Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-12-25
have built the foundation-the wall

stone, Wnen every tnlnS IS QemOl1SneQ.
You have harp all strung for sweetest
accord, and some great agony brushes
it. There is a little voice hushed in
the household. Blue eye closed. Color
dashed out Of the check. The foot still.
Instead of the quick feet in the hall, the
heavy tread of those who march to the
grave. Oh, what are people to do amid
all these sorrows? Some sit down and
mourn. Some bite their lip until the
blood comes. Some wiring their pale
hands. Some fall on their faces. Some
lie on their backs helpless and look up
into what seems to them an Implying
heaven. Some pull their hair down over
their eyes and look through with a
fend's glare. Some, with both hands,
press their hot brain and want to die
and cry,''O God, . God!'' Long night,
bitter night, stupendous night of the
world suffering! Some know not which
way to turn. But not SO the Christian
man. He looks up toward the heavens.
gle sees a bright appearance III the heav-
ems. Can it be only q flashing meteor?
Can it be only a falling star? Can it be
only delusion? Nay, nay The longer
he looks the more distinct it becomes,
"a morning star, star of comfort,
star of grace, a star of peace, the star of
the Redeemer!'' Peace for all trouble.
Balm for all wounds. Life for all dead.
Now Jesus, the great heart healer,
comes into our home. Peace! Peace
that passeth all understanding. We
look up through our tears. We are COM
forted. It is the morning star of the
Redeemer Who broke off that flow
err" said one servant in the garden to
another. 'Who broke off that flower?''
And the other servant said, 1.-THE mas
ter" Nothing more was said, for if the
master had not right to break off
flower to wear over his heart or to set
in the vase in the mansion, who has
right to touch the flower? And when
Christ comes down into our garden to
gather lilies, shall we fight him back?
Shall we talk as though he had 10 right
TO come? If any one III all the universe
has a right to that which is beautiful
III our homes, then Our master has, and
he will take it, and he will wear it over
his heart, or he will set it in the vase of
the palace eternafa THE Lord gave,
and the Lord hath taken away; blessed
be the name OF the Lord. - Peace, trou-
bled soul! | put the balm on your
wounded heart tonight. The morning
star, the morning star of the Redeemer.
Again, Christ heralds the dawn of
millennial glory. It is night in China,
night in India, night in Siberia, night
for the vast majority Of the worlds
population. But it seems to me there
are some intimations of the morning.
All Spain is to be brought under the
influence OF the gospel. What is that
light I sec breaking over the top of the
Pyrenees? The morning! Yea, all Italy
shall receive the gospel. She shall have
her schools and her colleges and her
churches. Her vast population shall
surrender themselves to Christ. What
is that light see breaking over the top
OF the Alps? The morning. All India
shall come to God. Her idols shall be
cast down. Her juggernauts shall be
broken. Her temples OF iniquity shall
be demolished. What is that light I
see breaking over the top Of the Hima-
layas? The morning. The empurpled
clouds shall gid the path of the con-
quering day. The Hottentot will come
out Of his mud howell to look at the
dawn; the Chinanan will come up on
the granite cliffs, the Norwegian will
get up on the rocks, and all the beach
Of heaven Will lie crowded with celes-
tial inhabitants come out to see the sun
rise over the ocean OF the worlds
agony. tn y shall come from the east,
and from the west, from the north, and
from the south, and sit down in the
kingdom Of God. These sweltered un-
der tropical suns. These shivered TN
der Icelandic temperature. These pluck
ed the vineyards IN Italy. These pack
ed the teaboxes in China. These were
aboriglnes lifting UP their dusky faces
in the dawn. And the wind shall watt ,
it, and every mountain shall become
TRANSPORTATION, and the sea will become
the walking place Of him who tTOd the
wave cliffs OF stormy Tiberias, and the
song OF joy shall rise toward heaven,
and the great sky will become sound
ing board which shall strike back the
ghOut of salvation to the earth until it
rebounds again to the throne of the AL
mighty, and the morning star OF Chris
tian hope will become the full sunburst
Of 1nillennial glory.
Again, Christ heraldss the dawn of
heaven upon every Christians dying
pillow. | suppose you have noticed
that the characteristics of people in
their healthy days are very apt to be
their characteristics in their dying days.
The dying words Of ambitious Napoleon
were, :" Head Of the army" The dying
words of poetic Lord Byron were, Il
must sleep now The dying words of
affectionate Lord Nelson were, kiss
me, Hardy" The dying words of Vol
taire were, as he saw one whom he sup
posed to be Jesus in the room, Crush
that wretch But have noticed that
the dying words of Christians always
mean peace. Generally the pain is all