Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-11-30

| SteUnOScOpe Jn0 physician neafS the
movement of the lung, the astronomer
! catches the pulsation of distant systems
/ of worlds throbbing with life. He takes
/ the microscope and discovers that there
are hundreds of thousands of animal
cul8 living, moving, working, dying
within a circle that could be covered
with the point of a pin-animals to
which raindrop would be an ocean,
a rose leaf a hemisphere and the flash
of FREELY lasting enough to give them
light to several generations.
MANS MORAL NATURE.
l take a step higher and look at
mans moral nature. Made in the i'm
age of God Vast capacity for enjoy
ment; capable at first of eternal Joy,
and though now disordered, still
through the recuperative force of
heavenly grace able to mount up to
more than its original felicity; facul-
ties that may blossom and bear fruit
inexhaustibly. Immortality written
upon every capacity; soul destined
to reign in unlimited spheres of activ-
ity long after the world has put on
ashes, and the solar system shall have
snapped its axle, and the stars that in
their courses fought against Sisera
shall have been slain and buried amid
the tolling thunders of the last day.
You see that God has adapted every
thing to our comfort and advantage.
Pleasant things for the palate, music
for the ear, beauty for the eye, aroma
for the nostril, kindred for our affec-
tons, poetry for our taste, religion for
our soul. We are put in q garden and
told that from all the trees we may eat,
except here and there one. He gives
the sun to shine on us, and the waters
to refresh us, and food to strengthen
us; and the herbs yield medicine when
we are sick, and the forests lumber
when we would build "a house or cross
the water in a ship.
The rocks are transported for our
foundation, and metals upturned for
our currency, and wild beasts must
give us covering, and the mountains
must be tunneled to let us pass, and
the fish of the sea come up in our net,
Gnd the birds of the air drop at the flash
of our guns. and the cattle on a thou
sand hills come down to give us meat.
For US the peach orchards bend down
their fruit and the vineyards their
purple clusters To feed and refresh
our intellect ten thousand wonders in
nature and wonders of
mind and body, wonders of earth and
air and deep analOgies and antitheses;
all colors and sounds; lyrics in the air;
idyls in the field; conhagrations in the
sunset; robes of mist on the mountains;
and the "Grand March" of God in the
storm.
But for the soul still higher adapta-
tion-a fountain in which it may wash;
a ladder by which it may climb; a song
of endless triumph that it may sing; a
crown of unfading light that it may
wear Christ came to save it-came
with a cross on his back; came with
spikes in his feet; came when no one
else would come, to do II 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
pardon. He has lost Gods image;
Christ retraces it. He is helpless; AL
mighty grace is proffered He is a lost
wanderer; Jesus brings him home. He
is blind; and at one touch of him who
cured Bartimeus eternal glOries stream
into his soul. Jesus, / sing thy gracel
Cure of worst disease! Hammer to
smite off heaviest chain Light for
thickest darknessl Grace divine! Devils
scott at it and men reject it, but
heaven celebrates it!
HEALTH, PLENTY AND LIBERTY.
I wish you good cheer for the nation
al health. Pestilence, that in other
years has come to drive out its thou
sand hearses to Greenwood and Laurel
Hill, has not visited our nation. 1t is
q glorious thing to be well. How
strange that we should keep our health
when one breath from marsh, or the
sting of an insect, or the slipping of a
foot, or the falling of a tree branch
might fatally assault our life! Regular
ly the lungs work, and their motion
seems to be a spirit within us painting
after its Immortality. Our sight fails
not, though the air is so full of objects
which by one touch could break out
the souls window. What ship, after
years tossing on the sea, could come in
with so little damage as ourselves.
though we arrive after years voyage
today?
l wish you good cheer for the ma
tional harvest. Reaping machines
never swathed thicker rye, and corn
husker's peg never ripped out fuller
ear, and NOV poles never bent down
under sweeter hay, and windmilrs hop
per never shook out larger wheat
Long trains of white covered wagons
have brought the wealth down to the
great thoroughfares. The gamers are
full, the storehouses are overcrowded,
the canals are blocked with freights
pressing down to the markets. The
cars rumble all through the darkness
and whistle up the fiagman at dead of
night to let the western harvests come
down to feed the mouths of the great
cities. A race of kings has taken pos
session of this land-King Cotton, King
Corn, King Wheat, King Rice, King
Grass, King Coal.
[ wish you good cheer for civil and
religious liberty. No official spy
watches our entrance here, nor does
an armed soldier interfere with the
honest utterance of truth. We stand
here today 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 streets Blessed be God that to-
day we are free men, with the prospect
and determination of always being
free. No established religion-Jew and
GENTLE, Arminian and Calvinist, Trim
itarian and Unitarian, Protestant and
Roman Catholic on the same footing
IL persecution should come against
the most unpopular of all the sects, I
believe that all other denominations
would band together and arm them
selves, and hearts would be stout, and
blood would be free, and the right of
men to worship God according to the
dictates of their consciences would be
contested at the point of the bayonet
and with blood flowing up to the bits