Monuments

AS BABE RUTH AGED, HIS GAME GOT WORSE. AT THE END OF HIS CAREER HE WAS STRIKING OUT MORE OFTEN THAN HE GOT HITS, OFTEN COMMITTING ERRORS. AT ONE SUCH GAME IN CINCINNATI, HE HAD PLAYED POORLY AND THE CROWD BEGAN TO BOO IN LARGE MASSES! DEJECTED AND HURT BABE RUTH AMID THE BOOING WALKED SLOWLY TOWARD THE DUGOUT WITH HIS HEAD HANGING DOWN ON HIS CHEST. NO ONE THOUGHT OF THE GREAT PLAYER HE USED TO BE, JUST THE MISERABLE PERFORMANCE THEY NOW WITNESSED! SUDDENLY A SMALL BOY CAME RUNNING OUT OF THE STANDS WITH TEARS STREAMING DOWN THE BOY'S FACE, HE RAN UP TO BABE RUTH AND THREW HIS ARMS AROUND HIS LEGS, BROKEN BY THE TREATMENT OF HIS HERO BY THIS CROWD; THE BOY REMEMBERED THE RECORD! SUDDENLY, THE CROWD GREW SILENT AS BABE RUTH PICKED UP THE BOY AND CONTINUED WALKING TOWARD THE DUGOUT. SILENCE FELL ON THE CROWD AS THIS BOY BECAME A REMINDER TO THEM OF THE PAST LEGACY OF BABE RUTH, AND THEY WENT FROM BOOING TO STANDING IN SILENT PRAISE TO THE ONCE GREAT BALL PLAYER! A LITTLE BOY BECAME HIS MONUMENT TO REMIND A FICKLE CROWD!

H.G. SPAFFORD WAS A CHRISTIAN WHO LOST ALL HIS WORLDLY GOODS IN THE GREAT CHICAGO FIRE, AND THEN AS HIS WIFE AND 4 CHILDREN WERE TRAVELING BY BOAT, THE BOAT THEY WERE ON COLLIDED IN THE OCEAN AND QUICKLY SANK. THE 4 CHILDREN WERE LOST AT SEA, MRS. SPAFFORD WAS FOUND FLOATING NEAR THE SUNKEN BOAT STILL ALIVE AND WAS TAKEN TO WALES. THERE SHE CABLED HER HUSBAND, "SAVED ALONE." HE LATER FRAMED THIS CABLE AND PUT IT ON HIS WALL AND HE SAT DOWN AND PENNED THE WORDS TO THE GREAT HYMN, "IT IS WELL WITH MY SOUL!" HIS MONUMENT TO GOD'S PRESENCE IN THE MIDST OF THE FLOOD! EACH GENERATION WHO SINGS THIS SONG SHOULD KNOW THE STORY. IT IS A MONUMENT TO TELL THE STORY OF GOD'S FAITHFULNESS IN CROSSING FLOOD WATERS! IT SHOULD BE HEARD AGAIN!

We need to leave monuments to tell the story to the future generations! What monuments have you built, and what have you built them out of?