The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1894-01-06


healthful draught: The histofs II
have of the world Id ages past II AZ
ways ofie.sided and can not be de-
i pended ON. History is fiction Illus
trated BY d few struggling facts-4nee9l
the Pantheon. the weakest god is Clio,
the goddess of history, and instead OF
being represented by sculptors as
holding scroll, might better be rep
resented as limping on clutches. Faith
full history is the saving of few
things ont of more things lost. The
immortality that comes from pomp
of obsequies, or granite shaft, or
building named after its founder.
or page of recognition in
some encyclopedia is an immor-
tality unworthy of ones ambition, for
1t will cease, and is no immortality at
all. A hundred years But while /
recognize this universal submergence
OF things earthly, who wants to be for
| gotten? Not one of u.s. Absent for e
few weeks or months from home, it
cheers us to know that we are remem-
bered there. 1t is a phraze we have
all pronounced: 81 hope you missed
me-" Meeting some friends from
whom we have parted many years, we
inquire: "Did you ever see me be-
fore?" and they say: Yes and
call us by name, and we
feel a delightful sensation thrilling
through their hand into our hand,
and running up from elbow to shout
der, and then parting, the one current
of delight ascending to the brow and
the other descending to the foot, NOV
ing round and round in concentric cir
cles until every nerve and muscle and
capacity of body and mind and soul is
permeated with delight. A few days
ago. visiting the place of my boyhood,
l met one whom had not seen since
we played together at sixten years of
age, and ! had peculiar pleasure in
puxzling him little as to who / was,
and ! can hardly describe the sensation,
as, after awhile, he stumbled out:
"Let me see. Yes, you are De Witt. ;"
We all like to be remembered.
Now, | have to tell you that this
oblivion of which / have spoken has its
defeats, and that there is no more rea-
SON why we should not be distinctly
and wildly and gloriously remembered
five hundred million billion trillion
quadrillion quintillion years from now,
than that we should be remembered
six weeks. l am going to tell you how
the thing can be done and will be
done.
We may build this Everlasting re-
membrance," as my text styles it, into
the supernal existence of those to whom
we do kindnesses in this world You
must remember that this infirm AMI
treacherous faculty which we now GALL
memory is in the future state 20 be
complete and perfect. Everlasting
remembrance" Nothing will slip the
stout grip of that celestial faculty. Did
you help widow pay Der rent? Did
you find for that man released from |
prison place to get honest work? Did |
you pick up child, fallen on the curb |
stone, and, by stick of candy put in |
its hand, stop the hurt on its scratched |
knee? Did you assure business
man, swamped by the stringency of |
the money market, that times |
would after awhile be better? Did
you lead a Magdslen of the street
into midnight mission, where the
Lord said to her: Neither do con-
1emn thee. Go, and sin no more.n Did
you tell man, clear discouraged in his
and hopeless and plot
ting suicide, that for him near by was
} laver in which he might wash, and a
;oronet of eternal blessedness he might
wear? What are epitaphs in grave
Yards, what are eulogiums in presence
If those whose breath is in their nos
srils, what are unread biographies in
he alcovcs of a city library, compared
With the imperishable records You
lave made in the illumed memo
les of those to whom you did
uch kindnesses? Forget them?
They can not forget them. Notwith-
tanding ali their might and SPLEEN
Tor, there are many things the glorified
4 Heaven can not do and this is one of
hem. They can not forget an earthly
,indness done. They have no cutlass
o part that cable. They have no
trength to hurl into oblivion that
'enefaction. Has Paul forgotten the
Inhabitants Of Malta, who extended
he island hospitality when he and
theirs with him had felt, added to a
hipwreck. the drenching rain and the
harp cold? Has the victim of the
ighwayman on the road to Jericho
orgotten the good Samaritan with q
1edicament of oil and wine and free