Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-03-06

health. He said to Mr.. Adams: II am
glad to see you. / hope you are getting
along pretty well?'' The reply was: 'Ah,
sir, quite the contrary | find | am o
poor tenant occupying a house much
shattered by time. 1t sways and trem-
bles with every wind, and, what is worse
sir, the landlord, as near as | can make
out, does not intend to make any re-
pairs"
DR.. Beman, after passing into the
seventies, was asked by my friend, Rev.
DR.. Spear, "Dr. Beman. how is your
health now?" and he replied, 81 have on
me an incurable disease" 'What is
that?" asked my friend, and the septu-
agenarian replied, 'Old age" Both of
the old men have E1entioned intended
their remarks for Righteousness, and old
people have right to be facetious. An
aged woman sent for her physician and
told him of her ailments, and the doctor
said: ''What would you have me do,
madam? l cannot make you young
again" She replied: 81 know that,
DOCTOR What I want you to do is tc
help me grow old little longer"
The young have their troubles before
them. The old have their troubles be-
hind them. You have got about all out
of this earth that there is in it. Be glad
that you, an aged servant of God, are
going to try another life and amid better
surroundings. Stop looking back and
look ahead. Oh, We in the seventies, and
the eighties, and the nineties, your best
days are yet to come; your grandest as
sociations are yet to be formed; your best
ioh+ yof 10 11a Ii 1oI. hoe
hearing is yet to be awakened; your
greatest speed is yet to be travelled; your
gladdest song is yet to be sung
The most Of your friends have gone
over the border, and you are going to
join them very soon. They are waiting
for you. They are watching the golden
shore to see you land. They are watch
ing the shining gate to see you come
through. They are standing by the throne
to see you mount. What a glad hour
when you drop the staff and take the
scepter; when you quit the stiffened joints
and become an immortal athlete! But
hear! hear! a remark pertinent to all
people whether in the twenties, the thir
ties, the forties, the ffties, the sixties,
the seventies, or beyond. What we all
need is to take the supernatural into our
lives.
Do not let us depend on brain and
muscle and nerve. We want mighty
supply of the supernatural. We want
with us divine force mightier than the
waters and the tempests, and when the
Lord took two steps on bestOrmed Cali
lee, putting one foot on the winds and
the other on the waves, he proved him
self mightier than hurricane and billow.
We want with us divine force greater
than the fires, and when the Lord cooled
Nebuchadnezzars furnace until Shad-
rach, Meshach and Abednego did not
even have to fan themselves he proved
himself mightier than the fire.
We want a divine force stronger than
wild beast, and when the Lord made
Daniel lion tanner he proved himself
stronger than the wrath of the jungles.
There are so many diseases in the world
we want with us divine physician ca
pable of combating ailments, and our
Lord when on earth showed what he
could do with catalepsy and paralysis
and ophthalmia and dementia. Oh, take
this supernatural into all your lives!
How to get it? Just as you get anything
y
anything, you apply for it.
BY prayer apply for the supernatural.
Take it into your daily business. Many
man has been able to pay only so
cents ON the dollar who if he had called
in the supernatural could have paid 100
cents on the dollar, Why do 90 men out
of 100 fail in business? Because there are
not more than two men out of hundred
who take God into their worldly affairs.
Behind the great unknown standeth
God within the shadows keeping watch
upon his own
CAST ALL YOUR CARES ON GOD.
A man got up in New York prayer
meeting and said: ''God is my partner.
did business without him for 20 years
and failed every two or three years. |
have been doing business with him for
90 years and have not failed once" Oh,
take the supernatural into all your af-
fairs! | had such an evidence of the
goodness of God in temporal things
when | entered active life | must testify.
Called to preach at lovely Belleville, in
New Jersey, | entered upon my work.
But there stood the empty parsonage, and
not cent had | with which to furnish
it. After preaching three or four weeks
the officers Of my church asked me if l
did not want to take two or three weeks
vacation | said YES" for l had
preached about all l knew, but l feared
they must be getting tired of me.
When l returned to the village after
the brief vacation, they handed me the
key of the parsonage and asked me if
did not want to go and look at it. Not
suspecting anything had happened, 1
put the key into the parsonage door and
opened it, and there was the hall COM
pletely furnished with carpet and pic
| lures and hatrack, and turned into the
parlors, and they were furnished, the
goftest sofas | ever sat on, and into the