Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-06-13

asking for your help. Go and help.
Here is a wood full of summer in
sects. An axman goes into the wood TO
cut firewood The insects do not bother
him very Elch, and every stroke of the
ak makes them fly away. Bullet a man
90 and lie down there, and he is bitten
api mauled, and thinks it is horrible |
thing to stay in the wood. Why does |
he not take an ak a.ll so to work: SO |
there are thousands Of Christians now
in the church who 80 out amid great |
ulnoyances in life-.hey are not per-
picked, they are all the time busy: while
there are Others who do nothing, and
they are stung and stung and stung
and covered from head to foot with the
blotches Of Incidence and inactivity, and
spiritual death.
The first thing, then, you have to do,
0 Christian young man. Christian young
woman, is to go to work in the service
of the Lord, if You want to be happy
Christian When an army goes out,
there are always stragglers falling off
here and there, some because they are
faint and sick, but a great many because
they are afraid to fight and too lazy to
march. After a while the lazy men on
the road hear the booming of the guns
for hours, and they hear the shout of
victory, and a man on horseback comes
UP and says, I'VE have won the dayr'
Then they hasten up. How brave they
are after the battle is over. Poor at
| fighting, but grand at ''huzza!' So
there are stragglers going after the
Lords host. There come days of dark
ness and battle Where are they? We
| II - hoe TFhnyy 10
answer, but after while there comes
day of triumph in the church, and they
are all about s'Huzza! huzza! Didn't
we give it to them!'
PRAYER GREAT STRENGTHENED.
have another word of counsel to give
those who have Just entered Christian
life, and that is, Be faithful in prayer.
You might as well, business man, start
out in the morning without food and eX-
pect to be strong all that day-you might
as we'll abstain from food all the week
and expect to be strong physically, as to
be strong without prayer. The only way
to get any strength into the soul is by
prayer, and the only difference between
that Christian that is worth everything
and that who is worth nothing is the
fact that the last does not pray and the
other does.
And the only difference between this
Christian, who is getting along very fast
in the holy life, and this, who is only
getting along tolerably, is that the
first prays more than the last. You can
graduate q mans progress III religion by
the amount of prayer; not by the num-
Der of hours, perhaps. but by the earnest
supplication that he puts up to God.
There is no exception to the rule Show
me q Christian man who neglects this
kind of duty, and | will show you one
who is inconsistent. Show me a man
who prays, and his strength and his
power cannot be exaggerated. Why,
lust give to man this power of prayer
and YOU give him almost omnipOtence.
This afternoon you will see two Sab
bath school teachers. That one does not
gain the attention of her class. This one
does. What is the difference between
them, their intellects being about equal
The first thought only of her own ap
parel. The other came from great pros
, tration before God in earnest supplica
! ton, asking that Gods mercy might
come upon the school and that in thC
afternoon she might gain the attention
. of those five or six immortals that woule
be around her. The one teacher has NJ
; control over her class The other sit
: as with the strength of the Lord Cos
: Almighty.
A minister comes into the pulpit. Il
: has a magnificent sermon. all the sea
fences rounded according to the laws 0
: rhetoric and fine sermOnizing, and tn
+ truth makes no impression on the heart
y of men. People go away and say, Yer
o beautiful. WASH t it!'' 4 plain man come
+ into the pulpit He has been on his knee
before God asking for an especial mes
h sage that day, and the hearts OF me
S open to the plain truth, the broken ser
q fences strike into their consclences, an
d though the people may disperse al til
# close of the services seemingly wlthou
d having received any impression, tina
| night voices will be lifted IN some house
v hold. Men and brethren, what shall w
n do to be saved?' Oh. this power c
n prayer! Pray! Pray.
DRINK OF THE WATER OF KNOWLEDGE
il Another word of counsel | have to give
r. Be faithful in Bible research. y gref
IS many good books are now coming on
K We cannot read half of them. At ever
" revolution Of the printing press they al
j. coming They cover our parlor table
" and are in our sitting rooms and lbr;
n ries. Glorious books they are. W
ar thank God every day for the work of tt
Christian printing press. But | hay
If thought that perhaps the followers {
e. Christ sometimes allow this religious Ii
IF erature to take their attention frol
" Gods Word, and that there may not
l. as much Bible reading as there ougi
at to be.
m How is that with your own expel
t. ence? Just calculate in your minds ho
h much religious literature you have res
It. during the year and then how large
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