Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1901-10-05

er or gospel work, turned him round
from the wrong way to the right way?
No such insanity will ever smite a
heavenly citizen. 1t Is not half as well
on earth known that Christopher Wren
planned and built st. Paul's as 1t win
be known in all heaven that you were
the instrumentality of building a tenn
pie for the sky. We teach a Sabbath
class, or put Christian tract In the
hand Of a passerby, or testify for
Christ in prayer meeting, or preach a
sermon, and go home discouraged, as
though nothing had been accomplished,
when we had been character building
with a material that no frost or earth
quake or rolling Of the centuries can
damage or bring down.
There is no subllmer 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 massive home BE-
fore he leaves that table, and then he
goes out and unrolls his plans and
calls carpenters and masons and arti-
sans Of all sorts to execute his design,
and when 1t is finished he walks
around the vast structure and sees the
completion of the work with high sat
isfaction, and on a stone at some cor
ner of the building the architects
name may be chiseled. But the storms
do their work, and time, that takes
down everything, will yet take down
that structure until there shall not be
one stone left upon another. But there
is a soul In heaven. Through your in
strumentality it was put there. Un-
der Gods grace you are the architect
of its eternal happiness. Your name
is written not on one corner of its ma
ture, but inwrought into It's every fiber
and energy. VIII the storms Of win
ter wash out the story Of what you
have wrought upon that spiritual struc-
ture? No. There are no storms in
that land, and there is no winter. VIII
time wear out the inscription which
shows your fidelity? No Time is
past, and it is an everlasting now.
Built into the foundation Of that i'm
perishable structure, built into its pill
lars, built into its capstone is your
name, either the name you have on
earth or the name by which celestials
shall call you. / 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. With what glee you show the
picture your child penciled or a toy
ship your child hewed out or recite
the noble deed your child accomplish
edl And God never was jealous Of
Joshua, never was jealous of Paul,
never was jealous Of Frances Haver-
gal, never was jealous Of a 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 utterance will
be, Not unto us, not unto us, but unto
thy name, o Lord, give gloryw you
shall always feel heavenly satisfac-
ton in every good thing you did on
earth, and If iconoclasm, borne from
should break through the gates
If 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
,rystal or the amethyst or the jacintb
)r the chrysoprasus your name and
ust under 1t the inscription OF ms
ext, "The righteous shall be held In
everlasting remembrance" Oh, this
character building You and I are ev-
Try moment busy In that tremendous
You are making me bet
er or worse, and I am making you bet
er or worse, and we shall, through all
eternity, bear the mark Of this bene-
liction or blasting. Let others have
he thrones Of heaven, those who have
more nightly wrought for God aud
he truth, but 1t will be heaven enough
or you and me if ever and anon We
meet some radiant soul on the boule-
ards of the great city who shall say:
You helped me once. You encouraged
ne when I was In earthly struggle. I
10 not know that would have reached
his shining place had 1t not been for
,ou," and we will laugh with heavenly
,Iee and say: "Ha. ha! Do you really
that talk? Do you remem-
,er that warning? Do you remember
hat Christian invitation? What
memory you have! Why, that must
ave been down there In Washington
r New Orleans at least ten thousand
million years ago." And the answer
will be, "Yes, it was as long as that,
'ut remember 1t as we'll as though 1t
we're yesterday"
Oh, this character buildingl The
tructure lasting Independent of pass
ng centuries, independent of crumbling
Independent of the whole
lanetary system. Aye, If the material
Universe, which seems all bound to-
ether like one piece of machinery.
mould some day meet with an accident
hat should send worlds crashing into
ach other like telescoped railway
rains, and all the wheels Of constella-
ions and galaxies should stop, and
own into one chasm Of immensity all
he suns and moons and stars should
umble like the midnight express at
Ashtabula, that would not touch us and
would not hurt God, for God Is spirit,
nd character and memory are immor-
al, and over that grave Of wrecked
Material universe might truthfully be
written, "The righteous shall be held
q everlasting remembrance" o Time,
We defy thee! o Death, we stamp thee
a the dust Of thine own sepulchers! 0
Eternity, roll on till the last star has
topped rotating and the last sun Is ex-
lnguished on the sapphire pathway,
nd the last moon has illumined the
lst night, and as many years have
assed as all the scribes that ever took
en could describe by as many figures
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