Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-08-01
FruitfuIness.

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"heii was on Che gIeas pyra'hiu' looked
Vo"aru 'ne Naiiey y, ''le Me a'la saw many
square, oro"H nelus oi ripe wheat many
SQUARE green ne,1s ot growing wheat' many
square, oiack ne,us VI Psoughed ianu many
square, "hiIe he,us oi piosSoming poine-
graha.es; Duo All Oie iehGeiess ana nedge-
iess neius were a par. ol Egypt Inc dl-
VISION between '9eni wen. no deeper DOWN
Ilah lurroW. chuerheacn o1at' chis rlch
SOL was unit anu 50, when look across
Vhe woriu lronl any commanding helght oi
scholarsnlp, hhd that all these eVangeilcai
sects ullier from eacn oCheF ohiy oy ehe ueptn
OF iurrow' lney are one Egypt, only dl1-
ierent squares Ihdouotediy' however, there
is distinction between the green 1at river
Dottom OF tne ME ana tne rusriihg SAND OIL
oahara chao les at iVs sloe' mere cannot
oe an oVeriooklng Oh that oistihction. be
tween penei ana unoeiiel' between that styie
Oh thought whlcu Goes not assert man heeu
ol physician NOV nu'ha'i' Vi regeneration
hoo arising Whoiiy from MS own sweet anu
oiooheu "hi' .nere must oe uis.i''coioh III
philosophy anu So 1heIe must III PracIice.
iounu tna1 III EgyPV All the uisIiuctioti Una.
needed 10 hotice was ohao between ehe pea
OIL 'he ME anu one orii's vi SAHARA. WIZ
not say ~here oahard ehus, OF "here the
Nile VaIley oeg'ns' IL Is oiCeh puzIiing
pfoolem 10 draw tha' me win Justice; NOW
ana thel one Vaiiey encroaches on the oeser.'
ana no" ana tneh 'he 'ieser1 on tne Vaiiey
~ Is ragged zsAae which separates green
Egypt from brown oahara, oeilei from uh-
belief Nevertheless you 90 not DOUBT that
there Is distinction between Sahara and
the river bottom All men Oh honesty ana
candor are giad 10 nave that distlhctioh
pointed OUT lie whom we care not name
UNDERTAKES 10 pom. IL OUT lie does SO ohly
oy the lrultlesshess on the one side ana the
iat harvest on the other' Let the map traced
by his hnger De ours Lessing taught that
the most useiui rehgion VIII ultimately De
considered 'he pest mere are iocus1s III
EGYPT, ana on the lat lahds the iocusis laii
rather thah oahara' aour heids are 10 De
Judged oy their lIulos' ihey are one Ihere
Is no distinction between these lat squares
ihey are all one SOIL ouc we must auope Les,
sing test as 10 our Observation-Disclosures, and
nothing snort OF that'
nave peeh tracing the history oil New Eng
land and showing now many causes Tor fity'
hundred or two hundred years have made
1t Important Tor us to insist on the distine-
ton between the river bottom and the DESERT
and to draw the line with an engineers pre-
clsion. 1t does not plough the Nile PLAN 10
map the line never so accurately between IL
and Sahara sand drifting III here and the
green running out there upon the sahd
Who Will make Egypt more fruitful by bend
ing forever over the map ana hndlhg Just
where the sand lies to-day, and where II VIII
not lie tomorrow and where the green mas
conquered the sahd thls hour, ana may III
the next be covered with the drifting brown
powder OF Saharaf You know that there Is
this distinction, and that Tod VIII take care
of it by putting fruit on the one side and
sand on the other. we are to attend TO the
locusts. We are to attend to the smoking
burrows OF opportunity. we are to attend
to the great tides OF inundation. Is there
not danger that our experience IN the last
fifty or hundred years has fixed our
thoughts too closely upon mere maps OF
Egypt, that is, upon merely doctrlnal rather
than upon practical orthodoxy we be-
lieve in evangelical principles. we believe
i'll orthodoxy, but 1t is more than map. we
are proud of the record OF scholarship In the
last fifty years, conquerlng unbelief In Ter
many, and have to-day more than promise
of conquering all unoeliei around the whole
globe. But we must plough, SOW and reap
Egypt, as well as map IT, Our test must De
l.essing's. Ultimately, as he said In INA.
than the WISE all religious societies and
principles will be Judged by their fruits
By-and-by, if the world can tell which de-
nomination OF religious believers can 40 the
most if it can ascertain which sets OF Ideas
match best the deepest instincts OF the hu
man heart and the wants OF lie and death
the world will know what to believe.
Now let us fasten our attention on the in
undations OF the Nile plain There do CONT
great opportunities. There do come times
when the loss OF opportunity is disloyalty tc
that Providence which yet brings forth