Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-05-23

| Bible. he leaves TO orr common sense to
decide how often we should pause IN
reading the other sixty-four books Of the
Bible
Gi1p CALLS a Halt
We must pause. ANA ask ft. more light
We must panse and weep oyer onr sins.
We must pailse and s,l.sorI tlt. strength
If one promise sometimes hear pee
pie boasting about how many times they
have read the Bible through when they
seem to know no mere about il than a
passenger would know about the state
Of Pennsylvania who should go through
it in ST Louis lightning express train
and in Pullman sleeper. the two
characteristics OF the journey, velocity
and solnnoence. 1t is not the number
Of times you go through the Bible. but
the number of times the Bible goes
through You. Pause, reflect. Selah!
So also on the scroll Of your life and
mind We go rushing on in the song Of
our prosperity from note Of joy to note
of Joy, and it is Il long drawn ont legato
and we become Indifferent and unappre-
ciative when suddenly we come upon
blank in the music There is nothing
between those bars A pause. God
will fill it up with Il sickbad, or u com
mercial disaster. or & grave. But. thank
God. it is not a breaking down. 1t is
only "a pause |: helps rs to appreciate
the blessings that are gone. 1t gives us
higher appreciation of the blessings that
are to come.
The Selah of Habakkuk and David is
a dividing line between two anthems.
David begins his book with the words
blessed is the man" and after seventy
four Selahs he closes his book with the
words. praise We the Lord. So there
are mercies behind us, and there are
going to be niercies before rs It is good
for us that God halts us in our for
tunes. and hats us with physical dis
tress and halts us at the graves of our
dead More than once you and have
been halted by such Selah. You
wrung ycur hands and said, Il can't
see any sense in this Providence; can't
see why God gave me that child, if he is
So soon going to take it away Oh, my
desolate home! Oh, my broken hearth
You could not understand it. But it
was not 4 Selah of overthrow 1t gave
you greater appreciation of the bless
ings that have gone; it will yet give you
greater dpttttldltoLl vi lHS Ol0ooil4So
that will come.
HISTORICAL. CITATIONS.
When the Huguenots were being very
much prosecuted in France a father and
mother were obliged to fly from the
country, leaving their child in the pos
session Of comparative stranger. They
did not know whether they would ever
return, or returning, if they would be
able to recognize their child, for by that
time she might be grown The mother
was almost frenzied at the thought of
leaving the child, and then. even if COM
ing back again, not being able to know
her Before they left the father drew
his sword and he marked the wrist of
that child with q deep cut 1t must
have been Il great eXigency to make
father do that
Years of absence passed on and after
awhile the parents returned, and their
first anxiety was to find their lost child
They looked up and down the land, ex-
amining the wrists of the young people,
when 10! after awhile the father found
maiden with Il scar upon her wrist
She knew him not. but he knew her.
And oh, the Joy of the reunion! So it is
now Whom the Lord loveth he chas-
teneth. He cutteth, he marketh and
when he comes to claim his own the
Lord will know them that are his: know
them by the scar Of their trouble, know
them by the stroke of their desolation
Oh it is good that the Lord sometimes
halts MS David says at is good that
| have been afflicted Before | was
afflicted went astray, but now have ]
kept thy word" indeed. we must all
soon stop Scientists have improved
human longevity. but none of them
have proposed to make terrene life per-
petuaI But the Gospel makes death
only Il Selah between two beatitudes-
between dying triumph on the one side
Of the grave and celestial escort on the
other side of the grave. Going out of
this life. to the ilnprepared, is a great
horror
Give me more laudanum, said dying
Mirabeau; give me more Iaudanum.
that may not think of eternity ard
what is to come" And dying Hobbies
said. II leave my body to the grave and
my soul to the great perhaps" It was
the discorei of an intidel's life breaking
down into the jargon of despair: but the
Gospel makes the death Of the Christian
a Selah between redemption and en-
thronement Almost we'll, said dying
Richard Baxter, almost we'll" play
those notes over again-those notes
which have been SO great a delight and
solace to me, )" said the dying Christian
Mozart None but Christ, none but
Christ, exclaimed dying Lambert.
Richard Cameron the Scotch cove
TaDtar went info the hattie three timoc
praying: Lord, spare the green and
take the ripe. This is the day | have
| Ionged for. This is the day | shall get
my crown. Come let MS fight it to the
last Forward So you see there is