Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1893-12-02

TIE BROOKLYN DIVINE-S sun
DAY SERMON.

@A'@-
oblivion and It's Defeats" is nv subiec
today. There IS an Old monster that swal
lows down everything. II c-unches inti
F.iHais. families. communities. States, Ma
lons. continents. h~enispheres. worlds. II
diet X made up Of years. 81 centuries. 0
ares. 81 cycles. Of fuiilennilns. OF eone
HAT monster ia called br Noah Webster an
atl IN" other dictionarfans oblivion. I. Is {
stonp Town which everything rolls. It is .
coHiacr1tion IN which evcrything is con.
sutne1. II j. = dirg" In whirn all orchestra.
IIaF AM q period at which everything stops.
II = the cemetery Of the human race. Il i
-" domain Of forzetfulness. oblivion, A
times II throws n shadow over all Of Is. an
] you'd not pronounce il to-day IL / dill no:
rome armed inth@ strength ot the eternal
Got on your behalf to attack il. - rou- il. =
d"-roiish il.
Why. just look at the way rhn families o:
T." earth disappear. For awhilethey are to
rethsr. inseparable and to each other iniis-
f,@n.11hir. and then they part, some by mar
rag" going to establish other homes. AMI
son" leave this life. and a century Is long
enough 70 plant a family. tevclon il, prosper
y ahft c4lit"rate it, 50 the generations van
i.n.
Walk mp Broadway. N"w Yo-k S;atestreet
I9-tpI t1eafhut street. phila ~tol)hia the
| SfrlnI- London Princes. street. Edinhurch
49,. ! - ii[fL 'ifI LlIltt'Jt.
Berlin. and You Will meet in this year 1898
moi ~" = rsGn who walled it in 1893. WHAT
eHSlitim"Lt All the ordinary "f0rt At per
petuation are dead failures. Walter SCOTS
,'lf Mortality may 90 round with his
c~f1ls"If0 recent tn" failed cpitaphs on tomb
stones. but Old Oblivion has q quicker chisal
VIII which h" can cut ont a thousand ep!-
taps while Old Mortality" is cutting in one
epitaph. Whole Libraries OF biographies de-
F"irF! o. hookworms or unreal Of the rising
generations
~ the signs ofthe stores and warehouses;
- Sreat firms have changed. unless the
gran lson5 think that it Is an a1ylnta-a 10
keep the old sign up. because the name o.,
u ancestor was more c~ohmcndatorv than
tn name Of the discomfort. The city Of
Eo.la stands to-day. hut dig down deep
enough and you come to another Rome.
hir "'. and 20 down still iarther anl you
" Ind IA third Rome. Jerusalem stands to-
DAY, hrt dig down deep enough AMI YOU viii
IN a Jerusalem underneath. and 90 on and
deer down a third Jerusalem. Alexandra.
~ I'll" top Sf an Alexandria, and tie second
o. IN" top OF the third.
Ia4y 81 the ancient cities are barrie thirty
f""t i""p. or nifty deep. or 100 feet. What
WI ~" matter? Any special calamity? No.
1tr E!n Is and waves and sands and living
dns' r" all undertakers and grave diycers.
an u the world stands long enough tha
pr at Brooklyn ana New York and London
VI ave on top OF them other Brooklvns
ar. New Yorks and Londons, and only alter
~ NJ and boring and blasting will the
hr ;~p,logist of far distant centuries come
'ot1 aS Tar rs the highest spires and domes
ar t1rrets Of our present American and
IUrt)aan cities.
{ the roll Of the armies of Baldwin T..
or . Charles Nartel, or of Marlborough. or
Of Nthridates. or Of Prime Frederick, or Of
toft"s. and not one answer will YOU hear.
Stani them in line and call the roll OF l .OOO.- j
oop zen In the army of Thebes. Not one
answer. Stand them in line. the LOO, 900
infantry and the 300. 900 cavalry OF the AS
syrian army under Minus, and call the roll.
Not one answer. Stand in line the I, 200. OsO
men of Sesostris, the l, 200 900 mon OF Artax-
erX"s ut Cunaxa. the 2.641 900 men under
N"rxes at Thernopyln, and call the Iona
roll. Not one answer.
At the opening of our civil war the men of
the Northern and Southern armies were told
that If they fell in battle their names would
never be forgotten by their country. Out Of
the million men who fell in battle or died in
military hospitals, you cannot call the names
o. 1000, nor the names of 500. nor the names
of'loo. nor the names Of fifty. Oblivion!
Ar"tho feet Of the dancers who were ut the
bal Of the Duchess Of Richmond at Brussels
the night before Waterloo az still? All still.
Ar" I'll the ears that heard the guns Of Bun
ke- lhll all deaf? All deaf. Are the eyes that
saw tle coronation OF George III. all closed?
Al .osed. Oblivion! 4 hundred years
frp now there will not be a being on this
ca that knew we ever lived.
~ ~ome old family record a descendant
stu E.n> up the ancestral line may spell out
our name. AMI from the nearly faded ink. |
WI GREAT effort. find that some person of
our name, was born somewhere between 1910
an go. but they Will know no moro about
IL an We know about the color OF Il chili's
eyes norm last Dll,ht in n yill1tra in Data
a. Tell me something about your great !
ErAn father. What We're his features? What
did ~ do? What year was he born? What
year lid he lie? And your grcat-srand-
mother. Will YOU describe the style of the
hat She Wore, an! how did she and your
""fnpanions1ip. Was It March weather or
oblivion, That mountain surge rolls over
everything. Even the pyramids are diving.
Il day passes but there is chiseled OF a
ofthat granite. The sea is triumphln-
theland. and what is going on at Coney
i going on altG-ouri tle worl !. and
he continents are ~"rInhliuc into the waves,
ana whlie this i t~ran>pirin. on tho outside
ii tlt world the hnt chi~.I oi the eternal ire
: dlccInc unt'r tn loln.ltion OF the earth
cutting ItS way out toward tho surface.
surprises tNc. - hear pcopl" say they DO
aot think tn" world will finally be burned
~. wlen. All scientists Will tell YOU tina, il
for ages been on IRE. WY. there i only
! crust between Z, an tn furnaces INSIDE
acinc 10 get out.
oblivion The world itself will roll into
{ as easily a a sshooltoys india rubber bail
rolls down q hill. ana when our world goes
il i 50 lnterlochei Icy the law OF gravitation
With other worlds that they wiltyo. too. and
50 far from having our memory perpetuated
by q monument OF Aberdeen granite in this
world there i 10 world in sight % our
strongest telescope that Will Dca sure pesii-
rent for any slab o. commemoration Of tho
thai We ever lived Or died at all. our
-arth Is struck with death. The axIetrea of
CONSULTATIONS will break aad let down
population 81 cher worlds. Stellar.
lunar. solar mortality. oblivion L AN
swallow and will swallow whole gaIaxi-- Of
v orlds as easily = tneroeoiile takes lowa
frog.
Yet oblivion does not remove or swallow
ANYTHING that mad letter not lo remove! or
swhl!owed- The Oil nans,ey is welcome 10
his meal This worit wogld Bong aco.aave
been overcrowi t%l II II had no. ta,,n for rho
uerclfUi removal ot Nations AMI zen "a
Wha, II al tha BOOKS nal liytit3.
were ever written AM printed aa;i ...o-
The libraries xulli ~ thei- n
nensitv have ot~tr.t =. intelligent nj
ade al! research impossible. Tho fatal {