Woodruff County news., 1901-10-05

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-grandfa- ther. What were his features? What did he do? What year was he born? What year did he die? And your great-grandmother? Will you de- scribe the style of the hat she wore, and how did she and your great grandfather get on in each others CT or June? Oblivion! That noun tain surge rolls over everything. Even the pyramids are dying. Not a day passes but there is chiseled off chip of that granite. The sea is triumphing over the land, and what is going on at our Atlantic coast is going on all around the world, and the continents are crumbling into the waves. And while this is transpiring on the outside world, the hot chisel of the internal fire is digging under the foundations of the earth and cut ting it's way out toward the surface. It surprises me to hear people say they do not think the world will finally be burned up when all scien- lists will tell you that it has for ages been on fire.
 Why, there is only crust between us and the furnaces inside raging to get out. Oblivion The world itself will roll into it as easily as school boys india rubber ball rolls down a hill, and when our world goes it is so interlocked by the law of gravita tion 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,a 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 constellations will break and let down the populations of other worlds. Stellar, lunar, solar, mortality. Oblivion! It can swallow and will swallow whole galaxies of worlds as easily as a crocodile takes uOWn frog.
 We may build this "everlasting re- membranes, 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 and treacherous faculty which we now call memory is in the future state to be complete and perfect. Everlasting r,l,, stout grip of that celestial faculty. Did you help a widow pay her 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 his hand stop the hurt on his scratched knee? Did you assure a business man swamped by the stringency of the money market that times would after awhile be better? Did you lead Mag dalen of the street into a midnight mission, where the Lord said to her: Neither do 1 condemn thee. Go and sin no more?" Did you tell a man clear discouraged in his waywardness and hopeless and plotting suicide that for
 
 might wash and a coronet of eternal blessedness he might wear? What are epitaphs in graveyards, what are eulo- giums in the presence of those whose breath is in their nostrils, what are unread biographies in the alcoves of city library, compared with the inn perishable records you have made in the illumined memories of those to whom you did such kindnesses? For get them? They cannot forget them. Notwiths tanding all their might and splendor there are some things the glorified of Heaven cannot do, and this is one of them. They cannot forget an earthly kindness done. They have no cutlass to part that cable. They have no strength to hurl into oblivion that benediction. Has Paul forgotten the island hospitality when he and others with him had felt, added to a ship wreck, the drenching rain and the sharp cold? Has the victim of the highwayman on the road to Jericho forgotten the good Samaritan with medicament of oil and wine and free ride to the hostelry? Have the Eng fish soldiers who went up to God from the Crimean battlefelds forgotten Florence Nightingale? Through all eternity will the northern and south ern soldiers forget the northern and southern women who administered to the dying boys in blue and gray after. the awful fights in Tennessee and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Geor- gia which turned every house and barn and shed into a hospital and in- carnadined the Susquehanna and the James and the Chattahoochee and the