Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-04-11

member you when you blackened nay
fathers bootsr' Yes replied the man,
land did | not do it well?" Never lie
ashamed of your early surroundings.
Yes, yes, all the green leaves we walk
over were torn of some palm tree
have cultivated the habit Of forgetting
the unpleasant thingsof life, and chiefly
remember the smooth things, and as far
as | remember now my life has for the
most part moved on over road soft
with green leaves. They were torn oil
two palm trees that stood at the start OF
the road. The prayers, the Christian ex-
ample, the good advice, the hard work
Of my father and mother. How they
toiled Their fingers were knotted with
hard work Their foreheads were wrin-
killed. with many cares. Their backs
stopped from carrying our burdens.
They long ago went into slumber
among their kindred and friends on the
banks of the Raritan, but the influences
they threw in the way Of their children
are yet green as leaves the moment they
are plucked from palm tree, and we
feel them on our brow and under our
feet and they will strew all the way
until we lie down III the same slumber.
Self sacrifice! What thrilling word!
Glad am | that our world has SO many
specimens of #. The sailor boy on ship
board was derided because he would not
fight or gamble, and they called him a
coward. But when child fell over
board and no one else was ready to help,
the derided sailor leaped into the sea,
and though the waves We're rough, the
sailor swimming with one arm carried
fiji raccup1
and rescuer were lifted into safety, and
the cry Of coward ceased and all huz-
zaed at the scene of daring and self
sacrifice.
When, recently, Captain Burton, the
great author, died he left a scientific
| book in manuscript, which he expected
would be his wife's fortune. He often
told her So He said, ''This will make
/ you independent and affiuent after ! am
gone" He suddenly died. and it was
| expected that the wife would publish
the book One publisher told her he
could himself make out of it 800, 600.
But it was book which, though written
with pure scientific design, she felt would
do in4measurable damage to public
morals With the two large volumes,
which had cost her husband the work OF
years, she sat down on the floor before
the fire. and said to herself. There is a
fortune for me in this book, and although
nv husband wrote it with the right mo-
tive and scientific people might be helped
by it, to the vast majority OF people 1T
would be harmful, and | know it would
damage the world" Then she took
apart the manuscript sheet after sheet
and put it into the fire, until the last line
was consumed. Bravo! She flung her
| livelihood, her home, her chief worldly
resources under the best moral and re-
ligious interests of the world.
HOW MUCH ARE WE WILLING TO GIVE UP?
How much are we willing to sacrifice
for others? Christ is again on the march,
not from Bethpage to Jerusalem, but for
the conquest of the world. He will sure
| ly take it, but who will furnish the palm
branches for the triumphant way? Self
sacrifice is the word. There is more
money paid to destroy the world than to
save it. There are more buildings put
up to ruin the race than churches TO
evangelize it, There is more depraved
| literature to blast men than good litera-
tire to elevate them. Oh, for power
to descend upon us all like that which
whelmed Charles q. Finney with mercy,
when, kneeling in his law office, and be-
fore he entered upon his apostolic career
of CHARACTERIZATION. he said: The Holy
Ghost descended on me in Il manner
that seemed to go through ne, body and
soul | coull feel the impression like a
wave of electricity going through and
through ne. indeed it seemed to come
in waves and waves OF liquid love. 1t
seemed ike the breath Of God. can
recollect distinctly that it seemed to fan
me like immense wings. wept aloud
with 10Y and love. These waves came
over me and over me one after another,
and. until. | recollect, cried out, Il
shall die if these waves continue to pass
over me-. | said. Lord, | cannot bear
any more" And, when gentleman
came into the office and said, " Mr.. Fin
ney, you are in pain?' he replied. mo
but so happy that | cannot live.
NY hearers, the time will come when
upon the whole church of God will de-
scend such an avalanche OF blessing, and
then the bringing of the world to God
will be a matter of a few years, perhaps
, a few days or few hours. Ride on, I
Christ! for the evangelization of al
nations Thou Christ who didst ride OF
. the unbroken colt down the sides OF
Olivet. on the white horse of eterna
victory ride through all nations, anc
may we, by our prayers and our sell
/, sacrifices and our contributions and ou1
conservation, throw palm branches IL
the way clap my hands at the coming
victory. feel this morning as did the
! Israelites when on tai march from
Canaan; they came not ~.der the shadow
;, of one palm tree but of seventy palm
, trees, standing in an oasis among ;
dozen gushing fountains, or as the Booi
: puts it, ssTwelve wells of water and three