Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-09-04

Lord God ALMIGHTY?
Nv brother, you cannot be called I'd
do anything so insignificant but God
will help Yea IL l.. If vou are fisher
man, Caret will stand by yo1 as he di |
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be with vo1 az It the well c11rb wher
talking with the Samaritan woman
Are you a <.37Ste m house officer? Chris
will cali Yet: he did Matthew ut the
receipt OF l..sv0ln The man who hal
only a day; ", - ii his poet as CT
tainly needs r. IL DIS he who rattle /
the keys OF * and could abscond
with a hundred thousand hard dollars.
And yet there ar men who profess the
religion of Jesus thirst VINO do not bring
the religion of the gospel into their ordi
nary occupations and employments.
There are in ,he churches of this day
men who seam --ary devout on the Sab
bath who as FIJI from that during the
week A country merchant arrives IN
this city, AMI he goes into the store I'd
buy gools Ct n man who processes reli
gion, but has 10 grace in his heart. The
country EIe lallg is swlndled. He Is TOD
exhausted - SOL olne that week; he tar
ries in town. Ca Sabbath he goes t.
some church for consolation. and what
is his amazcmenG to find that the mar
who carries around the poor box is the
very one who swindled him. But nevei
mind. The deacon has his black coat Oh
now and looks solemn and goes home
talking about that blessed sermon! Chris
tians on Sunday Workings during the
week.
GOD SEES SMALL SINS.
That man does not realize that God
knows every dishonest dollar he has i1
his pocket, tha5 God is looking right
through the iron wall of his money safe
and that the day Of judgment is comings
and that '',.s the partridge stitch on
eggs and Ia 18th them not, so he thai
getteth riches and not by right shall
leave them il the midst of his days, and
at his end small be fool" But how
many there are who do not bring the
religion of Christ into their everyday
occupation. They think religion is fol
Sundays.
Suppose YOU were to go out to fight
for your country in some great contest.
would you 60 to 90 the battling at Troy
OF at Springfield? No, you would cd
there to get your swords and muskets.
Then you would go out in the face of the
enemy and contend for your country.
Now, 1 take the Sabbath day and the
church to be only the armory where we
are to get equipped for the great battle
Of life, and that battlefield is Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Fri
day and Saturday. 'sAntioch,' and est.
Martins and ''Old Hundred" are not
e 4 - Ill L
week. A sermon is of little account i!
we cannot carry it behind the counter
and behind t.!e plow The Sabbath day
is of no value if it last only "a hours.
seOh,' says some one, IF had great
sphere. Iwould do that. IF could have
lived in the time of Martin Luther, if
could have been PauPs travelling COM
panion, if / had some great and resound.
ing work to do, then I should put into
application all chat you say" [ musi
admit that fine romance and knight en-
rantry have gone out of life. There il
but very little of it left in the world.
The temples Of Rouen have been changed
into slnithies. The classic mansion at
Ashland has been cut up into walking
sticks. TIE muses. have retreated be
fore the entrants ak and the trapper'I
gun, aud Eernonter might go over the
Allegheny ;,-.<i the Rocky mountains and
see neither : O-ecl nor q Sylph.
The grow; where the gods used to
dwell have i1aan cut mp for frewood, and
the man w. il looking for great spheres
and great scenes for action will not find
them. Anu yet there are Alps to scale,
and there q; Tablespoons to swim, and
they are in common life. It is absurd
for you to e:ty that you would serve God
if you had a great sphere. Ifyou do not
serve him o. a small scale, you would
not on q large scale. Ii you cannot
stand the BITE Of a nudge, how could you
endure the breath Of q basilisk?
A TAEIF!7 ON ANNOYANCES.
Our national government does not
thing it beitfling to put a tax on pins
and tax on buckles and tax on shoes.
The individual taxes do not amount to
much, but IL the aggregate to milliona
and millions Of dollars. And I would
have you, oh, Christian man, put high
tariff on every annoyance and vexation
that comes through your soul. This
might not amount to much in single
cases, but in the aggregate it would be a
great revenue Of spiritual strength and
satisfaction.
A bee can suck honey even out of a
nettle. and if you have the grace Of God
in your heart you can get sweetness out
of that which would otherwise irritate
and annoy. A returned missionary told
me that a company Of Adventures row
ing up the Gauges were stung to death
by flies that infest that region at certain
seasons. I have seen the earth strewn
with the carcasses of men slain by insect
annoyances. The only way to get pre-
pared for the great troubles of life is to
conquer these small troubles.