Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-09-28

thing extraordinary there happened
And we see our Chieftain arouse from
his brief slumber and wrestle down til,
ruffian Death who would keep him i'm
prisoned in that cavern and put boil
heels on the monster and coming fOrtl
with cry that will not cease to bt
echoed until on the great resurrection
day the door of the lost sepulcher shall
be unhinged and flung changing into
the debris of demolished cemeteries.
Now we follow our Chieftain to the
shoulder of Mount Olivet, and without
wings he rises, the disciples clutching
for his robes too late to reach them, anC
across the great CULTS of space with one
bound he gains that world which fol
thirty-three years had been denied hi.
companionship, and all heaven lifted 6
shout of welcome as he entered, and Of
coronation as up to the mediatoria
throne he mounted. 1t was the great
est day heaven had ever seen. They
had him back again from tears, from
wounds, from ills, from a world that
never appreciated him to a world in
which he was the chief delight. In al
the libretto of celestial music it was
hard to find an anthem enough conjubi
liant to celebrate the joy sanity seraphic,
archangelic, deific.
But still we follow our Chieftain in
his march through the centuries, fol
invisibly he still walks the earth, and
by the eye of faith we still follow him.
You can tell where he walks by the
churches and hospitals and reforma-
tory institutions and houses of mercy
that spring up along the way. | hear
his tread in the sickroom and in the
abodes of bereavement. He marches
on and the nations are gathering around
him. The islands of the sea are hearing
his voice. The continents are feeling hi9
power. America will be his. Europe
will be his. Asia will be his. Africa
will be his. Australia will be his. New
Zealand will be his. All the earth will
be his! Do you realize that until now
it was impossible for the world to be
converted2 Not until very recently has
the world been found. The Bible talks
about 1.-THE ends of the earth" and the
"uttermost parts of the world" as be
ing saved, but not until now have the
lends of the earth been discovered,
and not until now have the ''uttermost
parts of the world" been revealed.
The navigator did his work, the eX-
plorer did his work, the scientist did
his work, and now for the first time
since the world has been created has
+Io world J1oa,1 Lx0oxyp yoaoC1raJ off
and geographical, the lost, hidden and
unknown tract has been mapped out,
and now the work of evangelization
will be begun with an earnestness and
velocity as yet unimagined. The
steamships are ready, the lightning ex-
press trains are ready, the printing
presses are ready, the telegraph and
telephone are ready, millions of Chris
tians are ready and now see Christ
marching on through the centuries.
Marching onl Marching on!
One by one governments will fall
into line and constitutions and litera-
lures will adore his name More hon
ored and wOrshiped is he in this year
of 1891 than at any time since the year
one, and the day hastens when all ma
lions will join one procession follow
ing the Lamb whithersoever he goeth."
Marching on, marching on!
This dear old world whose back has
been scourged, whose eyes have been
blinded, whose heart has been wrung
will yet rival heaven. This planets
torn robe of pain and crime and de-
i IL l.,
spotless and glittering robe of holiness
and happiness will come on. The last
wound will have stung for the last
time, the last grief will have wiped its
last tear, the last criminal will have
repented of his last crime and our
world that has been a straggler among
worlds, lost star, u hayward planet,
lite, will hear the voice that uttered
childish plant in Bethlehem and ago
niZed prayer in Gethsemane and dying
groan on GoIgotha, and as this voice
cries Come" our world will return
from its wandering never again to
stray. Marching on, marching on!
THE GLORIOUS FINALITY.
Then this worlds joy will be so great
that other worlds besides heaven may
be glad to rejoice with US. By the aid
of powerful telescopes, year by year
becoming more powerful, mountains in
other stars have been discovered and
chasms and volcanoes and canals and
the style of atmosphere, and this will
go on, and mightier and mightier tele-
no I
not wonder if we will be able to ex-
change signals with other planets
And as have no doubt other worlds
are inhabited, for God would not have
built such magnificent world houses to
have them stand without tenants or oc-
cupants, in the final joy of earth's re-
demption all astronomy, l think, will
and they in turn signaling their stellar
Oh, what day in heaven
that will be when the march of Christ
is finished! | know that on the cross
Christ said, cit is finished,"- but he
meant his sacrificial work was finished
All earth and all heaven knows that
is not finished, but there
WILL COl10 ID uSty III HGdNeu ulOSO FdpGuT-
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1t may be after our world, which is
thought to have about fifteen hundred
million people, shall have on its decks
twice its present population, namely,
three thousand million souls and all
and it will be after this
world shall be SO damaged by confia-
grafton that no human foot can tread
its surface and no human being can
breathe its air, but most certainly the
day will come when heaven will be fin
ished and the last of the twelve gates
of the eternal city shall have changed
shut, never to open except for the adj
mission of some celestial embassage re
turning from some other world, and
Christ may strike his SCARED but healed
hand in emphasis on the arm of the
throne and say in sub
stance: "All my ransomed ones are
gathered. The work is done I have
finished my march through the cen
turtles"
When in 1913, after the battle of
Leipsic, which decided the fate of the
Nineteenth century, in some respects
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