Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-05-29

was yet to be done. but that I could not
Go it with the Alps en- one shoulder and
the Eimalaycs on the other. But God
has interfered. and the sr;s- is clear. and
| am here ard expect 10 be here Until
my work ca earth Is dCae.
Why should / want to so away from
Brooklyn? have 10 sympathy with the
popular sentiment which defGr2cs our
beloved city. Some people malzeit q part
nf their religion TO excoriate and belittle
The place of their residence, and there has
been more damage, financial and moral,
done to our city by this hypercriticisn
than can ever be estimated. The course
Of our city has been onward and upward.
We have citizenship made up of hun
dreds of thousands of as good men and
women as inhabit the earth, and I feel
honored in being a citizen of Brooklyn,
and propose to stay here until join the
population in the Silent City out yonder,
now all abloom with spring flowers
sweet types Of resurrection!
Ny thanks must be first to God and
then to all who have contributed by
large gift or small to this emancipation.
Thanks to the men, women and children
who have helped, and sometimes helped
with self sacrifices that | know must
have won the applause of the heavens.
Ii, you could only read with me a few of
the thousands of letters that have come
to my desk in The Christian Herald Of
fee, you would know how deep their
sympathy, how large their sacrifice has
been 81 have sold my bicycle and now
send you the money" is the language of
one noble young man who wrote to The
/ Christian Herald ''This is my dead
sons gift to me, and have been led to
send it to you" writes a mother in
. Rhode Island.
A blind octogenarian invalid in York,
Pa, sends his mite and his prayer.
Thanks to all the newspaper press.
Have you noticed how kind and sympa-
thetic all the secular newspapers have
been, and of course all the religious
newspapers, with two or three nasty ex-
ceptions? You say that sometimes news
papers get things wrong. Yes, but which
of us does not sometimes get things
wrong? If you want to find man who
has never made mistake, do not waste
your time by looking in this pulpit.
Thanks to the editors and reporters and
publishers. Gentlemen of the BROOKLYN
and New York printing press, if you
never report anything else that I say,
please to report that. Yes, [ see you are
getting it all down.
A NEW DEPARTURE.
AS church we from this day make
new departure We will preach more
instructive sermons. We will offer more
faithful prayers. We will do better
work in all departments. We will in
the autumn resume our lay college.
We will fill all the rooms of this magnifi-
cent pile with work for God and suffer
ing humanity. More prayers have been
offered for this church, and on both
sides the sea, than for any church that
has ever existed, and all those prayers
will be answered. Clear the track for
the Brooklyn Tabernacle! ''Sing we to
the Lord, for he hath triumphed glori-
ously; the horse and his rider hath he
thrown into the sea-
But do you not now really think that
the Miriam of my text rejoiced too soon?
Do you not think she ought to have
waited till the Israelitish host got clear
over to Canaan before she struck her
k1luckles against the timbrel or tam
BOURNE? Miriam! You do we'll to have
the tambourine ready, but wait little
before you play it. You are not yet
through the journey from Egypt to the
Promised Land You will yet have to
drink out Of the bitter water of Marah,
and many Of your army will eat SO heart
lily of the fallen quails that they will die
OF collie, and you will at the foot of Sinai
be scared with the thunder, and there
viii be fiery serpents in the way and
many battles to fight, and last of all the
muddy Jordan to cross. Miriam! have
no objections to the tambourine, but do
not jingle it's bells or thump its frightened
parchment until you are all through.
All, my friends, Miriam was right. If
we never shouted victory till we got
clear through the struggles Of this life,
we would never shout at all. Copy the
habit of Miriam and Moses. The mo-
ment you get 8 victory celebrate it. The
time and place to hold jubilee for the
safe crossing of the Red sea is on it's
beach and before you leave it. It is aw-
full, the delayed hosannahs, the belated
halleluiahs, The postponed doxologies,
the trains of thanksgiving coming in so
long after they are due!
1t is said, do not rejoice over a revival
too soon, for the new members might not
hold out. Do not thank God for the
money you made today, for tomorrow
you might lose it all and more. Do not
be too grateful for your good health to-
day, for tomorrow you may get the
grip. Do not be too glad about your
conversion, for you might fall from grace.
Do not rejoice too soon over a churchs
leliverance, because there might be dis
asters yet to come. Oh, let us have no
more adjourned gratitude!
The time to thank God for rescue
from temptation is the moment after you
have broken the wine flask. The time
to thank God for your salvation is the