Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-02-08

returns, and he comes back to Baby
! lon a humble wOrshiper of the God
| of heaven
What must have been the excite
ment in the royal court as this re-
stored maniac emperor walks into
| the palace. What a time they had
in cutting his nails and his hair,
which had grown for seven years
without being interfered with by any
shears. What a Scrubbing down must
! have taken place in the imperial
| baths. What transformation neceS-
sary in order that he who had been
| herding with camelS and goats and
swine may be made fit to associate
with princes What a change from
Sty to throne rOOmi
While walking from his Babylo-
MAN palace down to the pasture field,
and from the pasture field back to
the palace, the first thing that i'm
presses me is what an homogeneous
thing it is for king to be eating
grass. 1t is good for cattle, but not
fit for man. And then for one to pre-
fer it to a royal table toward whose
bounty the orchards and paddocks
and streams and vineyards in all the
earth might contr1bute-what an
amazement! And yet the scene is az
common as the daylight
When | see a man Of regal nature,
made to rule in realms of thought,
capable Of all moral elevation, besot-
ting his faculties, attempting out of
low sensualities to satisfy his immor-
tai energies, coming down off Of his
throne of power into brutalities, sac
rificing his higher nature to his lower
nature, STOPPING and STOPPING, COM
ing down and coming down until all
his influence for good is gone, [ cry
out, There is king eating grass like
an OK"
And there are tens of thousands of
such ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS So there are
queens who dedicate themselves to
the same humiliation. What power
for good God gave that woman.
Magnetism of personal presence In
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 transfxed in her millinery or
the chinchilla 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.
1 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 mothers
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: ''Oh, Robert,
Robert! Come in!'' Nor said he.
Mother, l shall never come in till [
hear you say you forgive me" Her
answer was Robert, [ have for
given you long ago. There is moth
ing to forgive now except that you
staid away 50 long"
My nearer, forgiveness has been
ready for you a 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 arc the child of King!
The next thought that presses into
my 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
God of Gods and a Lord of Lords,
yet behold that that humbling and
arousing which he before felt did not
result in radical change
There is no mistake more frequent
than of supposing conviction syno
nym for conversion Conviction is
merely a sight Of sin; conversion is
a view of pardon Conviction is
merely alarm; conversion is conf
dence Conviction is diSsatisf action
with depravity; conversion is a
turning away from it. Conviction
is a sword wound conversion is the