Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-11-24


talfty that comes from pOmp of Obseques or
granite shaft, or building named after its
founder. or page Of recognition in some en-
cyciopedta is an immortality unworthy of
ones ambition. for it will cease and is no i'm.
mortality at all. oblivion 4 hundred
years. But while I recognize this universal
submergance Of things earthly who wants to
be forgotten? Not one Jf us
Absent for few We, ks or months from
home it cheers us to know that we are re-
men1bered there. 1t is a phrase we have all
pronounced, II hope you missed me-" Meet
ing some friends from whom We have been
parted many years. we inquire. 'Did you
ever see NE befora?' and they say, Yes
al call Us by name. and we feel d delight
fu sensation thrilling through their hand
into our hanl, an1 running up from elbow
to shoulder. and then parting. the one cur
rert Of delight ascen ling to the brow and
the other descending to the foot moving
round AMI round III cOncentric Cirhl es until
every nerve an muscle and cipacity 0fbOdy
aad mind and soul IS p3rmeated with de-
light.
4 rev days ago, visiting the place Of my
boyhOOd, [ met Que whom I hal not seen
since we playe1 together at ten Years Of age,
and had peculiar pleasure in puzzling him
little as to VINO I was. and | can hardly de-
scribe the sensation as after awhile he num-
hle1 out "L9t me see. Yes, yoI are D9
Witt" We all like to be remembered.
Now, have to tell you that this oblivion
Of which have spoken has its defeats, and
that there is no more reason why we should
aOt be distinctly and yiyidy AMI gloriousIy
remembered five hundred million billion
.rillion qu1drilli0n quintilliOn years from
now than thIt we should be- remembered six
weeks. am going to tell you how thething
san be done and will be done.
We may build this "9varlastiug remem-
oranca," as my text styles it, into the super
nal existence OF those to whom We do kind
nsss"5 IN rnls WoriG. you must remember
that this intirm and treacherous faculty
which we now call memory is in the future
state to be complete and perfect. ever
lasting remembrance ~ Nothing will slip
the stout grip Of that celestial faculty. Did
you help widow pay her rent? Did you
find for that man released from prison II
place to get honest work? Did you pick up
a child fallen on the curbstone, and by a
stick OF candy put in his hand stop the hurt
on his scratched knee? Did you assure a
business man, swamped by the stringeucy of
tho money market that times would after
awhile be better
Did you lead Magdalen Of the street into
a midnight mission, where the Lord said to
her Neither do [ condemn thee go anI sin
no mOreY Did you tell a man, clear dis
cOuraged in his waywardnes3 and hopeless
and plotting suicide, that for him was near
by y Iaver in which he might wash, and a
coronet Of eternal blessedness he might
wear?
What are epftaphs in graveydrls. what are
euogiums in presence ofthose whose breath
is i'll their nOStrilS, what are unreal biOgra-
phies in the alcoves Of city library, com
pared with the imDarishabIe records Won
have made in the illunIined memories of
thOs9 to whom Won did such kindnesses?
Forget them? They cannot forget them.
Notwithstanding all their might and spen-
dor there are sOmc things the glOrifed of
heaven cannot do, AMI this is one of them
They cannot FORGET an parthIy kindness
done They have no cutlass to Dart that
cable They have no STRENGTH TO hurI into
oblivion that benafartiOn.
Has Paul FORGOTTEN the inhabitants of
Malta. who extended the island hospitality
when he and others with him had felt, added
to a shipwreck the dranchiny rain AMI the
sharp cold? Has the victim of the highway
man on the road to Jericho forgotten the
Good Samaritan with q medicament of oil
ana wine and free ride to the hostelry?
Have the English soldiers who went up to
God from the Crimean battlehelds forgotten
Florence NightincaIe?
Through all eternity Will the Northern and
Southern soldiers forgot 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 and Georgia, WnlcI turned every
house and barn and Shcd into hospital, ,and
lncarnadined the Susquehanna. and the
james. amt the Chattahoochee. and the Sa-
Vannah with brave bioot: Inc kndn9sses
you DO to others Will Sthli as long In the ap
probation OF Others as the gates OF heaven
Will stand, as tho House OF Many Mansions
VIII stand, as long as the throne OF Goi Will
stand
Ahotnor deieat OF oolFlOh VIII DO louh"
IN tho character OF those Whom we rescue,
uPilit or save Cldrdcter is eterni"i' sup
torrip,, q had man into a COOL man 81 dol
0rous nan into a hanny man a disheartena1
man into a coura5a0ns rnan-every stroke OF
that work done will he immO-taIizGd There
nav nover he 90 noIIab az one line in a news
n3nar raoardino il or no mortal tongue NAV
n,,ar 1v,icnor If into br,o.D oar hut rhara
~ +hat fra,,I abou ~ ,,,,r ,,ro-I- ,,non =
eboiI 90 ,-boro,yor +bot sonI r;ony ,-,Hr uIori~
,,,,on : ehou riea ar1 60 49, oS tbot SonI
will Ioet ,-o,1r u,orl, on il IriIl last
no ,,o,J o,1,,, ,go +bora viii oz-ar ooroo crab
m i1io+i 49, i, +b,, bia+o-,- l,f +bo+ co,,I in
heaven that il shall forget th1t you invited
him to Christ that YOU by PRAYER or gospel
word, turned him round from the wrong way
to the right wav? No su 81 insanity will ever
smite q heavenIv citizen IF is not half as
we'll on earth known that Christonher Wren
nloppad ond b,ilt 81 pauI's nc i will he
hnou1,, in ali hnavnn that Won ,pera the in
etr,1,,op+,Ii+,- Of huiljip,r y +oronIe for tha
sI-,:
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W % 'etcI d ooT1''htii o'o>' VI P't' " us
tian ia eratI IN me manu- VI or ~
tliy lor Chrlo' III d prayer lheGtth5' or pF9acu
sermon, ana go nome ulsGoura?eIi as
though nothng had peen accompISnedW When
we had been character pulldlnS with ma
terIal that no frost or earthquake or rolllhg
OF the centuries can damage or pfins noWh.
Ihere Is no sublimer ART III the W'rlu than
archItecfHre with pencil ana RUE :, na g! cor. =
pass the archttect slts down aloh9 ana III 81
lehce' ana eNoINeS from HIS OWN Drain d Gu
tbadr,I or National oanitoI or q nassiva
home before he leaves that table. and then he
goes out and uuroIs his plans and calls car
penters and masons and artisans of all sorts
to execute his design, and whenit is finished
he walks around the vast structure and sees
the completion OF the work with high salts
faction, and on stone at some corner of the
building the architects nlme may be chseled-
But the storms do their work, and time, that
takes down everything, will yet take down
that structure until there shall not be one
etone left upon another.
R,+ thor, ;s , souI in beo1,on Tbrougb
vonr rinstrnmentaiitv if was mt thera In