The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-06

of more things lost The immortality | that comes from pomp of obsequies or | granite shaft or building named after it's encveiopedap ] ps IS an o immo9ssIity unworthy | of ones ambition. for it will cease and | Is no immortality at all. Oblivion! A | hundred years. But while l recognize | this universal submergence of things | earthly. who wants to be forgotten? Not one of us. Absent for few weeks or months from home, It cheers us to know phrase we have all pronounced, ''I hope you missed me-" Meeting some friends from whom we have been parted many Amd nHpts they ssy asd us by name. and we feel delightful sem sation thrilling through their hand into our hand and running up from elbow 10 shoulder and then parting. the one cur rent of delight ascending to the brow and the other descending to the foot moving round and round in concentric circles un- of body and mind and soul is permeated with delight
 Good Lives Forever.
 Now, have to tell you that this obliv- ion of which have spoken has its de- feats. and there is no more reason why we should not be distinctly and vividly and gloriCnsly remembered five hundred million billion trillion quadrillion quinti- lion years from now than that we should be remembered six weeks. am going to tell you how the thing can be done and will be done. hk
 We may buil1 this everlasting remem- brance,' as my text styles it, into the supernal existence of those to whom we do kindnesses in this world. You must remember that this infrm and treacher- ous faculty which we now call memory Is in the future state to be complete and perfect. Everlasting remembrance" Nothing will slip the stout grip of that celestial faculty. Did you help widow nay her rent? Did you find for that man released from nriGnn nIQGa nn- est work? Did you pick up child, fal- len on the curbstone, and by a stick of candy put in his hand stop the hurt on his scratched knee? Did you assure a business man. swamped by the stringency nf the money market. that time would after awhile be better? Did you lead a mission. where the Lord said to her: Neither do I condemn thee. Go and sin no more?' Did you tell a man. clear dis cournged in his waywardness and hope less and plotting suicide. that for him was nearby a layer. in which he might wash and coronet of eternal blessedness he might wear?
 What are epitaphs in graveyards. what are eulogiums m presence of those whose breath is in their nostrils. what are un- read biographies in the alcoves of 8 city library, compared with the imperishahle records you have made in the illumined memories Of those to whom you did such lindnesses? Forget them? They cannot forget them. Notwithstanding all their
 
 the gloritied of heaven cannot do. and this is one of them They cannot forget an earthly kindness done. They have no | cutless to part that cable. They have no | strength to hurl into oblivion that bene- | faction. Has Paul forgotten the inhabi- 1 tants of Malta, who extended the island | hospitality when he and others with him had felt, added to. shipwreck, the drenching rain and tht sharp cold? Has l the victim of the highwayman on the road to Jericho forgotten the good Sa- maritan with medicament of oil and wine and free ride to the hostery? Have the English soldiers who went up to God from the Crimean battlefields for , gotten 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 hghts in Tennessee and Pennsvl- vanla and Virginia and Georgia. which ! turned every house and barn and shed in- 1 to a hospital and incarnadined the Sus- 1 Quehanna and the James and the Chat tahoochee and the Savannah with brave 1 blood? The kindnesses you do to others l will stand as long in the appreciation of others as the gates of heaven will stand 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 1 in the character of those whom we res cue. uplift or save. Character is eternal Suppose hv right influence we aid in transforming bad man into a good man, 1 dclorous man irtO a happy man. dis ! heartened man into a courageous man. ! every stroke of that work done will he ! tnmortaliz"d' There may never be- s9 much as ono line in a newspaper regard i0r ii or no mortal tongue may ever '" "TiSner it into human car but whcrc--ai That so4l shall go your work upon 1t shall 90. wherever that soul rises your work on it will rise, md so long as that soul will last you- work cn it will last. Do