Connecticut western news., 1893-11-16

J instrumentality of building temple for the sky.
 We teach Sabbath class, or put Christian tract in the hand of passerby, or testify for Christ in prayer meeting, or preach sermon and go home dis couraged, as though nothing had been &C., complished, when we had been character building with material that no frost or earthquake or 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 his own brain cathedral, or 8 national capitol, or 8 massive home before he leaves that ta- ble, 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 satis- faction, and on 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 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 structure2 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 it is an everlasting now. Built into the foundation of that imperishable structure, built into its pillars, built into it's 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 that God is jealous God, but that refers to the work of those who worship some oth- CT god. A true father is not jealous of his child. With what glee you show the picture your child penciled, or toy ship your child hewed out, or recite the noble deed your child accomplished. And God never was jealous of a Joshua, never was jealous of 8 Paul, never was jeal- ous of Frances Havergal, never was jealous of man or woman who tried to heal wounds and wipe away tears and lift burdens and save souls; and while all is of grace, and your self abnegating utterance will be,
 "Not unto us, not unto us, but unto thy name, o Lord, give gloryr' you shall always feel heavenly satisfaction in every good thing you did on earth, and if iconoclasm, 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 ame- 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 I are every moment busy in that tre- mendous occupation. You are making me better or worse, and I 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 enosgh for you and me if ever and anon | we meet some radiant soul on the boule- wards of the great city who shall say: "You helped me once. You encouraged me when was ip earthly struggle. 1 | do not know that would have reached | this shining place had it not been for you" And we will laugh with heavenly glee and say: "Ha! ha! Do you really remember that talk? Do you remember that warning? Do you remember that Christian invitation? What memory you navel 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, "Yes, it was as long as that, but I remember it as we'll as though it were yesterday" Oh, this character buildingl The struc- ture lasting independent of passing cen l turies, 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 I day meet with an accident that should send worlds crashing into each other like telescoped railway trains, and all the l wheels of constellations and galaxies should stop, and down into the chasm of | immensity all the suns and moons and stars should tumble like the midnight ex- press at Ashtabula, that would not touch
 us and would not hurt God, for God is Q | spirit, and character and memory are inn mortal, and over that grave of wrecked
 material universe might truthfully be
 written, ''The righteous shall be held in everlasting remembrance"
 o Time, we defy theel O Death, we
 stamp thee in the dust of thine own
 sepulchers O Eternity, roll on till the
 last star has stopped rotating, and the
 last sun is extinguished on the sapphire | pathway, and the last moon has H.
 lumined the last night, and as many
 years have passed as all the scribes that
 ever took pen could describe by as many
 figures as they could write in all the cen
 turies of all time, but thou shalt have no
 power to efface from any soul in glory
 the memory of anything we have done
 to bring it to God and heavenl
 A BROWN FOLLOWED BY KISS.
 There is another and more complete
 defeat for oblivion, and that is in the
 heart of God himself. You have seen a
 sailor roll up his sleeve and show you his
 arm tattooed with the figure of favor
 ite ship-perhaps the first one in which
 he ever sailed. You have seen soldier
 roll up his sleeve and show you his arm
 tattooed with the picture of fortress
 where he was garrisoned, or the face of a
 great general under whom he fought. I You have seen many hand tattooed
 with the face of loved ono before or
 after marriage.
 This tattooing is almost as old as the
 world. It is some colored liquid punc-
 tured into the flesh so indelibly that
 nothing can wash it out. It may have l hoo,, tharo 6Q h,,t ,,,<,.>