The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-11-16

tury. SO many things have come into the
world that were not ne 10 stay in. we ought
/ to be glad they wers put out. The waters OF
I Lethe. the fountain OF forget fulness, are n
heslthful draft. The history we have of the
world In ages past Is always one sided and
Il cannot be depended on. History is fiction
illustrated by few struggling facts. In all
1 the Pantheon the weakest GOODIES. is Clio.
4 the goddess OF history. and instead of being
II represented by sculptors ~ holding n scroll
might better be represented as limping on
crtltches.
Faithful history is the saving OF a few
things out OF more things lost. The immor-
tally that comes from pomp OF obsequtes. or
granite shaft. or building named after its
founder, or page OF recognition IN some en-
cyclopedia is an Immortality unworthy of
ones ambition. for Il will cease and is no i'm :
mortality at all. Oblivion hundred
years. But while recognize this universal
submergence Of things earthly who wants TO
be forgotten2 Not one Of us
Absent for few weeks or months from
home. II cheers us 10 know that we are re-
membered there II IL q phrase we have all
pronounced. ~ hope you missed me" Meet
Ing some friends from whom we have been
parted many years. we inquire. "Did you
ever see me before?" and they say. ''yes, -
and call VA by name. ami We feel n delight
fu' sensation thrilling through their hand
! Into our hand. and running up from elbow
to shoulder, and then parting. the one cur
rert ot delight ascending to the brow aud
/ the other descending TO the foot, moving
I round and round In concsntric circles until
every nerve aud muscle and capacity ofbody
aud mind and soul Is permeated with de-
/ light.
A few days ago. visiting the place Of my
/ boyhood. met one whom I had not seen
| since we played together ut ten years OF ayp
and had peculiar pleasure in pulling him
little as to who was. and ! can hardly de-
/ scribe the sensation rs after awhile he num-
hled out Let me ser. Yes. you are De
/ witt. We all like 10 br remembered
! Now. have TO tell You that this oblivion
/ OF which have spoken has It's defeats and
| that there Is no more reason why we should
not he distinctly and vividly anI gloriously
remembered five hundred million billion
/ irillton question quintlllion years from
now than that we should be remembered six
weeks. am going 10 tell you how theihing
can be- done and will be done.
4 We may build this everlasting remem-
brance. ~ my text styles II. into the super.
nal existence OF tho,s 20 whom we do kind
nessrs in this world. 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 n u
/ the stout grip Of that celestial faculty. Did
! you help y widow pay her rent Did YOU
J fnd for that man released from prison "a
[ place to get honest work. Did YOU pick up
a child fallen on the curbstona and by a
stick OF candy put in his hand stop the hurt
/ on his scratched knee? Did you assure n
business man. swamped 10y the s,ringency OF
tn" money marset. that times would after
awhile be better
Did you lead Magdalen of the street into
midnight mission. where the Lord said TO
her Neither do condemn thee 30 and sin
no moreY' Did you tell "a man. clear dis
cOuraSed In his waywarlness and homeless
IN flA hf.N I.t..
10y n iayer in which he might wash. and n
"oronet OF eternal bless sdn.ss he might
wear!
What are epitlphs in :riveyi-ds. what are
eulogiums In presence ofthose whose breath
is in their nostrils. what ara unread bioyra-
phie- In the alcoves OF city library. com
pared with the imperishabe records you
hayo made In tho ilumined memories OF
those 10 whom you did such kndnesses?
Forget them? They cannot forget them.
Notwithstanding all tdeir might and splen-
| dor. there arc some things the giorifIed of
heaven cannot do. AMI this Is on. OF them.
They cannot forget an earthly kindness
done. They have no citlass to part that
cable. They have no strength to hurl into
oblivion that benefaction.
\ His Paul tor -tle. Inhabitants OF
Malta. who extended the island hospitality
when he and others with him had felt. added
To a shipwreck. the drenching rain aud the
sharp cold! Has the victim OF the highway
man on tho road 10 Jericho forgotten the
Good Samaritan with u meiicament OF oil
and wine and free ride to the hostelry?
Have the English soldiers who went up to
God from the Crimean battleiisl forgotten
Florence Nightingale?
Through all eternity will the Northern and
Southern soldiers forget the North rn and
Southern women who administered to the
dying boys In blue and gray aite- the awful
lights In Tennessee aud peunsyyania and
rt0Nts as,I IL.
house and barn and shed into a hospital and
lncarnadined the Susquehanna. and the
James. and the Chattahoochce, and the Sa-
vannah with brave bloojI The kindnesses
YOU do To others will stand as long I'm the APP
probation OF Others ~ the gates Of heaven
will stand, as the House OF MANY Mansions"
will stand, as lons rs the throne OF God will
stand.
Another defeat Of oblivion will be found
In the character Of thos, whom wa rescue
Upltit or save. Character is eternal. Sup
pose by right innuen - W. aid In trans
forming bad man into good mau. a dol
orous man into happy man, a dishedrtened
man into courageous man -eyery stroke OF
that work done will he immortnlZed. There
may never be so much as one lins in n news
paper regarding IL, or no mortal tongue may
ever Whisper II into human ear. but where
ever that soul shall so your work upon 1t
snail so. wherever that soul rises your worS
upon II snail rise. and 50 long rs that soul
viii last your worS on II will last.
Do you suppose there will ever come such
an idiotic lapse in tine history Of that soul in
heaven thGt IL shall forget that you invited
him 10 Christ that you. by prayer or gospel
word. turned him round from the wrong way
to the right wayy No such insanity will ever
smite Il heavenly citizen. II IL not half as
we'll on earth knowl that Christopher Wren
planned and built ST. paurs as II will be
known in all heaven that you were the in
strumentality OF building temple for the
sky.
Weteach Sabbath class. or put a Chris
tian tract In the hand OF passerby, or tes-
tify for Christ In prayer meeting, or preach
u sermon, and 80 home discouraged. as
though nothing had bsen accomplished. when
we had been character building with a ma
terial that no frost or earthquake or rolling
OF the centuries can damage or bring down.
There Is no sublimer art IN the world than
architecture. With pencil and rule aud com
pass the architect sits down alone AMI In 81
lence, and evolves from his own brain ca.
thedral, or National cupitol or q massive
home before he leaves that table. aud then he