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' 11 t . \ HERA •IF FOR THE LIHKKTY OF THE WORM) WE CAN DO ANYTHING.” VOL. II. DARLINGTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1891. NO 8. BUILD FOR ETERNITY. ! 8UBUMC LI8SONS TAUGHT BY THE I GREAT PYRAMID OF GIZEH. Dr. Talmage Begins m Series of Sermons Entitled, "From the Pyramids to the Acropolis,” Enforcing and Illustrating the Truths of Scripture. Brooklyn, Oct.JIS.—The vast con gregation at the Brooklyn Tabernacle this morning was delighted by an ex qulsite rendering, by Professor Henry lyre Browne, on the new organ, of Denier's second sonata in G. Dr. Talinage's sermon was the first of a series he intends preaching on his east ern tour, entitled, “From the Pyramids to the Acropolis, or Wliut I Saw in Egypt and Greece Confirmatory of the Scriptures." His text was Isaiah xix, 1!). 20: “In that day shall there be an altar to the I.ord in the midst of the land of Egypt and n pillar at the border thereof to theTiord. And it shall be for a sign and for a witness.” Isaiah no doubt here refers to the great pyramid at Gizeh, the chief pyra mid of Egypt. The text speaks of n pillar in Egypt, and tin’s is the great est pillar ever lifted; and the text says it is to be at tlie border of the l.ind, and this pyramid is at the border of 'the land; and the text says it shall he for a witness, and the object of this lennon is to tell what this pyramid ! mating stone, auu yonder upon tne i minarets of Cairo glittering in the sun, and yonder upon Memphis in ruins, and off upon the wreck of empires and the battlefields of ages, a radius of view enough to till the mind and shock the nerves and overwhelm one’s entire being. After looking around for awhile, and a kodak had pictured the group we descended. The descent was more trying than the ascent, for climbing you in me Heavens certain stars woum ap- ! pear at certain periods of time. Not in tlie four thousand years since tlie putting up of that pyramid lias a single fact in astronomy or loathe- ; mnties been found to contradict the ; wisdom of that structure. Yet they 1 had not at tlie ago when tlie pyramid was started an astronomer or an archi- | tect or a mathematician worth mcn- ! tinning. Who, then, planned tlie pyra mid? Who superintended its erection* need not see the depths beneath, but Who from its first foundation stone to coming down it was impossible not to see tlie abysms below. But, two Arabs aliead to help us down and two Arabs to hold us back, we were lowered hand below baud until the ground was in vitingly near, and amid the jargon of tlie Arabs we were safely landed. Then came one of tlie most wonderful feats of daring and agility. One of the Arabs solicited a dollar, saying lie would run up and down the pyramid in seven minutes. We would rather have given him a dollar not to go, but tills ascent and descent in seven minutes lie was determined op and so by tlie watch in seven minutes lie went to tlie top and was back again at tlie base. It was a bloodcurdling spectacle. I said the dominant color of the pyra mid was gray, but in certain lights it seems to shake off tlie gray of centuries and become a blond and the silver turns to the golden. It covers thirteen acres of ground. What an antiquity! It was at least two thousand years old when tlie baby Christ was carried with- witnesses. Tills sermon is the first of 111 Ei 8 bt of R ' lis fugitive parents, a course of sermons entitled. “From Joseph and Mary. The storm? of forty the Pyramids to the Acropolis, or centuries have drenched it, bombarded What I Saw in Egypt and Greece Con ! it - shadowed It, flashed upon it, but flmiatory of the Scriptures." We had, on a morning of December, 1889, landed in Africa. Amid the howl ing boatmen at Alexandria we hud come ashore and taken tlie rail train for Cairo. Egypt, along the hanks of the most thoroughly harnessed river of all the world—tlie river Nile. We had, at eventide, entered tlie city of Cairo, tlie City where Christ dwelt while staying in Egypt during the Herodic persecu tion. It Was our first night in Egypt. No destroying angel sweeping through os once, but all tlie stars were out and the skies were filled with angels of beauty and angels of light, and the air was balmy as an American June. The next morning we were early awake and its capstone erected everything? It . must have been God. Isaiah was right when lie saiil in my text, “A pillar shall i be nt tlie border of tlie land of Egypt and it shall be for a sign and a wit- | ness.” The pyramid is God's first bible. Hundreds, if not thousands of years before tlie first line of tlie Book 1 of Genesis was written, tlie lesson of tlie pyramid was written. THK SION AND 8VMI10L OF KTKttMTY. ; Well, of wlmt is this Cyclopean ma sonry a sign and a witness? Among other things, of tlie prolongation of human work compared with the brev- j ity of human life. In all the four thousand yars this pyramid has only lost eighteen feet in width, one side of mountains of liunian bones to whiten the peaks reaching unto tlie heavens, hundreds of thousands of people are building that pyramid. So with tlie pyramid of righteous ness. Multitudes of hands are toiling on tlie steeps, hands infantile, hands octogenarian, masculine hands, female hands, strong hands, weak hands. Some clanging a trowel, some pulling a rope, some measuring the sides. Lay ers of psalm books on top of layers of sermons. Layers of prayers on top of layers of holy sacrifice. And hundreds of thousands coining down to sleep their last sleep, but other hundreds of thousands going up to take their pluees, and tlie pyramids will continue to rise until the iiiiilciniiiil morning gilds the completed work, and the toilers on these heights shall take oil their aprons and throw down their trowels, crying, “It is finished." Your business and mine is not to build a pyramid, but to be one of the hundreds of thousands who shall ring a trowel or pull a rope or turn tlie crank of a derrick or cry “Yo, heave!" while lifting another block to its eleva tion. Though it be seemingly a small work and a brief work, it is a work that sliul! last forever. In the last dav All around Cairo and Memphis there are the remains of pyramids that have gone down under tlie wearing away of time, and this great pyramid of which Isaiah in the text, speaks will vanish if tlie world iaste long enough; and if tlie world does not lost, then with tlie earth’s dissolution tlie pyramid will also dissolve But tlie memories of tlnxse with vqiom we associate are in destructible. ; They will be more vivid the other side of tlie grave than this side. It is possible for me to do you a good and for you to do me a good that will lie vivid - in memory as many years after tlie worjW is burned up as all tlie sands of tlie yeoshore, and all the leaves of the forest, oiffl all the grass blades of the field, and all the stars of heaven added together, and that aggregate multiplied by all the figures that all the bookkCeperaWf all tliMoaver wrote. “THKtll WORKS DO FOLLOW T1IRM." That desi# fb bo remembered after ! we are gone[is a divinely implanted de- ! sire and not to be crushed out, but, 1 J implore you, seek something better 1 I than tlm immortalization of rock or ! bronze or book* Put yourself into the ! keep silence before him. Allien!” And then tlie lips of granite hushed, and tlie great Giant of Masonry wrapped himself again in tlie silence of ages, and as i rode away in the gather ing twilight this course of sermons was projected. \\ rtmlr-tns Lanrl of sfirlrnt |hiiiii> imrl pri'ie. Where I'.Ni'itj- unlit-, by hoary Kulii's side. here tilcMy rei-_;m . «:el stl .hugrasonssmiU!. Ami rolls- rich Rill of (io-l-exImnsileM Nile. Bessie, the Drunkard’s Child. Horace They Wake Wlstakes. The father who tells his children U> go one way while he walks anoth er makes a mistake. People who talk about their trou bles to strangers make a mistake. People who never read the Bible make a mistake. The Rian who thinks he rich by doing wrong makes a mis take. Parents who quarrel before children make a mistake. Fathers who permit their Pam an orphan girl, left all alone, No friends, no mother, no father, no home, No one to love me—bone to caress, I wander alone in this world’s wilder ness. Out in theglooinv night, out in tin- street, Begging a penny from each one I meet; Begging a penny to buy me some bread, Father is a drunkard dead. ftrpfly on the Misery Being in Debt. of many good things Givly wrote for the is the following nii.-erv of being and mother riionus. whv did Among the which Horace New York Ledger vivid article on the in debt: '•’o be l.imgrv. ragged and penni less is not pleasant: but this is noth ing to the horror of bankruptcy. All jthe wealth of the Rothschilds would lie a poor recomjiense for a five w ness that von had taken the money property of trusting friejids promising to return or pay for it their itssquare at. foe b.ise changed only from seven hundred mid sixty-four feet to many n man mid woman whose work reveii hundred and forty-six feet, and the most of that eighteen feet taken off by architects to furnish stone fot building in the city of Cairo. Tlie men who constructed tlie pyra mid worked at H only few years and then put down the trowel, and the coin- pass and the square and lowered the derrick which had lifted tlie ponderous weights; but forty centuries has their there it stands ready to take another work stood, and it will be good for eternity of those whom you help for ! both worlds, this and tlie next. Com- fort a hundred souls and there will ho to grow up in icllem through all the cycles of eternity at take. Iikiuiv night saillv I make a mis- nie, Mothers who th ink dren never do anything n mistake. The minister their own cliil- wrong make forty centuries of atmospheric attack if the world should continue to exist. The oldest buildings of the earth are juniors to this great senior of the ccn turies. Herodotus says that for ten years preparations were being made for the building of this pyramid. It lias elghty-two million one hundred and eleven thousand cubic feet of tua sonry. One hundred thousand work men nt one time toiled in its erection. To bring tlie stone from the quarries a jauseway sixty feet wide was built. The top stones were lifted by inachiii- >ry such as the world knows nothing if today. It is seven hundred and orty-six feet each side of the square at the window, looking upon palni trees | '«**• The structure is four hundred in full glory of leafage, and upon gar dens of fruits and flowers nt the very Season when our homes far away are canopied by bleak skies and tlie last loaf of the forest lias gone down witli the equinoctials. But how can I describe tlie thrill of expectation, for today we are to see what ail the world lias seen or wants to see—the pyramids. We are mount ed for an hour and n halfs ride. We pass on amid bazaars stuffed with rugs and carpets and curious fabrics of all sorts from Smyrna, from Algiers, from Persia, from Turkey, and through streets, where wo meet people of all colors mid all garbs, carts’ loaded with garden productions, priests in gowns, women in black veils, Bedouins in long and seemingly superfluous apparel. Janissaries in Jackets of embroidered gold—out and on toward the great pyramid; for though then* are sixty nine pyramids still standing, the pyra mid at Gizeli is the monarch of pyra mids. We meet camels grunting under md fifty feet high, higher than the lathed nils of Cologne, Strasburg. Rouen. 8t. Peter’s and St. Paul's. No surprise to me that it was put nt he head of the Seven Wonders of the j World. It has a subterraneous room of •edgranite called the “king's chamber," uul another room called tlie “queen's ) chamber.’’and the probability is that there are other rooms yet unexplored. The evident design of the architect was to make these rooms as inacces sible as possible. After al! the work of j exploration and all the digging and j blasting, if you would enter these sub l terraneous rooms you must go through ; i passage only three feet eleven inches | high and less than four feet wide. ! I’HK GUKAT KING TLHSKD TO Dt.ST. I A sarcophagus of red granite stands lowu under this mountain of'masonry, riio sarcophagus could not have been i :arricd in after tlie pyramid was built. - it must have been put there before the I structure was reared. Probably in that sarcophagus once lay a wooden coffin forty centuries more. All Egypt lias | been shaken by . terrible earthquakes' and cities _ have been prostrated ot swallowed, but tliat pyramid lias defied ] all volcanic paroxysms. It has looked ( upon some of tlie greatest battles ever j fought sinoe tlie world stood. Whore are the men who constructed it? Tlieit bodies gone to dust and even the dust scattered. Even tlie sarcophagus in which tlie king's mummy may have slept is empty. So men die, but their work lives on. We are all building pyramids, not to | last four thousand years, but forty thousand, forty million, forty trillion, has never boon recognized orr earth ! least a hundred souls that will he your will come to u special honor. The monuments. A prominent member of ecumenical council, now in session at this church was brought to God by Washington, its delegates tlie honored j some one saying to her at the church representatives of (i.'sy million Meth- j door nt the close of service, “Come odists in all parts of the earth, will at again!” Will it be possible for that every session do honor to the memory one so invited to forget the inviter? of John Wesley, but I wonder If any of A minister paw ing along the street them will think to twist a garland for every day looked up and smiled to n ‘ the memory of humble Peter Bolder, baby In the window. The father and i , ; ..i.;,.]...,. , the Moravian, who brought John Wes mother wondered who it was that thus! 1 j deatL ley into the kingdom of God. I pleasantly greeted their child. They \ I rejoice that all the thousands who i found out that lie was the pastor of a \ have been toiling on the pyramid of church. They said, “We must go and righteousness will at last be recognized hear him preach.” They went and and rewarded—the mother who brought heard him and botii were converted to me no friend and im 1 no one would Out in the k roam, N o one to pi t v home; Noliody tares for cry, Even it poor little Barefooted and hungry I wand'Tfi I all day, " h° hever preaches j Asking for work, but I’m too young so that people find out that “they are j they say; sinners makes a mistake. ‘ Down on the cold ground at night I Parents who are not careful about |hiy my head, I rather is a drunkard uiHl mother is Mother, oh! why did you leave me! or alone? No one to^pity me, no friends and no j when required, and had betrayed The night’s cold and dark, and the' tlK 1 ' ir , ^‘tidence through storm mging wild, dwell on this pointj for 1 ■would Oh, God! Pity Bessie, the drunkard’* deter others from entering that place •one child. of torment. Half the young men in m country, with many old enough i to know beiter, would ’go into Ind ues— ibat is, into debt—tomorrow it tiny could. Most poor men are so ignorant as to envy (he niercln iit Bessie would die! 01 mamifaclurer, whose life is an in- lier chiMren to Christ, the Sabbath teacher who brought her class to the knowledge of the truth, the unpretend ing man who saved a soul. Then the trowel will bo more honored than tlie scepter. As a great battle was going on. tlie soldiers were ordered to the front and a sick man jumped out of an ambulance in which lie was being car ried to tlie ho pital. The surgeon asked him what he meant by getting forty quadrillion, forty qulntillion. For out of the ambulance when ho was sick awhile we wield the trowel, or pound with the hammer, or measure with tlie yardstick, or write with the pen, or experiment with the scientific battery, or plan with the brain, and for awhile the foot walks and the eye sees, and the ear hears, and the tongue speaks. All the good words or bad words we speak are spread out into one layer for a pyramid. All the kind deeds or ma-i ness tliat big tombstones level .nit deeds we do are spread out; ove? way 01 air|>i.i t . and almost ready to die. The soldier answered: “Doctor. 1 am going to the front. 1 had rather die on the field than die in an ambulance.” Thank God, if we cannot do iniicli wc can do a little. ItKMICMRF.nr.D—AND FOli WHAT? Further, carrying out tlie idea of my text, t!ie pyramid is a sign and a wit- ii re not the • f ti <Tv.v.t their load, and see buffaloes on either j containing a dead king, but time lias side browsing in pasture fields. Tlie road we travel is for part of the way under clumps of acacia, and by long rows of sycamore and tamarisk, but after awhile it is a patli of rock and sutid. and wo find we have reached tlie margin of tlie desert, the great Sahara desert, and we cry out to the j dragoman as we see a huge pile of rock looming in sight. “Dragoman, wlmt ! is tliat?" His answer is. "The pyra mid." and then it seemed as if we were ; living a century every minute. Our ; thoughts and emotions were too rapid : mid intense for lit tern line, mid we ride 1 on in silence until we come to the foot i i - v of the pyrauii i spoken of in the text, the oldest vturn in nil tlie earth, four thousand years oldat least. Here it Is. We stand un ’et iljo shadow of a structure that shuts out all the earth and all the sky, and we look up and strain our vision to appreciate the dis taut top. and are overwhelmed while \ye cry, "The pyramid 1 The pyramid 1" “AKHAin OF THAT WHICH IS HIGH.” 1 had started that morning with the determination of ascending the pyra mid. One of my chief objects in going to Egypt whs not only to see the base of that granite wonder, but to stand on the top of it. Yet the nearer 1 came to this eternity in stone tlie more my determination was shaken Its altitude to me was simply appalling. A great height lias always been to mo a most disagreeable sensation. As we dismounted at the base of the pyramid I said: '’Others may go up it. but not I. I will satisfy myself with a view from the base. The ascent of it would he to me a foolhardy undertak Ing.” But after 1 had given up all idea of ascending I found my daughter was de termined to go, an'd 1 could.not.let her go with strangers, and I changed my mind, and we started with guides. It cannot be done without these helpers. Two or three times foolhardy men have attempted it alone, but their Ixxlies came tumbling down unrecoguizable and lifeless. Each person in our party bad two or three guides or helpers. One of them unrolled his turban and tied it around my waist, and he held the other : end of the turban os a matter of safety. If any of the blocks of stone are four or | five feet high and beyond any ordinary human stride unless assisted. But, two Arabs to pull and two Arabs to push, I found myself rapidly ascending from height to height, and on to altitudes terrific, and at last at the tip top wo found ourselves on a level space of about thirty feet square. Through tlie clearest atmosphere wo looked oil upon tlie desert, und off Upon the winding Nile, and off upon typhia* with Its (egtqree ot «Yftr I“stroved the coffin and destroyed the list vestige of human remains. For three thousand years this sepal •hral room was unopened, and would have been until today probably un- j;>oiied had not a superstitiousrimpms Sion got abroad that the heart of the pyramid was tilled with silver and gold i:id diamonds, ami under Al Maiiiouu tn excavating party went to work, and having bored and blasted through a hundred feet of rock they found no opening aliead, and were about to give up tlie attempt when tlie workmen heard a stone roll down into a seeming ly hollow place, and encouraged by that they resumed their work and came into tlie underground rooms. Tlie disappointment of tlie workmen in finding tlie sarcophagus empty of all ilvefkand gold and precious stones was so great that they would have assas sinated Al Mamoun, who employed them, iiad he not hid in another part of the pyramid as much silver and gold as would pay them for their work at ordinary rate of wages and induced them there to dig till they, to their sur prise, came upon adequate compensa tion. I wonder not that this mountain of ; limestone and red granite has been tlie fascination of scholars, of scientists, of I intelligent Christians in all ages. Sir ! John Herschel, the astronomer, said lie * thought it had astronomical sigtiifl i cance. The wise men who accompa nied Napoleon’s army into Egypt went into profound study of tlie pyramid. . in 18(55, Professor Smyth and ids wife lived in tlie empty tombs near by the pyramid tliat they might be as contin- j uously as possible close to tlie pyramid, which they were investigating. The pyramid built more than four 1 thousand years ago, being a complete \ geometrical figure, wise men have con cluded it must have been divinely con- 1 structed. Man came through thou sands of years to fine architecture, to music, to painting, but this was perfect at the world's start, and God must into another layer. All tlie Christian ntely remembered. This pyramid and or un-Christian example we set is spread the sixty-nine other pyramids still stand out in another layer. All the indirect ing were built for sepulchers, all this influences of our lives are spread out great pile of granite ami limestone by in another layer. Then the time soon which we stand today, to cover ti. comes when we put down the imple ment of toil and pass away, but the pyramid stands. The Twentieth century will not rock it down, nor the Thirtieth century, nor tl* One Hundredth century. The earthquake that rocks this world to pieces will not stop our inlluence for good or evil. You modestly say, “That j is true In regard to the great worken | for good or evil, and of gigantic gen iuses, Miltonian or Tulleyrandian, but not of me, for I live and work on a small scale.” My hearer, remember that those who built (lie pyramids were common workmen. Not one of them could lift one of those great stones. It took a dozen of them to lift one stone, and others just wielded a trowel clicking it on the hard edge, or smooth ing the mortar between the layers. One hundred thousand men toiled on those sublime elevations. If one of those granite blocks that just touch with my feet on this Decern her morning in 1889, as the two Arabs pull me and the two other Arabs push me, could speak out and tell its history, it would say. “The place of my uutiv ity was down in the great stone quarry of Mokattam or Agawam Then they began to bore at my sides, and then to drive down great Iron wedges, crushing memory of a dead king. It was the great Westminster abbey of the an dents. Some say that Cheops was the king who built tiiis pyramid, but it is uncertain. Who was Oheop.s, anyhow? All that the world knows about him could be told in a few sentences. The only tiling certain is that he was bad and that lie shut up the temples of worship and that he was imted so tliat tlie Egyptians were glad when lie was dead. This pyramid of rock, seven hundred a nd forty feet each side of the square base, and four hundred and fifty feet iiigli, wins for him no re.- pact. If it bone of Ids arm or foot had been found in the sarcophagus beneath the pyra mid.it would have cxcited.no more vein ration than the skeleton of a camel bleaching on the Libyan desert: yea. less veneration, for when 1 saw the car cass of ;. camel by the road-idc on the | i way to Memphis, I said to myself, “Poor thing. 1 wonder of what it died.” We say nothing against the marble m tlie bronze of tlie necropolis. Let all that sculpture and I! irescenee and ar borcscencc can do for the places of the dead lie done, if menus will allow it. But if after one is dead there is nothing left to remind the world of him but some pieces of stone, there is but little left. and thundered. Then 1 was pried out I with crowbars and levers, scores of men putting their weight on the lever age. Then chains were put around me, am) I was hoisted witli wheels that | groaned under the weight, and many workmen had their hands on the cranks and turned until the muscles on their arms stood out in ridges, and the ; sweat rolled from their- dusky fore ! heads. “Then I was drawn by long teams of | oxen, yoke after yoke, yoke after yoke. I Then 1 was put on an inclined plane I and haidcd upward, and how many ! Iron tools, and how many human arms. ; and how ninny beasts of burden were ; employed to get me to tills place no | have directed it. All astronomers and veoiuetridans and scientists say that It was scientifically and mathematically constructed before science and mathe matics were bom. From the Inrcrip- rions on tlie pyramid, from its proper- 1 ti ma from the points of the coinpasf I'ecognized in its structure, from tlie direction in which its Funnels run, from (he relative position of tlie blocks that compose it, scientists, Christians and in fidels have demonstrated that the be ing who planned this pyramid must one can tell. Then I had to he mens ured and squared and compassed and fitted in before 1 was left here to do my silent work of thousands ot yearn i God only knows how many hands we.» busied hi getting me from my geologlroi cradle In tlie quarry to tills enthrone- i incut of Innumerable ages. AWFUL HKSULTS OF LITTLK SIN'S. My hearers, that is' the nutobiogia pliy of one block of the pyramid. I Cheops didn’t build tlie pyramid. Some boss mason in tlie world’s twi light didn't build tlie pyramid. One I hundred thousand men built it, and ; perhaps from first to last two hundred ' thousand men. So with the pyramids now rising, pyramids of evil or pyra mills of good. The pyramid of drunk ennoss rising ever since the time when Noah got drunk on wine, although ( there was at Ids time such a super abundance of water. All the satoonlsts of tlie ages adding their layers of ale casks and wine pitchers and rum Jugs , Borne of the finest monuments are over people w’lo amounted to nothing while they lived, while some of tlie worthiest men and women have not had above them u sloue big enough to tell their name. Joshua, the greatest Warrior the world ever saw, no monu incut; M-.'ses, the greatest lawyer that over lived, no monument; Ikiul, the greatest preacher that ever lived, no monument; Christ, the Baviour of the world and the raptuie d heaven, no monument. A pyraml 1 over scouu drully Cheops, hut only a shingle with a lead |iciieil epitaph over many a good man's grave. Some of tlie finest obituaries have been printed about tlie worst rascals. Today at Brussels there is a pyramid of (lowers on tlie of Boulanger, the notorious libertine. i Yet it is natural towant to be remem | bored. I While there seems to lie no practical ■ use for post mortem consideration Inter ; than tlie time of one’s great gmndchll j dren, yet no one wants to be forgotten j ns soon as the obsequies arc over. This ! pyramid which Isaiah says is a sign ; and a witness demonstrates that neither limestone nor rial granite is ronqiotent to keep one affectionately remembered. | Neither can bronze, neither cun Parian God. Will there be any power in fifty million years to erase from the souls of those parents the memory of that inaii who by his friendliness brought them to God? Matthew Cranswick, nnevan gelist, said that lie had the names of two hundred souls saved through his singing the hymn, “Arise, my soul, arise!" Will any of those two hundred souls in all eternity forget Matthew Cranswick? Will any of the four hun dred and seventy-nine women and children imprisoned at Lucknow, India, waiting for massacre by the Sepoys, forget Havelock and Ontram and Sii David Beard, who broke in and effect ed their rescue? To s^'iie of you who hr.vs lev's! and served tlie I.ord heaven will be ax'reat picture gallery of remembrance. Hosts of the glorified will never forget you. Ah, that is a way of building monu- ... —,lilUt M...11 - - —„ L,,,l tl,u f.kiml, ! of decay. I do not ask you to sup press this natural desire of being re : nienibcred after you are gone, but I only want you to put your memorials j into a shape that shall never weaken 1 or fade. During the course of my min ; istry 1 have been intimately associated 1 in Christian work with hundreds of j good men and women. My memory is hung with their por traits more accurate and vivid than anything that Rembrandt ever put on canvas—Father Grice, De Witt 0 : Moore, Father Voorhecs, E. P. Hop I kins, William Stephens. John Van I Rensselaer, Gasherie DeWitt, Dr. Ward and hundreds of others, all of them gone out of tiiis life, but 1 hold tlie memory of them and will hold them forever. They cannot escape from me. I will remember them just ns they looked on earth, and I will remember many of you after the earth has been : an extinct planet forages infinite. Oh, wlmt stud tlie memory is for niouii incut building! ; Tin: SOUL To OUTLAST THK rVUAMIDS. As iii Egypt that December after- : noon, l i-'S), exhausted in body, mind ' and.soul, we mounted to return to Cairo, we took our last look at tlie pyramid at Gizeli. And yon know there is something in the air toward | evening that seems productive of ] solemn and tender emotion, and tliat I great pyramid seemed to he humanized and witli- lips of stone it seemed to speak and cry out: “Hear me, man, mortal and humor gets behind a post • wt-re so happy 1 Rum, Then all our The man who in prayer-meeting to keep from be ing called upon to pray makes a mis take. The Utah who is always trying to discover faults in other people makes a mistake. * The woman who says things about other people she wouldn’t want said about herself makes a mistake. The young woman who does not make a confident of her mother makes a mistake. Lfctiircr .Irfforics Against John J. Ilrmithfll. ’till father drank sorrows and troubles she wept every Was too hungry to ’till one summer pnler- Gaffxky, S. (’., Oct, 19.—State Lecturer Jefferies was in town today, and in conversation with your corres- ]>ondent he intimated in strong terms that the “farmers” would put up a candidate to oppose .Mr. Hemphill for congress: In answer to a direct question he led your correspondent to the (fmclu- sion that he would not object to occupying such an honorable posi tion.—Greenville News. begun; Mot her grew day; Boor baby and I play. Slowly they faded, night Found their sweet faces all silent and white; With tears rolling down, in deep anguish I said, Oh, father’s a drunkard and niothci is dead! Oh, if some Temperance man only could find, My poor, wretched father, and speak to him kind; If they could stop him from drink ing, why then, I know I could feel very happy again. Oh, is it too late? Men of Temper- an L/C, |nc«ov A For poor little Bessie will soon starve und di< ; For all this dav long I am begging for bread. M) father is a drunkard und mother is dead. Bridle lour Tongue. The Last Waltz. It rose and fell in the dusky room And died on the purple night out side, Like tin tremulous swell of the ocean’s calm And the steady sweep of the com ing *ide. And we stood in hand, With faces a quiver, love tl there together, hand a-smilebut with hearts lat rebelled at anms-jwl hi With a ter’s law, As we moved lo (lie strains of* Beautiful River. In a little town in Connecticut, we are told, Miss Mary June Jacobs, the prettiest girl in the village, created much of a sensation tin other day by publicy horse g William YanDorn, a wealthy farmer 00 years of age. The cause of this trouble was that the old gentleman bad on different occasions moralized and gossipped about the friendship between Itie girl and Mr. Bracket, who was a married man. Miss laeobn and berfatber called on N an- tall My voice is tlie voice of God. He 1 designed me. Isaiah said I would be a sign mid « witness. I saw Moses when : lie was a lad. I witnessed the long procession of the Israelites as they : started to e.ross ttio Red sea and Plia ; I mob's host in pursuit of them. The ' i falcons and tlie eagles of ninny cen ] turies have brushed my brow. I stood here when Cleopatra's barge i landed with her sorceries, and Hypatia j ! for her virtues was slain in yonder 1 streets. Alexander the Great, Sesos What if for once mine And I felt tin on my face? Isive (’annul alway down N or rise brace. For I held your cheek louelici play of your brent I be to a sin in a last eui- you then but may— But held you to wake with a terri ble shiver-- And the air '•irw faint and ihe world tin- into told girl. On trisand Ptolemy admired my propor forgetting the future a Dorn and asked him to explain bis remarks. Ho could only say that it | was si range that .-ucb friendship I loultl exist, and while he could j j ineiitiou no impropriety, he admit-j fetterv 1 ted having made cerlaning disparag- I ing intimations, which induced irlJo bring her horsewhip ’ play. as others > The entire community, we are j sympathizes with thisyouti^ _ 1 ami . be deserves ib . i The good name of a woman is the } : deare-J. tiling on this earth. Blared j in Ihe balance, it will outweigh tin j j gold of tlie universe. Though it | cannot be bought bin k. yet in a 1110- tbe swelling How of its fervid i ment it can be taken. An idle word, tide j a bare suspicion uttered in an 1111- We buried the past with a bitter' guarded moment, may blacken tin pleasure; purest life. hopeless! It is wonderful what a fascination cessant struggle with pecuniary diffi culties, who is driven to constant •shinning' am! who. from month to month, hardy imuIcs that ; 1 ».:i l'*im v 1 which .-oomT nr later overtai <; most ; men in business; so Unit it has been computed that but one in twciitv of | them achieve.' a pecuniary sticcc s. For my own ’ part—and 1 sputk from sad experience—1 would raihor be a convict in the State prison, u slave in a rice-swamp than to pass through life under the horror of debt. Let no young man misjudge himself unfortunate or truly pom- so long as be has the full use of his limbs and faculties and suLstentialiv free from debt. Hunger, cold, i-igs. hard work, contempt, suspicion, unju.-i reproach ire disagreeable; but debt is infinik- iy worse than them ail. And, if it had pleas.*d God to spare either of all of my sons L, be the support and solace of my declining years, the les ion which 1 should have most earn estly sought to impress upon them is: Never run into d'bt! Avoid ‘d'liSHtions as vou would pestilence ot famine. It you have hut fifty cents ami can get no more for a week, buy a peck of corn, puv lor it and live on it rather than owe any nuin a dollar! Of course I know that some men inns' do busiiie s that involves risks •md must give notes and other obli gations: and 1 do not consider him really in debt who can lay his hands directly on the means of paving, at some little sacrifice, all lie owed. I speak of real debt—that which in volves risk or sacrifice on the one Mile, obligation and dependence on the others—and, 1 say, from all such let every youth humbly pray God to presene him evermore! The Cleveland's have named their daughter Ruth, a beautiful oriental name. — •<»• ‘Two hear!* that heat as one — A heavy step—a scare — And when her pa arrived One heart alone was there.” George A. Cowan, years old and blind, Emma Abbot singing, waukee County _ now who seventy taught is in the Mil- se. air grew dim As we tloated fnl River.” alon: “The Beau! An liislinmn who \ • light with a blackened by Starting off in a ing. lie caught :• mirror, puzzled, ed, finally exclaimed: “Bcgorra, th have woke the wrdhg man!” Hi is sleeping all negro had his face a practical joker, hurry in the niorii- ght 1 f himself in a he slopped and gaz- v lions. Herodotus and Pliny sounded my praise. I am old. I am very old. For thousands of years I have watched tlie coming aud going of rtin'e ' generations. They tarry only u little while, but they make everlasting im pression. 1 bear on my side tlie murk of the trowel and chisel of those who more than four thousand years ago ex pired. Beware what you do, oh, man, for what you do will last long after yen are dead! If you would be a flee tionately rcmeiiiliercd after you are gone, trust not to any eartlily coitl inemomtiou. I have not one word to say about any astronomer who studied love And a life measti re. Imruetl out to its golden A touch of the hand the eye, (file hunting word, forever; Rurted to heart In a passionati can sever. and a look of and wc parted ight, hut still heart to c's the lutes .small-hoy story, there is to some people in retailing! mid at a Washington dinner the scandal. In order to expatiate and jother night. The new rector gazed moralize, they grasp the slightest ; mil ,|| v ul . sma ]j | MJV j,, t'le'Smi- pretext and often a pretext which , . , , , , . . 1 . . 1 • .1 • 1 • • dav school and suvs: "Mvilear exists only in their own imagination, 1 violating the law which says, judge, not, they do, oft times unconsciously, day school and tie fellow, have nine article?” small hoy, “but Thieves.” says: “My dear lit- yolt read the thirty- “No,” rejoined the I've read the Forty 1 wrong for which no reparation can ever lie made. When in the other world there clasp which naught shall be marshalled the host of wo- | A|l American speaker once oucs- nien, u ho on earl It were seortted hv; . ... . ... . . ; their own sex ami dispised by me.;. | tlu ’ true A '"''* ‘can citizenship During the hist year an average of it maybe many of them will point to 1 foreigners. W hen he was seated, 00 letters per dav were received at those who stood high in the cstiniu- ;a foreigner arose and retorted: “Al- tlie heavens from my heights, or any I Ihe (’elision Bureau from mcnihcrs lion of their neigh ■oi's, umni marble, neither cun Aberdeen granite 1 ami though I ant not a native of this zing who was sepulcltred in my bosom, of Congress and an average of 2,800 ‘ jhorti'of 'their' dowttfall—tlie tiiicon- i * think 1 am a hotter citizen do the work. But there is something J “' l ' pr day from lawyers and claimants, gc j 0l , 8 agents, it maybe, of untold! tllan m - v 0 lT 0 ' u ' ,lt 1 to this out of which to build an everlasting the 'usfof the plaln and tlic rallds of "“•“"g 4,300 letters to be opened misery. ” ; country with cloth* on my back, monument, and that will keep one the deM>rt a)|H „ ^ over m(> or whon the daily. On Jttlv 1st there were 929,-1 Never did a garden feed and nour- while my opponent came in naked.” .. r A . C ! U . r _ 1 °, l ! Ra , n >ertr ! ! earth gow 1 will go. But you are tin ! 4“G pending pension claims. Alxmt j** 111 . UlU .| 0l .." S i W ° 1 i m .!!.!:r.'. 1 i* have known tlio World’s sphericity, and until the pyramid dforshndows the that motion was rotatory, and how great Sahara desert of desolated many miles it was in diameter and cir , homes and broken hearts and de- ctituiorence, and how many tons the ( stroyod eternities. And ns tlie pyra- world welsrhs. i(in| knew at what oo'nt | mid still riser., layers ol huiiinn skulls - ' tyjyd 013 top of human i)tuU* and otjtyj —yea, forever and ever. It does not stand in marble yards. It is not to lie purchased at mourning stores. Yet It is to be found in every neighborhood, plenty of It, inexhaustible quantities of It. It is tlie greatest stuff in tlie uni verse to build monuments out of. 1 refer to the memories of those to whom we can do a kindness, tlie uicitiorics of those whose struggles wo limy alleviate, 1 the memories of those whose souls we maveiivc, 'j. • "•■ . . * . mortal. climbed The feet with which Jo* 1 180,008 claims are adjudicated every , ''V'i,.. my sides today will turn to \ * hut hi dust, but you have a soul that will out-1 month. Commissioner Kttum must '>e fixed this Hire. The rose maybe beautiful,! ttise its leaves and its Itcattlv ; Jones—“I saw your son country yesterday.” HI the says is gone never to return. The spot is T year, there which neither skill nor philan-1 Ih’own—“Yes, he went out to try pyramids. Live for eternity I Live for which D 100,000 more than in 1890.' thophy ciUt efface. All that was ‘his new camera. How was h<-pel- last me and all my brotherhood of 1 350,000 temityl Live for which is 100,000 more than i.. . . . God! With the shadows of tlie even JI( , ,. u ^ th(lt will „ot he 11 lov , cl > K om '> it ' flllls to the K™uml I ting along with it?' mgr now falling from my side. I pro* aim is forgotten, 1 « * ... nottnee upon you a benediction. Take m the appropriation*, £138,- , |']| eS( , | H , sacred tilings; let the ° V' * ' • '' , it with you across the Mediterranean. 1 173.085, which was ntudo by the gossip und Ihe H-amlul monger know ” nci I smv tnni. A farmer win*had Take it with you across the Atlantic.; i,„ , (Vngrci, for the Bcusiou Bit-j let the burden of a blasted life he ,J *jcc»ed to being plmtogiaphed had God only Is giyat! Let all t|ie earth ^ 1 ^ ^ d, wv , 1 ^ the d'tg- on luap" • * -*:■» V' i l-1