The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-11-17

that you invited him to Christ; that you
by prayer or gospel word turned him
round from the wrong way to the right
ways No such insanity will ever smite
heavenly citizen. 1t is not half as well
known on earth that Christopher Wren
planned and built st. Paul's as it will be
known in all heaven that you were the
fundamentally of building temple for
the sky.
We teach Sabbath class, or put a
Christian tract in the hand of passerby,
or testify for Christ in II prayer meeting,
or preach n sermon and go home dis
couraged, as though nothing had been ac-
complished, when we had been character
building with n material that no frost or
earthquake rolling of the centuries can
damage or bring down.
There is no sublimer art on earth than
architecture. With pencil and rule and
compass, the architect sits down alone
and in silence, and evolves from hisown
brain cathedral, or n national capitol or
a massive home before he leaves tina .a
BILE, and then he goes out and unroll
plans, and calls carpenters and ma
and artisans of all sorts to execute 1s
design, and when it is finished he W as
around the vast structure, and sees
completion Of the work with high g
faction, and on n stone at some
of the building the architects nam
be chiseled.
But the storms do their work, I'D
time, that takes down everything. %
yet take down that structure, until tn VI.
shall not be one stone left upon anoth5s
But there is soul in heaven. Throu
your instrumentality it was put the
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. VIII the storms of winter wash
out the story of what you have wrought
upon that spiritual structure? No. There
are no storms in that land, and there is no
winter. Will time wear out the inscrip-
ton which shows your fidelity? No. Time
is past, and is an everlasting now. Built
into the foundation of that imperishable
structure, built into its pillars, built into
its capstoae, 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 that
God is a jealous God, but that refers to
the work of those who worship some 9TH
er 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 child accomplished. And God
never was jealous of Joshua, never
was jealous of Paul, never was jeal-
Gus of Frances Havergal, never was
jealous Of man OF woman who tried
10 heal wounds and wipe away tears
end lift burdens and save souls;
and while all is of grace, and
your self abnegating utterance will be,
"Not unto MS, not unto us, but unto thy
name, 0 Lord give gloryr you shall
always feel n heavenly satisfaction in
every good thing you did on earth, and
if iconoclasln, borne from beneath,
should break through the gates of heaven
and efface one record of your earthly
fidelity, methinks Christ would take one
of the nails Of his own cross and write
somewhere on the crystal, Or the anne
thyst, or the jacinth, or the chrysoprasus,
your name and just under it the inscrip-
ton of my text, THE righteous shall be
held in everlasting remembrance"
Oh, this character building! You and
l are every moment busy in that ire
mendous occupation. You are making
me better or worse, and l am making
you better or worse, and we shall
through all eternity bear the mark of
this benediction or blasting. Let others
have the thrones Of heaven-those who
have more nightly wrought for God
and the truth-but it will be heaven
enough for you and me if ever and anon
$1,000
we meet some radiant soul on the boule-
wards of the great city who shall say:
"You helped me once. You encouraged
me when l was in earthly struggle. ]
do not know that would have reached
this shining place had it not been for
you" And wo will laugh with heavenly
glee and say: "IIi.! ha! Do you really
remember that talk? Do you remember
that warning? Do you remember that
Christian invitation? What memory
you have! Why, that must have been
down there in Brooklyn and New Or.
leans at least ten thousand million years
ago." And the answer will be, Eyes, il
was as long as that, but remember II
as well as though it were yesterday"
| Oh this character buildingl The truc
ture lasting independent Of passing cen
turtles, independent of crumbling mauso
leums, independent of the whole plane
tary system. Aye, if the material uni
verse, which seems all bound together
like one piece of machinery, should some
! day meet with an accident that should
send worlds crashing into each other likt
telescoped railway trains, and all thu
wheels of consultations and galaxiei
should stop, and down into the chasm O.
immensely all the suns and moons ani
stars should tumble like the midnight ex
press at Ashtabula, that would not toucl
us and would not hurt God, for God is
spirit, and character and memory are i'm
mortal, and over that grave of wrecked
material universe might truthfully b
written, "Tlie righteous shall be held il
everlasting remembrance"
O Time, we defy theei o Death, w
stamp thee in the dust of thine owl
sepulchers! o Eternity, roll on Till tb
last star has stopped rotating, 3 tr
last sun is extinguished on the fspp1ar
pathway, and the last moon has d
lumined the last night, and a uga
years have passed as all the scri ..
ever took pen could describe by
figures as they could write in all
turtles of all time, but thou shalt
power to efface from any soul !
the memory of anything we ha Don
to bring it to God and heaven!
FRowN FOLLOWED BY A XII
There is another and more c, uu.e-
defeat for oblivion, and that is -. :.
heart of God himself. You have seen
sailor roll up his sleeve and show you hi
arm tattooed with the figure Of a favor
tie ship-perhaps the first one i'll whic
he ever sailed. You have seen a soldie
roll up his sleeve and show you his arr