Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-05-07

orn FASHION plate. twenty-five years
yea, 20 centurics-havc not changed
human nature particle. say this for
the encouragement Of those who think
that our times aonopolize all the abom-
nations Of the ages.
One minute after Adam got outside
of paradise he was just like you, Q
man! One step after Eve left the gate
she was just like you, 0 woman! All
the faults and vices are many times CEN
tenarians. Yea, the cities Sodom, Go
morrah, Ponlpeii, Herculaneum, He'll
opolis and ancient Memphis were as
much worse than our modern cities as
you might expect from the fact that
the modern cities have somewhat yield
ed to the restraints of Christianity,
while those ancient cities were not linn
tied in their denominations.
Great Works Accomplished.
Yea, that generation which passed off
within the last % years had their be-
reavements, their temptations, their
struggles, their disappointments, their
successes, their failures, their gladness-
es and their griefs, like these two gen
erations now in sight, that in advance
and that following. But the 25 years
between 1869 and 1894-how much
they saw! How much they discovered!
How much they felt! Within that til ln
have been performed the miracles O.
the telephone and the phonograI,b.
From the observatories other worlds
have been seen to heave in sight. Six
presidents Of the United States have
been inaugurated. Transatlantic voyage
abbreviated from 10 days to 81. Chi
apart, now only "a hours by the vesti-
bule limited. Two additional railroads
have been built to the Pacific. France
has passed from monarchy to republic
anisln Many of the cities have nearly
doubled their populations. During that
| generation the chief surviving heroes
of the civil war have gone into the en-
campment Of the grave. The chief ply
sicians, attorneys, orators, merchants,
have passed off the earth or are in re-
tirement waiting for transition. Other
men in editorial chairs, i'll pulpits, in
governors mansions, in legislative, SEN
atorial and congressional halls.
There are not 10 men Or women ON
earth now prominent who were promi-
nent 25 years ago The crew Of this old
ship Of q world is all changed. Others
at the helm, others on the lookout"
others climbing the ratlines. Time is a
doctor who with potent anodyne, has
put an entire generation into sound
sleep. Time, like another Cromwell, has
roughly prorogued parliament, and with
iconoclasm driven nearly all the rulers
except one queen from their high places.
So far as I observed that generation,
for the most part they did their best.
CHASTITY exceptions, but SO far as knew
them they did quite we'll, and many of
them gloriously well. They were born
at the right time, and they died at the
right time. They left the world better
than they found it. We are indebted to
them for the fact that they prepared the
way for our coming. Eighteen hundred
and ninety-four reverently and CRATE
fully salutes 1869. zone generation
passeth away, and another generation
cometh. -
There are fathers and mothers here
whom I baptized i'll their infancy.
There is not one person in this church's
board of session or trustees who was
here when [ came. Here and there in
this vast assembly is one person who
heard my opening sermon in Brooklyn,
but not more than one person in every
800 now present. Of the 7 persons who
gave nc q unanimous call when I came,
only three, I believe, are living
The Major Key.
But this sermon is not dirge. 1t is
an anthem. While this world is apprc-
pirate as a temporary stay, as an eter-
nal residence it would be dead fail
ure 1t would be dreadful sentence if
1no,,o1 fO If, q
thousand winters and thousand sum-
mers. God keeps us here just long
enough to give us an appetite for heav-
en-. Had we been born in celestial realms
we would not have been able to appre-
ciate the bliss. 1t needs a good many
rough blasts in this world to qualify us
to properly estimate the superb climate
of that good land where it is never too
cold or too hot, too cloudy Or too glar-
ing. Heaven will be more to US than to
those supernal beings who were never
tempted or sick or bereaved or tried Or
disappointed. So you may we'll take my
text out of the minor key and. set it to
some tune in the major key. Zone gen
Grafton passeth away, and another gen
Grafton cOmeth.
Nothing can rob US of the satisfaction
that uncCunted thousands Of the gener-
alton just past were converted, comfort
ed and harvested for heaven by this
church, whether in the present building
or the three preceding buildings in
which they worshiped. The two great
organs of the previous churches went
down in the memorable fires, but the
multitudinous songs they led year aft
er year were not recalled or injured.
There is no power in earth or hell to
kill halleluiah. 1t is impossible to ar
rest hosanna. What a satisfaction to