Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-04-24

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God. bone of our bone and flesh of our
flesh; tempted like as we are. and yet
without sin. Some time king may
stoop down and take the hand OF
peasant girl, place the coronet on her
brow: but there is an example of
condescension greater than this,
thought more holy. Where shall the
Christ find a bride? No beauty does
that one whom He chooses possess;
she is a sinner, yet she becomes pure.
He does not take her as she was,
but as sinner made white and clean
She is the seed of Abraham. a mother,
whose daughter had wandered off into
the haunts of sin, caused her own pic
ture to be hung in a room where the
abandoned were wont to meet. One
day the daughter saw the portrait OF
her mother before her. Her lips seem
ed to whisper, ''come home," and she
returned where a mothers forgive
ness and love were sufficient to bury
the thought of daughters degrade
ton. How infinitely greater is the
love of Him who forgiveth our iniqul-
ties and healeth our backslidings.
But can we compare human love with
the love of Jesus? He became flesh
and blood and lived and died for US.
Such a God we are called to preach.
We need not hunt from Dan to Beer
sheba to find a subject to preach
about. 'sPreach the Word" says
Paul, (which testifes Of the Holy
Ghost.'' The whole Bible breaches
Christ.
There are some who pride them
selves on their goodness, they are
moral, they stand high in public es-
TEEN, but I say they are as far from the
Kingdom as the east is from the west
in their own righteousness. They
must believe in the Lord Jesus Christ
and accept him to be saved. We are
privileged to call every creature to
God, for it is his wish that they be
teachers.
She gave some of the testimonies of
the heather, who have been convert
ed, and finds they are the same as
we have here. ''What shall [ do to be
saved?" they cry, and no one answers
them. A million of people in one
place are longing for the gospel, yet
we have no workers to send among
them. In one country in India there
is a population of 2S7, 900, 900; only
2,OOO,O 900 are Christians, and good
part are Catholics. Chow shall
they believe unless they have heard?"
elbow shall they hear without a
preacher?" How shall they have a
preacher unless he be sent? There
are $4,000, 900 low caste children shut
out of the high caste schools. How
can they be reached? We have now
800 girls and 500 boys just sent up from
the Budah Valley to be educated, but
we have no room for them. We ought
to have pledges to help those chill
dren. $50 We into all the world and
preach the gospel"
She spoke of the great work that
ought to be done among the foreign
ers in our own country; among the
Indians of the Oklahoma country, and
everywhere, in fact.
We will not try to depict the power
ty and degradation Of India, but we
may say that hundreds and thousands
are dying of starvation. The average
workman receives not more than Sc
per month. How can they help to
bring the gospel to themselves?
She spoke of the affection of the
children, and the gladness with
which they receive Jesus. Her eX-
perience with her little charge, and
ia life starved out" was SO patheU-
ically poured into the hearts of her
audience that it can never be forgot
ten.
Miss Harvey has spent six years in
the missionary work, and her loving
nature and intense interest in the
work, can not but conduce to her
souls ambition - the conversion OF
heathendom. A collection of $56.47
was taken to help the society.
At the evening service, the Confer
ence sermon was preached by Leonard
Dodd of Lyndon, from Col. 1:28:
"Whom we preach, warning every
man and teaching every man in all
wisdom, that we may present every
man perfect in Christ Jesus" We are
to preach a whole Christ, the preacher
said. He is more than Jewish phi
lanthropist, more than the "friend
that sticketh closer than brother"
more than an exhibition of dream love,
a Christ of love forevermore. Behold,
of old He said, Elet there be light, .
and there was light. Behold He went
forth in the pillar of cloud by day and
the pillar of fire by night. He was in
deed, the Jehovah of the Old Tesla
ment. He claimed absolute unity with
God. There are men who are stand
ing in so called Christian pulpits to-
day, who deny his equality with God.
Blessed be God, we are able to preach
His entire enalitv with God by His