Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1891-12-11

fountain in which IL may wash; q laddes
by which 1t may climb: a song of endless
triumph that 1t may sing; a crown OF un-
tadlng light that it may wear Christ cams
70 save lt-came with cross on His back:
came with spikes in His feet: came when no
one else would come, TO do a work which no
one else would do See how suited to mans
condition is what God has done for him.
Man Is sinner, here is a pardon He has
lost Gods image; Christ retraces it He Is
helpless; Almighty grace is proffered. He is
lost wanderer; Jesus brings him home. He
Is blind, and at one touch OF HIN who cured
bartlmeus, eternal glories stream into his
soul. Jesus sing Thy grace Cure Of worst
diseased Hammer to smite of heaviest
chainl Light for thickest darkness! Grace
divinei Devils scof at it and men reject IT,
but heaven celebrates It'll
wish you good cheer for the national
health. Pestience, that in other years has
come TO drive out its thousand hes fses to
Greenwood and Laurel Hill, has not visited
our nation. 1t is a glorious thing to be
we'll How strange that we should keep our
health when one breath from marsh or the
sting OF an insect or the slipping Of n foot or
the falling of a tree branch might fatally
assault our life. Regularly the lungs work.
and their motion seems to be a spirit within
US painting after its immortality. Our sight
falls not, though the air is so full OF objects
which by one touch could break out the
souls window. What ship after a years
tossing on the sea, could como in with 50
little damage as ourselves, thoIgh we arrive
after years voyage to day.
wish you good cheer for the national har-
vest. Reaping machines never swathed
thicker rye and corn huskers peg never ripped
out fuller ear, and NOV poles never bent
down under sweeter hay, and windmilPs
hopper never shook out larger wheat Long
trains OF white covered wagons have brought
the wealth down to the great thoroughfares.
The garners are full, the storehouses are
overcrowded, the canals are blocked with
freights pressing down to markets. The cars
rumble all through the arkness and whistle
up the hagman at dead Of night to let the
western harvests come down to feed the
mouths of tbe great cities. A race of kings
has taken possession Of this land-King Cot
ton, King Corn, King Wheat King Rice
King Grass, King Coal.
| wish you good cheer for civil and relig-
ious liberty. No official spy watches our en-
trance here, nor does an armed soldier inter
fere with the honest utterance OF truth. We
stand here to-day with our arms free to
work and our tongues free to speak. This
Bible-it is all unclasped. This pulpit-there
is no chain around about it. There is no
swapping OF musketry IN the street Blessed
he God that to-day we are free men, with the
prospect and determination Of always being
free. No established religion-Jew and Cen
tile, Arminian and Calvinist, Trinitarian and
Unitarian Protestant and Roman Catholic
on the same footing.
II persecution should come against the
most unpopular of all the sects, believe
that all other denominations would band to-
gether and arm themselves, and heart would
be stout. and blood would be free, and the
right Of men to worship God according TO
the dictates of their consciences would bc
contested at the point of the bayonet and
with blood flowing up to the bits Of the
horses brides.
For mercies temporal and spiritual let
consecrated lives be offered. Wherever Gods
light shines and Gods rain descends and
Gods mercy broods let the thanksgiving
arise