Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-04-06

you fill up both sides of it with the
names of such institutions. ooh, y you
say, that would be too much room;
| wouldn't want so much room as
that" Well, then, suppose you count
them on your ten fingers. ooh"
you say, mot quite so much as that"
Well, then, count them on the fingers
of one hand. ''Oh, you say, I'VE
don't want quite SO much room as
that" Suppose, then, you halt and
count on one finger the name of any in
stitution founded by infidelity, sup
ported entirely by infidelity, pronounced
against God and the Christian religion,
yet toiling to make the world better
Not 0ne Not onel
Is infidelity SO poor, SO starveling, so
mean, so useless? Get out, you miser
able pauper of the universe! Crawl
into some rathole of everlasting moth
ingness Infidelity standing today amid
the suffering, groaning, dying nations
and yet doing absolutely nothing, save
trying to impede those who are tOiling
until they fall exhausted into their
graves i'll trying to make the world bet
ter Gather up all the work, all the
merciful work, that inlidelity has ever
done, add it all together, and there is
not SO much nobility in it as in the
smallest bead of that Sister of Charity
who last night went up the dark alley
of the town, put a jar of jelly for an in
valid appetite on a broken stand, and
then knelt on the bare floor, praying
the mercy of Christ upon the dying
soul.
THE PLAGUE WILL BE STAID
Infdelity scrapes no lint for the
wounded. bahes no bread for the hun
cry, shakes up no pillow for the sick,
rouses no comfort for the bereft, gilds |
no grave for the dead While Christ,
our Christ, our wounded Christ, our
risen Christ, the Christ of this old fash
toned Bible-blessed be his glorious
name fOrever!-Our Christ stands this |
hour pointing to the hospital, or to the |
asylum, saying, II was sick and We |
gave me couch, l was lame and We |
gave me crutch. was blind and ye |
physicianed my eyesight, [ was orphan
ed and we mOthered my soul, | was lost |
on the mountain and we brought me |
home; inasmuch as We did it to one of |
the least of these, We did it to me-"
But thank God that this plague of |
infidelity will be staid Many of |
those who hear me now by the Holy |
Ghost upon their hearts will cease to be |
scoffers and will become disciples, and |
the day will arrive when all nations |
will accept the Scriptures. The Book |
is going to keep right on until the fires
of the last day are kindled. Some of |
them will begin on one side and some
on the other side of the old Book. They |
will not find a bundle of loose manu-
scripts easily consumed like finder
thrown into the fire. When the fires
of the last day are kindled some will |
burn on this side, from Genesis toward
Revelation, and others will burn on
this side, from Revelation toward
Genesis, and in all their way they will
not find a single chapter or Il single
verse out of place. That will be the
first time we can afford to do without
the Bible
What will be the use of the Book of
Genesis, descriptive of how the world
was made, when the world is destroyed? |
What will be the use of the prophecies
when they are all fulfilled? What will
be the use of the evangelistic or Pauline
description of Jesus Christ when we see
him face to facel What will be the use
Of his photograph when we have met
him in gIoryI What will be the use of
the Book of Revelation, standing as
you will with your foot on the CLASSY
sea, and your hand on the ringing harp,
and your forehead chapleted with eter-
nal coronation, amid the amethystine
and twelve gated glories of heaven2
The emerald dashing its green against
the beryl, and the beryl dashing its blue
against the sapphire, and the sapphire
throwing its light on the iacinth, and
the iacinth dashing its fire against the
chrysoprassus, and you and | standing
in the glOries of ten thousand sunsets
How a Reptile Traps Fishes.
There is n species of terrapin at the
London Geological gardens which is in
the fortunate position of not having to
work for Il living. Like the children
in the fairy tale, it has simply to open
its mouth and food will drop in. In
the mouth of this reptile is a little tag
of flesh which is in continual vibration
and nearly always visible, for the Great
ure remains open mOuthed for hours
together. 1t is believed that the sight
of this is particularly alluring to the
piscine mind The fish commits the
very pardonable though fatal error of
installing the process for wriggling
WORTH. In trying to take the bait it is
caught in the trap and swallowed.
London Tit-Bits.