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It's just as well to on the bright side.” “You undertake to demonstrate that ‘whatever is 1s right,” and all that sort of thing.” “That would be the tendency of my arguments.” “And vou believe that everything is all for the best?” “Yes. "Well, I'm glad to meet you. I want to talk with some one who has studied the subject, and who can possibly tell mg why it is that the man who r the boat always manages to swim as ang let the other people drow: be” all for the best, but I'd 1 it explained.” look weks hore 1. It may to have ike Reflections of a Bachelor. $ beng a lover is Love is cheap, but expensive. About the time a boy begins to think about his sweetheart her begins to forget hers. i You must never kiss 11, but ii yqu see anybody else doing it u must th it to everybody After a woman f church she has the same sort of guar anteed credit feeling that a man has just after he s a fat bank deposit. There is n that makes a man so thankful he is to have his wife wake him up in the middle of the might to ask his opinion of a new idea she has for a shirtwaist. iy Comes nome irom as An Alibi, “Has my Willie been in swimming here to-day?’ asked Willie's angry father. : “No, sir,” replicd the biggest boy in the water. “Are you sure?” : “Sure. Why, it was as he could do to keep from drownin,’ b it we got him out all right. He's restin over there in the bushes now.” -e ~¥ as muca Mean Thing. Rosalie—Have you chosen your bridesmaids yet? May—Yes. Fanny Lyon. Rosalie—Why, 1 thought vou hated her. May—No. not exactly: maids are to wear yellow, ar magine how that will go w complexion. of any but the brides- and vou can't t ith Fanny's Nothing Equals St, Jacobs Oil. 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Talmage shows how any one can be widely and forever recollested and cheers despondent Christian worker ® texts, Job xxiv, 20, “He siall be no more remem- bered,” and Psalms exii, 6, “The righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance.” Of oblivion and ite defeats I speak to- day. There is an old monster that swal- lows down everything. It crunches indi- viduals, families, communities, States, na- tions, continents, hemispheres, worlds. Its diet is made up of years, of centuries, of ages, of cycles, of millenniums, of eons. That monster 18 called by Noah Webster and all the other dictionaries “Oblivion.” It is a steep down which everything rolls. It is a conflagration in which everything is consumed. It is a dirge which all or- chestras play and a period at which everything stops. It is the cemetery of the {ng race. It is the domain of for- getfulness. Oblivion! At times it throws a shadow over all of us, and I would not pronounce it to-day if IT did not come armed in the strength of the eternal God on your behalf to attack it, to rout it, to demolish it. Why, just look at the way the families of the earth disappear. For awhile they are together, inseparable and to each other indispensable, and then they part, some by marriage going to establish other homes, and some leave this life, and a cen- tury is long enough to plant a family, de- velop it, prosper it and obliterate it. So the generations vanish. Walk up Penn- sylvania avenue, Washington; Broadway, New York: State street, Boston: Chest. nut street, Philadelphia; the Strand. Lon- don; Princess street oEdinburgh: Champs Elysees, Paris; Unter den Linden, Berlin, and you will meet in this year 1001 not ene person who walked there in the year 1801. What enguifment. All the ordi mary efforts at perpetuation are dead fail ures. Walter Scott's Old Mortality may ge round with his chisel to regent the faded epitaphs on tombstones. buf Old Oblivions has a_quicker chisel, with which he can cut out “a thousand epitaphs whil Old Mortality is cutting in one epitaph Call the roll of the armies of Baldwin I. or of Charles Martel or of Marlborough or of Mithridates or of Prince Frederick or of Cortes, and not one answer will you hear. Stand them in line and call the roll of the 1,000,000 men in the army of Thebes. Not one answer. Stand them in line, the 1,750,000 infantry and the 200.000 cavalry of the Assyrian army under Ninus, and eall the roll. Not one answer. Stand in line the 1,000,000 men of Sesostris, the 1.200000 men of Artaxerzes at Cunaxa, the 2641,000 men under Xerzes at Ther. mopylae and call the long roll. Not one answer. ‘At the opening of our Civil War the men of the Northern and Southern armies were told that if they fell in battle their names would never be forgotten by their eotintry. Out of the million men who fell in battle or died in militar® hos pitals you eannot eall the names of a thousand, nor the names of 50. nor the names of 100, nor the names of fifty. Oblivion! The world itself will roll into it as easily as a schoolboy’s rubber Ball rolls down a hill, and when our world goes it is so interlocked by the law of gravitation with other worlds that they will go, too, and so far from having our memory perpetuated by a monument of Aberdeen granite in this world there is no world in sight ef our strongest tele scope that will a sure pediment for any slab of commemoration of the fact that we ever lived or died at all. Our earth is struck with death. The axeltree of the constellations will break and let down the populations of other worlds. Stellar, lunar, solar mortality, Oblivion! It ean swallow and will swallow whole galaxies worlds as easily as a erocodile takes down a frog. Yet oblivion does nof remeve or swal moved or swallowed welcome to his meal. This world would long age have been overcrowded if not for the merciful removal of nations and nerations, What if the books had ived that were ever written and printed and published? The libraries would by their immensity have obstructed intelli geace and made all research impossible What if all the people that had been born were till alive? We would have been elbowed by our ancestors of ten cen. turies ago, and people who ought to have said their last word 3000 years ago would snarl at us, saying, “What are you doing here?” There would have been no room to turn around. Some of the past gener ations of mankind are not worth remem- bering. The first useful thing that many ople did was to die; their cradle a mis ortune and their grave a boon. R In all the Pantheon the weakest god- dess is Clio, the goddess of history, and instead of being represented by sculptors as holding a scroll might better be repre sented as limping on crutches. Faithful history is the saving of a few things out of more things lost. The immortality that comes from pomp of obsequies or anite shaft or building named after its ounder or page of recognition in some en- eyclopedia is an immortality unworthy of one’s ambition, for it will cease and is no immortality at all. Oblivion! A hundred years. But while I recognize this universal submergence of things earthly, who wants to be forgotten? Not one of us. Absent for. a few weeks or months from home it cheers us to know that we are remembered there, It is a phrase we have all pronounced. “I hope you missed me.” tn some friends from whom we have been parted many Years we inquire, “Did you ever see me be- fore!” And they say, “Yes,” and call us by name, and we feels a delightful sensa- tion thrilling through their hand into our hand and running up from elbow to shoulder and then parting, the one eur- rent of delight ascending to the brow and the other descending to the foot, moving round and round in concentric circles un- til every nerve and riuscle and capacity of body and mind and soul is permeated with delight. Now, I have to toll you that this obli- vion of which I have spokes has its de- feats, and there is no more roason why we should not be distinetly a.d vividly and gloriously remembered five hundred mil) ion billion trillion quadrillion quintillion years from now than that we should be remembered six weeks. I am going to tell jou, How the thing can be done and will Hone. We may build this “everlasting remem. brance,” as my text styles it, into the su- ernal existence of those to whom we do indnesses in this world. You must re member tint this infirm and treacherous facuity which we now call memory is in the future state to be complete and per fect. "Everlasting remembrance!” Noth. ing will slip iho stout grip «f that es. ug fanny. 4 a id you pr a widow er rent? Did you find for that man’ released fro prison a place to fot honest work? Did you pick ip» child, fallen on the curb stone, and b> a stick of candy put in his hand stop the hurt on his scratched knee? Did iy assure a iness man, swam by the stringency of the money ma 4 at times would after awhile be better a Magdal f th aii is waywardness suicide, that Tor him wW§ nearby a laver, in which he might wash and a coronet of eternal bless. edness he might wear? i hat are epitaphs in gravevards, what . are eulogiums in presence of those whose breath is in their nostrils, what are unread | biographies in the alcoves of a city librar ' | compared with the imperishable records | you have made in the illumined memories | of those to whom you did such kindnesses? Forget them? They cannot forget them. Notwithstanding all their might and splen- dor, there are some things the glorified of heaven cannot do, and this is one of them. They cannot forgét an earthly kindness done. They have not cutlass to part that cable. They have no strength to hurl into oblivion that benefaction. Has Paul for- gotten the inhabitants of Malta, who ex- tended the island hospitality when he and others with him had felt, added to a ship- wreck, the drenching rain and the sharp cold? Has the victim of the highwayman on the road to Jericho forgotten the good Samaritan with a medicament of oil and wine and a free ride to the hostelry? Have the English soldiers who went up to God from the Crimean battlefields forgotten Florence Nightingale? It is not half as well on earth known St. Paul's as it will be known in all heaven that you were the instrumentality of building a temple for the sky. We teach a Sabbath class, or put a Christian tract in the hand of a passer-by, or testify for Christ in a prayer meeting, or preach a wermon and go home discouraged, as though nothing had been accomplished, when we had been character building with a material that no frost or earthquake or rolling of the centuries can bring down. Another defeat of found in the character of th rescue, uplift or save, Character is eler- nal. Suppose by a right influence we aid in transforming a bad man into a good man, a dolorous man inte a happy man, a disheartened man into a courazeous man, every stroke of that work dene will be im- mortalized. There may never be so much Oblivien will De no mortal tongue may ever w hisper it human ear, but wherever that soul shall go your work upon it shall go, wherever that soul rises vour worl will rise, an 11 Ty work on it will last Jo vou supnose in the history of that soul in heaven that it shall forget vou invited him Christ; that vou, by praver or gospel work, turned him round the wrong wav to the right way? No such insanity will ever amite a heavenly citizen Oh, this character building! The struc ture lasting independent of passing cen turies, independent of erombling mauso lewms, independent of the w systema. Aye, the wn which seems all boand t piece of machinery. shoul with an sceident that sho crashing into each other railway trains. apd all the w that from if aterial universe, ¢ ther d some day meet Id send worlds telescoped eels of con down into one chasm of immensity sll the suns and moons and stars should tumble like the midnight express at that would not touch us and would not ous shall be held in everlasting remem- brance.” O time, we defy thee! © death, sepulehers! O eternity, roll sn till the last and the last moon har illumined the last describe by as many figures as they sould thou shalt have no power to effsce from any soul in glory the memory of anything we have done to bring it to Ged and heaven! There is another and a more complete defeat for oblivion, and that is heart of God Himself arm tattooed with the figure of a favorite garrisoned or the face of a great general under whom he fought. You have seen loved one before or after marriage world. It is some colored liquid pune tured ints the flesh so indelibly that noth. ing can wash it out. It may have been into his coffin that picture will go with him on hand or arm. Now, God says that He has tattooed us upon His hands. There chapter of Isaiah, where God says, “Be hold, I have graven thee on the palms of My hands” “1 eannot open My hand to help but think of you. I eannot spread abroad My hands to bless but I think of you. Wher. these two pictures of you with Me. They are so inwrought into My being that cannot lose them. As long as My hands Inst the memory of you will last the back of My hands, as though to an. nounce you to others, but on the palms of My hands for study and love. Though I hald the winds in My fist, no cyclone shall uproot the in. seription of your name and your face, and My hand its billowing shall not wash out the record of My remembrance. ‘Behold, I have graven thee on the palms of My hands.” ”* What jer, what honor, ean there be comparable to that of being remembered by the mightiest and most affectionate being in the universe’ Think of iteto hold an everlasting place in the heart of God! The heart of God! The most beau. tiful palace in the universe. Let the arch. angel build some palace as grand as that if he can. Let him crumble up all the stars of yvesternight and to-morrow night and put them together ae mosaics for such a palace floor. Let him take all the sun- rises and sunsets of all the days and the auroras of all the nights and hang them as upholstery at its windows. Let him take all the rivers and all the lakes and all the oceans and toss them into the foun tains of this palace court. Oh, where is oblivion now? dark and overshadowing word that i: seemed when 1 began it has become rome. thing which no man or woman or child who loves the Lord need ever fear. Ob. livion defeated. Oblivion dead. Oblivion sepulchered. But I must not be so hard on that devouring monster, for into ils rave all our sine when the Lord for ‘hrist's sake forgiven them. Just From the blow a resurrection trumpet over them when once oblivion has snapped them down, ot one of them po A Blow again. Not a stir amid all the pardened iniquities of a lifetime. Blow in! Not one them moves in the deep grave trenches, But to this powerlecs resurrec- tion trumpet a voice responds half hu man, half divine, and it must be part man fh, vi $8 i. Fer oe 2 n remember no more.’ Thank God for this blessed oblivion, Se you see 1 did not inwite you down into a PTET Ang te woh all onal aot inte the gra mater Sinad; but into a all abl be Wo Pig lip on which sits The leushiny i Probably a Turtar. 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