The Red Cloud chief., 1893-11-24

breath IL ~ their nostrils, what are I'M
read biographies in the G~,covcs Of a city
library, compared with to imp,iishah'c
records You have made il the illumiacd
memoric5t f those 10 whom youdid such
kindncsscs? Forget thcnk They cannot
forget them.
Notwithstanding all their might and
splcndor, there are some things the glori-
fed of heaven cannot do, and this is ono
OF them. They cannot forget an earthly
kindness done. They have no cutlass to
part that cable. They have no strength
to hurl into oblivion that bcncfaction.
Has Paul forgotten the inhabitants of
Malta, who extended thcisland hospital
ity when he and others with him had
felt, added to n shipwrccli. the drenching
rain and the sharp cold? Has the victim
Of the highwaymau on the road to .Jcri-
cho 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 battletields forgotten Florence
Nightingale?
Through all eternity will tho north
ern and southern soldiers forget the
northern and southern women who adj.
ministered to the dying boys in blue and
gray after the awful fights in Tennessee
and Pennsylvania and Virginia and
Georgia, which turned every house and
barn and shed into n hospital and incar-
nadincd the Susquehanna, andthe James.
and the Ch%attahoochec, and the Savannah
with brave blood? The kindnesses You
do to others will stand as long in the APP
probation of others rs the gates of heav-
en- will stand. as the House Of Many
Mansions will stand, as long as tho
throne of God will stand.
CHARACTER IS ETERNAL.
Another defeat of oblivion will be
found in the character of those whom wo
rescue, uplift or save. Character is eter.
nal. Suppose by u right influence we
aid in Transforming u bad man into u
good man, o dolorous man into u happy
man, a %disheartcned man into q cour-
ageous man-every stroke Of that work
done will DO immortalizcd. There may
never be 30 much as one line in % news
paper regarding it, or no mortal tongue
may ever whisper it into human ear, but
wherever that soul shall go your work
upon it shall go, wherever that soul rises
your work on it will rise, and 30 long rs
that soul will last your work on it will
last.
Do you suppose there will ever come
such an idiotic 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
round from the wrong way to the right
way? No such insanity will ever smite a
heavenly citizen. 1t is not half as we'll
known on earth that Christopher Wren
planned and built st. Paul's as it will be
known in all heaven that you were tho
fundamentally Of building q temple for
the sky.
We teach q Sabbath class, or put a
Christian tract in the hand of apasserby,
or testify for Christ in a prayer meeting,
or preach a sermon and go home dis.
couraged, as though nothing had been &C
complishcd, when we had been character
building with a material that no frost OF
earthquake or rolling of the centuries can
damage OF bring down.
There is no sublimer art on earth thar
architecture. With pencil and rule and
compass. the architect sits down alone
and in silence, and evolves from his OWL
brain n cathedral, ora national capitol, OF
a massive home before he leaves that Ia,
BILE, and then he goes out and unrolls his
plans, and calls carpenters and masons
and artisans of all sorts to execute his
design, and when it is finished he walks
around the vast structure, and sees the
completion Of the work with high salts.
faction, and on q stone at some corner
of the building the architects name may
be chiseled.
But the storms do their work, and
time, that takes down everything, will
yet take down that structure, until there
shall not be one stone left upon another.
But there Is a soul in heaven. Through
your instrumentality it was put there.
Under Gods grace you are the architect
Of its eternal happiness. Your name is
| written, not on one corner of its nature,
but inwrought into its every fiber and
| energy. Will the storms of winter wash
out the story Of what you have wrought
upon that spiritual structuref No. There
are no storms in that land, and there is nc
winter. Will time wear out the inscrip
ton which shows your fidelity9 No. Time
ispast, audit is an everlasting now. Built
into the foundation Of that imperishablt
structure, built into its pillars, built into
its capstone, is your name-either the
name you have on earth or the name by
which celestials shall call you.
know the Bible says in one place thai
God is q jealous God, but that refers tc
the work of those who worship some 9th,
or god. A true father is not jealous OF
his child. With what glee you show the
picture your child penciled, or a toy shiI
your child hewed out, or recite the noble
deed your child accomplished. And Goo
never was jealous Of a Joshua, never
was jealous OF q Paul, never was jeal
Gus Of a Frances Havergal, never WA
jealous Of a man or woman who tried
to heal wounds and wipe away tear.
and lift burdens and save souls
and while oil is Of grace, ani
your self ~abneQatinu utterance will mo