News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-02

marries Antonyi Who crouches before Fer
dinand or Bonface, or Alaricf Gan Crom-
well dissolve the English parliament nowf
Is William, Prince of Orange, King OF the
Netherlands! No, no! However much
Elizabeth may love the Russian crown, she
must pass it to Peter, and Peter to Catherine,
AMI Catherine to Paul, and Paul 10 Alex
ander. and Alexander to Nicholas. Leopold
puts the German s,epter into the hand OF
Joseph, and Philip comes down OIL the 0pan-
ish throne 10 let Ferdinand go on. House OF
Aragon, house of Hapsburg, house OF
Stuart, house of Bourbon, IuarrellnS
about everything else, but agreeing
in this: "The fashion of this world
passeth away" But have all these dignita-
ries gone: Can they not be called backs
have been in assemblages whore have heard
the roll called, and many distinguished men
have answered. If l should call the roll to-
day of some of those mighty ones who have
gone wonder if they would not answer. L
will call the roll | will call the roll of the
Kings first: Alfred the Great! William the
Condueror! Frederick III Louis XVI! No
answer | will call the role of the poets:
Robert Southey! Thomas Campbelll John
Keats! George Crabbe! Robert Burns! Nc
answer. call the roll of artists: Michael
Angelo! Paul Veronese! William Turnerl
Christopher Wren! No answer. Eyes
c cossd. Ears deaf Lips silent Hands pal
sled. ScepJer, pencil, pen, sword, put down
forever. Why should we struggle for such
baubles3
Another reason why we should culture this
spirit of chearfulness 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 tn him as you ought
to be. He criticisas your discipline. but you
look over the whole field, and you, loving
that child do what in your CELEBRATE 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 atiuent,
and why you have not been grandly success
full 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
his hand. If tho weather had been
mild, you would Lave loitered along the
water courses, but at the first howl of the
storm you quickened your pace heavenward
and wrapped around yoI the warm robe of a
Soviour's Righteousness. what have
done" says the whe itsheaf to the farmer;
'what have 1 done tn 1t you beat me so hard
with your flail@ 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 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 throne? The an
swer came: "These are they who, out of
great tribulation, had their robes washed and
made white in the b.ood of the lamb"
Would Col that we could understand that
our trials are the very best thing for us. IL
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
flame, 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 l was born for this preferment."
They who suffer with Him on earth shall be
glorified with Him i'll 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 thirst9 viii he
who owns the cattle on 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;
gather into barns, yet your heavenly
Father feedeth them Are you not
much better than they" Seven thousand
people, in Christ's time, went into the desert.
lneY were Jle InOSb lInDrOVluenU people L
ever heard of. They deserved to starve. They
might have taken food enough to last them
until they got back. Nothing did they take
A 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. 90" You say,
''times have changed, and the day of miracles
has gone" l 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 I am old: yet have 1
never seen the righteous forsal1en, nor His
seed begging bread 1t is high time that
you people who are fretting about worldly
circumstances, and who are fearing you are
t6e etrna 9 6d IS inVotsea ~ tne cue faet 1nat
you are to have enough to eat and to wear
Again: | remark that the religion of Jesus
Christ is the grandest influence to make
man contented. Indemnity against all tinan-
cial and spiritual harm! 1t calms the spirit,
dwindes the earth into insignificance, and
swallows up the soul with the thought or
heaven. o ye 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-
UlCal, common sense TellBlOn Oh Jue LOTu
Jesus Christ. "TheTe 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. Mako Him your portion,
and start for haven, and you will be happy
m in-you will be happy woman.
Yet, my friends, notwithstanding all these
inducements to a irt of contentment,
have to tell you this morning the human
race is divided into two classes those who
scod and those who get scolded. The car
TO ba hT1t
and the mason anythinC but a mason, and
the banker ANYTHING but banker, and tha
lawyer anything but a lawyer, and the min
st r ANYTHING hut minister, and everybody
would be happy if he were only somebody
else. The anemone wants TO be a suntlower,
nd the apple orchard, throw down their
b oSsoms because thew are not tall cedars
and the scow wants 70 be a schooner, and tue
slOop would like 70 We a Seventy-four p under,
and parents have the worst children that ever
were. and ever odg has the greatest mis-
urJlne and ev ryChnr is upsiue down. or
Eolg to be. Al! my fir ends. you never
'qle any advap2 - thrDu IN Suc1 spirit as
At. You cam Vt fr { yourself up; you
- fret Yourself down. Aisii all this grah
of tones str k thus string of the Gospel
.rp: "Godim, s. with COutcutm"nt is great
am. We brought nothing into the world,
n it is very certain we can carry nothing
ut: having fool and raiment, let us there
with be content"
Let us all remember. if we are Christians,
that we are going after while, whatever be
pur circumstances now, to have a glorious
As in summer we put off our gar
mpnts and go down into the cool sea to bathe,
so we will put off these garments of flesh, and
step into the cool Jordan. We will look
around for some place to lay down our
weariness; and the trees will say: Come
and rest under our shadow" and the earth
Will say: Come and sleep in my bosom;"
and the winds will say: "Hushl while l sing
thee a cradle hymn;n and while six strong
men carry us out to our last resting place,
and ashes come to ashes and dust to dust, we
will see two SCARED feet standing amid the
broken soil, and lacerated brow bending
over the open grave, while voice, tender
With all affection and mighty with all
will declare: az am the resur-
.ection and the life; he that believeth in me,
though he were dead, yet shall he i've"
Comfort one another with these words.
Now THAT DIR. De Bausset has been