Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-07-23

will crack in six months: or to the driver.
unless 1t keeps him from laShing his horses to
eight miles an hour when the Thermometer is
az ninety; or TO the farmer, unless it keeps
him from putting the only sounl pippins on
the top Of the BARREL or to the Shoemaker.
unless 1t keeps him from substituting brown
paper tor cool leather in tle soles. In otheI
words, the religion of Christ is good for
everything or it is good for nothing.
! The grace of God never affe IS us by
! pie2emeal; II the heart is changed, the head
Is changed, and the liver is changed, and the
spl zen is changed, and the hands are changed
and the feet are changed, and the store il
chan ged, and the house is changed, and every.
thing over which man has any influence
comes 20 :. Complete AID radical change. The
Re igiCn of the Lord Jesus Chr st is not POI
OF hyaclnthS, to be set in a parlor bay win
dow for DaSsers- by to look at and TO be ex
amined by ourselves only when we have
com any, but it is to be a perfume filling
all the room of the heart as "a cluster OF
campfire from the vineyards of Engedi'
The trouble is men do not tale their religion
with them. The merchant leaves it outsi q
the counter, lest it disturb the goods The
housekeeper will not let her religion trail its
robes in the kitchen on washing ;.ay The
philosopher will not let his religion come in
amid the batteries, lest it get galvauic
shock. But tell you unless your religion
goes with you everywhere, it goes nowhere.
heart and the life.
But, mark you, it was bright color. For
the most part it was an orange dye made of
Z this ca nphire plant one of the most brilliant
of all the colors; and so the religion of Jesus
Christ casts no blackness or gloom upon the
! soul 1t b1ghten5 up life; it brightenS up
everything lhore is no more religion in
funeral tina there is in a wedding; no more
religion in tears than in smiles, David was
no better when he said he c1iel out Of tho
depths of he'll thana he was when he said
that his mouth was filled with laughter
and his tongue with singing. The best men
that l have ever known have laughed the
loudest Religion was intended to brighten
up our character. Take out the sprig of
c1i1esS from your Coat,ard put in &c cluster
Of campfire from the Vineyards of Enyedt.n
Religions ways are ways pleasantnesS, and
all her paths are peace" Ihave found it SO.
There are hundreds in this house who have
! found it So
remark again, that the campfire plantof
the text was a SYMBOL of Jesus Ch:ist be-
cause it is a mighty restorative. You know
that there is nothing that starts respiration
! as soon i'll one VIII has tainted as Camphor, as
! we have it. Put upon a sponge or handker-
chief the effects ere almost immediate.
! Well, this campfire plant OF the text, though
| somewhat different from that which we
have, was pungent aromatic, and in that
| respect it becomts a tyre of cur Lord
Jesus Christ, who is the mightest of re-
storatives. l have carried this cam
| phlre p ant into the sick room, after
the doctors have held their consultation
and said there was no hope and nothing more
could be done and the soul frightened up
under ths spiritual restorative. There is no
fe er, 10 maraS III, no neuralg a, no con-
Sumption no disease of the boly that the
grace of God VIII not help. | wish that over
every be OF pain and through every hospital
,NF
campfire from the vineyards of Engedi"
Christ's hand is the softe,t pillow, Christ's
| pardon is the strongest stimulus Christs
comfort is the mightiest anodyne, Christ's
salvation is the grandest restorative. 1t
makes man mightier than his physical dis
trGsS
Art thou weary9 Art thou languid2 Art
thou sore distressed?
Come with me-" saith One-'and coming,
e at rest"
If | ask Him to receive me, will he say me
nayg
Net till earth and not till heaven pass away.
Finding, following, keeping, struggling, is
He lie to bless.
Saints, apostles prophets, martyrs, answer
ye5l
Nero tarred and put pitch upon the Chris
tianS of his day, and then set them on fire.
that they might illuminate the night round
about the palace, but while they were burn
ing, and the crowd beneath were jeering,
louder than all the noise went up the song Of
praise and triumph fro the dying martyrs
John Bradford came out in presence of the
instrument Of torture that was to put him to
death and said Il am Christian now; |
have never been before" And so again and
again the hon of Judah's tribe has torn to
pIeces the wild beasts of martyrdom.
This gra is also restorative for the back
slider. Who do you mean by that! you say.
l mean you who used to frequent the house
| Of God, but seldom go there now; you who
once nsed to pray, but never pray now; you
who once sat at the holy communion, but
take not the Lords cup now; l mean you
who once rejoiced in Christian society, but
now sit among offers. Eackslider! Oh,
what a sugge tive word! Backslider! From
what have you slid backl You have Slid
back from your father faith, from your early
! good habits. You have been sliding back from
! Christ, from the cross--sliding back from
Heaven. When a man begins to slide he
knows not where he will 60 You have been
sliding back toward darkness. You have been
! sliding back toward an unblessed grave,
! toward precipice, the first ten million miles
of which downward are only small Tart OF
the eternal plunge You were. perhaps, pr1
f..sesa in the country; you bs-* made ship
'yss=+ in The town. 1t way be that tie
CLUB blasted you; it may be that fashionable
SO iety destroyed you; it may be the kind
|
more hope for Heaven now than if
you had lived in Central Asia and never
heard of Christ and the judgment Oh,
where is That Bible you used to reada Where
Is that room where you used to prays What
have you done with that Jesus whose voice
you once Eeard2 Oh. murdered hours! Oh.
| massa red privileges! Oh, dead opportuni-
ties! Wake up now and shrek in that mans
ear until he shall rouse himself from the hor-
! rlbe somnambulism, walking, as be does, fast
as eep, within an inch of hell. Oh that he
might cry out now: "Gclden Sabt aths,
come back! Communion seasons, come back!
| ooIngS of the Holy Ghost come baCk!'
But they will not come. Gone, gone, gone!
Sorrow will come, but not they. Oh, that
| You might save the few remaining yeGr3 Ct
your life and consscrate them to Christi l
have seen sad sights-I have heard Dad
sounds; but tell you the ghastl. est thing
outside tn gates of The CANNED is back
slders deathbed, Do you not feel like hay
ing applied to your soIl this divine rest1r-
ativei Do you not feel ike crying out with
| David: "Restore unto me the joys of thy
salvation" For great sin, great pardon for
deep wounds, omnipotent slrgery; for d af
| cars, q divine auriSt: ( I blind eyes, a
heaI emily ocllist; for the dead in sin, the
Vi heaval of great resurrection
Tut in the heavenly world we shall feel the
chief restorative power of religion. This is
! planet of weeping we ars.':>.-ng on. We enter
upon life WIN a cry and leave 1t with a Tong
| s gh. II could gather up the griefs Of this au
! dlence and put them in one sentence and then
| utter it, it would make everything between
| Eere and the throne Of God shudd and howl
The earth is gashed deep with graves. AS at
the close Of the war, sometimes we saw
| regiment Of one hundred and fifty men, the
fragments of the thou and II en- that went
out, So as | stand berore you, cannot but
realize the fact that you are the fragments
representing hundreds of regi nents Cf joyful
associations that have been broken ND for
! ever. Oh, this iia world of so,rowl But,
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