Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-01-19

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carry this on until children are reared
and educated and fairly started in the
world, and to do this amid all the
rivalries of business, and the uncer-
tainty of crops, and the fickleness of
tariff legislation, with an occasional
labor strike, and here and there a finan-
cial panic thrown in, is a mighty thing
to do, and there are hundreds and
thousands of such heroes and heroines
who live unsung and die unhonored.
What we all need, whether up or down
in life or half way between, is the in
finite solace of the Christian religion.
And so we employ the word "Comel"
1t will take all eternity to find out the
number of business men who have
been strengthened by the promises
of God, and the people who have
been fed by the ravens when other re-
sources gave out, and the men and
ONE who, going into this battle
armed only with needle or saw or ak
or yardstick or pen or type Or shovel
or shoelast, have gained II victory that
made the heavens resound. With all
the of God promised for
every exigency, no one need be left in
the lurch.
A SUBLIME FAITH.
like the faith displayed years ago
in Drury lane, London, in a humble
home where every particle of food had
given out, and a kindly soul entered
with tea and other table supplies, and
found a kettle IN the fire ready for the
tea. The benevolent lady said, How
is it that you have the kettle ready for
the tea when you had no tea in the
house," And the daughter in the
home said, Mother would have me
put the kettle on the fire, and when l
said, What is the use of doing so, when
we have nothing in the house, she
said: My child, God will provide. Thirty
years he has already provided for me
through all my pain and helplessness,
and he will not leave me to starve at
last. He will send US help though we
do not yet see how We have been
waiting all the day for something to
come, but until we saw you we knew
not how it was to come" Such things
the world may call condolences, but 1
call them almighty deliverances, and
though you do not hear of them, they
are occurring every hour of every day
and in all parts of Christendom.
But the word Come applied to
those who need solace will amount to
nothing unless it be uttered by some
one who has experienced hat sOlace.
That spreads the responsibility of Civ
ing this gospel call among a great
many. Those who have lost property
and beer consoled by religion in that
trial are the me to invite those who
have failed in business. Those who
have lost their health and been con
soled by religion are the ones to invite
those who are in poor health. Those
who have had bereavements and been
consoled in those bereavements are the
one to sympathize with those who
have lost father or mother or compan-
ion or child or friend. What multi
tudes of us are alive today, and in good
health and buoyant in this journey of
life, who would have been broken down
or dead long ago but for the sustaining
and cheering help of our holy religionl
So we say Gomez" The well is not
dry. The buckets are not empty. The
supply is not exhausted. There is just
as much mercy and coincidence and
soothing power in God as before the
first grave was dug, or the first tear
started, or the first heart broken, or
the first accident happened, or the first
fortune vanished. Those of US who
have felt the consolatory power of re-
ligion have a right to speak out of our
own experiences and say Gomez"
What dismal work of coincidence the
world makes when it attempts to con-
dole! The plaster they spread does
not stick. The broken bones under
their bandage do not knit. A farmer
was lost in the snow storm on a prairie
of the far west. Night coming on, and
after he vas almost frantic from not
knowing which way to go, his sleigh
struck the rut of another sleigh, and he
said, II will follow this rut, and it will
take me out to safety" He fastened
on until he heard the bells of the pre-
ceding horses, but, coming up, he found
that that man was also lost, and, as is
the tendency of those who are thus
confused in the forest or on the moors,
they were both moving in a circle, and
the runner Of the one lost sleigh was
following the runner of the other lost
sleigh round and round. At last it oc-
CURED to them to look at the north
star, which was peering through the
night, and by the direction of that star
they got home again. Those who fol-
low the advice of this world in time of
p~erplexity are in a fearful round; for it
is one b~ewildered soul following anoth-
er bewildered soul, and only those who
have in such time got their eye on the
morning stan of our Christian faith can
find their way out, OF be strong enough
to lead others with an all persuasive
invitation.
"But," says some one, ''you Chris
tan people keep telling us to come
yet you do not tell us how to come"
That charge shall not be true on this
occasion. Come believing! Come re-
penting! Come praying! After all
that God has been doing for six thou
sand years, some time through patri-
dIClS dIlO SO1u0OlL1CS UIlTOuSu
and at last through the elimination of
all tragedies on Golgotha, can any one
think that God will not welcome your
coming? VIII q father at vast out
lay construct a mansion for his son.
and lay out parks white with statues
and green with foliage, and all a-sparkle
with fountains, and then not allow his
son to live in the house or walk in the
parks? Has God built this house of
gospel mercy, and will he then refuse
entrance to his children? Will a gov
eminent at great expense build life
saving stations all along the coast, and
boats that can hover unhurt like a
petrol over the widest surge, and then
when the fehoa has reached the