Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-11-13

library, compared with tho i,sDerishable
records you have made in the illuminod
memories of those to whom You did such
kindnesses; Forget them? They cannot
forget them.
Notwithstanding all their might and
/ splendor, there are some things the glori-
lied Of heaven cannot DO, and this is one
OF them. They cannot forget an earthly
kindness done, They have no cutlass to
part that cable. They have no strength
70 hurl into oblivion that benefactlOn.
Has Paul forgotten the inhabitants of
Malta, who extended theisland hospital
ity when he and others with him had
felt, added to shipwreck, the drenching
rain and the sharp cold? Has the victim
| OF the highwayman ON the road to Jeri-
cho forgotten the Good Samaritan with
medicament of oil and wine and free
ride to the hostelryI Have the English
soldiers who went up to God from the
Crimean battlefelds forgotten Florence
Nightingale
Through all eternity will the north
ern and southern soldiers forget the
northern and southern women who ad-
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 hospital and incar-
nadined the Susquehanna, and the James,
and the Chattahoochee, and the Savannah
with brave blood? The kindnesses you
do to Others will stand as long in the ap-
probation of others as the gates of heav-
en- will stand, as the House of Many
Mansions" will stand, as long as the
throne of God will stand.
CHARACTER IS ETERNAL.
Another defeat of oblivion will be
found in the character of those whom we
rescue, uplift or save. Character is eter-
nal. Suppose by right influence we
aid in transforming a bad man into a
good man, a dolorous man into happy
man, disheartened man into a cour-
ageous man-every stroke of that work
done will be immortalized. There may
never be SO much as one line in a 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 80 long as
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 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
instrumentality of building a temple for
the sky.
We teach Sabbath class, or put a
Christian tract in the hand Of passerby,
or testify for Christ in a prayer meeting,
or preach a sermon and go home dis
couraged, as though nothing had been ac-
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 national capitol, or
a massive home before lie leaves that ta-
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 a stone ut some corner
OF the building the architects name may
be chiseled.
But the storms do their work, and
lime, that takes down everything, will
vet 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 Il
written, not on one corner OF its nature
but inwrought into its every fiber and
energy. Will the storms of winter wash
ont the story of what you have wrought
unon that spiritual structureI No. There
are no storms in that land, and there Is nc
winter. Will time wear out the inscrip
tion which shows your fidelity No. Time
;s mast. and it is an everlasting now. Bull
into the foundation Of that imperishabls
strpcture, built into its pillars, built int
its capstone, is your name--either the
name you have on earth or the name py
which celestials shall call you.
know the Bible says in one place thai
God is a Jealous God, but that refers Y
the work Of those who worship some 9th
er God A true father is not jealous oi
his child. With what glee you show thu
nicture your child penciied, or a toy shiI
yonr child hewed out, or recite the noble
| 1eeJ vour child accomplished. And Coo
never was jealous Of a Joshua neVel
rs ;ealous Of a Paul, never was Jeal
ons Of a Frances Hayergal' never wa
;salous Of a man or woman who trlet
- neal wounds and wipe away tear
and lift burdens and save souls
"a while all is Of grace, an'
vonr self abnegating uttersnee Wiii DC
..Not unto us. not unto u.s. but unto IN.
,a,os o Lord, give glory" you sinai
sI,-ays feel a heavenly satisfaction II
Al""'9 "A .,,in, Won did on earth, an'