# Monuments ## Character over Marble - Every man should leave a monument behind him, in the mind of his friends. - A Good Character is the best Tombstone. - Carve your name on hearts and not on marble. - Better to give bread to the poor than stone’s to the dead. - Better to visit while they are alive than to bring flowers when their dead. ## Don't Let These be your Epitaph

The no good

“Here lies a man who did no good and if he lived he never would,

where he is gone nobody knows and how he fares nobody cares.”

The Glutton

“Gentle reader gentle reader, look on the spot where I do lie,

I always was a very good feeder but now the worms do feed on I.”

The Gossiper

“Here lies, returned to clay Miss Clara Bella Young,

who on the first of May began to hold her tongue.”

The working man

“The Lord saw good I was topping off wood, and down fell from the tree

I met with a check and broke my blessed neck and so death topped off me.”

The Fool

”I have played the fool”
“Died as a fool died”
“Only went to school to learn to be a fool.”
Absalom's place.
The field of blood. Judas “ his own place,”

## Let it be like these > Job 42:12 So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning > 2Ti 4:7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: 8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing. > De 34:7 And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated. 10 And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face, > Joh 21:22 Jesus saith unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? follow thou me. > Joh 11:25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou th is? > Re 12:11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.