Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-01-12


food. There was plenty of work to be
done on shore for those who had al
ready escaped Ali that brave man
knew that there were others who would
take care of those, and so he said:
'sMan the lifeboat! Pull away, my
lads. pull awayl Yonder is a man;
there is a woman freezing in the rig
cling Pull awayp I see the oar
blades bend in the strong pull of the
oarsmen. Then they come up to the
wreck. The woman is frozen. She
drops into the wave-alas! poor wom-
an-and washes out to sea. But then
Mr.. Ancient says: ''There is a man yet
hanging to the rigging. Pull away,
my lads! pull away!" They come up,
and he says: Hold now there five
minutes and we will save you. Steady
steady Now give me your hand.
Leapl Thank God, he is saved!
Thank God, he is savedp
So there are men now in the break
ers They have made shipwreck of
life. While we come out to save them,
some are swept off-swept off before
we can reach them-and there are
others still hanging on. Steady there
among the slippery places! Steady!
Leap into this lifeboat! Now is your
chance for heavenl This hour some of
you are going to be saved. Far away
from God, you are going to be brought
nigh. ''Other sheep have I which are
not of this fold"
Christ says that ministers of the Cos
pei are to be fishers for men. Now,
when [ go fishing [ do not want to fish
in anybody else's pond. do not want
to go along Hohokus creek, where there
are ten or fifteen men fishing, and drop
my line just about where they are drop
ping their lines. I should like to get in
Newfoundland fishing smack and
push out to sea fifty miles beyond the
breakers I do not think the Church
/ of God gains a great deal when you
/ take sheep from one fold and put them
/ in another fold. It is the lost sheep on
! the mountains you want to bring back
the lost sheep on the mountains. And
! they are coming today.
You are now this hour in the tide of
Christian influences. You are going to
be swept in; your voice is going to be
/ heard in prayer; you are going to be
/ consecrated to God; you are going to
! live life of usefulness, and your death
bed is going to be surrounded by Chris
tan sympathizers, and devout men
will carry you to your burial when
your work is DONE and these words
will be chiseled for your epitaph:
PRECIOUS in the sight of the Lord is
the death of his saints" And all that
history is going to begin today. "Other
sheep have | which are not of this
fold
Again [ remark, the Heavenly Shep-
herd is going to find many of his sheep
among those whO.are now rejecters OF
Christianity [ do not know how you
came to reject Christianity. [ do not
know whether it was through hearing
Theodore Parker preach, or whether it
was reading Remains Life of Jesus, :"
or whether it was through some skeptic
in the store or factory. Or it may be
probably is the case-that you were
disguised with religion and disguised
with Christianity because some man
who prOfessed to be a Christian de-
frauded YOU and he being a member
of the church, and you taking him as a
representative of the Christian religion,
you said, well, if that's religion, I
don't want any Of it.
do not know how you came to re
ject Christianity, but you frankly tell
me you do reject it; you do not think
the Bible is the word of God, although
there are many things in it you admire
you DO not think that Christ was a
divine being, although you think he
was a very good man. You say, IF
the Bible be true-the most of the
Bible be true-I nevertheless think the
earlier part of the Bible is an allegory."
And there are fifty things that l believe
you do not believe. Nevertheless they
tell me in regard to you that you are
an accommodating you are an obliglng
person. If I should come to you and
ask of you a favor you would grant it
if it were possible. 1t would be a JOY
for you to grant me favor. If any OF
your friends came to you and wanted
an accommodation and you could ac-
commodate them, how glad you would
bel
Now I am going to ask of you a
favor. [ want you to oblige me. The
accommodation will cost you nothing,
and you will give me great happiness.
Of course you will not deny me. !
want you as an experiment to try the
Christian religion. If it does not stand
the test, discard it; if it does, receive it.
If you were very sick, and you had
been given up of the doctors, and
came to you, and I took bottle OF
medicine from my pocket and said,
''Here is medicine I am sure will help
you; it has cured fifty people," you
would say, ooh, I haven't any conf
dence in it; they tell me all these med
icines will fail me-" ''Wen," I say.
twill you not, as a matter of accom-
mediation to myself, just try itT
"Wel, you say, 81 have no objection
to trying it; if it will be any satisfac
ton to you I will try it." You take it
Now you are sick in disquietude, sicE
in sin. You are not happy. You laugh
sometimes when you are miserable
There come surges of unhappiness ove1
your soul that almost swamp you. YoJ
are unhappy, struck through with un
rest. Now, will you not try this solace
this febrifuge, this anodyne, this Cos
pei medicine?
"Oh," you say, 81 haven't any faith
in it." AS matter of accommodation
let me introduce you to the Lord Jesu:
: Christ, the Great Physician. why,
you say, 81 haven't any faith in him.
) Well, now, will you not just let hin
come and try his power on your soul
2 Just let me introduce him to you.
do not ask you to take my word for it
do not ask you to take the advice o
Q clergymen. Perhaps the clergymer
may be prejudiced; perhaps we may b.
0 speaking professionally; perhaps W.
: may give you wrong advice; perhap
> we are morbid on that subject; so [ de
not ask you to take the advice of cler
g gymen. I ask you to take the advic'
of very respectable laymen, such a
o William Shakespeare, the dramatist
. as William Wilberforce, the statesman