Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-10-12
Jesus, lover of my soul.
Let me to Thy bosom fly,
While the pillows near me roll.
While fha taT1poSt eth ie IL

While the tempest still is high.
Then they were dashed down to
death. Oh how much others have
endured for Christ, and how little we
endure for Christ We want to ride to
heaven in a Pullman sleeping car, our
feet on soft plush, the bed made up
early so we can sleep all the way, the
| black porter of death to wake us up
only in time to enter the golden city.
| We want all the surgeons to fix our
hand up. Let them bring on all the
lint and bandages and all the salve,
for our hand is hurt, while Eleazer does
not know his hand is hurt His hand
clave unto the sword"
AS | look at Eleazar's hand, | come
to the conclusion that he has done a
great deal of hard hitting. 1 am not
surprised when I see that these four
men-EleaZar and his three companions
drove back the army of Philistines,
that Eleazar's sword cIave to his hand.
for every time he struck an enemy with
one end of the sword, the other end of
the sword wounded him. When he
took hold of the sword, the sword took
enemy who cannot be conquered by
rose water and soft speeches. It must
be sharp stroke and straight thrust
There is intemperance, and there is
fraud, and there is gambling, and there
is lust, and there are ten thousand bat
talions of iniquity, armed Philistine
iniquity. How are they to be captur-
ed and overthrown? Soft sermons in
morocco cases laid down in front of an
exquisite audience will not do it. You
have got to call things by their right
names.
We have got to expel from our
churches Christians who eat the sacra-
ment on Sunday and devour widows
houses all the week. We have got to |
stop our indignation against the Hit
tites and the Jebusites, and the Gerga-
shites, and let these poor wretches go.
and apply our Indignation to the mod
ern transgressions which need to be
dragged out and slain Ahabs here.
Herods here. Jezebels here. The
massacre of the infants here. Strike
for God SO hard that while you slay the
sin the sword will adhere to your own
hand. tell you, my friends, we want
a few John Knoxes and John Wesleys
In the Christian church today. The
whole tendency is to refine on Chris
tan work. We keep on refining it, I'M
til we send apologize word to iniquity
we are about to capture it, And we
must go with sword silver chased and
presented by the ladies, and we must
ride on white palfrey under embroid-
cred housings, putting the spurs in only
Just enough to make the charger dance
gracefully, and then we must send O.
delicate as a wedding card, to
ask the old black giant of sin if he will
not surrender.
THE WEAK AND SELFISH :
Women saved by the grace of God
and on glorious mission sent, detained
rom Sabbath classes because their new
lat is not done. Churches that shook
our cities with great revivals sending ,
around to ask some demonstrative wor- I
shipper if he will not please to say Z
amen" and ''hallelujah" little softer +
{ seems as if in our churches we want !
ID baptism of cologne and balm of a ?
thousand flowers, when we actually ,
iced baptism of fire from the Lord !
rod OF Pentecost. But we are SO 9
lfraid somebody will criticise our SER :
mons, or criticise our prayers, or crit (
Use our religious work that our anxiety !
or the world $ redemption is lost in the +
ear we will get our hand hurt, while 4
IleaZer went into the conflict. land
lis hand clave unto the sword +
But see in the next place what a c
lard thing it was for Eleazar to get his
and and his sword parted The mus e
les and the sinews had been SO long +