Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-06-28

| trtorSinary times. The whole land was
ripe for insurrection. The SicariL a
band of assassins, were already
| proving around the palace, and sup
| pose he thought, Il can't attend to re-
| igion while | am so pressed by affairs
OF state" 1t was businss, among other
things, that ruined his soul, and | sup
| pose there are thousands of people who
are not children of God because they
| have so much business. 1t is business
in the store-losses, gain, unfaithful
| employees. 1t is business in your law
office -subpmnas, writs you have to
write out, papers you have to file, argu-
ments you have to make. 1t is your
medical profession, with its broken
nights, and the exhausted anXieties of
life hanging upon your treatment, 1t
is your real estate office, your business
with landlords and tenants, and the
failure of men to meet their obligations
with you. Aye. with some of those who
are here, it is the annoyance of the
kitchen, and the sitting room and the
parlor the wearing economy of trying
to meet large expenses with small in
ness, business, business" drown the
voice of the Eternal Spirit. ST.
lencing the voice of the advanc-
ing Judgment day, overcoming the
voice Of eternity; and they can
not hear, they cannot listen. They
say, $50 thy way for this time" Some
of you look upon your goods, look up
on your profession, you look upon your
memorandum book, and you see the de-
mands that are made this very week
upon your time and your patience and
your money; and while am entreating
YOU about your soul and the danger of
procrastinatiOn you say: $50 thy way
for this time: when nave a convenient
season, ! viii call for thee" O, Felix,
why be bothered about the affairs of
this world so much more than about
the affairs of eternity? Do you not
know that when death comes you will
have TO stop business. though it
be in the most eXacting period of
it-between the payment of the
money and the taking of the receipta
The moment he comes you will have to
90. Death waits for no man. however
high. however low win you put your
office, will you put your shop in com
parison with the affairs of an eternal
world? Affairs that involve thrones,
palaces, dominions eternal? VIII You
put two hundred acres of groundagainst
immensely? win you put forty or fifty
years of your life against millions of
ages? O. Felix. you might better post
pene everything else. for You do not
know that the upholstering of Tyriau
purple in your palace will fade and the
marble blocks of Cesarea will crumble
and the breakwater at the beach. made
of great blocks of stone sixty feet long,
must give way before the perpetual
wash of the sea; but the redemption
that Paul offers YOU will be forever?
And yet and yet, and yet you wave
him back to the guard room, saying;
go thy way for this time: when | have
a convenient season l will call for
thee.
Again, Felix adjourned this subject
of religion and put off Pauls argu-
ment, because he could not give up the
honors of the world. He was afraid
somehow he would compromise himself
in this matter Remarks he made af-
terward showed him TO be intensely am
bilious. o, how he Rugged the favor
of men!
never saw the honors o this world
in their hollowness and hypocrisy sol
much as in the life and death of that
wonderful man, Charles sumner. As
he went toward the place of burial,
even Independence hall. in Philadel-
phia. asked that his remains stop there
on their way to Boston The flags
were at half mast, and the minute guns
on Boston Common throbbed after his
heart had ceased to beat. Was it al
WAYS so? While he lived, how cen
sured of legislative resolutions, how
caricatured of the pictorials; how
charged with every motive mean and
ridiculous; how all the urns of seorn
and hatred and billingsgate emptied
upon his head; how, when struck
down i'm senate chamber, there were
hundreds of thousands of people who
said: Good for him, served him
rightT How he had TO put the ocean
DtLWttu nun anu No hAaAAN AAAdb
he might have little peace, and how.
when he went off sick, they said
he was brolken-hearted because he
could not get to be president or sec
retary of state. o commonwealth of
Massachusetts! Who is that man who
sleeps in your public hall, covered in
garlands and wrapped in the stars and
stripes? Is that the man who, only a |
few months before. you denounced as
the foe of republican and democratic |
institutions? Is that the same mani |
We American people, We could not, by
one week Of funeral eulogium and |
newspaper leaders. which the dead
senator could neither read nor hear, |
atone for twenty-five years of NAL. |
treatment and caricature. When / |
see a man like that, pursued by |
all the hounds of the political |
kennel so long as he lives. and then
buried under a great pile of gar.
lands. and amidst the lamentations of |