Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-01-30

have the religion of Jesus Christ in your
soul, it explains everything so far as it
is best for you TO understand. You look
off in life, and your soul is full Of thanks
giving to Gcd that you are SO much bet
ter c.: than you might be.
A imam ps. sed down the street without
any shoes end said: Il have no shoes.
Isn't i Il he~lship that I have no shoes?
Other peo. have shoes: no shoes, no
shoes, Unit he saw g man who had no
feet. -.lcll he learned lesson. You
ought 10 t. INK God for what he does,
instet.a cf :-ru1nbE-lg for what he does
not >osl oranges I'll the weather in
this v-1Iil--thc spiritual weather, tie
moral v-e:a ier Us Wei as the natural
weather =. lat Lind Of weather will
it be today" said some one to farmer.
The farmer replied, 1T viii be such
weather as like What do you mean
by that" aso>l tho other. Well said
tie f;.rne-. 1T viii be such weather as
plcases tie Lord, and what pleases the
Lord plccses lI,e.''
Oh. TIE sunshine! the sunshine of
Christian explanation! Here is some
one bending over the grave of the dead.
What is going to be the consolation?
The flowers you strew upon the tomb?
Oh. no! The services read at the grave?
Oh, no. TIE chief consolation on that
grave is what falls from the throne of
God. Sunshine, glorious sunshine. Res
direction Sunshine.
Again, | ind a great deal of the sun
shine of this Eib1e and Of our religion in
the clilnactcric joys that are to come. A
man who gets up and goes out from
concert right after the opening voliln-
tary has been played, and before the
prina donna sings. or before the orches-
ira begins. has a better idea of that con-
cert than that man has who supposes
that the chief joys Of religion are in this
world We here have only the first note
of the eternal orchestra. We shall In
that world have the JOY Of discovery.
We will in five minutes catch up with
the astronomers, the biologists, the sci
entists. the philosophers Of all ages, who
SO far surpassed us in this world. We
can afford to adjourn astronomy and
geology and many Of the sciences to the
next world because we shall there have
better apparatus and better opportunity.
I must study these sciences SO far as
to help me III my work, but beyond that
I must give myself to saving my own
soul and saving the souls of others,
knowing that in one fash of eternity We
will catch it all. Oh, what ali observa-
tory in which to study astronomy heaven
will be, not by power of telescope, but
by supernatural vision; and If there be
something doubtful 100000 miles
away, by one stroke of the wing you are
there, by another stroke of the wing you
are back again, and all in less time than I
tell you. catching it all in one flash of
eternity.
THE SCIENCE OF HEAVEN.
And geology! What place that will
be to study geology, when the world is
being picked to pieces as easily as q
schoolgirl in botanical lessons pulls the
leaf from the corolla. What a place to
study architecture. amid the thrones, and
the palaces, and the cathedrals
Marks and ST. Pauls rookeries in COM
parison.
Sometimes you wish you could make
the tour of the whole earth, going around
as others have gone, but you have not
the time; you have not the means. You
will make that tour yet during one
musical pause in the eternal anthem. |
say these things for the comfort of those
people who are abridged in their opportll-
nities-those people to whom life is a
hu1ndru1n. who toll and work, and toll
and work and aspire after knowlede :,
but lave 70 time to get it. and say. ''If
had the opportunities which other people
have. how I would fill my mind and soul
with grand thoughts!' Be not discour-
aged, lay friends. You are going to the
university yet. Death will only 1latricu-
late you into the royal college of the uni
verse.
What sublime thing it was that Dr.
Thornwell, of South Carolina, uttered In
his last dying moments! AS he look d
up he said, 1T opens; it expands; it { :
pands" Or IS Mr.. Tcplady, the autI- r
of Rock of Ages in his last nome t,
or during his last hours, looked I'D
and said, as though he saw somethi z
supernatural, ''Light!' and then as @
came on nearer the dying moment, Lis
countenance more luminous, he cried.
''Light!' and at the very moment Of
his departure lifted both hands, some
thing supernatural in his countenance as
he cried, ''Lightr Only another name
for sunshine.
Besides that we shall have all the
pleasures of association. We will go
right up in the front Of God without any
fright. All our sins gone, there will be
nothing to be frightened about. There
our old Christian friends will troop
around u.s. Just as now one of YOUR
sick friends goes away to Florida, the
land Of flowers, or to the south of France,
and you do not see him for a long while,
and after awhile you meet him, and the
hollows under the eyes are all filled. and
the appetite has come back, and the
crutch has been thrown away, and he is
SO changed you hardly know him. You
say, why, [ never saw you look SO
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