Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-10-03

class on put Christian tract in the hand
OF passcrby or testify for Christ in
prayer meeting or preach n sermon and
go home discouraged. as though nothing
had been accomplished. when we had
been character building with q material
mat no frost or earthquake or rolling of
the centuries can damage or bring down.
There is no subimcr 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 n national capitol or
massive home before he leaves that TIA
bic. 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 secs the
completion of the work with high salts
faction, and on stone at some corner
of the building the architects name may
be chiscled. But the storms do their
work and time, that takes down every
thing, will yet take down that structure
until there shall not toe one stone left upon
another. But there is soul in heaven.
Through your instruncntality it was put
there. Undcr Gods grace you are the
architect of its eternal happiness. Your
nature, but nwrought into its every fiber
and energy Will the storms of winter
wash out the story of what YOU have
wrought upon that spiritual structure?
No There are no storms in that land,
and there is no winter. Will time wear
out the inscription which shows your
fidelity? No, Time is past, aud it is an
everlasting now. Built into the founda-
ton of that imperishahle structure, built
into its pillars. built into its capstonc is
your name. either the name you have on
earth or the name by which celcstals
shall call you. | know the Bible says in
one place that God Is Il jealous God, but
that refers to the work of those who
worship some other god
No Cause Tor Jealousy.
A true father is not jealous Of his
child. With what glcc you show the pic
ture your child prncilcl or toy ship
your child hewed ont OF rccitc the noble
deed your child accomplished and God
never was jealous Of Il Joshua, never
was Jealous Of Paul, never was jealous
Of Frances Uayelsal, never was ieal-
Gus Of man or woman who tried to
heal wounds and wipe away tears and
lift burdens and save souls and while all
y
terancc will be- Not unto us. not unto
us, but unto thy name, o Lord, give
glory" 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 enacc one record of your
earthly fidelity mcthinks Christ would
take one of the nails Of his own cross
and write somewhere on the crystal or
the amethyst ur the iacinth or the chrys-
oprasus your name and just under it the
inscription of my text, The righteous
shall hc held in everlasting remcm-
brance.' oh, this character buildinyi
You and | are every moment busy in
that tremendous occupation. Hou are
making me better or worse, and | am
making you better or worse and we shall
through all eternity bear the mark Of
this bcnediction or blasting. Let others
have the thrones of heaven. those who
have more nightly wrought for Gcd
aud the truth, but it will be heaven
enough for you and me if ever and anon
we meet some radiant soul on the bouie-
wards Of the great city who shall say:
You helped me once. You encouraged
me when | was in earthly struggle. |
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