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CAPITAL CITY COURIER, SATURDAY OCTOBER 17, 1S91.
LESSON OF THE PYRAMID
"WHAT I SAW CONFIRMATORY OF
THE SCRIPTURES."
Dr. Talmag llrglna n Nvrlri of Nrrmnnt
on llli t)l(iirtloin In lin Kwalrrii
I tanril Thn Wotulrrfiil I'.rrnmtd nf
nitvli nml Itin l.a.on. II Tntrtim.
HllOliKl.VN, Oct. 18. The vnst roiiKriW
ilon nt the llrnnklyuTfthi'ruiiohi this nuirn
Iiik wm (U1IkM'I by nn nxquMtn render
ItiK, by l'mfwwor Ilftiry Kyro Ilrowni', mi
thr now orK'Oi, of Denler's second milium
In O, Dr. Tulumun'n sermon wns the. IItfI
of n series ho Intend preaching mi his
wwtern tour.cntltled, "From the Pyramids
to the Acroiwll, or Wlmt I Siv In Kyi't
nml Greece, Coullriuiitory of tho rVilp
turcs," Ill text wiw ImIiiIi xlx, III, '.M.
"In tlmt ilny shnll 1 1 10 10 Im nu nltnr to tin1
Iird In tho iiiliNtnf the lund of KKypt,
Aiul n (llllnr nt tlin Intnler thereof to tin
Iord. Ami It shiill Ihi for n kIku nml for n
WltHCM."
Isnlnli no doubt hero refers to thu jtrent
pyrnmlil itt (llr.eh, thn chief pyramid of
Kuypt. Tho tt'Xt Kpt'iik of a tillhtr In
Kuypt, nml ThU N thn k reMtoit plllur over
lifted; mid thn tnxtsity It h to ho nt tin
Intnler of thu Innil, nml this pyrnmlil U nt
tho bonier nf tho Inml; nml thu tcxtsnjH li
nlinll Iw for n wltue, nml thn object nf
thin sermon Into toll wlmt this pyrnmlil
wlttifxtitM, Thlx Kormnu In thu llrst of n
outirsc of sermon entitled, "Fnint the
X'jrrniiiltln to thn AcropoIlN, or Wlmt I Saw
InKtfyptnml Orw'o Conllrmntory of the
Bcrlitun."
Wu lmd.oii a mornliiKof December, ISM),
IniiiU'il In Africa, Amid thu howling limit
men nt Alexandria wu hail coimi iiNhoru
nml tnkon tho rail train for Cairo, Kwypt,
along tho hanks of thu most thoroughly
linrnmiril river of nil tho worlil tho river
Nile. Wo hail nt uvvnthlo entered tho city
of Cairo, thu city where Christ dwelt whllo
NtnyltiK in Kypt dnrliiK the Herodlo per
necutlnu. It wan our Unit tiluht in Egypt.
No destroying iiiiko! sweeping throuuh ns
once, hut nil tho atnrs were out, nml tho
sklrs weru tilled with aiiKeln of beauty nml
atiKelt of Unlit, nml the ntr wnn halniy hi
an American .Tunc Tho next morning wu
were early nwako nml nt the window, look
leg upon palm tree In full Klory of leaf
tie, nml ukiu Harden of fruit nml flow
era at tho very seusou when our home far
way are canopied by bleak skies nml the
last leaf of tho forest has koiio down In the
equinoctials.
K1H8T VIKW OK TIIK PVItAMII).
But how can I decrlbu tho thrill of ex
pectation, for today wo nro to seo what nil
tho world Im seen or want to ace the
pyramid. Wo nro mounted for nn hour
atidnhn.lt' ride. Wo pan on amid ba
canrt stuffed with niK ami carpet, nml
curious fabric of nil sorts from Smyrna,
from Algiers, from Persia, from Turkey,
and through streets whero we meet people
of all colon nml all gitrbs, carta loaded
with Harden production, priests In (towns,
women In black veils, Iledouln In long
ami seemingly supcrlluou appnrel, Janis
aarlcs In Jacket of embroidered ((old out
mud on toward tho great pyrnmlil, for
thoiiKh there are alxty-nlno pyramid tlll
tamlltii, tho pyramid atGlreh is tho mon
arch of pyramid. We meet camels (runt
tag under their loads, and see buffaloes on
cither side browsing in pasture fields.
The road wo travel Is for part of tho way
under clumps of acacia and by long row
of ayenmoro and tnmerUk, but after nwhlle
It la a )wth of rock ami snml, ami wo find
we have reached tho margin of the desert,
the great Sahara desert, and wo cry out to
the dragoman a wo see a huge pile of rock
looming la sight, "Dragoman, what is
thatf" His answer Is, "The pyramid,"
and then it seemed as if we weru living a
century every mlnuto. Our thoughts ami
motions were too rapid nml lntvnio for
utterance, ami wo ride on in silence until
wo come to the footot tho pyramid spoken
of In tho text, thu oldest structure, In nil
the earth, four thousand yearn old nt least.
Hero it is. Wo stand under tho shndow of
a structure that shuts out nil the earth
and all the sky, and we look up ami strain
our vision to appreciate tho distant top,
and are overwhelmed whllo we cry, "Tho
pyramid! The pyramid!"
I had started that 'morning with the de
termination of ascending tho pyramid.
One of my chief objects In going to Kgypt
was not only to see the Itase of that gra
nitic wonder, but to stand on the top of it.
Yet the nearer I came to this eternity In
atone tho more my determination was
shaken. Its altitude to mo was simply
appalling. A great height has always
been to me a most disagreeable sunsntion.
Aa we dismounted at the base of the pyra
mid, I aaldt "Others may go up it, but not
I. I will satisfy myself with a view from
the base. Tho ascent of It would be to mo
ioolhs.ru undertaking." Iiut after 1
had given up all idea of ascending, I found
my daughter was determined to go, and I
could not let her go with strangers, and I
changed my mind and we started with
guides. It cannot bo doue without these
helpers. Two or three times foolhardy men
have attempted it aloue, but their bodies
came tumbling down, unrecognisable and
lifeless.
Each person in our party had two or
three guides or helpers. One of them un
rolled his turban and tied it around my
waist and he held the other end of the tui
bau aa a matter of safety. Many of the
blocks of atone are four or five feet high
and beyond auy ordinary human stride un
less assisted. Iiut, two Arabs to pull and
two Arabs to push, I found myself rapidly
ascending from height to height, aud on to
amiuuea terrtne, and at laat at the tiptop
we found ourselves on a level space of
about thirty feetsquare. Through clearest
atmosphere we looked off upon the desert,
and off upon the winding Nile, and off
upon the Sphinx, with its features of ever
lasting stone, and yonder upon the min
arets of Cairo glittering In the sun, and
yonder upon Memphis in ruins, and off
upon the wreck of empires and the battle
fields of ages, a radius of view enough to
fill the mind and shock the nerves aud
overwhelm one'a entire ixdng.
A STAItTLINO AIltUY OF FIOUKEB.
After looklug around for awhile, and a
kodak had pictured the group, we de
scended. The descent was more trying
than the ascent, for climbing you need not
see the depths beneath, but coming down
it was impossible not to see the abysms be
low, Iiut two Araba ahead to help us
down, and two Arabs to hold ua back, we
were lowered, "baud below hand. UMil the
ground was tut Iti ugly near, and aaaUUhe
Jargon of.the Araba we were safely Imaged.
Then cameoueof the most wouderful Hats
of. daring and agility. Que of the Arab
solicited a dollar, aaylag he would run up
w4 down the pyramid la aavtw niinuteo.
We would ratfctr Law gy,t felui a dollar
sot to go, but thliaHceRtM dvacent in
eves minutes he was determined ou, and
o ky'the watch in aeveu minute he wvnv
teste top aa4 was back again at the base
It wm a bloealar411uK apectacle.
I aM tb doettVM color of the pyramid
wm jeny, feat ! Wn llbu u aMma t0
shake off the gray nf centuries and become
a blond, a'ld tho silver turn to tho gold
en, It covers thirteen acres of ground.
What an nnthiiltyi It wn at least two
thousand year old when tho baby Chrltl
wn rnrrled within sight of it by hi fugi
tive parent, Joseph nml Mary, Thu storm
of forty centuries have drenched 11,1x1111'
Imrded It, idinitowed It, Hashed upon It,
buttheru It stands, ready to take another
forty centuries of ntmospherlo nttack If
tho world should continue to exist. Tin
oldest building of tho earth nro junior
to this great senior of thu centuries,
Herodotus say that for ten year prepa
ration worn being madu for tho building
of this pyramid. It has eighty-two mil
lion ono hundred nml eleven thousand
cubic feet of masonry. Ono hundred thou
Mind workmen nt ono tlmo toiled in itK
erection. To bring thu stono from thu
ipiarrle n cuusuway sixty feet wldu was
built. Thu top stones were lifted by ma
chinery such a tho world know nothing
of today. It I seven hundred mid forty
six feet each slilu of thu sipinro base. Thu
structure U four hundred and fifty feet
high; higher than thu cathedral of Co
lugno, Striishurg, Koiien, St. Peter's ami
St. Paul's. Nosurprlsutoinotliat.lt wn
put nt thu head of thu seven wonders nf
thu world, It ha a subterraneous room
of red gruultu called thu"klug'M chamber,"
nml another room called thu "ipieeii's
chamber," nml tho probability Initial tli"r
are other room yet unexplored.
Thuuvlileut design of thu architect win
to make thesu room a Inaccessible as
possible, Afterull tho work of exploration
and nil thudlgglng nml blasting, If on
would enter thesu subterraneous rooms,
you must go through n passagu only three
feet eluveu luclie high nml lesHthuufnur
feet wldu. A sarcophagi! of red granite
stands down under thl mountain of ma
miury. Thu sarcophagus could not have
iM'en carried in after thu pyrnmlil was
built. It must have liven put there before
tho structure wn reared. Probably In
that sarcophagus oncu lay n wooden colli u
containing a dead king, hut tlmo has de
stroyed thocolllu and destroyed tho last
vestige of human remain.
For three thousand yearn thl sepulchral
room wn unopened, nml would have been
until today probably unopened had not a
superstitious Impression got abroad that
thu heart of tho pyramid wan filled with
silver ami gold and diamonds, nml under
Al Mamoiin mi excavating party went to
work, ami having bored mid blasted
through a hundred feet of rock, they found
no opening ahead, and weru alxnit to give
up the attempt when thu workmen heard
a stone roll down Into a seemingly hollow
place, aud encouraged by that they re
sumed their work and came Into tho under
ground rooms.
Tho disappointment of tho workmen in
finding the sarcophngu empty of all silver
and gold and precious stone was so great
that they would have assassinated Al Ma
mouu, who employed them, had ho not hid
In another part of tho pyramid a much
silver aud gold iih would pay them for their
work nt ordinary rate of wage and In
duced them there to dig till they to their
surprise camo upon ndequato compensa
tion. WAS TltH DKHKIN (lOIl'S OW.Nf
I wonder not that thl mountain of lime
stone and red granltu hits Ih'oii tho fascina
tion of scholars, of scientists, of Intelligent
Christians in all age. Sir John Herschel,
tho astronomer, said ho thought it had as
tronomical significance. Tho wise men
who accompanied Napoleon' army Into
Kgypt wont Into profound study of tho
pyramid. In 18(15 Professor Smyth aud hi
wife lived In thu empty tomb near by tho
pyrnmlil that they might bo as continuous
ly ns possible closo to the pyramid which
they were Investigating. Tho pyramid,
built more than four thousand year ago,
being a complete geometrical figure, wlso
men havo concluded it must have ln-eu
divinely constructed. Man camo through
thousand of year to lino architecture, to
music, to painting, but this wu perfect at
thu world' start, and God must havo
directed It.
All astronomer aud geometricians and
scientists say that It was ocicntlflcully and
mathematically constructed beforo sclencu
nml mathematics weru born. From thn
Inscription on tho pyrnmlil, from It pro
portions, from tho point of the compass
recognized In Its structure, from tho direc
tion in which it tunnels run, from tho
relative position of tho blocks that com
pose It, scientists, Christian and iulldela
have demonstrated that tho being who
planned this pyramid must havo known
tho world's sphericity, and that Ita motion
was rotary, and how many mile It was In
diameter aud circumference, aud how
many tons tho world weigh, nml know at
what point lit tho heaven certain star
would appear at certain period of time.
Not iu the four thousand year since tho
putting up of that pyramid has a single
fact In astronomy or mathematics been
found to contradict tho wisdom of that
structure. Yet they had not at the ago
when tho pyramid was started au astron
omer or an architect or a mathematician
worth mentioning. Who then planned
the pyramid I Who superintended ita
erection? Who from its first foundation
stone to it capstone erected everything?
It must have been God. Isaiah was right
when he said In my text, "A pillar shall
be at the border of tho laud of Egypt ami
it shall bo for a sign and a witness." Tho
pyramid la God's first Hlble. Hundreds,
if not thousands, of year before the first
line ol the Hook of Genesis was written,
the lesson of the pyramid waa written.
Well, of what Is this Cyclopean masonry
a sign and a witness? Among other things
of tho prolongation of humau work com
pared with tho brevity of human life. In
all tho four thousand years thla pyramid
nas only lost eighteen feet In width; one
side of it square at the base chauged only
trom seven imndreil aud sixty-four feet to
seven hundred aud forty-six feet, and the
most of that eighteen feet taken off by
architects to furnish stone for building
in tho city of Cairo. The men who con
structed the pyramid worked at it only a
few years, and then put down the trowel,
and the compass, aud the sipiare, and low
ered tho derrick which hail lifted the pon
derous weights; but forty centuries has
their work stood, and It will bo good for
forty centuries more.
All Egypt has been shaken by terrible
earthquakes and cities have been pros
trated or swallowed, but that pyramid
has defied all volcanic paroxysms. It has
looked upon some of the greatest battles
ever fought since tho world stood. Where
are the men who constructed it? Their
bodies gone to dust and even the dust
scattered. Even the sarcophagus in which
the klug's mummy may have slept la empty
MEN'S WOUK SUUVlVEa THEM.
8o meu die but their work Uvea on, We
are; abounding pyramids not to last four
thousand years, but forty thousand, forty
million, forty trillion, forty quadrillion,
forty quintlllloQ. For nwhlle we wield
the trowel, or pound with the hammer, or
measure with the yard stick, or write with
the pen, or experiment with the scientific
battery, or plan with the brain, and for a
while the foot walks, aud the eye sees, and
the ear hears, aud the tongue speaks. All
the good word or bad word we speak are
spread out Into one layer for a pyramid.
All tho kind deed or malevolent deed we
do mo spread out into another layer All
thn Christian nr tiii-Chrlstittn example wo
set I spread out In another layer. All thu
indirect Influence of our live nro spread
out In another la) or. Then tho tlmo soon
come when we put down the Implement
of toll nml pas away, Iiut tho pyramid
stands,
Thu Twentieth century will not rork It
down, nor thu Thirtieth century, nor i:.e
Onu Hundredth century. Thn earthquake
that rock this world to piece will tint
stop our Influemu for good or evil Vci
modestly say, "Thai Is true iu regard t.j
tho gnat worker for good or evil, mid of
gigantic geniuses, Mlllonlan or Tnll-
rnudlnu, hut not of me, for I llvunml uoii.
on a small truly. " My hearer, lelneiiiln'l
that those who built thu pyramids t
common workmen. Not ono of ih-i
could lift onu of those great stones. 1
took a doen cf them to lift onu stone, ir
others Just, wielded a trowel, clicking It
thu hard edgu or smoothing thu mortar I .
tween tho layer. Onu hundred thoiisMn'
men tolled ou those sublime elevations.
If one of those gruuitu block that I J'
tolleh with my feet ou this Deceml, t
morning Iu IhMin thu two Arabs pull n i
nml the two other Arab push me, con .i
speak out ami tell It history It would .i
"Tho place of my nativity wn down In the
great clone quarry of Mokattam or .
swan. Then they licgan to horn nt ui)
sides, and then to drive down great Iron
wedges, crushing ngnliist mo till thu whole
quarry quaked nml thundered, Then I
wn pried out with crowbars mid levels,
scoreMof men putting their weight on tho
luvurnge. Then chain weru put around
mo ami I wn hoisted with wheel that
groaned under tho weight, nml many
workmen had their hands ou thu cranks
mid turned until thumuscleaonthelrnrius
stood out. In ridge, nml thu sweat rolled
from their dusky foreheads.
"Then I wnsdruivn by long teams of oxen,
yoko after yoke, yoke after yoke. Then I
wa put ou an Inclined piano and hauled
upward mid how many Iron tool, aud how
many human arms, mid how many beast
nf titlrileti u-i-i i. inlitfivi.il tn iri.t ,mi 4., l,lu
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place no one can tell. Then I had to ho
measured nml squared nml compassed
nml fitted Iu Iteforo I wa left hero to do
my silent work of thousand of year. God
only know how many hands wero busied
In getting mo from my geological cradle In
tho quarry to this enthronement of Innu
merable nges." My henrerH, that I tho
autobiography of ono block of thu pyrnmlil.
Cheops didn't build thu pyramid. Some
boss mason In thu world' twilight didn't
build tho pyramid. One hundred thousand
men built It nml perhaps from first to last
two hundred thousand men.
So with thu pyramid now rising pyra
mids of evil or pyramid of good. The
pyramid of drunkenness, rising over since
tho time when Noah got drunk on wine,
although there wn nt hi tlmo such a mi
porahuudauceof water. All thu HidoonlstH
of tho age lidding their layer of ale cask
and wluo pitcher mid rum Jug until thu
pyrnmlil ovundmdows tho Great Sahara
desert of desolated home aud broken
heart and destroyed eternities. And a
tho pyrnmlil still rise, layers of human
skulls idled ou top of human skulls mid
other mountain of human bones to whiten
the peaks reaching unto thu heavens, hun
dreds of thousands of peoplu nro building
that pyramid.
So with tho pyrnmlil of righteousness.
Multitude of hands nro tolling on thu
steep, hands Infantile, hand octogenari
an, masciilino hands, female hands, strong
hands, weak hands. Somu clanging a
trowel, some nulling n rone, some meas
uring tho side. Layers of psalm books on
top of layer or sermons. Layers of prnyuis
on top of layer of holy sacrifice And
hundreds of thousands coming down to
sleep their last sleep, but other hun
dred of th'jtisiiml going up to take
their plates, nml thu pyramid will con
tinue to rise until the millennial morning
gilds tho completed work, nml tho tollers
ou these heights shall takuolT their aprons
mid throw down their trowels, crying, "It
Is finished!"
nuii.ni.xo rem ktkiixitv.
Your business nml mine Is not to build a
pyrnmlil but to Iwono of tho hundreds of
thousands who shall ring 11 trowel or pull
a ropo or turn thu crunk of a derrick, or
cry, "Vo, henvot" whllo lifting another
block to Its elevation. Though It Ihi seem
Ingly a small work aud a brief work, It Is
a work that shall last forever. Iu tho last
day many u man and woman whoso work
has never been recognl.ed on earth will
cqmo to a special honor. Tho Kciiincnlcal
council, now In session at Washington, lu
delegate tho honored representatives of
fifty million Methodists iu all parts of thu
earth, will nt every session do honor to tlm
memory of John Wesley, but I wonder If !
any or tliem will think to twist a garland
for tho memory of humblo Peter Holder,
the Moravian, who brought John Wesley
Into tho kingdom of God.
I rejoice that all the thousands who have
been tolling ou thu pyrnmlil of righteous
nes will nt last in) recognized and re
warded the mother who brought her chll
dren to Christ, the Sabbath teacher who
brought her class to tho knowledge of the
truth, tho unpretending man who saved n
soul. Then tho trowel will Ihi more hon
ored than the scepter. As a groat battle
waa golug on the soldiers were ordered to
the front and a sick man Jumped out of an
ambulance in which he was being carried
to the hospital. Tho surgeon asked him
what he meant by getting out of tho am
bulance when he waa sick and almost
ready to die. The soldier answered: "Doc
tor, I am going to the front. I had rather
die on the Held than die in an ambulance."
Thank God; if we cannot do much wo can
do a little.
Further, carrying out the idea of my
text, the pyramid Is a sign and a witness
that big tombstones are not the best way
of keeping ono's self affectionately remem
bered. This pyramid ami tho slxty-nlne
other pyramids still standing wero built
for bepulchers, nil this great pile of granite
and limestone by which we stand today, to
cover the memory of a dead king. It
was tho great Westminster abbey of the
ancients. Some Bay that Cheops was the
king who built this pyramid, but it is un
certain. Who was Cheops anyhow? All
that the world knows about him could lie
told in a few sentences. The only thing
certain is that he waa bad, and that he
shut up the temples of worship, and that
he wa hated so that the Egyptians were
glad when he was dead.
This pyramid of rock seven hundred and
forty feet each side of tho square base aud
four hundred and fifty feet high wins for
him no respect. If a bone of his arm or
foot had been found in the sarcophagus
beneath the pyramid, It would havo ex
cited no more veneration thau tho skele
ton of ttCAn.il bltML'tui Oc t!. Libyan
desert; yea, less veneration, for when 1
saw the carcass of a camel by the roadside
ou the way to Memphis, I said to mytelf.
"Poor thing, I wonder of what It died."
We say uothiug agiilust the marble or the
bronxeofthe .ecropoli. Let all that sculp
ture and fiomceuce and arlMirescetice cu
lo for the j luces of the dead be done, If
means will allow It. Hut If after ono is
dead there U nothing left to remind tho
world of lit in but somo piece of i-tone,
(hero is hut little left.
Some of tho finest monument nro over
people who amounted to nothing whllo
tliey lived, whllo somo of the worthiest
men nml women havo not had above them
i stone big enough to tell their name.
Joshua, tho greatest warrior thu world ts er
saw, no monument; Moses, thu greatest
lawyer thatcver lived, no monument; Paul,
tho greatest preacher that over lived, no
monument! Christ, the Saviour of tho
world mid tho rapt lire of heaven, no monu
ment. A pyramid over scoundrelly Cheops,
but only a shiuglu with n lend pencil epi
taph over many n good man' grave. Some
of the finest obituaries havo been printed
nbniit thu worst rascals, Today nt Hrus
sels there in n pyramid of flowers on the
grave of Houlanger, thu notorious libertine.
Vet It I natural to want to Imj remembered.
MOSTMKNTH MtlllK KNIIUIIINHTItANMAUIIt."
Whllo theru seem to bo no practical use
for post mortem consideration later than
thu time of one's great-grandchildren, yet
no onu wiiuts to bo forgotten n soon in
tliu obsequies nro over. This pyramid,
which Isaiah say Is u sign mid it
witness, demonstrates that neither lime
stone nor red grnnlto are competent
to keep onu affectionately remembered;
neither can bronze; neither can Parian
marble; neither can Aberdeen graul'o
do tho work. Hut (hero I something
out of which to build an everlasting mon
ument ami that will keep ono freshly re
mciuhercil four thousand year yen, for
ever mid over. It does not ntnnd In nuir
blu yards. It Is not to bo purchased at
mourning store. Vet It I to bo found In
every nulghlHirhood, plenty of It, Inex
haustible quantities of it. It I tho great
est Muffin the universe to build monu
ments out of. I refer to tho memories of
those to whom wo can do a kindness, tho
memories of thosu whoso struggles wo may
alleviate, thu memories of those whoso
huiiIn wo may save.
All around Cairo and Memphis there nro
tho remains of pyramids that havo gone
down under tho wearing away of time, and
this great pyramid of which Isaiah In tho
text speaks will vanish If tho world last
long enough; aud If tho world does not
last, then with thu earth's dissolution the
pyrnmlil will also dissolve. Hut the mem
ories of thosu with whom wo associate nro
Indestructible. They will bo moro vivid
tho other sldoof tho grave than till side.
It Is possible for mo to do you a good nml
for you to do mo a good that will bo vivid
lu memory as many years uftcr tho world
i burned up as all tho sands of tho sen
shore, mid nil thu leaves of thu forest, and
all thu grass blades of thu field, and all tho
stars of heaven added together, and that
aggregate multiplied by all tho figures
thntnll tho bookkeepers of nil time over
wrote.
That desire to lie remembered after wo
nro gone I n divinely implanted deslro
and not to on crushed out, but, I Implore
you, seek something totter than tho Im
mortalization of rock or bronze or took.
Put yourself Into tho eternity of those
whom you help for both worlds, this nml
tho next. Comfort a huudred souls mid
there will bu through all thu cycles of eter
nity at least a hundred souls that will bo
your monuments. A prominent member
of this church was brought to God by somo
ono saying to her at tho church door lit
tho closo of service, "Como ugnlnl" Will
it be possible far that ono so invited to for
get tho iuviter?
A minister passing nlong tho streetovery
day looked up nml smiled to u baby in the
window. Tho father and mother won
dered who It was that thus pleasantly
greeted their child They found out that
he was tho pastor of a church. They said,
"Wo must go mid hear him preach." They
went mid heard him and both wero con
verted to God. Will thero to nny power
lu fifty million years to erase from tho
souls of those parents the memory of that
unit who by his friendliness brought them
to God? Matt how Cranswick, au evangel
ist, said that ho had thu names of two hun
dred souls saved through his singing the
hymn, "Arise, my soul, arise!" Will nny
of those two hundred souls In nil eternity
forget Matthew Cranswick? Will any of
tho four hundred mid soventy-nlno women
mid children Imprisoned nt Lucknow, In
dia, waiting for massacre by tho Sepoys,
forget llavelock and Outran) mid Sir David
Heard, who broke iu and effected their res
cue? To somo of you who havo loved nml
served tho Ionl heaven will to a great
picture gallery of remembrance. Hosts of
tho glorilled will never forget you. Ah,
that Is the way of building monuments
that shall never feel tho touch of decay. I
do not ask you to suppress this natural de
sire of tolng rememtored after you nro
gone, but I only want you to put your me
morials into a shape tlmt shr.ll never weak
en or fade. During tho course of my min
istry I have toon intimately associated
in Christian work with hundreds of good
meu nml women.
My memory i hung with their portraits',
more accurate and vivid than anything
that Iteiubraudt ever put on canvas: Fath
er Grlco, Do Witt C. Moore, Father Voor
bees, K. P. Hopkins, William Stephens,
John Van Iteiisnelaer, Gasherlo Do Witt,
Dr. Ward and hundreds of otliers, all of
them gone qut of this life, but I hold the
memory of them and will hold them for
ever. They cannot escape from me. I will
remember them just as they looked on
earth, and 1 will remember many of you
after tho earth has toen au extinct planet
for ages luflulto. Oh, what stuff the mem
ory ia for monument building!
An KtclihiK in Fun.
"Why do you work for a living?"
It waa Claro de Macgllllcuddy whoapoke
these fateful words.
And Clare was rich.
Hlch toyond the most resplendent dreams
of the dozens and dozens who sought her
hand.
Hut she loved a man who was poor.
And he was resjicctable.
Hespectablo beyond tho limit of reason.
Because he would not avail himself of
his opportunities and orgaulzo a matri
monial combine with Clare, permitting hei
to put up the capital.
He was a rauk outsider, ho was.
And lie apparently wanted to stay there.
He was in love with hi work.
That was another evidence that he had
mental ntorratlou in half a dozen place.
"Algernon," she cried, in passionate,
pleading tones, "tell me, why do you work
for a living?"
He had not answered her when she had
asked this the first time, but he could not
refrain longer.
"Clare," he said, aud thero was that In
his voice which makes tho heart grow sick
aud echoes through the Interminable corri
dors of despair, "listen to me; I work for
a living because ttie darn tiling won't work
for me."
Clare uttered a piercing scream aud flung
herself Into his arms.
Algernon was a funny man on the local
newspaperl
Aud she was on to him at last. Detroit
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TH9 SHOeS
Wc offered Inst week for $5.00 were worth more
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became DAS1UTES will not wear $600 shoes
THE SHOES
wc offer this week are not worth $s.(X so wc
ask $3.00 for them.
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S T V E S.
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Telephone 273. 230 South Eleventh St.
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Telephone 390.
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