Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-05-25

and the entire form to thrill, and with
the rapture of a life just come the
PROSTATE being leapsto his feet-a man!
But the scene of this Saturday is not
yet done, and in the atmosphere,
drowsy with the breath Of flowers, and
the song of bObOlinks and robin red
breasts, the man slumbers, and by
antesthetics, divinely administered, the
slumber deepens until, without the Ooz-
ing of one drop of blood at the time or
the faintest scar afterward, that portion
is removed from his side which is to be
built up the Queen of Paradise, the
daughter of the great God, the mother
of the human race, the benediction of all
ages, woman the wife, afterward wOm-
an the mother And as the two join
hands and stroll down along the banks
of the Euphrates toward a bower of
mignonette and wild rose and honey
suckle, and are listening to the call of
the whip poor-wili from the aromatic
thickets the sun sinks beneath the hori-
zon. ''And the evening and the morning
were the sixth day
THE WORKS or THE LORD.
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work? | review it not for entertain
ment, but because I would have you
join in David's dOxolOgy. Great and
marvellous are thy works. Lord God
Almighty;" because l want you to
know what a homestead our Father
built for his children at the start,
though sin has despOiled it, and be-
cause I want you to know how the
world will look again when Christ shall
have restored it, swinging now between
two Edens; because I want you to
realize something of what a mighty
God he is, and the utter folly of trying
to war against him; because [ want
you to make peace with this chief of
the universe through the Christ who
mediates between offended Omnipo-
tence and human rebellion; because 1
want you to know how fearfully and
wonderfully you are made, your body
as we'll as your soul an Omnipotent
achievement; because | want you to
realize that order reigns throughout the
universe, and that Gods watches tick
to the second, and that his clocks
strike regularly, though they strike
once in a thousand years.
A learned man once asked an old
Christian man who had no advantages
of schooling why he believed there was
a God, and the good old man, who
probably had never heard an argument
on the subject in all his life, made this
noble reply: Sir I have been here
going hard upon fifty years. Every
day since | have been in this world |
see the sun rise in the east and set in
the west The north star stands where
it did the first time | saw it; the seven
stars and Jobs coffin keep on the same
path in the sky and never turn out 1t
isn't so with mans work He makes
clocks and watches; they may run well
for awhile, but they get out of fix and
stand stock still But the sun and
moon and stars keep on this same way
all the while. The heavens declare the
glory of God" Yea, | preach this be-
cause [ want you to walk in apprecia-
ton of Addison's sublime sentiment
when he writes:
The spacious ornament on high.
With all the blue ethereal sky
And spangIed heav'ns, a shining frame,
Their Great Original proclaim.
In reasons ear they all rejoice,
And utter forth glorious voice,
Forever singing, they shine,
The hand that made us is divine.