Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-06-16
2Relieio,ts Department.
For the Monitor.
WHERE THE WESTERN SERMON
HIT.

who had more than Kept pace with west
ern emigration by his repeated journey
ings westward, and had reared his FAM
lily where the tall pines grow, one day
visited the nearest town some twenty
miles away, for the purpose of disposlng
of the products of forest and farm labor,
and purchasing such comforts as the ne
cessities of home and family demanded.
Among the articles he brought from
town was a looking glass, which his
good wife Immediately hung up in the
kitchen opposite the outside door. Soon
the eldest son who had been out chop
ping returned, and was entering the
house with axe in hand, when an object
across the room met his gaze, which
caused his very blood to run chill and
his long uncombed locks to stand erect
upon his head. He gazed for moment
upon the fearful looking monster before
him almost paralyzed with fear. but at
length summoning all his courage and
strength he started for the intruder,
who had by this time assumed war
like attitude, with desperation known
only to those who fight for all that is
dear to them; planting his axe with a
terrible crash in the face of the unearth-
ly object which was glazing so wildly
upon him, and sending him into nonen-
tity in a moment. By this time the
mother startled by the tumultuous scene
was at his side, and inquired of her son
now with the flush of victory on his
brow, "What on airth he was dewing."
"Why marm," roared the triumphant
youth, ''don't you see, have killed the
devil" This was the practical way
the woodsman took to dispose of the dew
il, which he ought to have been "sensi-
bic" enough to have known that he him
self had helped at least to raise. And
perhaps now DR.. Ryder in his famous
practical, sensible" sermon printed in
the MONITOR last week, was fighting a
devil which by careful investigation and
by getting the beam out of his own eye,
he might have found was peering out
upon him from Universalist instead Of
an Orthodox mirror
We however most heartily commend
his earnest words in condemnation of eff
forts made to release criminals from the
just penalties of the law, on account o.
false sympathy, personal relationship
and the like. But we protest agains
his low, vile SANDER, born of gross igno
rance or diabolical meanness, which h,
uttered against the clergy in the matte
of giving instruction to criminals.
contend that he is here fighting an i'm
aginary devil. The doctrine to whicl
he refers, is not to be found in the cree,
of any church-''that man who ha
been sinful, corrupt, wicked all his life
an hour or two hours or day or tw
days before he dies, can be made read
to enter the eternal world, and rise u
into the grandeur and perfectness of
sanity man :, 81 - and rank with tn
angels of glory 50 - :, and be save
from all the consequences of sin, an
stand abreast with the most valiant sol
der of the cross of Christ" What
pity that the DR.. should be compelle
to so basely misrepresent his brothe
clergymen and their theology, Just fc
lack of material with which to frame
plausible scandal. The fact is the do,
trine or belief of the churches in rel;
ton to those who repent in the La
hours of life, is the opposite of what /
In his sermon represents. 1t is that
who wastes his earthly life will neve
though he repents of sin, believes
Christ, and enters heaven, rise to sue
dignity as he would have done, had
consecrated his earthly life to Chris
''For one star differeth from another
glory" A stinted soul, dwarfed und
veloped capacities and crownless hea
it seems must be his lot.
A little further on we come to whe
the preacher 'courted grim and g
it no doubt in his reference to the "gs
lows as means Of grace" but the or
was at the expense of the ISLANDER
his own mothers son." The gallows
means of grace? Why not if no pu
ishment awaits the murderer or any o
else in the eternal world, as Univers
hsm taught for half century. HI
strange that the Dr. failed to recongni
an ordinance of his own house, chi
of his mother, and nurtured under
watchful care. | wonder whose de-
he was after here.
But let us briefly weigh the instr,
ton given the young man referred to
his sermon, who came to him after
(the Dr.) had been scouting the idea
place of real punishment beyond dea
Now suppose that young man had MI
der in his heart, Che was in truth int
ested in the subject) but could not GU
get over the Bible doctrine of a lite
hell, the perdition of ungodly men, c.
sequently his hand was staid 'Noy
says the young man 81 am not acc
toned to hearing Universalist preachil
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