Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-10-08

| p'etet or crippled physical faculties, and see
what, by tho special help of God, you can
accomplish
The skilled horsemeu stood around Bu-
eenhalus, unable to mount or MANAGE him 81
| wild was the steel. But Alexander noticed
that the sight Of his own shadow seemed to
disturb the horse So Alexander clntcLed
him by the bride aud turned his head away
from the shadow and toward the sun and
the horses agitation was gone and Alexander
mounted him and rode of to the astoulsh-
ment OF all who stood by And what Won
people need is to have your sight turned
away from the shadows Of your earthly lot,
! over which you have so long pond4red, ami
your heal turned toward the sun, tho
glorious sun II gospel correlation and Chris
tian hops and spiritual triumph.
And then remember that all physical dis.
advantages will after awhile vanish Let
those who have been rhelmatismei out of a
foot or cataracted cut OF an eve or by the
perpetual roar OF our cites thundered out of
an ear, look forward 10 the day when this
old tenement house of flesh will come down
and better one shall be rebuilded. The
resurrection morning will provide you with
better outfit. Either the uustrung worm
out, bluntedand crippled organs will be SO re-
constructed that you will hardly know them,
or an entirely new set of eyes and ears an feet
will be given you. Just what it means by
NOllhpbiOu putting on we 90
not know, save that Ii will be glory Inc fable;
no limping in heaven, no straining OF the
eyesight TO see things little way off; no
putting of the hand behind the ear to double
the capacity Of the tympanum; but faculties
perfect, all the KEYS OF the instrument attuned
for the sweep Of the fingers OF ecstasy But
until that day Of resumption comes let us
bear each others burdens and SO fulfill tho
l.v NJ Ehrisk
Another form Of disadvanta &c under which
many labor is lack of early education There
will be no excuse for ignorance in the next
generation. Fres schools and illimitabe op-
portunity of education will make ignorance
CRIME. l believe In compulsory education,
aad those parents who neglect 10 put their
children under educational advar tages have
but one right left, and that is the psniten-
tary. But there are multitudes OF men and
women in mid life who had no opportunity.
FREQ schools had not yet been established and
vast multitudes had little or no school at
all They feel it when, as Christian men,
they come to spaak or pray in religious as,
semblies or pubic occasions, patriotic or pc
litical or educational. They are silent be-
cause they do not feel competent They
owe nothing to English grammar or
geography or bellies lettres. They would
not know a parjiciple from a pronoan if
they met it many times day. Many of the
! most successful merchants of America and
men in high political places cannot write an
accurate letter on any themo. They are
completely dependent upon clerks and depu
! ties and stsnograplers to make things right
knew literary man who In other years in
| Washington make his fortune by writing
| speeches for Congressman or fixing them up
Tor the Congressional Record after they
were delivered. The millionaire illiteracy
OF this country Is beyond measurement.
Now, suppose man finds himself in mid
/ llf9 without n1uPOfi what ia ha tn dos Do
the best be can. The most effective layman
| IN former pastoral charge that
ever heard speak on religious
themes could within five minutes Of
exhortation break all the laws Of English
| grammar and if he left any law unfractured
he would complete the work of lingual devas-
| tation in the prayer with whi.h he followed
it But would rather have him pray for
me II were sick or in trouble than any
| Christian man know of, and in that church
all the people preferred him in exhortation
ald prayer to all others Whyl Because he was
80 thoroughly pious and had such power with
| God he was irresistible, and as he went on in
his prayers, sinners repented and saints
shouted for joy, and the bereaved seemed to
get back their dead in CELESTIAL companion
ship. And when he had stopped praying,
and as soon as l could wipe out Of my eyes
enough tears to see the closing hymn
! ended the meeting fearful that some long
| WlliuouS pray Llt6UlHx DOT6 WOulu us
down from the seventh heaven. Not word
have to say against accuracy of speech or
! fine elocution or high mental culture. Get
all these You can. But do say to those who
wer3 brought up In the day Of poor school
houses and ignorant schoolmasters and no
! opportunity, you may have SO much
| Of God in your soul and SO much of
\ heaven in your everyday life that
you will be mig hitter for good than
many who went through all the curriculum
Of Harvard or Yalo or Oxford, yet never
graduated in the school of Christ When you
get to tho gate Of heaven no one viii ask
you whether ycu can parse the first chapter
| OF Genesis ut whether you have learned
the fear o. the Lord which is the beginning
OF wisdom; nor whether you know how to
square the circle, but whether you have lived
O square life in rount world. Mount III.
is hi cher than Mount ParnaSsls.
But what other muititudes there are under
other disadvantages II re- is Christian
woman whose husband thinks religion sham,
and while the vile prays the children one
waT the husband Swears them another. Or
here is a Christian an who is trying to do
his hest fox God and the church and his wife
| holds him la k and says on the way home
from pr 'rmeeting where he gave testi-
mony for [ r.s:: "What fool You made Of
yourselfl [ hope hereafter yoU will
keep still" Aud when hs would ba
DuiicFOlohk lla kLFO hwy iDlldISy Sllo
critciseS hin for not giving fifty cents.
/ must do justice AMI plblicly thank God
that naver PROPOSED at home to give any
thing for any cause OF humanity or religion
but tne other partner in the dome stic firm
approved it. And when it SCENE beyond
my ability, and aith in God was necessary
she had three fourths the fs. Tn But know
men who, when they contribute t. charita
bic objects, are ARA d that tho wife will find
it out What whitening curse such a
woman must be to good man.
lhen there are others under the great dis
advantage OK poverty. Who ought to get
things cheaI esti Oh say those who have
little means But thoy pay more. You buy
coal by the ton. They buy it by the bucket
by the pound. You ges apparel cheap be-
cause yol pay cash. They pay dear because
they have TO get truste l. And the Bible was
II hit when it said; 1.-THE destruction of the
poor is e. cir poverty"
Then there are those who made u mistake
III early life and that overshadows all their
days "Do you not know that that man was
on in prison" Is whispered. Or do you
know that that man once attempted suicideG"
| Or do you know that that man once
ais ondedf' Or ''Do you know that that
man was once discharged for dishonestyP'
Perhaps there was only one wrong deed in
th3 mans life and that one act hauntS the sub.
sspuent halR-centlry Of his existence
ct iers have unfortunate predominen g of
some mental faculty and their rashness
throws them into wild enterprises, or their
trepi lation makes them decline greet oppor-
tuuit'es, or there is vein of melancholy in
their disposition that defeats them, or they
have All endowment Of over mirth that gives
the impression OF nsinceritY
Others have mighty obstacle In their per
sonal appearance, for which they are not re-
spoDsibie. They forget that God fashioned
their features and their complexion and theil
stature. the size Of their nnsa aud month nnG