News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-02-11


fuence more than imperial. By her
intelligence, by her tenderness, by
her charm of smile and manner, ca
pable of soothing so much sorrow,
and reforming so much hayward
ness, and welding so much elevated
power; yet at the call of worldli-
ness, coming out of the throne
room of good influence where God
would have her reign, coming down
over the ivory stairs of moral power,
coming down and coming down until
she has no more soul than the dead
bird transfixed in her millinery OF
the clinchilla that was slain to afford
her warmth, or the kid that furnished
her the glove, and finding her only
delight in batteries of brainless men
and midnight schottische and de
bauched novelties. say, There is
one who might have been a queen
unto God forever, yet eating straw
like an OK.
HOW THE MANY. DEGRADE THEMSELVES.
[ look over the pasture fields of
folly and sin and find many grovel-
ing who ought to be erect. Oh, men
and women, go back to your thrones
A young man ran away from home
and broke his widowed mother s
heart. Fourteen years passed, and
he returned and came to the window
at Which his old mother was sitting
She looked up and Immediately rec
ognized him and said: ooh, Robert
Robert! Come inw MOI said he
Mother, l shall never come in till
hear you say you forgive me-" Hel
answer was: Robert, l have for
given you long ago. There is moth
ing to forgive now except that you
staid away so long"
Nv nearer, forgiveness has been
ready for you q good while. With
more than a mothers tenderness
God will take you back. They are
waiting for you up in the palace.
Nebuchadnezzar was the son of Ma
bopolassar, who ruled before him,
and you are the child of a Kingl
The next thought that presses into
nv mind from the contemplation OF
this incident is that conviction is not
conversion. Who is this monarch
that makes the boast about Babylon
The very man who, under the revela.
ton of dreams that Daniel made
from heaven, deeply humbled him
self, while he confessed that God is q
God of Gods and a Lord Of Lords,
yet behold that that humbling and
arousing which he before felt did not
result in q radical change.
There is no mistake more frequent
than of supposing conviction a syno
nvm for conversion. Conviction is
merely sight of sin; conversion is
a view of pardon. Conviction IL
merely alarm; conversion is conf
dence. Conviction is dissatisfaction
with depravity; conversion is a
turning away from it. Conviction
is a sword wound; conversion is tho
healing. Conviction is the fever OF
thirst; conversion is the shaking OF
that thirst. Conviction is the pain
conversion is the medicine that cures
it. Thousands have experienced the
former and never experienced the
latter.
There are multitudes who think
that as soon as a man is serious he is
fit for profession of religion. What
if man should only think seriously
of being d merchant; would that
IL q,
man should only think seriously OF
being a lawyer; would that make
him a lawyer2 What if a man should
only think seriously of being Chris
tan; would that make him a Chris
tan? Felix was convicted but not
converted. The jailer was convicted
before he got out of bed, but not con
verted until at the advice of Paul he
believed in Christ Are you con
victed but not converted2
I tell you what you make me think
e. You have made up your mind
for proper consideration to deed away
q property. You have drawn the
deed. The seal is affixed opposite
where you are to write your name.
The commissioner of deeds is present
to witness. You have your pen in
hand There is ink in the pen.
There is only one thing for you to
do, and that is to sign your name.
Suppose you stop now without sign
ing your name, what does it all
amount to? Nothing.
So you have resolved to give your
self up to God You propose to sign
off to him your body, your mind,
your soul. You have all things nee
essary for the transfer. The angels
of God are here to witness the eternal
transfer. Why do you not now with
your will complete the work? Halt
where you are and all goes for moth
ing. Sign your name to this spirit
ual transfer
Professor Arago, the mathemati-
clan, got wcefully discouraged in his
work and was about to give up, when
he saw some words on the paper
which had been used to stiffen the
cover of his book, and the words be-
ing indistinct he dampened the cover
until he could take it off and see
the words plainly, and he found they
were words of advice given by
to a student, and the
words were, $50 on, sir; go onp
D ye who are convicted, $50 onw
You must take one more step or all
the steps you have taken will amount
to nothing. Go onl
BLINDED ARROGANCE LEADS TO STUN
BLING.
learn also from my subject that
pride is the precursor of overthrow.
Pride is a commander well plumed
and caparisoned, but it leads forth a
dark and frowning host. pride
goeth before destruction, and
naughty spirit before a fall" The
arrows from the Almighty's culver
are apt to strike man when on the
wing Goliath shakes his great spear
in defiance, but the smooth stones
from the brook make him stagger
and fall like an OK under a butchers
blUdgeon. He who is down cannot
fall. Vessels scudding under bare
poles do not feel the force of the
storm.
What are those three sleds that
have just gone into the yard of
hotel in Warsaw, Poland,
on the cold night of December the
tenth, 1922 Who are they, who
from these sleds have entered, and
the servant is trying to build for
them fire with some green wood? /
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