The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-10-09
DEFEAT OF OBLIVION
Dr.. Talnage Cheers Despondeni
Christian Workers.
In HiE Sermon He shows How any
one Can Be Widely and Forever
Recouected-WhyE We should
Be Remembered.
IcopyrIght, 1901, by Louis Nlopsch. y. u !
WSshicgtoa, Sept. 90. !

In this discourse DR.. Taimage shows
how anyone can be widely and ior-
ever recollected and cheers desPo24-
ent Christian workers; texts, Joo =:
20: He shall be no more remembered,
and Psalms 1l2: 6: The righteous s-1a-4
be in everlasting relnemGr3oce
OF oblivion and lis defeats ! speak
to-day. There is an CID monster that
swallows down everything> Ii cruncnes
in6ividua.s, families, communities,
states, nations, continents, heni-
spheres, worlds. Its diet is made up
of years, Of centuries, Of ages, OF cy-
cles, of milleniums, OF cons. That mon
s:er IS called by Noah Webster "ObAT-
ion" 1t is a steep down which every
thing rolls. 1t is cont3a agration IN
which everything is consumed. 1t IS
a dirge which all orchestras play an4
q period at which everything stops.
It is the cemetery of the human race.
It is the domain Of forgetfu.ness. Oh
Gvion! At times it throws q shadow
over all Of US, and would not pro-
nounce it to-day if I cid not come
armed in the strength Of the eternal
God on your behalf to attack it, to
route it, to Genolish it.
Why, just look at the way. the fam
nies Of the earth disappear. For
. awhile they are together, inseparable,
and then they part, some by marriage
going to establish other homes, and
some leave this life, and a century Is
long enough to plant family, develop
it, prosper it and oblitcrate il. So
the generations vanish. Waikup Penn
sylvania avenue, Washington; Broad
way, New York; State street. Boston;
Chestnut street, PhilaGeiphia; the
Strand, London; Princeton street, Ed
8nburgh; Champs Esysee, Paris; Unter
den Linden, Berlin, and you will meet
in this year 1901 not one person who
walked there in the year 1901. What
engulfnent! AL the ordinary efforts
at perpetuation are dead failures.
Walter Scott's "Old Mortality" may so
round with his cbisel to recut the faded
epitspbs on tonbstones, but Old Ob-
Eviol has 8 quicker cbisel with which
ne can cut out q thousands epitaphs
while old Mortality is cutting one epi-
&aph. Whole libraries of biographies
devoured OF bookworns OF unread Of
the rising. generations. AL 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 conmenoa-
tory than the name Of the descendant.
The city Of Rome stands today, but
dig down deep enough, and you come to
smother Rome, buried, and go down
still farther, and you viii find third
Rome. Jerusalem stands Today, bu
dig down deep enough, and you wiz
find Jerusalem underneath, and g.
on and deeper down a third Jerusalem.
alexandria, Egypt, On the top of an
Ale2andria, and the second on the
top Of the third. Many Of the ancient
cities are buried 80 feet deep or so
feet deep or 100 feet deep. What was
the matter? Any special calamity?
No. The winds and waves and sands and
4ying dust are all undertakers and
gravediggers, and if the world stands
long enough the present Washington
end New York and London Will have
on top Of them other Washingtors and
New yorks and Loodons, and only aft
er digging and boring and blasting
viii the archaeoiogists Of far distant
centuries come down as Tar as the
highest spires and domes and turrets
OF our present American and Euro
pean cities.
) Gail the roll Of the armies Of Bald
win I. or Of Charles Martel or OF
Marlborough or Of Mithridates or Of
Prince Frederick or Of Cortes, and
not one answer viii you hear. Stand
them il line and call the roll of the
d,ooo, 900 men in the army Of Thebes.
Not one answer. Stand them in line,
the 100000 infantry aud 100000 cav
airy Of the AssyHan army under
Minus, and call the roll. Not one an
swer. Stand in line the 100000 men
OF Sesostris, the 100000 men of Arta-
ze-1es at Cunaxa, the 2,e41,ooo men
under Xerxes at Thermopylas and
cali 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
died in military hospitals you cannot
call the names Of q thousand nor the
names of 500 nor the names Of 100
nor the. names Of so. 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 ell
deaf? AL deaf. Are the eyes that
saw the coronation Of George III.
ell closed? All closed. Oblivion! 4
hundred years from now there will
not be being on this earth that
knew we ever lived.
In some old family record de-
Gcendant studying up the ancestral
line may spell out our name and from
the faded ink with great effort find
that aone person by our name was
born somewhere in the nineteenth
century, but they will know no more
about US than we know about the
color Of child's eyes born last light
S1 . village in Patagonia. Tel ne
something about your great-gra ndfa-
thsS. What were his features? What
did he do? What year was he born?
What year did he die? And your
great-gracdnother? VIII you de-