The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-06

you suppose there VIII ever cohS sues an idfotic lapse in the history or tnat soul in heaven that 1t shall forget tnat you invited him to Christ; that you, py prayer or gospel work, turned nm rouh6 No such insanity will ever smite neav- enly citizen. 1t is not half as well on earth known that Christopher wren nlah- ned and built St. Pauls as It VIII pc known in all heaven that you were the instrumentality of building temple for the sky. We teach a Sabbath class or put a Christian tract In the hand or a passerby or testify for Christ in pray CT meeting. or preach a sermon. and go home discouraged. as though nothing nao been accomplished, when we had been character building with material that no frost or earthquake or rolling or 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 national capitol or a massive home before he leaves that table and then he goes out and unroils sons and artisans of all sorts to execute his design, and when 1t is finished ne walks around the vast structure ana sees the completion of the work with hign satisfaction, and on a stone at some cor ner of the building Che architects name may be chiseled. But the storms do their work, and time, that takes down every thing. will yet take down that structure
 
 upon another. But there Is soul Tn heaven. Through your instrumentaiity IL was put there. Under Gods grace you are the architect of its eternal happiness. Your name is written not on one corner of it's nature, but inwrought Into It's ev- cry fiber and energy. VIII the storms or winter wash out the story or what you have wrought upon that spiritual struc- ture? No. There are no storms In that land, and there is no winter. Will time wear out the inscription, which shows is an everlasting now. Built into the foundation of that imperishable structure. built into Its pillars, built into Its cap stone is vour name, either the name you lestials shall call you. I know the Bible says in one place that God is jealous God. but that refers to the work of those who worship some other god.
 Noble Deeds Everlasting.
 A true father is not jealous of his child. your child penciIed or a top ship your child hewed out or recite the noble deed your child accomplished! And God never was jealous of a Paul, never was jealous of a Frances Havergal, never was jeal- ous of man or woman who tried to heal wounds and wipe away tears and lift burdens and save souls, and while all is of grace and your self abnegating ut us. but unto thy name, o Lord. give glory." you shall always feel heavenly satisfaction in every good thing you did on earth. and If iconoclasm. borne from beneath. should break through the gates of heaven and efface one record of your earthly fidelity, methinks Christ would take one of the nails of his own cross and write somewhere on the crystal or the amethyst or the jacinti or the cryso- prasus your name and just under it the inscription of my text, 'The righteous brance" Oh, this character building! You and I are every moment busy in that tremendous occupation. You are makin g me better or worse, and am ma kin 7 through all eternity, bear the mark of the benediction or blasting. Let others have the thrones of heaven, those who have more nightly wrought for God and the truth. but 1t will be heaven enough for you and me if ever and anon we meet some radiant soul on the boulevards of the great city who shall say: You help ed me once. You encouraged me when l was in earthly struggle. I do not know that I would have reached this shining place had 1t not been for you," and we will laugh with heavenly glee and say: "Ha! ha! Do yon really remember that talk? Do you remember that warning? Do you remember that Christian invita- tion? What memory you have! Why. ington or New Orleans at least ten thou sand million years ago" And the answer will he. "Yes. it was as long as that but ] remember it as well as though it were yesterday"
 Oh this character building! The struc- ture lasting independent of passing cen turies. independent of crumbling mauso- leums. independent of the whole planeta- ry system Aye. if the material universe. which seems all bound together like one | piece of machinery, should some day meet with ar accident that would send 1 worlds crashing Into each ~ther like tele- i sCoped railway trans. and all the wheels of cancellations and galaxies should l stop and down into one chasm of im-