a large
brook, and then it becomes a broad river sweeping onward to the sea.
On its banks are cities, towns and villages, where many thousands
live. Vegetation flourishes on every side, and commerce is carried
down its stately bosom to distant lands.

So if you turn one to Christ, that one may turn a hundred; they may
turn a thousand, and so the stream, small at first, goes on broadening
and deepening as it rolls toward eternity.

In the book of Revelation we read: "I heard a voice from heaven saying
unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from
henceforth: yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their
labors; and their works do follow them."

There are many mentioned in the Scriptures of whom we read that they
lived so many years and then they died. The cradle and the grave are
brought close together; they lived and they died, and that is all we
know about them. So in these days you could write on the tombstone of
a great many professing Christians that they were born on such a day
and they died on such a day; there is nothing whatever between.

But there is one thing you cannot bury with a good man; his influence
still lives. They have not buried Daniel yet: his influence is as
great today as it ever was. Do you tell me that Joseph is dead? His
influence still lives and will continue to live on and on. You may
bury the frail tenement of clay that a good man lives in, but you
cannot get rid of his influence and example. Paul was never more
powerful than he is to-day.

Do you tell me that John Howard, who went into so many of the dark
prisons in Europe, is dead? Is Henry Martyn, or Wilberforce, or John
Bunyan dead? Go into the Southern States, and there you will find
millions of men and women who once were slaves. Mention to any of them
the name of Wilberforce, and see how quickly the eye will light up. He
lived for something else besides himself, and his memory will never
die out of the hearts of those for whom he lived and labored.

Is Wesley or Whitefield dead? The names of those great evangelists
were never more honored than they are now. Is John Knox dead? You can
go to any part of Scotland today, and feel the power of his influence.

I will tell you who are dead. The enemies of these servants of
God--those who persecuted them and told lies about them. But the men
themselves have outlived all the lies that were uttered concerning
them. Not only that; they will shine in another worl