Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-09-22

nave gone by. Remember that some o.
the best men and women who have
ever lived have had the same lifetime
misfortune. They bore up under it,
and so can you. The expiration OF the
life of one of you will after while remove
the affection. Let the one that remains
make no hypocritical mourning at the
obsequies of the one that goes, or iIni-
tate those whom we have all noticed
who fought like cats and dogs all their
married state and then could not get
organs to sound dirges doleful enough,
or furnishing stores to prepare weeds
black enough, or tombstone cutters to
chisel epitaphs eulogistic enough.
1t is matter of congratulation that
the unhappiest conjugal relation will
terminate. The crooked shall be made
straight. In the ages of the world
when people lived five or six or eight
or nine hundred years such consolation
for any kind of trouble would have
been inapt. 1t would have brought no
relief to some of those old patriarchs
to say you will have only seven hun
dred more years of this" But life has
been abbreviated by the cutting off OF
century after century until we can con-
sole people, whether their trouble be
financial or social or domestic, by say
ing it will not be long before the
crooked shall be made straight.
But to those who were once happily
united on earth, but are now separated,
the same thought comes in a good cheer.
Cd HraHifinn
that two bells were nodded and sent
from Spain for distant land to chime
in a church tower. But while III a
storm at sea one of these bells was
wrecked. and only one reached the
| shore and was hung in the church tower.
And some people thought that when,
standing on the land, they heard that
| bell ringing for worship or in a we'd
| ding peal they could at the same time
hear from the sea the lost bell ringing
as if in response. Some of our friends
and kindred have crossed the stormy
sea and are in the tower of God on high.
But we are still in the tempest, and
sometimes the surges beat over us, but
orr souls are still in accord with those
who are gone, and they ring down to
us and we ring up to them, and there
is sympathy between us that cannot
die.
THERE IS HOPE FOR ALL.
"Oh.n saws some one, ''the crook in
my lot you have not mentioned, and L
sit clear outside of all the consultations
you have offered" Well, will take
after you with gospel comfort and
reach YOU before close. Do you think
YOUR wound is SO deep the divine sur
geon cannot treat it2 Have you a
trouble that overmasters God? Is
YOUR ANNOYANCE of such a nature that
you must suppress it? All, that Is
what is killing you. Trouble must be
told. or it stings to death the one who
carries it. If there is no man OIL
woman that you can trust with the
secret you can trust God. HE away
TO him. Tell him all about it. Lock
YOUR door and tell him aloud, and i
YOU do not get relief you will be the
/, , first soul In the six thousand years o.
l the worlds existence and the only one
of the hundreds of millions of thu
human race, who ever called on Goo
| Tor nolD anu QIQ nOO ecu AO' LII Ooi
4 the universe, in all eternity there
1 not an exception. Stop brooding anC
commence praying.
I bless my God that, while there ar
l so many crooked things in life, Their
are some things SO straight God himsel
could not make them straighter. Divin
help comes straight to those who wi
u have it, The angels of mercy fly straigh
3 when they undertake a rescue. Th
. hour of your final deliverance marche
straight out of the eternities. And q
i the carpenter puts down his rule on
IL piece of timber, and with his axe heW
IL away until the last inequality and i
le regularity disappears, so when God i
q the last great day shall put down h
n nnfailing measuring rule beside thu
,! event which seemed the most twiste
ie in our lives or in the world, it will l
found out that the last discrepancy h;
10 vanished, and the last wrong has bee
IL righted, and the last crooked thing III
q been made straight.