Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1888-11-01
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ence the mightiest hindrance 10 SOL ~
ton:
..For who could bear the whips and scorns
time.
The oppressor's wrong, the proud mans COZ
tumely, -
The panqs OF despls'd love. the laws delay,
The insolence OF once, and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy taxes
When he himself might his duietus make
with bare bodkin? Who would fardels pea
! To grunt and sweat under weary Ire,
But that the dread of something after death
| The undiscovered cou ntry, from whose oourn
No traveller returns-p uzzles the WIFI
Would God that the co roners would b.
brave in rendering the right verdict an'
| when in a case of irresponsiblllty lhey Say
awhile this man was demented ne look M
| life;h in the other case say: "Haylng reae
infidel books and attended infidel lectures
which obiterated from this mans mind al
appreciation of any thing like future retribu
ton, he committed self.slaughterT
All Intidelity. stand tip and take thy sen
tencel In the presence of God ana angels
and men, stand up, thou monster thy M
blasted with blasphemy, thy cheek SCARED
with lust. thy breath foul with the corruption
of the ages Stand up, Satyr, filthy goal
buzzard of the nations, leper OF the centuries
Stand up, thou monster lnfidelityl far'
man, part panther, part reptile, part dragon
stand up and take thy sentence! Thy hands
red with the blood in which thou hast
washed, thy feet crimson with the human
gore throu gh which thou hast waded. stand
up and AXE thy SENTENCED Down with thee
to the pit and sup on the sobs and groans OF
families thou hast blasted, and roll on the
bed of knives which thou hast sharpened
for others, and let thy music be the ever
lasting miserere of those whom thou hast
damned | brand the forehead Of lnfidelity
with all the crimes of self-immolation foI
the last century on the part Of those who
had their reason.
NY friends, If ever your life through its
abrasions and its molestations should seem
TO be unbearable, and you are tempted TO
quit II by your own behest, do not consider
yourself as worse than others. Christ him.
self was tempted TO cast himself from the
roof OF the temple; but as he resisted, SO
resist We. Christ came TO minister 10 all ON
wounds. In your trouble | prescribe life
instead of death. People who have had il
worse than you ever will have il have gone
songful on the way. Remember that God
keeps the chronology Of your life with as
much precision as he keeps the chronology
of ma tions, your death as well as your era
die.
Why was II that al midnight just at mid.
night the destroying angel struck the blow
that set the Israelites free from bondagei
The four hundred and thirty years We're ur
at twelve o'clock that night. The four hun.
dred and thirty years were not up at eleven,
and one O'Clock would have been tardy and
too late. The four hundred an d thirty years
were up at twelve o'clock. and the destroy.
ing angel struck the blow, and Israel was
free And God knows just the hour when II
is time to lead you up from earthly bondage.
BY His grace make not the worst Of things,
but the best of them. If you must take the
pills. do not chew them. Your everlasting
rewards will accord with your earthly per
turbations, just as Gains gave 10 Agrippa
chain of gold as heavy as had been chair
Of iron. For the asking-and | do not know
TO whom / speak in this august assemblage
but the word may be especially appropriate
for your asking you may have the same
grace that was given to the Italian martyr
Algerius, who, down in the darkest dun
geons, dated his letter from the "delectable
orchard Of the Leonine prison.
And remember that this brief life of ours
Is surrounded by rim, a very thin but
very important rim, and close up TO that rim
is a great eternity, and you had better keep
out OF IL until God breaks that rim and sepa
rates this from that. To get rid of SORROWS
Of earth, do not rush into greater sorrows |
70 get rid Of a swarm OF summer insects /
cap out into jungle Of Bengal tigers.
There is "a sorr0wless world, and II Is SC
radiant that the MONDAY sun is only the 4
owest doorstep, and the aurora that lights /
ip our northern heavens, eonfoundine I
astronomers as to what IL can be, is the wav /
ng Of the banners Of the procession come 1
% take the conquerors home from churct I
militant to church triumphant, and you an6 4
have ten thousand reasons for wanting TO &c ,
here, but we win never get there either 1
by self-immolation or impenitency. All our
iins slain by Christ who came to do that 1
hing, we want to go in at just the time di 1
'inely arranged, and from a couch divincly 1
spread and then the clang Of the sepulchra
rates behind us viii be overpowered by tn,
lang Of the opening of the solid pearl before
Is. o God, whatever others may choose
rive me Christians life, a Christians
Ieath, Christians burial Christians i'm.
Mortality