Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-08-05
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TExT.-For nOaC zoe see through q
glass darby; bit then face to face. LIST
Cor. 1872.
Our Bible is SO common among us we
do not appreciate it. In the time of
Edward l., bible cost hundred and
eighty-fve dollars, and at the rate of
wages then, it took man fifteen years
to earn enough to purchase one. Now,
thanks be to our Father, the wages for
a few hours labor will secure one. How
great our privileges they mount up to
the skies. Would to God that it were
so with our feelings of obligation In
many family this blessed old book
don't get the dust brushed from its COW
ers more than once month, and would
not then, only it is kept in the drawing
room where dust is not allowed.
When there is a chance to make mon
ey and the head feels clear, we put it
aside but when the lungs longest, and
the physician says we must die, we say,
bring the old Bible mother gave to me
when she was about to die, and read to
me about Gods mercy,-as though we
would say, brush the dust off the old
glass and let me get little glimpse of
heaven ere pass away. Father in heav-
en-, forgive us for such abuse Of Thy
word. ~ - ~ - ~
Friends, tits the telescope through
which we study our future What would
we know about heaven and God and i'm
mortality without it? What assurance
when pouring our tears into open graves,
that our friends shall rise again; that
they shall have clearer vision; hear
grander music and feel deeper thrillings
of joy? What would be our hopes of
again embracing them, and looking into
the same eyes, and having touching of
soul to soul as on earth /? Look at the
Greeks and the Romans. What kind Of
heaven did they look to, even with a
few rays of light to assist; what was their
God; what was their Immortality? In the
kindlings and Hastings of their brightest
genius and severest culture, what were
their hopes?
l am glad that a0e are not left to seek
finder to kindle our hopes in the rocky
ribs of earth, in the motions of the stars
or the mysterious affinity existing among
the particles of the universe not left to
study our prospects in the pages of ma
tatre alone. Were it so, we would all
need to reach the age of Methusalah, and
study the time out without vacation. and
then we could only say, it seems so-and.
SO. We would need 'thus saith tht
Lord" to make it so ; an II am tht
Lord and there IS none. else,' to disperst
our doubts; voice saying, "Ln M,
Fathers house are many mansions" tt
make glad our hearts
1t is the glass that magnifes anG
brings out the goodness and mercy Of
God in this world as well. A man goes
into the field of microscopy without {
: glass and takes up an insects wing, stud
, les while, and says, how meaningless,
a thing The glass is brought to beal
and he exclaims, how wonderful the de
sign! So let one look out upon the af
fairs of men, the history of nations, thei
: peculiar revolutions, and he says, it is al
confusion, but in the light of the eros
the design appears and he feels that tn
Lord lomnipotent reigneth, and that hi
plans are being carried out. Praise b
t to the Father of light for this divinel
: adjusted glass through which we ma
r look upon time and eternity. Turning
it one way we behold the King of heave
with the balances of Justice in his hand
e man weighed and found wanting hi
o soul crushed with the weight of his ow
guilt his heart strings rihed with roug
fingers and left bleeding, and the song
> of nature, like wild dirges, deepenin
> his gloom, making him child alone i
a wilderness, with the consciousness tia
S he had lost his home. Then turning
= to calvary, amid thunders and lightning
and groans the picture is changed. III
solitude of the wilderness is gone. jest
a is the Savior of men the ragged prod
d gal may go to his home. Blessed /
l. God for the story of Jesus and the eros
Why, this bible seems to me, to-da
friends, like the great bay-window thr
which we look from this house of cla
d upon the sunny slopes of the hereafte
70 And yet Paul says to us that it is but
dusty glass, giving scarcely an outlil
u of heaven; as though he said to us, "
a. can't see half the glories of God, n
ID half the joys of the redeemed or no
er aoe see through a glass darby" We tai
:. a field glass and look upon the dista
~ mountain range; we see the blue SUNNI
re rolling, rising and falling like waves
yh the sea- and it stirs us with its grander
We see the storm cloud rest its vapo
ID feet upon them and we say, how beau
;, fulls But the real grandeur we do n
~ feel, half the beauty does not appe;
ed 60 to the foot of these heighths and HI
he changed the scene. The soul trembl
he in alteration of their awfulness. Go
the SUBMITS, and the glories of lake a
!, 4 sea, fen and field, storm and cloud, rs
IN ISL the soul until imagination is foodt
us and we long to have every friend
zee earth drink in the glory. So Paul sa
no now we are looking at heaven in the bl
e distance, but when we stand at the fl
'er of the throne of God, we will cry out
on songs of wonder, love, and praise; a
Ter when we scale the heights of glory
int our ecstacy we will be so lost in the spl,
-. dor, that all we will be able to say "
=" be Amen and Amen.
III Through the bible we see Christ dyi
no on the cross. We say, wondrous Low
ere and we try to imagine love like it.
e . look at the child suffering with the deat
disease. The mother watches over
at every breath inhaling her own dea
and yet she clings to it to the last, a
we say, was ever love like this.
len turn to the bible, view the crucifxi
of behold Christ surrounded by his enemi
lis they place spikes and nails; they str
an them and drive them through the fe,
the cross is raised up; passers-by S