Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-05-05

There are men who have been cap
sized of evil passions, and capsized
mid-ocean, and they are thousand
miles away from any shore of help.
They have for years been trying to
DIG their way out. They have been
digging away and digging away, but
thew can never be delivered unless
thew will hoist some signal of distress.
However weak and feeble it may be,
Christ will see it, and bear down upon
the helpless craft and take them on
board: and it will be known in earth
and in heaven how narrowly they es-
caped-" escaped as with the skin of
their teeth"
BUSINESS PERPLEXITIES.
There are others who, in attempting
to come to God, must run between
great many business perplexities. If
a man 90 over to business at 10 o'clock
in the morning, and comes away at 3
o'clock in the afternoon, he has some
time for religion; but how shall yoo
! find time for religious contemplation
when you are driven from sunrise to
| sunset and have been for five years
going behind in business, and are fire.
ouentlv dunned by creditors whom
YOU cannot pay, and when, from Mon
dav morning until Saturday night,
YOU are lodging bills that you cannot
meet? You walk day by day in I'M
certainties that have kept your brain
on fire for the past three years Some
with less business trouble than you
have gone crazy The clerk has heard
a noise in the back counting room,
and gone in and found the chief man
| of the firm a raving maniac; or the
wife has heard the bang of pistol IN
the back parlor, and gone in, Stun
| bling over the dead body Of her hus-
| banda suicide.
There are in this house today three
| hundred men pursued, harassed, trod-
den down and scalped of business per-
pIexities, and which way to turn next
thew do not know. Now God will not
be hard on you. He knows what OBJ
stacles are in the way of your being a
Christian, and your first effort in the
right direction he will crown with sue
cess. Do not let Satan, with cotton
bales and kegs and hogsheads and
counters and stocks of unstable goods,
block up your way to heaven. Gather
up all your energies. Tighten the
girdle about your loins. Take an ago
nizing look into the face of God, anc
then say, ''Here goes one grand efor
for life eternal!' and then bound away
for heaven, escaping as with the ski
of your teeth.
CHRISTIAN HEROES.
In the last day it will be found tina
HUGH Latimer and John Knox AM
Huss and Ridley were not the great
est martyrs, but Christian men WIZ
went I'D incorrupt from the contaml
nations and perplexities of Wal
street, Water street, Pearl street
Broad street, State street and Thlr
street. On earth they were calle
brokers. or stock joobers, or retailers
or importers; but in heaven, Chris
tan heroes. No fagots were heape
about their feet; no inquisition dc
manded from them recantatlon; II
soldier aimed a pike at their heart
l but they had mental fortunes compal
ed with which all physical consumin
: is as the breath of spring morning.
! find in the community large elias
L of men who have been SO cheated, S
lied about, so outrageously wronge(
that they have lost their faith IN every
1 thing. In a world where everythln
l seems SO topsy-turvey they do not sc
L how there can be any God. They al
S COMPOUNDED and frenzied and misal
D thropic. Elaborate arguments to prov
L to them the truth of Christianity,
: the truth of anything else, touch the1
1 nowhere. Hear me, all such men.
4 preach to YOU no rounded periods, 1
t ornamental discourse, but put N
t hand on your shoulder and invi
: YOU into the peace of the gospe
Here is a rock on which you ma
| stand firm, though the waves das
: against it harder than the Atlantl
: pitching its surf clear above Edd
' stone lighthouse.
/ Do not charge upon God all the
0 troubles of the world. As long as t
i world stuck to God, God stuck to t
: world; but the earth seeded from
! Government. and hence all these OIL
t RACES and all these woes. God is goo
n For many hundreds of years he b
o been coaxing the world to come ba
p to him; but the more he has coax
If the more violent have men been
:. their resistance, and they have stepp
4 back and stepped back until they ha
IS dropped into ruin.
Try this God, We who have had t
l oftOn a1H who h4
E. thought that God had forgotten yc
a. Try him, and see if he will not he
ID Try him, and see if he will not pardC
:" Try him, and see if he will not say
i'll The flowers of spring have no bloc
v so sweet as the Towering of Chris
es affections The sun hath no warm
he compared with the glow of his hea
,u The waters have no refreshment Ii
ne the fountain that will Stake the thl
lr of thy soul. At the moment the re
lie deer stands with his lip and most
ut thrust in the cool mountain torre
he the hunter may be coming throu
he the thicket Without cracking st
M under his foot he comes close by
of stag. aims his gun, draws the trlgg
rn and the poor thing rears in its des
TT agony and falls backward, its anti
he crashing on the rocks; but the pa
i'll ing hart that drinks from the wa
rn brooks of Gods promise shall never
On fatally wounded and shall never oil
ry THE WORLD A POOR PORTION.
in The world is poor portion for y
ely soul. oh business mani An east'
Dr. king had craven on his tomb
en- fingers, represented as sounding VI
be each other with a snap, and un
IRE them the motto, ''All is not wo
lp- that" Apicius Coelius hanged h
ok self because his steward informed
that he had only eighty thouss
bic pounds sterling left. All of
ny worlds riches make but small
IN, heritance for a soul. Robespierre
its tempted to win the applause of
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