The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1915-06-03
THE PEOPLES FORUM.
The Pyramids.
SECOND LETTER.

full pyramids.
Let me begin this article by remind
ing you that we may learn the lesson of
Perseverance.
1t took 100, 900 men ten years to build
the roads over which the stones were
carried and then it took seventy years
more to construct the great one. What
patiencel Scores OF the workers would
die in that time but others would take
their place and the work went on show
ing that it did not depend on any one
man or even on men. So goes the work
in life, one man may be very successful
in his work in the community, he may
be very useful and a recognized leader,
many may depend upon him. but when
his time comes and the Lord calls he
drops out of the race of life and some
body else steps in and takes up the work
where he laid it down. Have we a
work to do? 1t may be very important,
too, but it is necessary that we should
stick to 1t. Perseverance overcomes
apparently insuperable difficulties.
Always at it it wins the day. He that
will not be beaten cannot be beaten. If
you keep on pegging away, you will do
it sooner or later.
by many strokes the work is done,
Which cannot be performed at one"
A tailor's needle SAYS, 81 go through, "
you do the same. That is persevere.
Don't be beaten and you'll have success.
eff bad be your prospects don't sit
down and cry,
But jump up and say to yourself, 81
will try"
We may note too, the failure of
human purpose. Man NAV make his
plans with great care, but he cannot
always carry them out. MAN proposes
but God, disposes."
If that mighty Pyramid was built for
the preservation of the body of the King
it failed.
The Tower of Babel, built to defy
God was a miserable failure.
We may be sadly disappointed in our
most cherished plans. We may educate
/ our children; sacrifice everything for
them only to be disappointed.
We are forcibly reminded that if the
object for which it was built was not
attained there was waste of money as
well as of talent. What good are they
to the world today. They may impress
these and other lessons on the mind of
the thoughtful, if so they may not have
been built in vain. However that may
be, it is undoubtedly true that if we dc
not attain the object for which we were
created it were better that we had not
been born,
What is the object of our existence!
That we may glorify the Lord, in our
lives here, and enjoy Him forever. II
we fail to reach the goal, heaven, Their
we are of all creatures the most
miserable. There is only one door, enter
while it is open. There is only one way,
enter while you may.
This leads me to my last thought
which is this, earth is not our permanent
home. We are but for while. 1t behaves
US to make our home here happy, ther
we'll be happy at home. When one
ceases to care for home it is sure sigr
of moral sickness. Strange that 81
many care so little for home. Some
times there is reason for it. but how
a man who has good wife who tries t.
make his home pleasant place for him
can turn his back upon it and prefer t.
loaf at the saloon, the pool room or the
store is hard to understand. A gooc
husband loves the freside club best Of
all. He will get more real pleasure out
of one evening at home with his family
than out of a month in the smoking room
of the club, or the companionship of the
loafing center Besides it is lots better
for his boys and he will stand a better
chance of seeing them go in the way o.
right and purity, in the way that ends
at last in the celestial home. Better
never to have lived at all than to live
and miss heaven. 1t is grand to see
the home gatherings of Thanksgiving
and Christmas times, when the children
come from all directions to enjoy the
fellowship of the old home for little
while.
1t is much the same as it used to be
only the circle is larger, but Father
sits at the old place at the end of the
table and Mother at her old place at the
opposite end. They have put in all thu
leaves and made the table as long al
possible. for the little folks are there t.
llven the scene and cheer Grand father
and Mother. But soon the good-bys
are said and they scatter to their owl
homes. Again we think of the home
over there where
They are gathering homeward from
every land,
One by one! one by one!
AS their weary feet touch the shining
strand,
Yes, one by one
They rest with the Saviour, they wal
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