannot tell the names of a thousand, nor
the names Of five hundred, nor the
names Of one hundred, nor the names
of fifty. Oblivionl Are the feet OF the
dancers who az the ball OF the Duchess
of Richmond st Brussels the night be-
fore Waterloo all still? AN still. Are
the ears that heard the guns of Bunker
Hill all deaf? AL deaf Are the eyes
that saw the coronation Of George the
Third all clOsed2 All closed. ObliviOul
A hundred years FROM now there will
not be a being on this earth that knew
we ever lived.
In some old family record a descend
ant studying up the ancestral line may
spell out our name, and from the near
Nv faded ink, with great effort, ind that
some person by our name was born
somewhere between 1910 aud 1890, but
tbsy will know no more about Us than
we know about the color Of a chiid's
eyes oorn last night In village in Pat
aronia. Tel me something about your
Observation-Disclosures. WHAT were his
features? What did be DO? What year
WAS be born? What year did he die?
And YOUR great-grandmOtherf VIII
von describe the style of the hat that
She wore, and did she and your great
aanrhar gar on In each nLharls COM