Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-10-03

can be widely and forever recolCCtcd and
cheers Respondent Christian workers;
texts Job xiv, 20, "l}c shall be no more
remembered" and Psalms exit &. "Thc
righteous shall be in everlasting rcmcm-
brancc."
or oblivion and its defeats i speak to-
day. There * an old monster that swat
lows down everything. 1t crnnchcs in
dyiduals. families. communities, states,
nations, continents, hcnisphcrcs, worlds.
It's diet is made up OF years. of centuries,
Of ages. Of cycles. of millcnniums Of
cons. That monster is called 10y Noah
Webster and all the other dictionaries
"Oblivion." II is steep down which
everything rolls. 1t is a contlagration in
which everything is consumed. 1t is 20
drgc which all orchpsras play and 20
period At which everything stops. 1t f.
tho cemetery Of the human race. II g.
the domain Of forcctfulucss. Oblivion,
At times it throws q shadow over all OF
Us, aud | would not pronounce it today
If | did not come armed in the strcH.' %
of the eternal God on your behalf to ate
tack it, to route IL, to dcmolish it.
Why, just lool, at the way the fami'i IS
OF the earth Disappear. For awhile they
are together, inscparablc and to each
other Indispensable, and then they iatt
some 10y marriage going to establish other
homes, and some leave this life, ami Il
century is long enough to plant a family,
develop it, prosper it and oblitora'. it.
So the generations vanish. Wai up
Pennsylvania avenue. WaShiN- ln; :
Broadway. New York, state street. Bos-
ton; Chestnut street. Philadelphia the
Strand, London; Princess street, l. lin
lurCh; Champs Elysoes. Paris: Iutcr
den Linden, Berlin, and you will meet
in this year 1901 not one person who
walked there in the year 1901. What en-
Fulfment All the ordinary efforts at
pcrpctuatiou are dead failures. Walter
SCOTS Old Mortality may 60 round
with his chisel to recut the faded cpl
taphs on tomhstoncs, but Old Oblivion
has a quicker chsel with which Dee can
cut ont Il thousand epitaphs while Old
Mortality is cutting one epitaph Whole
libraries OF biographies dcyuJrol of
hookWorms or unread of the rising gem
erationS. All the signs of the stores and
warehouses of great firms have changed.
unless the grandsons think that it is m
advantage to keep the old sign mp be
cause the name of the ancestor was mere
commentators than the name Of the de-
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CAL the roll OF the armies of Baldwin I.
or oi Charles Nartc' or OF Marhoruurh
or or Ni,hritato or 90 Prince lrcfcricE
or uf Cprcs and not one answer viii
y.u hear. stand them in Jim, and call
tho roll Of tho 100000 mon iu the army
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