Woodruff County news., 1901-10-05
DEFEAT OF OBLIVION
Dr. Talmage Cheers Despondent
 Christian Workers.
In His Sermon He Shows How Any one Can Re Widely and Forever RecOlIected-WhyW We Should
 Be Remembered.

AOW any OAC Sdh OC NAdClJ anu 1CE- ever recollected and cheers despond- ent Christian workers; texts, Job 24: 20: "He shall be no more remembered" and Psalms 112: G.: "The righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance''
 Of oblivion and it's defeats I speak to-day. There is an old monster that swallows down everything. It crunches individuals, families, communities, states, nations, continents, hemi- spheres, worlds. It's diet is made up of years, of centuries, of ages, of cy- cles, of milleniums, of cons. That mon- ster is called by Noah Webster "Obliv lon." It is steep down which every thing rolls. It is a conflagration in which everything is consumed. It is dirge which all orchestras play and period at which everything stops. It is the cemetery of the human race. It is the domain of forgetfulness. Ob- livion! At times it throws a shadow over all of us, and I would not pro- armed in the strength of the eternal God on your behalf to attack it, to route it, to demolish it.
 Why, just look at the way the fam flies of the earth disappear. For awhile they are together, insepara ble, and then they part, some by marriage going to establish other homes, and some leave this life, and century is long enough to plant family, develop it, prosper it and obliterate it. So the generations vanish. Walk up Penn sylvania avenue, Washington; Broad way, New York; State street, Boston; Chestnut street, Philadelphia; the Strand, London; Princeton street, Ed inburgh; Champs Erysee, Paris; Inter den Linden, Berlin, and you will meet In this year 1901 not one person who walked there in the year 1901. What engulfment! All the ordinary efforts at perpetuation are dead failures. Walter Scott's "Old Mortality" may 90 round with his chisel to recut the faded epitaphs on tombstones, but Old Ob- livion has quicker chisel with which he can cut out a thousands epitaphs while old Mortality is cutting one cpl taph. Whole libraries of biographies devoured of bookworms or unread of the rising generations. All the signs of the stores and warehouses of great firms have changed, unless the grand sons think that it is an advantage to keep the old sign up because the name of the ancestor was more commenda- tory than the name of the descendant. The city of Rome stands to-day. but dig down deep enough, and you come to another Rome, buried, and go down still farther, and you will find third Rome. Jerusalem stands fo-day, but dig down deep enough, and you will find Jerusalem underneath, and % on and deeper down third Jerusalem. Alexandria, Egypt, on the top of an Alexandria, and the second on the top of the third. Many of the ancient cities are buried 30 feet deep or 50 feet deep or 100 feet deep. What was the matter? Any special calamity? No. The winds and waves and sands and flying dust are all 7undertakers and gravediggers, and if the world stands long enough the present Washrhgton and New York and London will have on top of them other Washingtons and New Yorks and Londons, and only aft CT digging and boring and bla sting Will the archaeologists of far distant centuries come down as far as the highest spires and domes and turrets of our present American and Euro pean cities.
 Call the roll of the armies of Bald win l. or of Charles Martel or of Marlborough or of Mithridates or of Prince Frederick or of Cortes. and not one answer will you hear. Stand them in line and call the roll of tho 100000 men in the army of Thebes Not one answer. Stand them in line. the 100000 infantry and 100000 cav airy of the Assyrian army under Minus, and call the roll. Not one an- swer. Stand in line the 1000, ,OOO men of Sesostris, the 100000 men of Arta- xerxes at Cunaxa, the 2641 ,OOO men under NerXes at Thermopylae and call the long roll. Not one answer At the opening of our civil war the men of the northern and southern ar- mics were told that if they fell in battle their names would never be forgotten by their country. Out of the million men who fell in battle or
 " iiii'oiy HosPltdlS you cannot call the names of a thousand nor the names of 800 nor the names of 100 nor the names of 50. Oblivion! Are the feet of the dancers who at the ball of the duchess of Richmond at Brussels the night before Waterloo all still? All still. Are the ears that heard the guns of Bunker Hill all deaf? All deaf. Are the eyes that saw the coronation of George III. all closed? All closed. Oblivion! A hundred years from now there will