Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1901-10-04

as long in the apprecia ton of others as
the gates of Heaven will stand, as the
''house of many mansions" will stand,
as hong as the throne of God will stand
Another defeat of oblivion will be
found in the character OF those whom
We rescue, uplift or save. Character
is eternal. Suppose by right influ-
ence we aid in Transforming a bad man
into good man, a dolorous man into
"a happyGnan. dishearte ned man into
a courageous man, every stroke of
that work done will be immort alize6.
There may never be so much as one
line in a newspaper regarding it or
no mortal tongue may ever whisper it
into h4man ear, but wherever soul
shall go your work upon it shall go,
wherever that soul rises your work
on it viii rise, and so long a that soul
win last your work on it will last. Do
you suppose there win ever come snch
AN idiotic lapse in the history of that
osouf in Heaven thatit shall forget that
You invited him to Christ; that you,
by prayer or Gospel word, turned hin
round from the wrong way to the right
way2 Nosuch insanity will ever smite
heavenly citizen. 1t is not half as
we'll on earth known that Christopher
Wren planned and built st. Paul's as
it will be known in all Heaven that You
were the instrumentality of building
a temple for the sky. We teach
Sabbath class or put Christian tract
in the hand of passerby or testify
for Christ in prayer-meeting or
preach a sermon and go home disceur-
aged, as though nothing had been ac-
compiished, when we had been char
acter building with material that no
frost or earthquake or rolling of the
centuries can damage or bring down.
Oh, this character building. The
structure. lasting independent of
passing centuries, independent of
crumbling mausoleums, independent
of the whole planetary system. Aye,
If the material universe, which seems
all bound together like one piece of
machin cry, should some day meet with
an accident that should send worlds
crashing into each other like tele-
sc9ped railway trains, and all the
wheels of consultations and galaXies
should stop, and down into one chasm
of immensely all the suns and moons
and stars should tumble like the mid
night express at Ashta bula, that would
not touch US and would not hurt God,
for God is a spirit, and character and
memory are immortal, and over that
grave of a wrecked material universe
might truthfully be written: ..The
righteous shall be held in everla sting
remembrance" o Time, wedefy thee!
o Death, we stamp thee in the dust of
thine own sepulchers! o Eternity, roll
on till the last star has stopped rotat
ing and the last sun is eXtin guished on
the sapphire pathway and the last
moon has illuminated the last night
and as many years have passed as all
the scribes that ever took pen could de-
scribe by many figures as they could
write in all the centuries of all time.
but thou shalt have nopower TO efface
from any soul in glory the memory of
anything we have done to bring it to
God and Heaven. 90
What joy, What honor, can there be
tcompara BILE to that of being remem-
bered by the mightiest and most af-
fectionate being in the universe?
Think of it. to hold an everlasting
place in the heart of God! The heart
of God! The most beautiful palace in
the universe. Let the archangel build
some palace as grand as that if he
can Let him crumble up all the stars
of yesternight and tomorrow night
and put them together as mosaics for
such a palace floor. Let him take all
the sunrises and sunsets of all the days
and the auroras of all the nights and
hang them up as upholstery at it's win
dows Let him take all the rivers and
all the lakes and all the oceans md toss
them into the fountains of this pal
ace court. Let him take all the gold
of all the hills and hang it in its cha n:
deliers and all the pearls of the seas
and ali the diamonds of all the fields,
and with them arch the doorways of
that palace and then invite into all
the glories that Esther ever saw at
Persian banquet or Daniel ever walked
among in Babylonian castles or Jo
seph ever witnessed in Pharaoh's
throneroom and then yourself enter
this palace of archangelic construction
and see how poor a palace it is COM
pared with the greater palace that
some of you have already found in
the heart of a loving and pardoning
Coda d into which all the music and all
the prayers and all the sermonic con:
siderations of this day are trying to
introduce you through the blood of the
slain Lamb.
Oh, where is oblivion now? From
the dark and oyershadowing word that
if seemed when 1 began it has become
some thing which no man or woman or
child who loves the Lord need ever fear.
Oblivion defea ted. Q Oblivion dead. OBJ
livion sepulchered. But must not
be so hard on this devouring mons ter,
for into its grave go all our sins when
the Lord for Christ's sake has for
given them. Just blow . resurrec-
ton trumpet over them when once OBJ
fivion has snapped them down. Not