Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-08-05


we shall see and know; then we shall
feel like drawing near the throne and
singing a song of praise, the last line of
each stanza being
Jesus. thy care is infinite
So dim is our vision in this world that
our life is full of mystery. We can't
understand how it is that here one man
can do pretty much as he pleases in bust
ness, and get property; and yet some
pay little attention to God or man. You
watch them, and you say they will come
down from their high place in a hurry
some day, but you follow them on in
life until they reach their one, two, three
score years and ten, all the way through
in the heights of prosperity,-no briars,
no thorns, no tears; all gold and joy in
a journey of seventy or eighty years.
Think of a man prospecting life time
while he beats his millions, with a rough
fail, out of the hard earnings of the poor.
Again there is man who cares for the
poor; is humble, honest and sincere.
starting in life with brightest prospects,
but everything he touches is failure.
His life is one of regrets, tears and signs.
1t has been make and lose all through,
and he dies broken-hearted and poor
We can't understand such things We
can't see hoa0 things are working together
for mans good when things appear to
60 against him. Here is a case. A
large family of children live to old age,
and are the joy of their parents but
here is a widow she spends her all to
educate her only son. He comes to
manhood and-dies and leaves his mother
in rags and want to spend the re-
mainder of her days. These are mystic
ries to US. How can God be just and
let these things go on as they do? we
say. The child of the artist says-"Fa-
ther, why do you put that heavy shading
there p and the father says, will show
you hereafter. So when the picture is
done and the landscape appears, he says.
child, see; this is why | put the heavy
marks there and the light marks here.
And the child looks at the picture and
says, now | understand. And so it will
be when our life here is over. Our Fa-
Their will say to us, this is why put the
light shading on that life and the heavy
shading on this; this is the reason that
one was poor and this one was rich, why
that one died and this one lived; and as
we look back upon the perfect picture
we will say. now l understand.
Again. AS our vision will be clearer
and stronger, so will all our joys be
brighter, higher, holier. There will be
no more perplexity, dimness and uncer.
tainty, but reality deep and full, salts
faction boundless. A grand day it will
be when the armies of heaven arc on re-
view. May Jesus help us to be in the
triumphant lines. Some people seem tt
think that there will only be ittl,
company left when the chaff Is all blown
out. | don't believe it. 1 think ou
King will have an army as numerous a.
the straws in the combined wheat field
of the continent. Whole families vii
be there. Parents will say James, Hen
ry, Mary and Annie, home. Pas
tors will look upon their focks and say
| through the blood of Christ, home
Sabbath School teachers will behold thei
little bands clad in white. and exclaim
all home Then the mighty host will
break forth in songs of triumph an,
praise; and l tell you, if there is jo
among the angels over one sinner tina
repenteth there will be rapture anon
them when they hear the redeemed swee
the arches of the New Jerusalem in che
rus There will be no such thing as tn
chorus in the song of Moses and tn
Lamb being too large, so as to break tn
harmony. No. the prophets, the father
the apostles, the martyrs from rack an
fire /; publicans from Palestine. paupel
from London, and care worn from Ne,
York, will all sing before Him, who sa,
! ! ed them, without jar. Were we I
build summer hotel on the shores
our Crystal Lake, we would advertise
, in the Monitor, Boston Journal, Iri
aoee, and ~ 7. World We would d
scribe the building and surroundings
tell of the wonderful cave near by; Il
rocks of curious formation of mountain
= bold and high; crags gray, wrinkle
I, and old, finging their shadows upon Il
tranquil waters. We would have pain
; ings of the scenery and buildings to hal
: up in city places of resort, and in Il
d cars on different lines, SO as to attra
g the man of money So Paul would a
u vertise heaven, that he might attract
i and charm us there. People get decei
. ed on earth. They find that adyertis
g g ments lie. When they get to the famo
~ u resort the buildings are rough, ROOF
~ poorly furnished and scenery commo
u but when we go to the "house not ma
l. aoith hands, to spend the summer etern;
y the disappointment will be the 9th
:. way. The mansion will be greater a
~ the rooms larger, the scenery more g
!. geous than we expected. Nay; the
W BILE don't tell half; and taking advanta
. of what Paul says, we cam imagine h;
" of what we shall see when face to face
ID Oh ! that [ could so stud the windo
v of heaven with diamonds, and its ga
H. with emerald, and topaz, and sardony
~ and chrysolite, and lay its streets
y gold, and sapphire, and pearls. tina
le could fringe its pools with moss and win
o. plant its fields with violet, lily a
II u rose, and load its slopes with fruit; tn
~ that | could cast Ger the scene radiar
III so mellow, and sweep it with bret
~! ~ so gentle, and fill its groves with su
III warbling, and above all, make Jesus
pear SO beautiful that heaven would ha
" a charm resistless for every young m
- and young woman,-yea, every one
Ye this house this afternoon-an that
~ it we would be lifted into nobler m;
H. hood
III, Come, friends, come to Jesus
uu winter of life is passing, and soon
We will want to 90 and spend an eter