Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-10-02
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WHO ought 10 nave ShRl fllelr laSE WoFd
5000 years ago would snarl at US, say
ing, What are you doing here There
would have been nc room to turn around.
Some Of the past generations Of mankind
were not worth remembering The first
useful thing THAI many people did was
to die. their cradle a misfortune and
their grave a booa. This world WAS
hardly comfortable place to live in be
fore the middle Of the eighteenth cen
fury. So many things have come into
tile world that We're not lit to stay in we
ought to be glad they were put out, The
waters Of Lethe. the fountain OF forget
fuiness, are a shealthfnI G. 1T The MS
tory We have Of the world in ages pass
IS always one sided and cannot be de-
pended on. History is fiction illustrated
6y few struggling facts.
WHY Ne sAoutd re iseu.ernbe~es.
Now, have told you that this oblivion
q which | have spoken has its defeats
anu that there IS no more reason why we
should not be distinctly and wildly and
tglofioasly remember,a FIVE hundred mill
ia1 billion trilion quadrihion quinullion
yeats from now than that we should Be
remembered six weeks. | am going TO
tell you how the thing can be done and
viii be done.
We may build this everlasting remem-
brance, as my text styles it. into the
supernal existence of those to whom we
do Mndnesses in this world. You must
remember that this infi1m and Teacher
Gus faculty which we now call memory
is in the future state to he complete and
perfect Everlasting remembranee.s
Nothing viii slip the stout grip of that
celestial faculty. Did you help a widow
pay her rent? Did you find for that man
released from prison place to get hon
est work. Did you pick up child fallen
on the curbstone and by a stick Of candy
put in his hand stop the hurt on his
scratched knee? Did you assure bust
ness man swamped by the stringency of
the money market that times would after
awhile be better? Did you lead a Mag
dalen of the street into a midnight mis-
stec, where the Lord said to her. "Nei-
Their do condemn thee. Go and n no
moreE Did you tell a man clear discour-
aged in his waywardness and hopeless
and plotting suicide that for him was
near by a LAYER in which he might wash
and coronet of eternal blessedness he
might wear? What are epit Tbs in
graveyards, what are eulegiums in pres
ence of those whose breath is in their
nostrils. what are unread biographies in
the alcoves of city library, compared
with the imperishable records you have
made in the illumined memories of those
to whom you did such kindnesses? For.
get them? They cannot forget them.
Notwithstanding ali their might and
splendor there are some things the glori-
fed of heaven cannot do, and this is one
of them. They cannot forget an earthly
kindness done. They have no cutiass TO
part that cable. They have no strength
to hurl into oblivion that benefaction.
Has Paul forgotten the inhabitants of
Malta who extended the island hos
pitality when he and others with him
had felt, added to shipwreck, the
drenching rain and the sharp cold? Has
the victim of the highwayman on the
road to Jericho forgotten the good Sa-
maritan with a medicament of oil and
wine and a free ride to the hosiery?
Have the English soldiers who went up
to God from the Crimean hattlefelds for
gotten Florence Nightingale? Through
all eternity will the Northern and South
ern soldiers forget the Northern an1
/ Southern women who administered to reo
dying boys in blue and gray after the
awful fights in Tennessee and Per nsyl
vania and Virginia and Georgia which
turned every house and barn and shed
into an hospital and incarnadned the
Susquehanna and the James and the
Chattahoochee and the Savannah with
brave blood? The kindnesses You do to
others will stand as long in the apprecia-
ton 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.
Defeat of Oblivion,
Another defeat of oblivion will be
rescue, uplift or save Character is eter-
nal. Suppose by right influence we aid
in transforming bad man into good
man, a dolorous man into a happy man.
a disheartened man into courageous
man, every stroke of that work done
will be immortalized. There may never
be so much as enc line in newspaper
regarding it or no mortal tongue may
ever whisper 1t into human ear, but
wherever that soul shall go your work
upon it shall go, wherever that soul rises
your work on it will rise, and so long as
that soul will last your work on it will
last Do you suppose there will ever
come such an idiotic lapse in the history
of that soul in heaven that it Shall for
get that you invited him to Christ. that
you, by prayer or gospel word, turned
him round from the wrong way to the
right way? No such insanity win ever
snlite heavenly citizen 1t Is not half
as well on earth known that Christopher
Wren planned aud built St. Paul's as it
will be known IN all heaven that you
were the ipstry nentality OF building a
temple for the sky. We teach q Sabbath
class or put a Christian tract in the hand
ora passerby or testify for Christ in a
prayer meeting or preach sermon and
go home discouraged, as though nothing
had been accomplished. when we had
been character building with material
that no frost or earthquake or rolling OF
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 on national capitol or
massive home before be leaves that Ia
bic. and then he goes out and unrolls his
plans and calls carpenters and masons
and artisans.of all sorts to execute his
design. and when it is finished he walks
around the vast structure and sees the
completion Of the work with high salts
faction, and on stone at some corner
Of the building thealrchitect's name may
ba ebfspied But tic storms do their