Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-10-03
into the moonlight: amid the flying


it of every Bible lily, q every raven, Of
every star, of every crazed brain cured.
of every blind man come to sunlight, of
every coin in fsh's mouth, of every
loaf that got to be five lo;sves, Of every
wrathful sea pacifed, of every pulseless
arm stretched forth in graduation: ask
it of his mother, of Augustus. of Herod
of the Syrophonician woman, of the
damsel that woke up from the death
sleep, of Joseph, who had him buried,
of the angel posted as sentinel at his
tomb, of the dumb earth that shook and
groaned and Numbered when he died.
THE BIBLE IS STAFF.
A missionary in France offered a Bible
in an humble dwelling. The man took
it, tore out dozen pages and with them
began to light his pipe. Some years after
the missionary happened in the same
house. The family had just lost their
son in the Crimean war, and his Bible
had been sent back home. The mission
airy took it up and saw that it was the
very same Bible that he had left in the
house and from which the leaves had
been torn. The dying soldier had writ
ten on one of the leaves of the Bible,
hcJGCU0tt anu SCOHOu dU, OIG DC-
lieved in and saved.' The Bible may be
used to light the pipe of witticism by
some. but for us it is a staff in life, d
pillow in death and our JOY for eternity.
Walk all up and down this Bible do
main! Try every path. Plunge in at
the prophecies and come out at the
epistles. Go with the patriarchs until
you meet the evangelists. Rummage
and ransack, as children who are not
satisfied when they come to new house
until they know what is in every room
and into what every door opens. Open
every jewel casket Examine the sky
lights. Forever be asking questions.
Put to higher use than was intended
the oriental proverb, ''Hold all the skirts
Of thy mantle extended when heaven is
raining gold
Passing from Bonn to Coblentz on
the Rhine, the scenery is comparatively
tame. But from Coblentz to Mayence
it is enchanting. You sit on deck and
feel us if this last flash of beauty must
exhaust the scene; but in moment
there is a turn of the river, which COW
ers up the former view with more lux
uriant vineyards, and more defiant cas-
ties, and holder bluffs, vine wreathed,
and grapes so ripe that if the hills be
touched they would bleed their rich life
away into the bowls of Bingen and
Hockheimer. Here and there there are
streams of water melting into the river
like smaller joys swallowed in the
bosom of a great gladness.
And when night begins to throw its
la,.ly o11f1 la hn n of
hills, and you are approaching disem-
barkation at Mayence, the lights along
the shore fairly bewitch the scene with
their beauty, giving one a thrill that he
feels but once, yet that lasts him for
ever. So this river Of Gods Word is not
straight stream, but winding splen-
dOr-at every turn new wonders to at
tract, still ripper vintage pressing to the
brink and crowded with castles of
strength-Stolzenfels and Johannisber-
ger as nothing compared with the strong
tower into which the righteous run and
are swaziland our standardization at
last in the evening amid the lights that
CLEAN from the shore of heaven. The
trouble is that the vast majority of BIZ
BILE voyagers stop at Coblentz, where the
chief glories begin.
A BOUNDLESS SEA.
The sea of Gods Word is not like Gen
nesaret, twelve miles by six, but bound
less, and in any one direction you can
sail on forever. Why then confine your
self to 4 short psalm or to Il few verses
of an epistle? The largest fish are not
near the shore. Hoist all sail to the
winds of heaven Take hold of both
oars and pull away. Be like some of the
whalers that went out from New Bed
ford or Portsmouth to be gone for two
OF three years. Yea, calculate on d life
time voyage. You do not want to land
until you land in heaven. Sail away,
. We mariners, for eternity! Launch
out into the deep!
The text is appropriate to all Chris
tians of shallow experience Doubts and
fears have in our day been almost elected
to the parliament of Christian graces.
Some consider it bad sign not to have
any doubts. Doubts and fears are not
signs Of health, but testers and carbun-
cles. You have a valuable house or
farm. 1t is suggested that the title is
not good. You employ counsel. You
have the deeds examined You search
the record for mortgages, judgments
and liens. You are not satisfied until
you have a certificate, signed by the
great seal Of the state, assuring you that
the title is good. Yet how many leave
their title to heaven an undecided mat
ter! Why do you not go to the records
and find out? Give yourself no rest, day
or night, until you can read your title
clear TO mansions in the skies.
Christian character is to come up to
higher standards. We have now to
hunt through our library to find one
Robert M'Cheyne, or one Edward Pay
son, OF one Harlan Page. The time will
come when we will find half a dozen of
them sitting in the same seat with us.