The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1901-10-04

Others with him had felt. added TO a ship
wreck the drenchlng rain and the sharp
cold Has the victim OF the highwaymsn
on the road 20 Jericho forgotten the good
Samaritan with a medicament of oil and
WINE and free ride 10 the hostelryf Have
the English soldiers who went up 10 God
from the Crimean hattlehe,ds forgotten
Florence Nightingale
Through all eternity will the Northern
and Southern soldiers forget the Northern
and Southern women who administered
60 the dying boys in blue and gray after
the awful fights IN Tennessee and Nir-
ginia and Georgia. which turned every
house and barn and shed into hospital
and incarnadlned the Susquehanna and
the James and the Chattahoochee and
the Savannah with brave bloody The
kindnesses YOU do TO others VIII stand as
long IN the appreciation OF Others as the
gates OF heaven viii stand. as the s'house
of many mansions" will stand, as long as
the throne Of God will stand.
Another defea, of Oblivion viii he
found in the character OF those whom we
rescue. uphit or save. Character Is cter-
nal. Suppose by right influence we aid
man, a dolorous man into a happy man,
disheartened man into a courageous man.
every stroke OF that work doae will be inn
mOrtalzed There may never be so much
as one line in a newspaper regarding Il or
no mortal tongue may ever whisper u into
human ear. but wherever that soul shall
90 your work upon II shall go, wherever
that soul rises your work on u will rise,
and so long as that soul will last your
work on It viii last. Do YOU suppose
there will ever come such an ldiotic lapse
m the history OF that soul In heaven that
it shall forget that YOU invited him to
Christ; that YOU, by prayer or gospel
work turned him round from the wrong
way TO the right wayg No such insanity
will ever smite heavenly citizen,
II is not half as well on earth known
that Christopher Wren planned and built
ST Pau's as IL will be known in all heaven
that YOU were the instrumentallty of
building a temple for the skv We teach
a Sabbath class, or put a Christian tract
in the hand Of a passer-by. or testify for
Christ IN n prayer meeting, or preach
sermon and go home discouraged. az
though nothing had been accomplished,
when we had been character building with
a material that no frost or earthquake or
rolling Of the centuries can damage or
bring down.
oh. this character buildinC' The struc.
ture lasting independent of passing cen
turics, independent Of crumbling mauso-
leums, independent Of tho whole planetary
svstcm. Ave, II the material universe.
which seems all bound together like one
piece OF machinery. should some day meet
with an accident that should send worlds
crashing into each other like telescoped
railway trains. and all the wheels of con
stellatons and galaXies should stop. and
down into one chasm Of immenstv all the
suns and moons and stars should tumble
like the midnight express at Ashtabula,
that would not touch us and would not
hurt God, for God is a spirit. and charac'
bal
that grave Of a wrecked material universe
might truthfully be written, The rghte-
GUS shall be held in everlasting remem-
brance." q time. we defy thee o death.
we stamp thee in the dust of thine own
sepulchers! q eternity, roll on TIL the last
star has stopped rotating and the last sun
is extinguished on the sapphire pathway,
and the last moon has illumined the last
night. and as many years have passed as
all the scrhes that ever took pen could
describe bv as many figures as they could
write in all the centuries OF all time but
thou shalt have no power To eilace from
any soul in glory the memory OF anything
we have done TO bring 1t to God and
heavenl
There is another and n more complete
defeat for oblivion, and that Is in the
heart Of God Himself. You have seen a
sailor roll M his sleeve and show YOU his
arm tattooed with the figure of favcrite
ship, perhaps the first one in which he
ever sailed. You have seen a soldier roll
up his sleeve and show his arm tattooed
with the figure of fortress where he was
garrisoned or the face OF n great general
under whom he fought You have seen
many a hand tattooed with the face OF
loved one before or after marriage. This
custom of tattoong IL almost as old as the
world. IL is some colored liquid pune
tured into the flesh so ndeiibly that moth
ing can wash II out. IL NAV have been
there fifty years, but when the man goes
into his coffin that picture will go with
him on hand or arm. Now. God says that
He has tattoocd us upon His hands. There
can be no other meaning IN the forty.ninth
chapter Of Isaiah, where God says, BE
hold. | have craven thee on the palms OF
Ny hands IL was az much "a TO say,
Il cannot open My hand 10 help but /
think OF you. ! cannot spread abroad My
hands TO bless but ! think OF you. Wher-
ever / 60 uD or down the heavens ] take
these two pictures of you with Me. They
are 80 inwrOught into My being that j
cannot lose them As long as Ny hands
last the memory Of you will last. Not on
the back OF My hands, as though 10 an.
nounce you 20 others, but on the palms
cf My hands for Myself 90 look at and
study and love. Though ! hold the winds
IN Nv fist, no cyclone shall uproot the IN.
scIlpLlOU oI your name anu your ldIts hnu
though ! hold the ocean IN the hollow OF
Ny hand its hillowing shall not wash out
the record OF Nv remembrance. Behold,
/ have craven thee on the palms OF My
hands"
What Joy. what honor, can there oe
comparable 20 that Of being remembered
by the mighticst and most affectionate
being in the universe; Think Of ito
hold an everlasting place IN the heart OF
God, The heart Of God! The most beau.
tlful palace in the universe. Let the arch.
angel build some palace az grand as that
" be can. Let him crumhe up all the
stars OF yesternight and tomorrow night
and put them together az mcsaics for such
a palace hoor. let him take all the sun.
rises and sunsets Of ell the days and the
auroras Of all the nights and hang them
a. upholstery al its Window. let him
take all the rivers and all ths lakes and
all the oceans and toss them mo the foun.
tains OF this palace court.
Let him take all the gold Of al the hills
and hang u IN its chandeliers and all the
pearls OF all the seas and all the diamonds
oil all the fields and with them arch the
dOorways Of that palace and then invite
into 1t all the giories that Esther ever saw
a. Persian banquet or Daniel ever
walked among in BabyionIan castles or
Joseph eyer witnessed ln Pharaoh throne
room and then yourself inter this castle
Of archangclic construction and see how
poor palace II - compared with the
greater palace that come OF you have al
ready found IN the heart of loving and
pardoning God and into which al the
music and all the prayers and all the ser
mOnic combinations of this day are try.
ing 10 introduce you through the blood of
the slain Lamb.
Oh, where j. oblivion now, From the
dark and oyershad1wng word that II
Beened when began u has become some.
thing which no man or woman or child