The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-11-16
REV. DIR. TALMAGE'S SERMON
THE DEFEAT OF OBLIVION.
How W. CsuOvercoms ThatMvstsrio
something That Buries Us
Under the Ages.

Trxrs. "R staR he no more remep-
bered. job vxiy.. 20 "The righteous shat
bc in eseri1s,inJ remembrance, . Psalms cxii.
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"O5livlon and Its Defeats" is my subject
to-day. There IL an old monster that swal-
/ lows down everything. IL crunches indt-
viduals. families. communities. States. Ma
/ tioos. continents. hemispheres. worlds. Its
diet is made up OF years. OF centuries. OF
ages. OF cycles. OF milenniums. OF cons.
/ That monster IL called by Noah Webster and
I all the other dictionarians oblivion. lt Is n
! steep down which everything rolls. II IL n
! conhagratlon in which everything Is con
sumpd. IL Is n dirge in whicn all orchestras
| play and u period at which everything stops.
l IL Is the cenIstery OF tho hunun rice. IL IA
/ the domain OF forgetfulness. Oblivion At
I times " throws n shadow over all OF us, and
| ] would not pronounce 10 to-day II did not
come armed In the strength OF the eternal
/ God on your behalf TO attack IT, 20 rout it, 10
| demolish IL.
| Why. just loos at the way the families Of
! the earth disappear. For Rwhiiethey are to-
/ gether. ins3p1rable and to each other indis-
I pensabl". and then they part. some by mar
| riags gong TO establish other homes. and
some leave this life aud n century Is long
| enough to plant family. develop IT, prosper
| u and oblitcratc It, so the generations van
i-h
u II,
Boston Chestnut street. Philadelphia the
Stranj london Princess street. Edinburgh
Champs Elysees Paris Inter den Linden
Berlin. anf YOU will meet in this year 1893
not one pHrson who walked 1t IN 1903 What
engulfmeLt All the ordinary effort nt per-
petut,ion are dead failures. Walter SCOTS
"Old Mortality may 40 round with his
chisel TO recut the faded epltaphs on tomb
stones, but Old Oblivion has quicker ch'sel
with which he can cut ont a thousand epi-
taphs while "Old Mortality" is cutting in one
cpitaph. Whole libraries Of biographies de-
vour"d Of boOkworms or unread OF the rising
generations
An the signs Of the stores and warehouses
OF great ilr'rs have changed. unless the
gr1ndsOns think that II IL an advantage 10
Keep the old sign up, because tue name Ot
the ancestor was mora commendatory than
tn" name Of the descendant. The city OF
Rome stands to-day, but dig down deep
enough and you come to another Rome,
buried. aud 20 down still farther and you
will find n thIr 1 Rome. Jerusalem stands to-
day. but dig down deep enough aud you will
find a Jerusalem underneath. and go on and
deepar down third Jerusalem. Alexandra
pn the top OF an Alexandria. au1 tie second
on the tor Of the third.
Many OF the ancient cities are buried thirty
feet deep. or ATTY deep. or 100 feet What
was tho matter: Any special calamity No.
The winds and waves aud sands and dying
uu,' are a' w h,@r'nNtg7 anu grave uIsSeIs'
"uu u We "VtI" st"nIS IVuE cnVuSn tue
p,,, ps1, Dlo'sNh an. Wv ~ WI, ''Ci''ou
and New Works and Londons. and only after
digging and boring and blHsting will the
ar 'hpolOgist OF lar distant centuries come
down us far ~ the highest spires and domeS
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