Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-07-24
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UP the mines, and then they took the
spears and the swords. then they took the
blacksmiths, then they took the grind
stones, and they took everything but a
file. Oh, that is the way sin works. 1t
grabs everything. It begins with rob-
berry, and it ends with robbery. It de-
cDoils this faculty and that faculty and
l-oo rs on until the whole nature is gone.
y g.; the man eloquent before, it gener-
ally thickens his tongue. Was he fine
IN personal appearance, it mars his Wis
acc. Was he affiuent, it sends the sher-
III to sell him out. Was he influential,
it destroys his popularity. Was he placid
and genial and loving, it makes him
s! 1enetic and cross, and SO utterly is he
changed that you can see he is sarcastic
and rasping and that the Philistines
have left him nothing but file.
Oh, 1.-THE way of the transgressor is
hard" His cup is bitter. His night is
dark. His pangs are deep. His end is
terrific. Philistine iniquity says to that
man, 'sNow, surrender to me, and I will
give you all you want-music for the
dance, swift steeds for the race imperial
couch to slumber on, and you shall be
refreshed with the rarest fruits in bas-
kets of golden fligree." He lies The
music turns out to be a groan. The
fruits burst the rind with rank poison.
The figree is made up of twisted snakes.
The couch is a grave. Small allowance
of rest, small allowance of peace, small
allowance of comfort. Cold, hard, rough
nothing but file. So it was with
Voltaire, the most applauded man of his
day:
drew
Bonmots to gall the Christian and the Jew
An infidel when well, but what when sick?
Oh. then text would touch him to the quick.
Seized with hemorrhage of the lungs
in Paris, where he had gone to be
crowned in the theater as an idol of all
France, he sends a messenger to get
priest that he may be reconciled to the
church before he dies. A great terror
falls upon him. He makes the place all
round about him so dismal that the
nurse declares that she would not for all
the wealth of Europe see another infidel
die. Philistine iniquity had promised
him all the worlds garlands, but in the
last hour of his life, when he needed
solacing, sent tearing across his con-
science and his nerves file, file.
So it was with Lord Byron, his IN
cleanness in England only surpassed by
his uncleanness in Venice, then going on
to his brilliant misery at Missolonghi, end
fretting at his nurse, Fletcher, fretting
at himself, fretting at the world, fretting
at God, and he who gave to the world
s'Childe Harold" and ''Sardanapalus,
and THE Prisoner of Chillon, and 1.-The
Siege OF Corinth, reduced to nothing but
file!
THE WAGES OF SIN.
Oh, sin has great facility for making
promises, but it has just as great facility
for breaking them. A Christian life is
the only cheerful life, while a life of
wicked surrender is remorse, ruin and
death. Its painted glee is sepulchral
ghastliness. In the brightest days of
the Mexican empire Montezuma said he
felt gnawing at his heart something like
canker. Sin, like monster wild beast
of the forest, sometimes ticks all over its
victim in order that the victim may be
more easily swallowed; but generally
sin rasps and gals and tears and up
braids and files. Is it not so, Herod? Is
it not so, Hildebrand? Is it not so,
Robespierre? Aye! aye! it is SO; it is so.
.'The way of the wicked he turneth up
side down."
History tells us that when Rome was
founded, on that day there were 10
vultures flying through the air, but when
trarsgressor dies the sky is black with
whole focas of them. Vultures! When
see SIN robbing SO many people, and l
see them going down day by day and
week by week, must give q plain warn
ing. I dare not keep it back lest risk
the salvation of my own soul. Rover,
the pirate, pulled down the warning bell
on Inchcape rock, thinking that he would
have chance to despoil vessels that were
crushed on the rocks, but one night his
own ship crashed down on this very
rock, and he went down with all his
cargo. God declares, ''When I say to
the wicked thou shalt surely die, and
thou givest him not warming, that same
man shall die in his iniquity, but his
blood will I require at thy hands,
I learn from this subject what a sad
thing it is when the church of God loses
it's metal. These Philistines saw that if
they could only get all the metallic
weapons out of the hands of the Israel
ties all would be we'll, and therefore
they took the swords and the spears.
They did not want them to have single
metallic weapon. When the metal of
the Israelites was gone, their strength
was gone. This is the trouble with the
church of God today. It is surrendering
it's courage It has not gotenough metal.
How seldom it is that you see man
taking his position irSpew, or in pulpit,
or in religious 500 ty, and holding
that position against - oppression, and
all trial, and all persecution, and all
criticism.
The church Of God today wants mora