Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-03-13

are like the mellow voice OF ocean shells
they smell of the blossoms of the tree
of life. The music of the heavenly choirs
comes stealing over the waters. and to
cross now is only pleasant sail. How
long the boat is coming! Come, Lord
Jesus, come quickly. Christ the Priest
advances ahead, and the dying Christian
Yoes over dry shod on coral beds and
Towers of heaven and paths OF pearl
Oh could we makeour doubts remove
These gloomy doubts that rise
And view the Canaan that we love
With unbeclouded eyes
Could we but climb where Moses stood
And view the landscape DER,
Not Jordan's stream nor deaths cold flood
Could fright US from the shore.
Again, this Jordanic passage teaches
me the completeness of everything that
God does When God put an invisible
dam across Jordan, and it was halted, 1t
would have been natural, you would
have supposed, for the water to have
| overhowed the region all around about,
and that great devastation would have
taken place, but when God put the dali
in front of the river he put dam on the
other side of the river, SO that, according
to the text. the water halted and reared
and stood there and not overlooking the
surrounding country. Oh, the complete
ness of everything that God does!
One would have thought that, if the
waters of Jordan had dropped until they
were only two or three feet deep, the Is
raelites might have marched through 1T
and have come up on the other bank
with their clothes saturated and their
garments like those of men coming ashore
from shipwreck, and that would have
been as wonderful deliverance, but God
does something better than that When
the priests feet touched the waters of
Jordan and they were drawn OFF, they
might have thought there would have
been bed of mud and slime through
which the army should pass.
Draw off the waters of the Hudson or
the Ohio, and there would be a good
many days, and perhaps many weeks,
before the sediment would dry up, and
vet here in an instant Immediately, GOD
provides a path through the depths OF
Jordan. 1t is so dry the passengers do
not even get their feet damp. Oh, the
completeness of everything that God
does, Does he make a universe? 1t IS
perfect clock, running ever since 1t was
wound up, the fixed stars the pivOts, the
consultations the Intervening wheels,
and ponderous laws the weights and
mighty swinging pendulum, the stars III
the great dome of night striking the MD
night, and the sun, with brazen tongue
tolling the hour of noon.
The widest comet has chain Of law
that it cannot break. The thistle down
fiying before the schoolboy's breath IS
controlled by the same law that controls
the sun and the planets. The rosebush
in your window is governed by the same
principle that governs the tree of the
universe on which the stars are rlpenlng
fruits, and on which God will one day
put his hand and shake down the fruit
a perfect universe. No astronomy has
ever proposed an amendment.
COMPLETE BIBLE.
If God makes a Bible, it is a complete
Bible Standing amid the dreadful and
delightful truths, you seem to be In the
, midst of an orchestra where the wailings
over sins, and the rejoicings over pardon,
and the martial strains Of victory make
the chorus like an anthem Of eternity.
This book seems to you the ocean OF
truth, on every wave of which Christ
walks-sOn times in the darkness OF
prophecy. again in the splendors with
J which he walks on Galilee. In this book
apostle answers to prophet. Paul to Is2-
> iah. Revelation to Genesis glorious
: light. turning midnight sorrow into the
: midnoon Joy, dispensing every fog, hush
: ing every tempest Take this book; it
, is the kiss Of God on the soul of lost man.
Perfect Bible. complete Bible! No man
has ever proposed any Improvement.
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, plete Saviour-God-man- and
humanity united in the same person
r He set up the starry pillars of the uni
/ verse and the towers of light He plant
D ed the cedars and the heavenly Lebanon
4 He struck out of the rock the rivers oi
< life, singing under the trees, singing I'm
der the thrones He quarried the sar
donyx and crystal and the topaz Of the
g heavenly wall. He put down the jasper
S for the foundation and heaped up the
e amethyst for the capital and swung the
[ 70 gates which are ~ pearls. In one in
z slant he thought out universe, and We
t he became child crying for his mother
feeling along the sides of the manager
), learning to walk.
y Omnipotence sheathed in the muscl
0 and flesh of child's arm; omniscienc
t strung III the opUlc nerve oI d Cn1iu > ey 2
l. infinite love beating in a child's heart;
q great God appearing in the form of
child year old, years old, IS year
e old. While all the heavens were as
e cribing to him glory and honor an
/ power on earth, men said, who is thi
fellow While all the heavenly hosts
, with folded wing about their faces
e bowed down before him crying 'Hol--
n holy!'' on earth, they denounced him as
u blasphemer and sot. Rocked in boa
4. on Gennesaret, and yet he it is that IN
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