Show Two Minute Sermon By y Thomas Hastwell MONUMENT I TO HUMANITY In a neighboring town to the one in which I 1 live there were two men Both of them were well to todo do Both of them had been success ful In business and had accumulated ed a gratifying savings account One of the men entered into a con con- contract contract tract with a monument dealer to erect for him a monument costing in the neighborhood of forty thou thou- thousand thousand thousand sand dollars The monument attracted at at- attracted attracted considerable attention in inthe inthe inthe the country town cemetery where it overshadowed all the other less pretentious markers Its owner used to drive out to the cemetery and park his car near the monument monument monument ment where he would sit and lis lis- listen listen listen ten to the comments made by the visitors who came from some dis dis- distance distance distance tance to see the sight The other man arranged for a small unpretentious unpretentious tenuous marker on his family lot and contributed ten thousand dol dol- dollars dollars dollars lars to the local hospital fund for forthe forthe forthe the building and equipping of oC a community hospital The two men menI I think represent two types to be found in every town Unfortunate Unfortunate- ly Iy too many like the first invest their money in cold marble instead of putting it into the things that mean more mOll to human lives The gift to the hospital fund fun was the better of the two It will be a liv living ing monument in the hearts of men and women when the marble monstrosity has crumbled with the erosion of time and the community community ity shall have forgotten who and what its builder was |