Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-01-04

tories and potters absorb paralysis.
! Painters fall under their own brush
Foundry1nen take death in with the
filings. Shoemalzers pound away
their own lives on the last. Over
driven merchants measure off their
own lives with the yardstick Millers
grind their own lives with the grist.
Masons dig their graves with the
trowel And in all our occupations
and professions there are the elements
of peril
Rapid climatic changes threaten
our lives By reason Of the violent
fits of the thermometer, within two
days we live both in the arctic and
finds Us with our furs on The win
try blast cuts through our thin APP
parel The hoof the wheel, the fire
arms the assassin wait their chance to
put upon us their quietus [ announce
it as an impossibility that three hun
dred and sixty five days should pass
and leave us all as we now are. In
what direction to shoot the arrow
know not, and SO | shoot 1t at ven
Ills y ear UllOl SIld1U Gle.
In view Of this, | advise that you
have your temporal matters adjusted
Do not leave your worldly affairs at
the mercy Of administrators. Have
your receipts properly pasted and
your letters fled and your books
balanced If you have trust funds"
see that they are rightly deposited
and accounted for Let no widow or
orphan scratch on your tombstone
''This man wronged me of my in
heritance. Many a man has died
leaving a competency whose prop
erty has, through his own careless
ness, afterward been divided between
the administrators, the surrogate,
the lawyers and the sheriffs. [ charge
you, before many days have gone, as
far as possible, have all your worldly
matters made straight, for This year
thou shalt die
POSSIBILITIES OF SABBATH WORK.
[ advise also that you be busy in
Christian work. How many Sab
baths in the year? Fifty-two. If
the text be true of you it does not
say at what time you may go, and
therefore it is unsafe to count on all
of the ffty-two Sundays. AS you are
as likely to go in the first half of the
year as in the last half, think we
had better divide the fifty-two into
halves and calculate only twenty six
Sabbaths. Come, Christian men,
Christian women, what can you do
in twenty-siX SabbathsI
Divide the three hundred and sixty
five days into two parts; what can
you do in ne-hundred and eighty
two days? What by the way of saw
ing your family, the church and the
world? You will not, through all
the ages Of eternity in heaven, get
over the dishonor and the outrage
of going into glory, and having
helped none up to the same place. It
Will be found that many a Sabbath
school teacher has taken into heaven
her whole class; that Daniel Baker,
the evangelist, took thousands into
heaven; that Doddridge has taken in
hundreds Of thousands; that Paul
took in a hundred millions How
many will you take in?
If you get into heaven and find
none there that you sent, and that
there are none to come through your
instrumentality. | beg Of you to
crawl under some seat in the back
corner and never come out, lest the
redeemed get their eyes on you and
some one cry out: That is the man
who never lifted hand or voice for
the redemption Of his fellows! Look
at him, all heaven!' Better be busy
Better put the plow in deep. Better
say what you have to say quickly.
Better cry the alarm. Better fall on
your knees Better lay hold with
both hands. What you now leave
undone for Christ will forever be I'm
done. This year thou shalt die!'
In view Of the probabilities men
toned l advise all the men and wom-
en- not ready for eternity to get ready.
If the text be true, you have no time
to talk about nOnessent1als, asking
why God let sin come into the world,
or whether the book Of Jonah is III
spired. or who Melchisedec was or
what about the eternal DEGREES If
you are as near eternity as some of
you seem to be, there is no time for
anything but the question, What
must do to be Saved?" The drown
ing man. when a plank is thrown
him. stops not to ask what sawmill
made it. or whether it is oak or cedar
or who threw it. The moment it is
thrown he clutches it.
If this year you are to die, there is
no time for anything but Immediate
ly laying hold on God It is high
time to get out of your sins. You
say. i have committed no great