Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-11-07


! work. When he was chosen at Chicago
the sinister shadows of sword and septer
faded out of sight. In his wounding
unto death passed away the alienation,
the estraneement which prevented this
country from being truly one. although
men and millions had made it in appear
anee lndivisible.' These quotations
are but fair samples of the spirit and
utterances of the southern press in re-
gard to the national grief and its great
results. Full of cheer and good prom
Use are such patriotic words, however
strange they sound, coming from such
source. Not that all partizan strifes,
political schemings and personal enmi-
ties will be forever blurred in the grave
of Garfield or banished by his blood;
but by his sufferings and death the
hearts of the people in all sections have
been brought together by a common sor-
row, and by brothers blood the divid-
ing barriers have been broken down and
the foundations of friendship and broth
erly love have been opened. These
foundations will not cease to flow in
sympathy and good will till these prin-
ciples prevail in all parts of the land.
Though God forekmeaO what Guiteau
would do, do not believe that from all
eternity God foreordaimed Guiteau's
doing, else God, not Guiteau, violated
the command Thou shalt not KILL"
and hence the mere automatic agent
ought not to hang by human hands. AS
an accountable moral agent Guiteau is
murderer but in this great crime
God is bringing good out of evil
and causing the wrath of man to
praise him." He does not cause man
by compulsion or necessitative mo-
tive to murder his brother man; but He
does often overrule crime so that its
greater results manifest his power and
magnify his providence in the eyes of
the people He proposes to abase or exalt.
He abhors sin and crime; he does not
approve of murder; He sufe sin to
continue in the earth but often he
causes its consequences to exalt his
glory and work for the good of
the people He would exalt and save.
God did not ordain the woundiDg of
Garfield; but being wounded in direct
violation of his command, He did not or
dain his recovery, nor work miracle of
healing as he might have done, if in
His wisdom it had been best. in answer
to the prayers Of millions Of people
agreed on earth as touching this one
thing: "If it be possible let this cup
pass from u.s.. But this cup of sorrow
God is sanctifying to the healing of
strife-the opening of hearts and the
joining Of hands in a national brother
hood of peace and friendship; and thus,
by Garfeld's death. God is doing this
country more good and getting to him
self more glory than his continued life
and successful administration might
have DONE alt is better that one man
die and that the whole nation perish
not" But woe to that man by whom
the offence cometh." Let Garfield be
honored-let Guiteau be hung.
In heaven the highest honor given
Garfield, and the brightest star in the
crown on his brow will be that he feared
God and kept bis commandments, con-
tossing Christ before men and faithfully
serving his generation as disciple of
the Lord Jesus Christ.
The words of this great man sometimes
seem to be prophetic as though he had
the vision of a seer. His clear. distinct
voice and the words that calmed the
crowd in New York city when madden
ed by the assassination of Abraham
Lincoln. seem to speak to the nation
from his cold lips to-day: "Fellow citi-
zens Clouds and darkness are round
about him His pavilion is dark wa
tiers and thick clouds of the skies! JUS
tice and judgmeat are the habitation of
his throne! Mercy and truth shall go
before his face Fellow citizens! God
reigns. and the government at Washing
ton still lives" And again, in this
hour of sorrow, we seem to hear him
say: "There are times in the history of
men and nations when they stand so
near the veil that separates mortals and
immortals, time from eternity, and men
from their God, that they can almost
hear the beating and feel the pulsations
of the Infinite. Through such time
has this nation passed. When
at last its parting folds admitted that
martyred president to the company of
the dead heroes of the republic, the ma
tion stood so near the veil that the whis-
pers of God were heard by the children
. of men. | look forward with
e joy and hope to the day when our brave
I people, one in heart, one in their aspi-
e rations for freedom and peace. shall see
? that the darkness through which we
have travelled was but part of that
E stern discipline by which the great dis
@ penser of events has been leading US to