Connecticut western news., 1901-10-03
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 WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.-In this dis course Dr. Talmage shows how any one can be widely and forever recol- lected and cheers Respondent Christian workers; texts, Job xxiv, 20, He shall be no more remembered" and Psalms cxii, 6, "The righteous shall be in ever lasting remembrance"
 Of oblivion and its defeats speak today. There Is an old monster that swallows down everything. It crunch es individuals, families, communities, states, nations, continents, hemispheres, worlds. Its diet Is made up of years, of centuries, of ages, of cycles, of mil lenniums, of cons. That monster is called by Noah Webster and all the other dictionaries oblivion" It Is steep down which everything rolls. It is confagration in which everything is consumed. It Is dirge which all crchestras play and a period at which everything stops. It is the cemetery of the human race. It Is the domain of forgetfulness. Oblivion! At times it throws a shadow over all of us, and would not pronounce 1t today If 1 did not come armed in the strength of the eternal God on your behalf to attack it. to route it, to demolish it.
 Why, just look at the way the fami- lies of the earth disappear. For awhile they are together, inseparable, and to each other indispensable, and then they part some by marriage going to es- tablish other homes, and some leave this life, and a century Is long enough Ito plant family, develop it, prosper 1t and obliterate 1t. So the generations vanish. Walk up Pennsylvania avenue, Washington; Broadway, New York State street, Boston; Chestnut street. Philadelphia; the Strand, London; Princess street, Edinburgh; Champs Elysees, Paris; Unter den Linden, Ber- lin, and you will meet in this year 1901 not one person who walked there in the year 1901. What engulfment. All the or dinary efforts at perpetuation are dead failures. Walter Scott's Old Mortality may go round with his chisel to recut the faded epitaphs on tombstones, but lOId Oblivion has quicker chisel, with which he can cut out thousand cpl taphs while Old Mortality Is cutting in one epitaph. Whole libraries of biogra- phies .devoured of bookworms or un- read of the rising generations. All the signs of the stores and warehouses of great firms have changed, unless the %l, ,fx1lr tho+ < fs, n 6 ta to keep the old sign up because the name of the ancestor was more com mandatory than the name of the de scendant. The city of Rome, Italy, stands today, but dig down deep enough and you come to another Rome buried, and go down still farther and you will find third Rome. Jerusalem stands today, but dig down deep enough and you will find Jerusalem under meath, and go on and deeper down a third Jerusalem.
 A Hundred Years Hence.
 Call the roll of the armies of Baldwin I. or of Charles Martel or of Marlbor ough or of Mithridates or of Prince Frederick or of Cortes, and not one an swer will you hear. Stand them ln line and call the roll of the 100000 men in the army of Thebes. Not cue answer Stand them in line, the 1,7O0,- 900 infantry and the 100000 cavalry of the Assyrian army under Minus, and call the roll. Not one answer. Stand in line the 100000 men of Sesostris, the 100000 men. of Artaxerxes at Cunaxa, the 2,641,OOO men under Xerxes at Thermopyl@ and call the long roll. Not one answer. At the opening of our civil war the men of the northern and southern armies were told that if they fell in battle their names would never be forgotten by their country. Out of the million men who fell in battle or died in military hospitals you cannot call the names of a thousand nor the names of 500 nor the names of 100 nor the names of fifty. Oblivion!
 In some old family record a descend ant studying up the ancestral line may spell out our name and from the faded ink with great effort find that some person by our name was born some where in the nineteenth century, but they will know no more about us than we know about the color of child's eyes born last night in village In Patagonia. Tell me something about your great-grandfather. What were his features2 What did he do? What year was he born? What year did he die? And your great-grandmother lWill you describe the style of the hat she wore, and how did she and your great-grandfather get on In each oth- CTS companionship? Was 1t March weather or June? Oblivion! That mountain surge rolls over everything. Even the pyramids are dying. Not a day passes but there is chiseled off n chip of that granite. The sea is tri- umphing over the land, and wkat Is going on at our Atlantic coast Is going on all around the world, and the contl. nents are crumbling into the waves. And while this Is transpiring on the outside of the world, the hot chisel of the internal fire Is digging under the foundation of the earth and cutting its way out toward the surface. It surprises me to hear people say they do not think the world will finally he burned up when all scientists will tell you that 1t has for ages been on fire.
 We Like to Re Remembered.
 ! Why, there is only crust between us and the furnaces inside raging to get out. Oblivion! The world itself will roll into 1t as easily as a school boys india rubber ball rolls down a hill, and when our world goes 1t Is so interlocked by the law of gravitation with other worlds that they will go, too, and so far from having our mem ory perpetuated by monument of Aberdeen granite In this world there Is no world in sight of our strongest telescope that will be sure pediment for any slab of commemoration of the fact that we ever lived or died at all. Our earth Is struck with death. The axletree of the consultations will break md let down the populations of other worlds. Stellar, lunar, solar, mortality. Oblivion! 1t can swallow and will