Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-11-26
A Mighty Saviour.

eye believe in God, believe also
in me-" Yes, Lord ] do believe.
| should have tainted and fallen by
the wayside, if it had not been for
this precious faith. ! have had some
terrible battles with Satan | hope
and trust that | have had my worst
con lets But | must not be too
sure He is willy enemy. In all
the way | have gone, | can see how
that the kind hand of God has led
me. | can see how many times that
hand has rescued me from the ter
rible power of the tempter. l can
see the blackness and awful dark
ness into which my soul would have
been cast / know and am sure that
the tendency of sin, and the result
of sin, is death and eternal darkness.
But [ feel that have escaped. |
am resting on the arm of a mighty
Saviour, | am treading on solid rock
The ground seems firm where | am
walking. | do believe in Jesus. |
am going to sink or swim with him.
If he cannot take me over, then |
will 90 down. If the boat sinks,
we will go down together. But |
have no fear of such an ending "Be
thou faithful unto death, and | will
give thee a crown of life" Jesus
is able to save to the uttermOst, all
that come unto God by him. He is
able and willing to save all that trust
in him. He is. mighty Saviour.
| find time to visit the sick and
the Door; and | must do it if | be-
lieve the Bible, if | believe the marks
whereby the Shepherd of Israel will
know and judge his sheep at the
great day.
Coleridge once said that, ''Having
studied every page of the Bible with
the deepest attention, he had found
no part of scripture come home so
closely to his inmost yearnings and
necessities as the book of Psalms .
Before | commit a sin it seems to
me so shallow that | may wade
through it dry-shod from any guilt
ness but when | have committed it,
it often seems so deep that | cannot
escape without drowning.
Shun evil speaking. 1t is mean
and dangerous habit. The CRITICS.
ing, carping, fault-fnding spirit is
easily cultivated, and is alarmingly
difficult to shake off. Say good,
kind, generous things about people
when you truthfully can when you
cannot, hold your peace.
"Mv burden is light said the
blessed Redeemer A light burden
indeed, which carries him that bears
it. I have looked through all nature
for a resemblance of this, and |
seem to find a shadow of it in the
wings of bird, which are indeed
borne by the creature, and yet sup
port her flight toward heaven.
We may have as much of God as
we will. Christ put the key of the
treasure chamber into our hand, and
bids us take all we want. If man
is admitted into the bullion vault of
a bank, and told to help himself,
and comes out with one cent, whose
fault is it that he is poor? Whose
fault is it that Christian people gen
orally have such scanty portions OF
the riches of God.
No one but he who tries to do the
truth can perceive the granduer OF
another who do S the same. 1t is
not the correctness of opinion thai
constitutes rightness, but that con
dition of soul which, as matter OF
course, causes it to move along the
line of truth and duty-the life go
ING forth in motion according to the
law of light; this alone places ma
ture in harmony with the centra
truth.