Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-03-29

ors waiting 10 demand what IS duo them"
Yet at that very time the French peasantry
were bringing their valuabes 10 him 10 keep
celebrated writer says OF the Trans
action Nothing can be grander or
more nOby original than this admis-
sion. Tbs Old soldier, after thirty
years service, this iron man and victorious
general, established in an enemy's country
at the head Of an immense army, Is afraid OF
his creditors This is the kind of fear that
has seldo n troubled conquerors and invaders,
and l doubt il the annals of war present
anything comparable to its sublime sim
plicity.n.
OH is it not high time that we preached
the morals of the Gospel, right beside the
faith of the Gospsli Mr. Froude, the cele-
brated English historian, has written OF his
own country these remarkable words:
From the great house in the city of Lone
don to the village grocer, the commercial
lie OF England has been saturated I
gone that strictly honest Jradesman
can hardly hold his ground against COMPETE
ton. You can no longer trust that any ar
ticle You buy is the thing which it pretends
to be. We have false weights, false meas
ures cheating and shoddy everywhere. And
yet the clergy have seen all this grow up in
of sermons have I heard in Eng
land. many a dissertation on the
mysteries of the faith, on the
divine mission of the clergy, on bishops
and justification, and the theory of good
works, and verbal inspiration, and the
efficacy of the sacrameDts; but, during all
these thirty wonderful years, never one that
| can recolect on common honesty"
Now, that may he an exaggerated state
ment of things in England, but am very
certain that in ali parts of the earth we need
to preach the moraties of thu Gospel right
along beside the faith of the Gospel.
My nearer! what are you doing with that
fraudulent document in your pocketi My other
bearer! How are you getting along with that
wicked scheme you have now on foot9 Is
that pool ticket" you have in your pocket
Why, 0 young man, were you last night
practicing in copying your employers sig
natures Where were you last night! Are
your habits as good as when you left your
fathers housed You had Christian ances.
try, perhaps, and you have had too many
prayers spent on you to go overheard.
DR.. Livingstone, the famous explorer, was
DIES ended from the Highlanders, and he
said that one of his ancestors, one Of the
Highlanders one day called his family
had his children around his death-6ed. He
said: "Now, my lads, l have looked all
| through our history as far back as | can find
it, and have never found dishonest man
| in all the line and | want you to understand
you inherit good blood. You have no excuse
for doing wrong. My lads, be honest"
All, my friends, be honest before God, DO
honest before your fellow men, be honest be-
| fore your soul Ii there be those here who
have wandered away, come back, come home,
come now, one and all, not one exception
| in all the assemblage, come into the king
dom of God Come back to the right
track, The door of mercy is open and the
infinite heart OF God is full Of compassion.
Come homel Come home! Oh | would be
well satisfied if could save soma young mar
this morning, some young man that has beer
going astray and would like to get back.
/ am glad some one has set to music thai
scene in August of 1881. when a Young cir
saved from death whole rail train of pas
sengers Some of you remember that gu
west, in that year on stormy night, a hur
ricane blew down part of railroad bridge
freight train came along and it crashes
into the ruin, and the engineer and conduct
or persisted. There was a girl livin
in her fathers cabin near the disaster
! and she heard the crash @
the freight train and she knew that in
few moments an express train was due
She lighted lantern and clambered up O
the one beam of the wrecked bridge o.
to the main bridge, which was trestle work
and started to cross amid the thunder an
the lightning Of the tempest and the ragin
of the torrent beneath One misstep an
it would have been death Amid all this
horror the lantern went out Crawlin
sometimes and sometimes walking over th
slippery rails and over the trestle work sh
came to the other side of the river Sh
wanted to get to the telegraph station, wher
the express train did not stop, so that th
danger might he telegrapehd to the static
where the train did stop. The ira
was due in five minutes. She was on
mile off from the telegraph station
but fortunately the train was late
With cut and bruised feet she fey
like the wind. Coming up to the telegrap
station, painting with almost deathly exhaus
ton, she had only strength to shout, Tn
bridge is down." when she dropped uncOn
scious and could hlrdly be rssuscitated. Th
message was sent from that station to th
next station and the train halted, and tha
night that brave girl saved the lives of hur
dreds Of passengers and saved many home
from desolation.
But every street is track. and every styl
of business is a track, and every day is
track, and multitudes under the power {
temptation coming sweeping on and sweeI
ing down toward perils raging and terrific
God hep us to go out and stop tn
train. Let us throw some signal Ia
us give some warning By the thror
of God let us fash some influence to stop tn
} downward progress. Beware! Beware! ia
bridge is down, the chasm is deep, and tn
lightnings of God set all the night OF SIN o
fire with this warning: SHE that ben
often reproved, hardeneth his neck, sha
: suddenly be destroyed, and tn at witho'
, remedy"