Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-08-08


ners''-The Doctor Passes Busy Week
in Scotland.
/ LONDON. Aug. THE week, like
others that have preceded it since the
beginning of Rev. DR.. Talmage's foreign
preaching tour. has been very busy
bne. indeed since July "a, when he
preached in the English and American
church in Berlin, while EN- route from
Russia to Scotland, DR.. Talmage can
scarcely be said to have had a moments
leisure. Services have been held at
Edinburgh. Inverness. Aberdeen, Dun
dee. Glasgow, Newcastle and Sunder-
land The sermon for this week is en-
titled The Glorious March, the text
being from Solomon's Song Vi, 10, Fair
rs the moon, clear as the sun and terrible
rs an army with banners.
The fragrance Of spikenard, the flash
of Jewels, the fruitfulness of orchards,
the luxuriance of gardens. the beauty Of
Heshbon fish pools the dew of the night
md the splendor of the morning-all
contribute to the richness of Solomon's
STYLE when he comes to speak Of the
glory of the church. In contrast with
his eulogium of the church, look at the
day in regard to it. Ii one stakeholder
become cheat, does that destroy the
whole company? IF one soldier be
coward. does that condemn the whole
army? And yet there are many in this
day so unphilosophic, so illogical, so
dishonest and so unfair as to denounce
the entire church of God because there
are here and there bad men belonging
to it.
There are those who say that the
church of God is not up to the spirit Of
the day in which we live: but have to
tell you that. Notwithstanding all the
swift wheels and the flying shuttles and
the lightning communications, the world
has never yet been able to keep up with
the church As high as God is above
man, so high is the church of God
higher than all human institutions.
From her lamp the best discoveries of
the world have been lighted. The best
Of our inventors have believed in the
Christian religion-th Fultons, the
Morses. the Whitneys, the Perrys and
the LivingstCnes. She has owned the
best of the telescopes and Leyden jars,
and while infidelity and atheism have
gone blindfOlded among the most star
thing discoveries that were about to be
developed the earth, and the air, and the
sea have made quick and magnificent
responses to Christian philosophers.
The world Will not be up to the church
of Christ until the day when all mer
chandise has become honest merchan-
disc. and ali governments have become
free governments, and all nations evan
gelized nations and the last deaf ear Of
spiritual death shall be broken open by
the million voiced shout of nations born
IN a day. The church that Nebuchad
hezzar tried TO burn in the furnace, and
Darius to tear to pieces with the Hons, and
Lord Claverho1se to cut with the sword,
has gone on. wading the foods and en-
during the fire, until the deepest barbar-
ISM and the fiercest cruelties. and the
blacklist superstitiOns have been COM
PEELED to look to the east, crying, who
is she that lOoketh forth as the morning,
fair as the moon. clear as the sun and
terrible as an army with banners:
ASHAMED OF HONOR.
Yet there are people who are ashamed
to belong to the church Of Christ. and
If YOU ask them whether they are III
such associations they say, Yes. some
times attend the church" instead Of re
alizing the fact THAI there is 10 honor
compared with the honor Of beng Il
member of the church of God. look
back with JOY to the most honOred mo-
ment OF my life, when in the old eoUn-
try meeting house the minister of Christ
announced my name as follower of
Z the Lord.
You who are floating about in the
world, seeking for better associations.
why do you not join yourself to some OF
~, Ill 4oi-
riding in the cars toward Philadelphia
and young man sat down beside him
He said. Young man, where are you
going?'' Il ana going 10 Philadelphia
to lire replied the young man. ''Have
you letters of introduction" asked the
old captain. Yes, said tie young man
and he pulled some of them out. well,
said the old sea captain, '|laavent you g
church certifcatee'' ''Oh, yes" replied
the .yeung man; Il didn't suppose you
would want to look at that Eyes,
saidStlla sea captain, Il want4o see that
AS soon as you get to Philadelphia pre-
sent tito some Christian church. | an
an old sailor, and | have been up and
down in the world, and it's my rule al
soon ash get into port TO fasten my shiI
fore and aft to the wharf, although i
may costsa little wharfage, rather thar
have my. ship out in the stream floating
-hither and thither with the tide
Oh, men and women, by the tides Of
frivolity and wOrldliness swept this sway
and swept that way, seeking for assoeia
lions and for satisfactions for the i'm
mortal soul, come into the church O
Jesus Christ. Lash fast toHler. She i
the pillar and the ground Of truth.
propose to speak of the threefold glorl
of the church as it is described in th'
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