The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-10-07
PRICE THREE CENTS.

Rhine, and has survived all the plague aud
epidemics OF many generations and Is living
to-day on the banks Of the Hud ion, or the
Androscoggin, or the Savannah, or the La
Plata. Aud when a man tries to stop this
evil ancestral proclivity he is like a man on
rock in the rapids Of Niagara holding with q
grip, from which the swift currents are try
ing to sweep him into the abyss beyond.
Oh, this world is an over rburdened world,
an over worked world 1t is an awfully
tired world. 1t Is a dreadfully unfortunate
word. Scientists are trying to find out the
cause Of these earth luakes in all lands, els.
Atlantic and transatlantic. Some say this.
and some say that. have taken tho dag
| nosis of what is the matter with the EARTH
1t has so many burdens on it and so many
fires within it, 1t has fit. 1t cannot stand
such a circumference and such a diameter.
Some new Cotopaxi or Stromboli or Vesu-
vius will open and then all will be at peace
for the natural world. But what about the
| moral woes Of the world that have rocked all
| nations, and for six thousand years Science
proposes nothing but knowledge, and many
people that know the most are the most uB-
| comforted.
In the way of practical relief for all disad-
vantages and all woes, the only voice that's
worth listening to on this SUBJECTS the voice
of Christianity, which is the voieeo Almighty
| God. Whether have mentioned the partic-
| uar disadvantages under which you labor or
| not, distinctly declare in the name Of my
tod that there is way out and way up
| for all of you. You cannot be any worse OFF
than that Christian young woman who was
| in the Penberton mills when they fell some
years ago, aud from under the fallen timbers
she was heard singing: II am going home
| to die no more"
Take good courage from that Bible, all of
| whose promises are for those in bad predica-
ment There are better days for you either
on earth or in heaven. | put my hand under
| your chin and lift your face into the light of
| the coming dawn. Have God on your 81 le
and then you have for reserve troops all the
armies of heaven, the smallest company Of
VIII. .ch is 20,000 chariots and the smallest ba-
talon IA, 900, the lightnings Of heaven their
| drawn sword.
An ancient warrior saw an overpowering
host come down upon his small company of
armed men. and mounting his horse, with
q handful of sand, he threw it into tbs air,
CRYING: "Let their faces bs covered with
confusion" And both armies heard his
voice. and history says it see ned as though
the dust thrown in the air had become 50
many angels of supernatural deliverance,
| and the weak overcame the mighty and the
immense host fell back and tho small number
marched on. Have faith in God, and though
| all the allied forces of discourayemeu seem
| to come against you in battle array, and
their laugh of defiance and contempt
mountains, you may, by faith in God
aud impoi innate prayer, pick up handful
of the very dust of your humiliation and
| til -ow it into the air and it shall be ome an.
gels of victory over all the armies of earth
AMI hell. The faces of your lversaries, hui
man and satanic, shall be covered with con-
fusion, while you shall be not only conqueror,
but more than conluerer through that grace
| which has 80 often made the fallen helmet Of
an overthrown antagonist the footstool OF
| Christian victor.