Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-08-01
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When we come 10 set 1OfIn the 1of0
of Christ we are going to take the ten
derest phraseology wherever we find 1t,
and if it has never been used in that
direction before, all the more shall we
use it. When we come to speak Of the
glory of Christ, the conqueror, we are
going to draw our SMILES from tn
umphal arch and oratorio and every
thing grand and stupendous. The French
navy have eighteen flags by which they
give signal; but those eighteen flags
they can put into sixty-six thousand
different com binations. And have to
tell YOU that these standards Of the
cross may be lifted into combinations
infinite and varieties everlasting. And
let me say to young men who are after
awhile going to preach Jesus Christ,
you will have the largest liberty and
unlimited resource. You only have to
present Christ in your own way.
EVERY MAN HATH HIS PROPER GIFT OF
GOD.
Jonathan Edwards preached Christ IN
the severest argument ever penned, ana
John Bunyan preached Christ In the sub
FINEST allegory ever composed. Edward
Payson, sick and exhausted, leaned up
against the side of the pulpit and wept
out his discourse, while George White
field, with the manner, and the voice,
and the start of an actor, overwhelmed
his auditory. It would have been diff
ferent thing if Jonathan Edwards had
tried to write and dream about the pill
erirn's progress to the celestial city or
John Bunyan had attempted an essay on
the human will.
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the fountains, deeper than the seas are
all these Gospel themes. Song has no
melody, flowers have no sweetness, sun
set sky has no color compared with these
glorious themes. These harvests OF grace
spring up quicker than we can sickle
them. Kindling pulpits with their fire,
and producing revolutions with their
power. lighting up dying beds with their
/ glory. they are the sweetest thought for
/ the poet and they are the most thrilling
/ illustration for the orator, and they offer
the most intense scene for the artist, and
they are to the ambassador of the sky
all enthusiasm Complete pardon for
direst guilt. Sweetest comfort for ghast-
Hest agony. Brightest hope for grim
NEST death. Grandest resurrection for
darkest sepulcher.
Oh, what a gospel to preach! Christ
over all in it. His birth, his suffering,
his miracles, his parallels, his sweat, his
tears, his blood, his atOnement, his in
tercession, what glorious themes! Do we
exercise faith? Christ is its object. Dc
we have love? 1t fastens on Jesus
Have we a fondness for the church? II
is because Christ died for it. Have we
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went ahead. the herald and the forerun
ner.
The royal robe Of Demetrius was sc
costly. so beautiful, that after he had
put it off no one ever dared put it on
but this robe of Christ, richer than that
the poorest and the wanest and the
worst may wear. Where sin aboundee
grace may much more abound.
'.Oh, my sins, my sins" said Martin
Luther to Staupitz; my sins, my sins!'
The fact is that the brawny German
student had found Latin Bible tina
had made him quake, and nothing els
ever did make him quake; and when h
, found how, through Christ, he was par
doned and saved he wrote to friend
saying: ''Come over and join us grea
? and awful sinners saved by the grace o
, God. You seem to be only slende
, sinner. and YOU don't much eXtOl tn
mercy of God: bat we who have bee
! such very awful sinners praise his grac
the more now that we have been re
l deemed
/ Can it be that you are SO desperatel
8 egotistical that you feel yourself IN flrS
: rate spiritual trim, and that from tn
root Of the hair to the tip of the toe 20
f are scarless and immaculate: Wha
YOU need is a looking glass, and here
is in the Bible Poor and wretched an
p miserable and blind, and naked frol
! the crown Of the head to the sole of til
n foot, full of wounds and putrefyin
f sores. No health in us. And then TAX
/. the fact that Christ gathered UP all tt
f notes against us and paid them an
, then offered us the receipt.
J., And how much we need him III OF
s sorrows! We are independent Of CT
It cumstances if we have his grace. VIII
he made Paul sing in the dungeon, al
e under that grace st. John from desola
II Patmos heard the blast of the apOcaly
d tic trumpets. After all other candl
10 have been snuffed out, this is the Hgl
% that gets brighter and brighter unto Il
# perfect day; and after, under the hal
re- hoofs of calamity, all the pools
e, worldly enjoyment have been trampl'
S into deep mire, at the foot Of the etern
as rock the Christian, from cups of grant
in lily trimmed and vine covered, puts O
IT. the thirst of his soul.
THERE IS NO OTHER NAME.
Again, remark that Christ IS abo
ia all in dying alterations. | have not al
~ sympathy with the morbidity abro
4 about our demise. The emperor OF &c
~ stantinople arranged that on the day
i his coronation the stonemason shou
IN come and consult him about his tom
ne stone that after awhile he would nee
ia And there are men who are mOnoma.