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

of his cabin, AMI to the Sex it seems
like light from the other shore that
bounds this great deep Of human pain
and woe. If the sun be like a song, full
and loud and poured forth from brazen
instruments that fill heaven and earth
with harmony, the moon is plaintive and
sad. standing beneath the throne of God,
sending up her soft, sweet voice of
praise, while the stars listen and the
sea. No mother ever more lovingly
watched a sick cradle than this pale
watcher of the sky bends over the weary,
heartsick, slumbering earth, singing to
it silvery music, while it is rocked in
the cradle of the spheres.
'sFAIR AS THE MOON
Now. saws nv text, "Who is she, fair
as the moon:' Our answer is the church.
Like the moon, she is a borrowed light.
She gathers up the g., Of Saviour's
sufferings, a Saviours n Savlour's
resurrection. q Saviour !, sion, and
pours that light on palace a--d dungeon,
on squalid heathenism and elaborate
skepticism, on widows tears and mar
tyr's robe of flame, on weeping peni-
tence and loud mouthed scorn.
She is the only institution today that
gives any light to our world. Into her
portals the poor core and get the SYM
pathy of q once pillowless Christ, the
bereaved come and see the bottle in
which God saves all our tears, and the
captives come, and on the sharp corners
of her affairs dash off their chains, and
the thirsty come and put their cup under
the Rock Of Ages" which pours forth
from its smitten side living water, spark
ling water, crystalline water from under
the throne of God and the Lamb.
Blessed the bell that calls her worship
ers to prayer. Blessed the water III
which her members are baptized. Bless
ed the wine that glows in her sacra-
mental cups. Blessed the songs on which
her devotions travel up and the angels
of God travel down.
AS the moon goes through the midst
of the roaring storm clouds unfinished
and unframed, and comes out calm and
beautiful on the other side, SO the
church of God has gone through all
the storms of this worlds persecution
! and come out uninjured, no worse for
the fact that Robespierre cursed it,
and Noltaire caricatured it, and Tom
Paine sneered at it, and all the forces
/ of darkness have bombarded it. Not
] like some baieful comet shooting across
the sky, scattering terror and dismay
among the nations, but above the long
/ bowling night of the worlds wretched-
ness the Christian church has made her
mild way, ''Fair as the MOON"
[ take step further in my subject
CLEAR rs the sun" After season of
storm or fog, how you are thrilled when
the sun comes out at MONDAY! The
rnists travel up hill above hill, mountain
above mountain, until they are sky lost.
The forests are full of chirp and buzz
and song; honey makers on the log,
birds beak pounding the bark, the chat
ter of the squirrel on the rail, the call of
q hawk out of a clear sky makes you
thankful for the sunshine which makes
all the world SO busy and so glad. The
same sun which in the morning kindled
confagrations among the castles OF
cloud scoops down to paint the lily
white and the buttercup yellow and the
forgetmenot blue.
WHAT CAN RESIST THE SUN?
What can resist the sun? Light fol-
! voyager on the deep, light for shepherds
guarding the focks afield, light for the
poor who have no lamps to burn, light
for the dOwncaSt and the weary, light
for aching eyes and burning brain an6
consuming captive, light for the smooth
}i ~ OF childhood and the dim vision o.
fle cctogeIarian, light for queen:
c0ronct and sewing girls needle. ''Le
there be light
Now, says my text, t'Who is she tina
loolzeth forth clear as the sum- Our an
sw5er is, the church. You have been go
ing along road before daybreak, an(
on one side you thought you saw lion
and on the other side you thought yol
saw % goblin Of the darkness, but whel
the sun came out you found these wer
harmless apparitions. And it is th
great mission of the church of Jesu
Christ to come forth ''clear as the sun,
to ill11anine all early darkness, to ez
plain, as far as possible, all mystery, an
to make the world radiant in its bright
ness: and that which you thought wa
an aroused lion is found out to be
1 slumbering lamb; and the sepulchra
gates Of your dead turn out to be tn
F. opening gates of heaven; and that whic
you supposed was a flaming sword t
keep you out of paradise is an angel c
Eight to beckon you in.
The lamps on her affairs will cast thei
glow on your darkest pathway and chez
yog1 until, far beyond thaneed of lar
tern or lighthouse, you are safely al
chored within the veil Oh, sun of til
church, shine on until there is no Sol
row to soothe, no tears to wipe away
! no shackles to break, ne more souls
be redeemed Ten thousand hands {
sin have attempted to extinguish til
lamps On her affairs, but they are quencl
less, and to silence her pulpits, but tn
thunder would leap and the lightnin
would flame.
The church Of God will yet come
: full meridian, and in that day all til
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