Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-11-10

may go, but you want it to go til
quickest route, and you put on it ''vi
southampton or via San Francisco
or via Marseilles, put on your wishe
about your child, via the throne Q
God" How long will such goo,
wish take to get to its destination
Not quite IS long as the millionth par
of a second. | viii prove it. TIL
promise is, Before they call will an
swer." That means at your first mo
ton toward such prayerful exercise tn
blessing will come, and if the praye
be made at 10 o'clock at night it viii
be answered five minutes before ten
Before they call will answer"
Well. you say. am clear discour
aged about my son, and I am gettins
on in years, and I fear | will not live tt
see him converted. Perhaps not. New
ertheless I think you will find him il
the temple, the heavenly temple. There
has not been an hour in heaven the
last one hundred years when parents il
glory had not had announced to then
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left in this world profigate. We otter
have to say II forgot" but God has
| never yet once said II forgot" II
may be after the grass of thirty sum
mers have greened the top of youl
grave that your son may be found in
the earthly temple 1t may be fifty
years from now when some morning
the towers are Ginning the mathis OF
the glorified in heaven that you shall
find him in the higher temple which
has mo need of candle or of sun, fol
the Lord God and the Lamb are the
Eight thereof
Cheer up, Christian father and moth
er Cheer up Where Joseph and
Mary found their boy you will find
yours-in the temple You see, God
could not afford to do otherwise. One
of the things he has positively promised
in the Bible is that he will answer earn
est and believing prayer. Failing to do
that he would wreck his own throne.
and the foundations of his palace
would give way, and the bank of heaven
would suspend payment, and the dark
word Reputation" would be written
across the sky, and the eternal govern
ment would be disbanded and God
himself would become an exile. Keep
on with your prayer, and you will yet
find your child in the temple, either the
temple here or the temple above.
THE RoBBER OVERCOME.
Out on the western prairies was a
happy but isolated home. Father,
mother and child. BY the sale of cat
tie quite large sum of money was one
night in that cabin, and the father was
away. A robber who had heard of the
money one night looked in at the win
dow, and the wife and mother of that
home saw him and she was helpless
Her child by her side, she knelt down
and prayed among other things for all
prodigals who were wandering up and
down the world The robber heard
her prayer and was overwhelmed and
entered the cabin, and knelt beside her
and began to pray. He had come to
rob that house, but the prayer of that
woman for prodigals reminded him of
his mother and her prayers before he
became a vagabond, and from that
hour he began new life. Years after
that woman was in city in great au-
dience, and the orator who came on
the platform and plead gloriously for
righteousness and God was the man
who many years before had looked into
the cabin on the prairie as a robber
The speaker and the auditor immedi-
ately recognized each other. After so
long a time a mothers prayers an
swered
But we must hurry on, for the mule
teers and baggage men have been or
dered to pitch our tents for tonight at
Bethel. 1t is already getting so dark
that we have to give up all idea of
guiding the horses, and leave them to
their own sagacity. We ride down
amid mud cabins and into ravines,
where the horses leap from depth to
depth, rocks below rocks. rocks under
rocks. Whoa! Whoa! We dismount in
this place, memorable for many things
in Bible history, the two more promi-
nent, theological seminary, where of
old they made ministers and for Jacobs
dream The students of this Bethel
Theological seminary were called ''sons
of the prophets" Here the young men
We're fitted for the ministry, and those
of us who ever had the advantage of
such institutions will everlastingly be
grateful, and in the calendar of saints,
which | read with especial affection,
are the doctors of divinity who blessed |
me with their care
thank God that from these theologi- |
cal seminaries there is now coming forth |
a magnificent crop of young ministers, |
who are taking the pulpits in all parts |
of the land. | hail their coming, and |
tell these young brothers to shake off |
the somnolence of centuries, and get |
out from under the dusty shelves of |
discussions which have no |
practical bearing on this age, which |
needs to get rid of its sins and have its |
sorrows co1nforted. Many of our pull |
pits are dying of humdrum. People |
do not go to church because they can
not endure the technicalties and pro-
found explanations of nothing, and
about the eternal generation
vi luG SCIl, ana Tie DGUW0GIl
sub-lapsarianism and supra-lapsarian-
ism, and about who Melchisedeck |
wasn't. There ought to be as much
difference between the modes of pre-
senting truth now and in olden time
as between a lightning express rail train
and canal boat
Years ago I went up to the door of a
factory in New England. On the out
side door [ saw the words, mo admit
lance" [ went in and came to an
other door over which were the words,
No admittance." Of course I went
in, and came to the third door in
scribed with the words, mo admit
tance." Having entered this I found
the people inside making pins, beauti-
full pins, useful pins, and nothing but
pins. So over the outside door of
many of the churches has been prac-
ically written the words, mo admit
lance" Some have entered and have
come to the inside door, and found the
words, No admittance" But, per-
sisting, they have come inside, and
found us sounding out our little nice