Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-06-03
d. Xxx. ISLAND POND VERMONT. JUNE g. 1892

pers about why people do not come "a
church. They do not come because they ar.
/ not interested. The old hackneyed religious
| phrases that come moving do wn through
the centuries will never arrest the masses
What we want to-day, you in your spher;
aud in my sphere is 20 freshen up. Peo-
pie do not want in their sermons the shair
flowers bought at the millinery shop, but
the Japonicas wet with the morning dew.
nor the heavy bones OF extinct megatheriup
OF past ages but the living reindeer caught
last August at the edge OF Schroon lake
We want to drive out the drowsy, and the
prosaic, and the tedious and the humdrum.
and Introduce the brightness and vivacity
and the holy sarcasm, and the sanctifiel
wit, aud the epigrammatic power, and tn,
blood red carnestnssS, and the fire of relig.
ious zeal and | do not know of any way
of doing it as well as through the dramatic.
Attention Bcholdi Harkl Selahl
Next speak of the Selah of perpetuity
The Targum which is the Bible in Chaldee,
! renders this word OF my text forever. n
Many writers agree in believing and stating
that one meaning OF this word is forever. ~
In this very verse from which | take my
text Seiah means not only poetic significance
aud intermission and emphasis, but it means
eternal reverberstion - foreverl God's
government forever, Gods goodness for.
ever, the gladness of the righteous for.
ever or course you and | have not
surveyors chain with enough links to
measure that domain of meaning. In this
world We must build everything on small
scale. hundred years are a great while.
tower five hundred feet is a great height.
\ journey OF four thousand miles is very
long. But eternity Ii the archangel has
not strength of wing 10 fy across 1t, but
tiutters and drops like wounled seagull,
there is no need Of our trying in the small
shallow OF human thought TO voyage
across it.
skeptic, desiring TO show his contempt
for the passing years ami TO show that he
could build endurinSly, hal his own
sepulcher made of the finest and the hardest
marble, aud then he had put on the door the
words, "For time and for eternity" but it
50 happened that the seed OF a tree somehow
got INTO an unseen crevice of the marble.
Ihat seed grew and enlarged until it became
tree aui split the marble to piecss There
can be no Generalization of anything earthly.
But forever! Will you and live as long as
ttat' We are apt to think of the grave as
the terminus. We are apt TO think OF the
hearse as our last vehicle. We are apt to
thInE OF seventy or eighty or ninety years,
and then a cessation.
lnsteli OF that we find tne marble slab OF
the tomb Is only milestone, marking the
hrst mule, an tnat the great journey is be-
yond. We have only tins enough in this
world 10 put on the sandals ami II clasp our
elrdie AMI - PICK up our staff. We take our
first step from cradle to grave an / then we
open the door and start-great GOD, whtherI
The clock strikes the passing away of time,
but not the passing away Of eternity. Meas
ureleSs, messureless! This Seiah OF perpet-
uity mlkei earthly inequalities so insignifi-
cant, the difference between sceptsr and
needle between Alhambra aud hut, between
chariot aud cart, between throne and curb
stone, between Administer and bare floor,
between satin and sackcloth, very trivial.
This Selah OF perpetuity makes our getting
ready so important. For such prolongation
OF travel what outfit OF guidebooks, of pass
ports aud OF escorU Are we putting out on
desert, simoom swept and ghoul hunte !, or
into regions OF sun lighted and spray
sprinklel gardens; Win it be Elysiun or
Gehenna' Onca startoi in that world, we
cannot stop. The current Is 50 swift that
onco in no oar can resist it, no helm can
steer out Of it, no hercuIean or titanic arm
eau battle it Hark to the long reSoun ling
echo, 'foreverH Oh, wake up TO the inter
est o, your deathless spirit Strike out for
heaven. Rouse ye, men aud women for
whom Jesus dtei. Selah Selahl Foreverl
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