page_title: Arthur Stace
section_title: Eternity script
hierarchical_section_title: Arthur Stace / Eternity script
caption_attribution_description: Eternity sign commemorating the work of Arthur Stace, Town Hall Square, Sydney
context_page_description: Arthur Malcolm Stace, known as Mr Eternity, was an Australian soldier. He became an alcoholic but later converted to Christianity and spread his message by writing the word "Eternity" in copperplate writing with chalk on footpaths in and around Sydney, from Martin Place to Parramatta, from 1932 to 1967.
context_section_description: The National Museum of Australia in Canberra holds one of only two existing original 'Eternity' inscriptions by Stace. He chalked it on a piece of cardboard for a fellow parishioner. The museum also has an Eternity gallery, inspired by Stace's story. The gallery features 50 personal stories from ordinary and extraordinary Australians. Each individual feature tells a separate story, anchored by a significant object. The stories are tied together by emotional themes including joy, hope, passion, mystery, thrill, loneliness, fear, devotion, separation and chance, which are all elements of Stace's story.
  In Sydney the word "Eternity" can be seen written in a few places, of which only one is original:
  Inside the bell in the Sydney General Post Office clock tower, which had been dismantled during World War II. When the clock tower was rebuilt in the 1960s, the bell was brought out of storage and as the workmen were installing it they noticed, inside, the word "Eternity" in Stace's chalk. This is the only surviving "Eternity" by Stace's own hand in Sydney. (No one ever found out how Stace had been able to get to the bell, which had been sealed up).
  On Stace's grave in Botany Cemetery.
  Eternity Cafe  (In Town Hall Square between St Andrew's Cathedral and the Sydney Town Hall),was named after Arthur Stace's one word sermon honouring Stace's commitment and inspiration of his beliefs. When the area was redeveloped in the 1970s, a wrought aluminium replica of the word in Stace's original copperplate handwriting was embedded in the footpath near a waterfall as a memorial to Stace.
  The Eternity Playhouse, a theatre named in Stace's honour, at Darlinghurst, the former Burton Street Tabernacle.
  Above the entrance to the Eternity Cafe in Central railway station, Sydney.
caption: Aluminium replica Eternity at Town Hall Square, Sydney
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