Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-12-09
Wi AA. ISLAND POND VERMONT DECEMBER g. 1892

mot L" says some one standing back un-
der the galleries. Yes you. mot l." says
some one who has not been In church In
fifteen years before. Yes, you. mot l."
| says some one who has been for fifty years
filling up his life with all kinds OF wicked
ness. Yes, you. There ara monopolies on
earth-monopolistio railroads and monopo-
listic telegraph companies and monopolistic
| grain dealers but no monopolies in religion.
/ All who want TO be saved may be saved,
without money and without price" Sal
walton by the Lord Jesus Christ for all the
people. or course use common sense in this
matter. You cannot exoect to get to
Charleston bv taking the ship for Portland,
and you cannot get to heaven by going in
an opposite direction. Believe in ths Lord
Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.
Through that one gate Of pardon and peace
all the race may go in.
But" says some ona, do you really
think would bs at homs in that supsrnal
society IL l should reach it.' l think you
would. | know you would. remember
that in the huskiny tins thers was a great
equality OF feeling among tue neighbors.
There at one corn SHOCK a farmer would be
at work who owned two hun nired acres OF
ground. The man whoai he was talking
with at the next corn shock owned but
thirty acres o: ground, and perhaps all that
covered by mortgage.
That evening, at the close of the huskiDg
day, one man drove nome q roam span so
frisky. so full Of life they got their feet over
the traces. The other man walked home.
Great differences in education, grelt differ
ence in worldly means, but l noticed at the
husking time they all seemed to enjoy each
others society. They did not ask any mau
how much property ha ownsi or what his
education had been. They all ssemsd to be
happy together in tdose gooi times. And
so it will be in heaven. Our Father will
gather Hi. children arouui Him, aud the
neighbors will come in and the pas. will be
rehearssi. And some one will tell OF vic
tory and we will all celebrate it, And some
one will say: Here is my old father that I
put away with hearthreak! Just look at
him! He is as young as any OF US"
And some one will say: Here is my dari-
ing child that buried in Greenwood, and
all the after years OF my life were shadowei
with desolation. Just looS at hsr! She
DOESN'T seem as IL she had b.sn sick a min.
ute" Great sociality. Great neighborhooi
kindness. Go in ami dine. What though
John Milton sit down 1u one side and John
Howard sit down on thI -Lher sie' No en-
barrasSm ent. What though Charlotte
Elizabeth sit down on one side aud Hannah
More sit down on the other side' No en-
barrass nent. A monarch yourself, why be
embarrassed among monarchs9 songSter
yourself, why be embirr :s,si among glOrI.
6el songsters' Go in ana dine.
All the shocks Of corn coming in in their
season Oh, yea IN hsir sAasou. Not one
Of you havius died too soon, or having died
too late, or having diel at haphszard.
P,antel at just the right time. Plowed at
just tue right time. Cut down at just the
right time. Huskei at just the right time.
Girn erei at just the right time. Coming
in in your season. Oi, wish that the two
billion bushels or corn now in the fields or
on thsir way to tae sesboari might be
type o. the grail yiell OF honor and glory
aud immortality when all the shocks come
iu
10 not know how You are constituted,
but an so constitute that there is nothing
that so awakens reninisc ,nces in me as the
O Tors OF a cornteld whsn [ cross it at this
time OF year att n the cora has been cut and
It stands in shocxs. Aud so | have thought
it mi Sht b, practically useful for us to-day
h eros the corntieid, aui | have thought
psrnaps there might be some rsmlniscence
roussl in our soul that might be salutary
aud might b, saving In S veden a prima
donna, while her houSs in the city was be-
inS repaired, TOOK a h0u's in the country
for temporary residences, and she brought
out her great array Of jewels TO show
tren 1 who wished 70 see them.
One night after displaying thess jewels
an LEAVING them on the taO.e, and oil her
frel Is had gone, and the servants had gone
-Dls summer niyht-shs sat thinking AMI
looxiny into a mirror just in front OF her
chair, when she saw in that mirror the face
OF robber looking in at the window be-
hind her and gazing at those jewels She
was in great fright, but sat still, ant
hardly knowing way she dii so she began
to sing an oil nursery song, her felrs max
ing the pIthos OF the song more telling.
Suddenly she noticod waile looking at tue
mirror, that the robbers face had gons
fro the win low, and it did not come back.
A few days after tbs prima donna received
a letter from tle robbsr, saying. II heard
that the jewels were to be out that night,
aud came to take them at whatever hazard,
but when heard you sing that nursery
song with watch my mother so often sang
ms 10 sleep coui not staui 1t, ami | fsd,
and have resolved upon a new and honest
life"
Do, my friends, there are jswels in peril
richer than those which lay upon that table
that night. They are the jewels OF the im-
mortal soul. Would Goi that somJ song
rolling up ont OF the deserted nursery OF
your childhool, or some song rolling up out
of the corn fields, tn, song of the huskers
twenty or forty years ago, might turn all
our feet out of the paths OF sin into the paths
OF righteousness. Would God that those
memories waited In on o lor or song might
start US this moment with swift feet toward
that blessed place where SO many OF our
loved ones have already preceded us as
shock OF corn cometh In In his season"