News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-02-23
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On Ui10 women ana men OF SaCflIlc9 are
going to take the brightest COronals of heaven
This woman of the text gave uD palatial resi-
Hence, gave up all for what she considered
eight Sacrifice! Is there anything more
sublime A steamer called the Prairie
Belle, burning on the Mississippi river
Bludso, the engineer, declared he would keep
the bow of the boat to the shore till all were
off, and he kept his promise. At his post,
scorched and biackened, he perished, but he
saved all the passengers. Two verses of pa
Ehetic poetry describe the scene. but the
verses are little rough, and so l changed a
word or two:
Through the hot black breath Of the burning
Jim Blud o's voice was heard.
And hey all had trust in his stubborness,
And knew he would keep his word;
And sure's you're born they all got Of
Afore the smokestacks fell;
And Budsos ghost went up above,
In the smoke of the Prairie Belle.
He weren't no saint, but at Judgment
I'd run my chance with Jim,
Longside Of some pious gentlemen
That wouldn't shake hands with him.
He'd seen his duty dead sure thing,
And went for it there and them,
And Christ is not going to be too hard
On man that died for men.
On2e more: I wan5 you to look at Vashti
| the sileIIt You do not hear any outcry from
! this woman as she goes forth from the palace
gate. From the very dignity of her nature
you know there will be no vociferation
OOneLllH6S III lie III Is necessary 10 make U
retort; sometimes In life it is necessary to
resist; but there are crises when the most
triumphant thing to do Is to keep silence.
| The philosopher, confident in his newly dis
covered principle, waited for the coming of
more intelligent generations. willing that
men should laugh at the lightning rod,
and cotton gin and steamboat-waiting for
long years through the scoffing of philo-
sophical schools in grand and magnificent
silence Galileo, condemned by mathema-
ticians, and monks, and cardinals, carlcatured
everywhere, yet waiting and watching with
his telescope to see the coming up of stellar
re-enforcements. when the stars in their
courses would fight for the COpernican sys-
tenn; then sit ting down in complete blindness
and deafness to wait for the coming of the
generations who would build his monument
and bow at his grave. The reformer, exc
Grated by his contemporaries, fastened in a
pilIory, the slow fires of public contempt
burning Under him, ground under the cylin-
derS of the printing preSsyet calmly waiting
for the day when purity of soul and heroism
Of character will get the sanction OF earth
and the plaudits of heaven. Affiiction, en-
during without any complaint the sharpness
of the pang, and the violence of the storm,
and the heft of the chain, and the darkness
Of the night-wditing until a divine hand
Shall be put forth to sooth the pang, and
hush the storm, and release the captive. a
wife abused prosecuted and perpetual
waiting until the Lord shall gather UP his
dear children in a heavenly home, and no
poor VaShti will ever be thrust out from the
palace gate. Jesus, in silence, and answer.
ing not word, drinking the gall, bearing
the cross, in prospect of the rapturous con
summation when
Angels thronged his chariot Wheel
And bore him to his throne;
Then swept their golden harps and sung
The glorious work is done.
An Arcti, explorer found a ship floating
helplessly about among the icebergs, anC
gong on board he found that the captain
was frozen at his log book, and the helms
man was frozen at the wheel, and tho men OF
the lookout were frozen in their places. Iaa
was awful, but magnificent. All the Arctic
blasts AMI all the icebergs could not drive
them from their duty. Their silence was
louder than thunder. And this old ship OF a
world has many at their posts in the awful
chill of neglect, and fr! zen OF the world:
scorn and their silence shall be the euoS9
of the skies, and be rewarded long after thl
weather-beaten craft of planet snail nav
made its last voyage.
I thank God that the mightest influence
are the most silent. The fires in furnace o
a factory or of a steamship, roar thougi
they only move a few shuttles or rev
thousand tons, but the sl'n that warns
world rises and sets without crackle, o
faintest sound Travellers visiting Noun
Etna, having heard of thS glories of sunris
on that peak, went up TO spend the nigh
there and see the sun rise next morning, ou
when it came up it was so far behind thell
antlciuations they actually Kissed it. The
mightiest influences to-day are like the
planetary system-completely silent Don
hiss the sum
o, woman! does not this story of WASN'T
the queen, Vashti the yelled, Vashtt the sac
rifice Vashti the silent, move your soul
! NY sermon converges into the one aDSorolns
| hope that none of YOU may be shut out OF TIT
! palace gate of heaven. You can endure TIT
! hariships, and the privationS, and Tn
! cruelteS, and the n;Sf0rtunes of this hte, !
! you can only gain admission there. Ihroug
! he blood of the everlasting covenant yol
go through those gates, or never go at all.
! When Rome was besieged the daughter Q
! its ruler saw the golden bracelets on the lei
arms of the enemy, and she sent word 10 thei
| that she would betray her city and Surrende
! it to Them if they would only give her thos
! bracelets on their left arms. They accepte
| the proffer and by night this daughter c
the ruler OF the city opened one of the gate:
The army entered, and keeping thel
promise, threw upon her their bracelets
and also their shields, and under the grea
weight she died. Alas, that all through th
| ages the same folly has been repeated an
for the trinkets and glittering treas
! ures of this world men and wome
! swing open the portals of their immortt
! soul for an everlasting surrender, and dl
under the shining submergement.
Through the rich grace of our Lord Jesu
| Christ may YOU be enabled to initiate tn
example Of Rachel, and Hannah, and Alb
gail, and Deborah and Mary, and Wasn't
| Amen!