Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-07-27

1 vi now InuEn worth now Is tne crown OF
/ CRsari Who bids for it, Who cares now
anything about the Amphictyonic council or
| the laws of Lycurgusf Who trembles now
| because Xerxes crossed the HelespOnt on a
bridge of boats, Who fears because Nebu-
chadnezzar thunders at the gates of JeruSa-
] lem Who cares now whether or not Cleopatra
| marrles Antony Who CrOuChes before Fer
| dinand, or BOniface, or Alarici Can Crom.
well dissolve the English parliament now
| Is William, Prin . Ut Orange, King of the
| Netherlands No. mol However much
| Elizabeth NAV love tue Russian crown. she
| must pass II TO Peter, ana Peter to Catherine,
| and Catherine to Paul and Paul to Alex
ander, and Alexander to Nicholas. Leopold
puts the German sceptsr into the hand of
| Joseph, and Philip comes down off the Span
| ish throne to let Ferdinand 60 on. House of
| Aragon, house of Hapsburg, house of
Stuart house of Bourbon, quarreling
about everything, else, but agreeing
passeth away" But have all these dignita-
ries gone' Can they not be called back!
| have been in assemblages where Ihave heard
the roll called and many distinguished men
have answered. If | should call the roll to.
| day of some of those mighty ones who have
gone wonder if they would not answer.
| will call the roll | will call the roll of the
Kings first: Alfred the Great William the
Conquerorl Frederick IL! Louis XVI! No
answer | will call the role of the poets,
Robert Southeyl Thomas Campbell John
| Keats! George Grabbed Robert Burnsl No
answer. / call the roll of artists: Michael
Angelol Paul Veronesel William Turnerl
Christopher Wrenl No answer. Eyes
| closed. Ears deaf Lips silent. Hands pal
sled. Scepter, pencil, pen, sword, put down
forever. Why should we struggle for such
| baubles9
Another reason why we should culture this
spirit of cheerfulness is the fact that God
knows what is best for His creatures You
| know what is best for your child. He thinks
| you are not as liberal with him as you ought
to be. He criticses your discipline, but you
look over the whole field, and you, loving
that child, do what in your deliberate judg-
ment is best for him. Now, God is the best
of fathers Sometimes his children think
| that he is hard on them, and that he is not as
liberal with them as he might be. But chill
| dren do not know as much as father. |
can tell you why you are not largely afluent,
| and why you have not been grandlY success
tut. 1t is because you cannot stand the temp
tation. If your path had been smooth, you
would have depended upon your own
surefootedness; but God roughened that
| path, so you have to take hold OF
| bis hand. If the weather had been
saild, you would have loitered along the
water courses, but at the first how, u the
storm you quickened your pace heavenward
and wrapped around you the warm robe of a
Soviour's righteousness What have
| doneP says the wheatsheaf to the farmer;
what have done that you beat me so hard
with your flailn' The farmer makes no
| answer, but the rake takes off the straw, and
the mill blows the chaff to the wind, and the
| golden grain falls down at the foot of the
windmill. After a while the straw looking
| down from the NOW upon the golden grain
banked up on either side the floor under
stands why the farmer beat the wheatsheaf
| with the fail
Who are those before the thronea The an
swer came: "These are they who, out Of
| great tribuation, had their robes washed and
made white in the blood of the lamb. ,"
Would God that we could understand that
our trials are the very best thing for us. If
we had an appreciation of that TRUTH then
we should know why it was that John
Noyra, the martyr in the very midst of the
fame, reached down and picked up one Of
| the fagots that was consuming him, and
kissed it, and said: blessed be God for the
time when | was born for this preferment.n
They who suffer with Him on earth shall be
glorifed with Him III heaven. Be content,
then, with such things as you have.
Another consideration leading us to the
spirit of the text is the assurance that the
Lord will provide somehow. viii he who
holds the water in the hollow of his hand
a low his children to die of thirst! viii he
who owns the cattle on a thousand hills, and
all the earth's luxuriance of grain and fruit,
allow his children to starVe! Go out to-
morrow morning at 5 o'clock in the woods
and hear the birds chant, They have had no
breakfast, they know not where they will
dine, they have no idea where they will sup;
but hear the birds chant at 5 o'clock in the
morning. behold the fowls of the air;
for they SOW not, neither do they reap, nor
gather into barns, yet your heavenly
Father feedeth them. Are you not
much better than they" Seven thousand
n..c ,,,fz fl,nI
| They were the most improvident people |
ever heard of. They deserved to starve They
might have taken food enough to last them
until they got back. Nothing did they take.
lad, who had more wit than all of them
put together, asked his mother that morning
for some loaves of bread and some fishes.
| They were put into his sachel. He went out
into the desert. From this provision the
seven thousand were fed, and the more they
ate the larger the loaves grew until the pro-
vision that the boy brought in one sachel was
multiplied so he could not have carried the
fragments home in six sachels co." you say,
"timeS have changed and the day of miracles
has gone" reply that, what God did then
by miracle, He does now in some other way,
and by natural laws. Il have been young"
said David, "but now / am old; yet have
never seen the righteous forsaken, nor His
seed begging bread" 1t is high time that
you people who are fretting about worldly
| "REMINISCENCES anu WLO dIb lSdIIlS you dT6
coming TO want, understood that the oath OF
the eternal God Is involved in the fact that
you are to have enough to eat and to wear.
Again: | remark that the religion of Jesus
Christ is the grandest influence to make a
man contented. Indemnity against all tinan-
cial and spiritual harm 1t Gains the spirit,
dwindles the earth into insignificance, and
swallows up the soul with the thought Of
heaven. . We who have been going about
from place to place expecting to find in
change of circumstances something to give
Solace to the spirit, ] commend you, this
morning, to the warm hearted earnest, prac.
tcal, common sense religion of the Lord
Jesus Christ "There is no peace, saith my
God, for the wicked and as long as you con-
tinue in your sin you will be miserable
Come to Christ. Make Him your portion
and start for heaven, and you will be happy
Inan-vou will be hapDv woman.
Yet, my friends, Notwithstanding all these
inducements to a spirit of contentment, l
have to tell you this morning the human
race is divided into two classes those who
scold and those who get scolded. The car
penter wants to be anything but carpenter,
and the mason anything but mason, and
the banker anything but banker, and the
lawyer anything but a lawyer, and the min
lister anything but minister, and everybody
would be happy if he were only somebody
else The anemone wants to be suniiower,
and the apple orchards throw down their
blossoms because they are not tall cedars,
and the scow wants to be a schooner, and the
sloop would like to be a seventy four FOUNDER,
| and parents have the worst children that ever
were, and everybody has the greatest mis-.
fortune, and everything is upside down, or
going to be. Ali my friends, you never
make any advance through such a spirit as
that You cannot fret yourself up; you
may fret yourself down. Aaid all this graf
ing of tones strike this string of the Gospel
! harm. tt(tO6linacc with lie
gain. We brought nothing into the world,
and it is very certain we can carry nothing
out; having food and raiment let US there
with be content"