Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-09-30

incarnadined the SuSquehanna and the
James and the Chattahoochee and the
Savannah with brave blood? The kind.
nesseS you do to others will stand as
long in the appreciation of others as
the gates Of heaven will stan,; as the
''house of many mansions Will stand,
as long as the throne of God will stand.
Oblivion Defeated.
Another defeat of Oblivion will be
found in the character of those whom
we rescue, uplift or save. Character is
eternal. Suppose by a right influence
we aid in transforming a bad man into
a good man, dolorous man into a hap
py man, a disheartened man into a
courageous man, every stroke of that
work done will be immortaliZed. There
may never be so much as one line in a
newspaper regarding it or no mortal
tongue may ever whisper it into human
ear, but wherever that soul shall go
your work upon 1T shall go, wherever
that soul rises your work on it will
rise, and SO long as that soul will last
your work on it will last. Do you sup
pose there will ever come such an idi-
otto lapse in the history of that soul in
heaven that it shall forget that you in
vited him to Christ; that you, by pray
er or gospel work, turned him round
from the wrong Cay to the right way?
No such insanity will ever smite a
heavenly citizen. 1t is not half as we'll
on earth known that Christopher Wren
planned and built ST. PauPs as 1t will
be known in all heaven that you were
the instrumentality of building a tenn
pie for the sky. We teach a Sabbath
class. or put Christian tract in the
hand Of a passerby, or testify for
Christ in a prayer meeting, or preach a
sermon, and go home discouraged, as
though nothing had been accomplished,
when we had been character building
with a material that no frost or earth
quake 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 a cathedral or a
capitol or a massive home be-
fore he leaves that table, and then he
goes out and unrolls his plans and
calls carpenters and masOns and arti-
sans of all sorts to execute his design,
and when it is finished he walks
around the vast structure and sees the
Of the work with high sat
and on a stone at some cor
ner of the building the architects
name may be chiseled. But the storms
10 their work, and time, that takes
Town everything, will yet take down
that structure until there shall not be
one stone left upon another. But there
s a soul in heaven. Through your in
it was put there. I'm
Ter Gods grace you are the architect
IF it's eternal happiness. Your name
S written not on one corner of its ma
ure, but inwrought into it's every fiber
md energy. VIII the storms of win
:er wash out the story of what you
nave wrought upon that spiritual struc-
,ure? No. There are no storms in
hat land, and there is no winter. VIII
line wear out the inscription which
shows your fidelity? No. Time is
past, and it is an everlasting now.
Built into the foundation of that i'm
ars, built into it's capstone is your
lame, either the name you have on
Earth or the name by which celestials
shall call you. l know the Bible says
II one place that God is a jealous God,
)ut that refers to the work of those
Who worship some other god.
Noble Deeds Everlnsting
A true father Is not jealous of his
bid. With what glee you show the
icture your child penciled or a toy
hip your child hewed out or rccite
he noble deed your child accomplish
d.! And God never was jealous of 4
Oshua, never was jealous of a Paul,
lever was jealous of q Frances Haver-
al, never was jealous of a man or
woman who tried to heal wounds and
wipe away tears and lift burdens and
ave souls, and while all is of grace
nd your self Sbnegating utterance will
e, Not unto US, not unto us, but unto
by name, o Lord, give gloryv you
hall always feel q heavenly Satisfac- |
ion in every good thing you did on
arth, and if icOnoclasm, borne from |
eneath, should break through the gates |
f heaven and efface one record OF |
our earthly fidelity methinks Christ |
would take one of the nails of his own
ross and write somewhere on the
rystal or the amethyst or the jacintb
r the chrysoprasus your name and
ust under it the inscription Of my
ext, 1.-THE righteous shall be held in
verlasting remembrance" Oh, this
haracter building! You and 1 are ev-
ry moment busy in that tremendous
ccupation. You are making me bet
er or worse, and am making you bet
er or worse, and we shall, through all
ternity, bear the mark of this bene-
fiction or blasting. Let others have
be thrones OF heaven those who have |