Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-11-29

Now, have to tell you that TINS oollvlon
o. which have spoken has its defeats, and
that there is no more reason why we should
not be distinctly and vividly and gloriously
remembered five hundred million billion
trillion quadrillion quintillion years from
now than that we should be remembered six
weeks. sm going TO tell you how thet thing
can he done and will be done.
We NAV build this "everlasting remem-
orance." as rny text styles it, into the super
nal existence of those to whom we do kind
nessss in this world. You must remember
that this inhrm and tre1cherous faculty
which we now call memory is in the future
state to be complete AMI perfect. Ever
lasting remembrance " Nothing will 81 p
the stout grip of that celestial faculty. Did
YOU help widow pay her rent? Did you
hni for that man released from prison Il
place to get honest work? Did you pick up
a child fallen on the curbstOne, and by
stick OF candy put in his hand stop the hurt
on his scratched knee? Did you assure
business man. swamped by the strinSency of
tha money market, that times would after
awhile be better2
Did you lead a Magialen OF the street into
midnight mission, where the Lord said to
her: Neither do l condemn thee; go and sin
no more?" Did you tell n man, clear dis
coIraged in his waywardness and hopeless
and plotting suicide, that for him was near
Oy a laver in which he might wash, and a
,oronst OF eternal blesseiness he might
wear?
What ara epitaphs in graveylris, what are
euiogiuns in presence ofthose whose breath
s in their noStrils, what are unread biogrl-
phies in the alcoyes Of city library, com
pared with the imperishable records you
nave made in the illuminsd memories OF
those to whom YOU did such kiIdnesses?
Forget them? They cannot forget them.
Notwithstanding all their might and splen-
dor. there are some things the glorihed OF
ne:.van cannot do. AMI this is ole of them.
They cannot forget an earthly kindness
iona. They have no cutlass TO part that
Il lie. Tley have no strength TO hurl into
oblivion that benefaction.
Has Paul forgotten the inhabitants OF
Malta. who extended -ae island hospitality
when he and others with him had felt, added
10 a shipwreck the drenching rain AMI 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 free ride TO the hostelry?
Have the English soldiers who went up to
God from the Crimean battleAelds forgotten
Florence Nightingale?
Through all eternity will the Northern anC
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 anl Georgia, which turned every
house an barn and shed into a hospital, and
inHIrlal ntl Ilt Su-Q uelAlnd, anu Iue
James, ami the ChattahOOrhse, and the Sa-
vunnah with brave blood? The kindnesses
YOU do to others will stand as long in the ap-
preciatiOn o. others a. the gates Of heaven
Will stand, as the "HOuse Of Many Mansions
will stand, as long as the throne OF Col viii
STAN.
Another defeat OF oblivion will be found
in tIe character OF those whom We rescue,
upliit or save. Character IS eternal. Sup
pose by a right induencs We aid in trans
tOr min = bal man into gOOt man, dol
orous man into a happy man, disheartensd
man into 4 courageous mdn-eyary stroke OF
nat work done will be immortalized. There
may never be so much as one line in a news
paper regarding it, or no mortal tongue may
ever whisper it into human eur. but where
ever that soul shall go your work upon it
shall go, wherever that soul rises your work
upon it shall rise, and so long as that soul
will last your work on il will last.
Do you suppose there will eyer come such
an iiiotic lapse in the history OF that soul in
heaven that it shall forget that you invited
him to Christ that you, by prayer or gospel
word, turned him ro1ni from the wrong way
to the right way? No such insanity will ever
snite heavenly citizen. 1t Is not half as
well on earth known that Christopher Wren
planned and built st. Paul's IS it will be
known in all heaven that yOI were the IN
strunentllityO OF building q temple for the
iky.
We teach a sabbath class, or put a Chris
tian tract in the hand of pass erby, or tes-
tify for Christ in prayer meeting, or preach
sermon. and 20 home discouraged, as
though nothing had been accomplished, when
we had been character building with ma
,erial that no frost or earthquake or rolling
of the centuries can damage or bring down.
There is no subliufer art in the world than
architecture. With pencil and rule and CON-
pass the architect sits down alone and in 81
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lhedral, or a National capitol, or a massive
home before he leaves that table, and then he
goes out and unrolis his plans, and calls car
penters and mGsons ani artisans OF all sorts
to execute his design, and whenit is finished
he walks around the vast structure and ss"s
the completion OF the WORK with high salts
action. and on a stone at some corner OF the
building the architects 5 name may be ch!selei.
BIt the storms do their work, and time, that
axes down everything, will yet take down
hat structure until there shall not be one
stone left upon another.
But there is a soul in heaven. ThrOu =
your instrumentality it was put there. I'm
der God s grace You are the architect OF IFS
eternal happiness. Your name - written. no;
on one corner OF its nature. but inYrOIGni
into its every fiber and energy. viii the
storms of winter wash out the story OF wHai
you have wrought upon that spiritual s,ru e
turs? No. There are no storms in that land,
and there is no winter. VIII time wear out
the inscription which shows your fidelity
No. Time IS past, and it is an everlasting
now. Built into the fOUndatiOn of that imper-
ishable structure, built into its pillars, built
into its capstOne, Is your name-either the
name you have on earth or the name b!
which celestials shall call you.
1 know the Bible says in one place tina,
God is jealous Col, but that refers to the
work of those who worship some other god.
A true father is not jealous Of his child
With what glee you show the picture your
child penciled, or a toy ship your child
hewed out, or recite the noble deed your
enrd accompliSheII AMI COT never wa,
jealous of Il Joshua. never was jealous OF 6
Paul. never was Jealous OF n Frances Haver
gal, never vas jeIlOuS Of \ man or woman
who tried to heal woun . ana wipe ava,
tears AMI lift burdens AMI save souls
and white all is OF grace. AM your self
gbnegatinc u.t"rInrn VII he, ''Not unto
rs, no. unto Us. mt unto Thy name
o Lord, give giorvr YOU shall alIyay.
feel heavenly sGtiSfIr;jOn in every
good thing you did on earth, and i icOno
clasm, borne from beneath. should hrpab
through the gates OF heaven AMI eiTace on,
record OF your earthly fidelity. methint,
Christ would take one OF the na,ls Of III.
own cross an / write somewhere on the crv-.
tai. or the amethyst. or the iiriGth. or ths
chrysOprasus. your name ami iuzt IN Ter 4
the inscription OF my tazt. 'Tle righteous
shall be held in everlasting rena77 trlnc.. 81
Oh, this cHarl-tar 'uidj1ri You m
are every moment busy in that trsmnn 5ou-
occupation, You are making me- hette- OF
worse, and l am maxim: You Hettcr or worse
AMI We shall through MI eternity bear the
mark of this benedictiOn or blasting.
Let others have the thrones Of heaven
those who have more wi-Hti'v wrought fol
Col 8ni the trii5r.-but it wiz he heaven
enough for you and ne t. ever AMI anon We
meet sO1le radiant soIi ON the hOu!svlrIs oil
the great CITY wlO shall say ''YOu helped
ne once. NOu encGurased me- when | was
IN earthly struggle. 7 did not know that
woult have reached this shining place had it
not been for vou." And W. Will laugh with
heavenly cl"a AM say "Hli hal Do YOU
rely remenherthat talk2 Do vou remem-
her that warnin:? Do vOu remember that
Christian invitation? What memory you
have! 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 as long as that,
out l remember it as well as though it were
yesterday"
Oh. this character building! The structure
lasting independent of passing centuries. in
dependent OF crumhlng mausOlaums. inde-