Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-02-09
THE YOUNG HAVE THEIR TRIALS

that no one cares for their souls. MANY
of them are on small salaries, and they
are cranped and bothered perpetually,
and sometimes their heart fails them.
Young man, tonight, at your bedroom
door on the third floor, you will hear a
knocking. 1t will be the hand of Jesus
Christ, the young mans friend, saying,
..Oh, young man, let me come in; will
helm thee, | will comfort thee. I will
deliver thee.
Take the Bible out of the trunk if
it has been hidden away If you have
not the courage to lay it on the shelf
or table, take that Bible that was
given to you by some loved one, take
it out of the trunk and lay it down on
the bottom Of the chair, then kneeIs
down beside it, and read and praysf
and pray and read. until all your dis
turbance is gone, and you feel thatI
peace which neither earth nor hell car
rob you Of Thy fathers God, thyI
mothers God, waits for thee, OH, young
man. Escape for thy Hfer' EscapeH
now! lone thing thou lackest!" I'm
But l apply this subject to the aged
not many here-not many in am
assemblage. People do not live to &c
old. That is the general rule. Her
and there an aged man in the house. Bz
tell you the truth You have live,F
long enough in this world to know that
it cannot satisfy an immortal nature. 81
must talk to you more reverentiaiy
than | do to these other people, While
at the same time | speak with greaf'
plainness.
0 father of the weary step, o moth
er bent down under the ailments ~
life, has thy God eveI forsaken thee1
Through all these years who has been
your best friend? Seventy years
mercies! Seventy years of food am
clothing! Oh, how many bright mos
| ings! How many glorious evenin4|
hours you have seen! 0 father, mokn@
er, God has been very good to ysssa@
| Do you feel it? Some of you hsss4
children and grandchildren; the forr1eE
cheered your young life, the lat9A#
Irvine your gray locks in their t.
| fingers. Has all the goodness that 6fo&
has been making pass before you lsns#
duced no change in your feeling, &C.
must it be said of you, nOtwithstand7H#
all this, Zone thing thou lackest !"
Oh, if you could only feel the han<l
| of Christ smoothing the cares our OF
wrinkled faces! Oh, if you could Only
feel the warm arm of Christ steadyn
your tottering steps, [ lift my ynlA*'
loud enough to break through the deAN
ness of the ear while 1 cry out, 'p84'
thing thou lackest" 1t was an inEnr
tunate appeal young man made in
PRAYER, meeting when he rose up 80
said: DO pray for my old father. 49,
is 70 years of age, and he don't love
Christ" That father passed a lev
more steps on in life, and then he vet
down He never gave any intimat43
that he had chosen Jesus. 1t is a reaExx
hard thing for an old man to becOIne #
Christian. I know it is. 1t is so farQ
thing that it cannot be done by
human work; but Sod Almighty eaa
do it by his OmnipOtent grace; he cat
bring you at the eleventh hOur-at aaI
past lat one minute of II he c.
bring you to the peace and the 20
the glorious gospel.
must make application of this sak#
iect also to those who are prospexlai
Have you, my friends, found that ct:
lars and cents are no permanent co..
ISOLATION to the soul? You have Ia
worldly resources, but have YOU nM
treasures in heaven? Is an embrS6Ss
cred pillow all that you want to I'll
your dying head on? You have heara
people all last week talk about earLlals.
values Hear a plain man talk ah0fzh
the heavenly. Do you not know it
will be worse for you, O prOsf sfss2
man, if you reject Christ, and reject
him finally-that it will be worse for
you than those who had it hard in this
world, because the contrast will make
the discontinue so much more appall-
ing? As the hart bounds for the water
brooks, as the roe speeds down the
hillside, speed thou to Christ. ''Es-
cape for thy life, look not behind thee,
neither stay thou in all the plain; es-
cape to the mountain, lest thou be con-
sumedr
CONSOLATION FOR THE POOR ALSO.
l must make my application to an
other class of persOns-the poor. When
YOU cannot pay your rent when it is
due, have you nobody but the landlord
to talk to? When the flour has gone
out of the barrel, and you have not ten
cents with which to go to the bakery,
and your children are Juggling at your
dress for something to eat, have you
nothing but the worlds charities to APP
peal to? When winter comes, and
there are no Goals, and the ash barrels
have no more cinders, who takes care
of you2 Have you nobody but the
overseer of the poor? But | preach tC
, you a poor mans Christ. If you dc
not have in the winter blankets enough
to cover you in the night, want to tel
. YOU of him who had not where to lay
his head If you lie on the bare floor,
| want to tell you of him who had for &
pillow a hard cross, and whose foot
bath was the streaming blood of his
own heart.
Oh, you poor mani oh, you poor
woman! Jesus understands your case
altogether Talk it right out to him to
night Get down on your floor anC
say: Lord Jesus Christ, thou wast
poor and am poor Help me. Thou
art rich now, and bring me up to tiny
| richest Do you think God would cas-
you off? Will he? You might as wei
think that mother would take the
? child that feeds on her breast and dasf
it's life out as to think that God would
put aside roughly those who have flee
to him for pity and compassion. Yea
: the prophet says, "a woman may for
i get her sucking child, that she should
not have compassion on the son of he
s womb but will not forget thee.
l If you have ever been on the sea yOU
l have been surprised on the first voyage
l to find there are SO few sails in sight
, Sometimes you go along two, three
, four, five, six and seven days. and de
I not see a single sail; but when sal
D does come in sight the sea glasses arr
t lifted to the eye, the vessel is watched
t and if it come very near then the cap
| tain through the trumpet cries loudly
=; across the water, whittier bound?'
Y 90 Won and I meet on this sea of life