Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-02-15
We are Numbered up with TECHNICAL

W. AI0 luIu U0I0u up Will OoCuulCstlI-
ties. We have too many concord
ances and dictionaries and encyclo-
pedias and systems of theology on
our head to get down on the plain.
Our vocabulary is too frosted. We
are too much under the domination
of customs regnant for many centu
ries. Come on. young men of the
ministry. Take this pulpit, take all
the pulpits, and in the street, and the
market place, and the family circle
preach Christ on the plain.
AS soon as the church says by it's
attitude, not necessarily by it's words
my one mission is to help for this
life and help for the life to come all
the people" and it proves it's earnest
ness in the matter, people on foot and
on horseback and in wagons and in
carriages will come to the churches in
such numbers that they will have to
be met at the door by ushers, saying:
''You were here last Sunday; you can
not come in today Gentlemen and
ladies', you must take your turn
And it will be as in the Johnstown
freshet and disaster, when a govern
ment station was opened for the sup
ply of bread, and it took the officers
of the law to keep the sufferers in
line because of the great rush for
food. When this famine struck
world realizes that the church is a
government station set up by the
government of the universe to pro
vide the bread of eternal life for all
the people, the rush will be UMPIRE
cedented and unimaginable.
WHAT SCIENTISTS HAVE NOT DONE.
Astronomers have been busy meas
uring worlds, and they have told us
how great is the circumference of
this world and how great is its diam
eter, yea, they have kept on until
they have weighed our planet and
found it's weight to be six sextillon
tons. But by no science has the
weight Of this worlds trouble been
weighed Now. Christ standing on
the level of our humanity stands in
sympathy with every trouble. There
are so many aching heads; his ached
under the thorns. There are SO
many weary feet; his were worn
with the long journey up and down
the land that received him not.
There are SO many prosecuted souls.
Every hour Of his life was under
human outrage. The world had no
better place to receive him than a
cattle pen, and it's farewell was slap
on his cheek and spear in his side.
So intensely human was he that
there has not been in all our race a
grief or infrmity or exhaustion or
pang that did not touch him once
and that does not touch him now.
The lepers, the paralytics, the i'm
beetle, the maniac, the courtesan, the
repentant brigand-whicho one did he
turn off, which one did he not pity,
which one did he not help? The uni
versal trouble of the world is be-
reavement. One may escape all the
other troubles, but that no soul eS-
capes. Out of that bitter cup every
one must take drink For instance
in order that all might know how he
sympathizes with those who have
lost daughter, Christ comes to the
house of Jarius. There is such big 4
disciples have to push their way in.
From the throng of people I conclude
that this girl must have been very
popular She was one of those chill
dren whom everybody likes.
After Christ got in the house there
was such loud weeping that the or
binary tones of voice could not be
heard do not wonder. The dead
daughter was twelve years ofage. tits
about the happiest time in most lives.
Very little children suffer many in
justices because they are children,
and childhood is not desirable
part of human existence-they get
whacked or set on But at twelve
years of age the child has come to
self assertion and is apt to make her
rights known And then, twelve
years of age is too early for the cares
and anxieties of life So this girl was.
think, the merriment of the house
hold She furnished for them the
mimicry and the harmless mischief,
and reused the guffaw that often
rang through that happy home But
now she is dead, and the grief at her
departure is as violent as her pres
ence had been vivacious and inspirit-
ing Oh. the bereavement was so
sharp, so overwhelming How could
they give her up
suspect that they blamed them
selves for this or for that Oh, if
they had had some other doctor, or
taken some other medicine, or had
been more careful of her health, or if
they had not given her that reproof
sometime when she had not really