News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1894-08-16
Christ Was Tempted.

All, infidelity, stand up and take thy
sentenced In the presence of God and
angels and men, stand up, thou mon
ster, thy lip blasted with blasphemy,
thy check SCARED with lust, thy breath
foul with the corruption of the ages!
Stand up, satyr, filthy goat, buzzard of
the nations, leper of the centuries !
Stand up, thou monster infidelity, part
man, part panther, part reptile, part
dragon, stand up and take thy sentence!
Thy hand is red with the blood in
which thou hast washed, thy feet Grim
son with the human gore through which
thou hast waded. Stand up and take thy
sentence! Down with thee to the pit and
sup on the sobs and groans of families
thou hast blasted, and roll on the bed Of
knives which thou hast sharpened for
others, and let thy music be the eyerlast-
ing miserere of those whom thou hast
damned brand the forehead of infdel-
ity with all the crimes of self immola-
ton for the last century ON the part Of
those who had their reason.
My friends, if ever your life through
its abrasions and its molestations should
seem to be unbearable, and you are
tempted to quit it by your own behest
do not consider yourselves as worse than
others. Christ himself was tempted to
cast himself from the roof of the tenn
pie, but as he resisted so resist ye
Christ came to medicine all our wounds.
In your trouble l prescribe life instead
of death. People who have had it worse
than you will ever have it have gone
songful on their way. Remember that
God keeps the chronology of your life
with as much precision as he keeps the
chronology of nations.
A Christians Life and Death.
Why was it that at midnight, just at
midnight, the destroying angel struck
the blow that set the Israelites free
from bondage? The 430 years were up
at 10 o'clock that night The 430 years
were not up at II, and o'clock would
have been tardy and too late. The 430
years were up at IL o'clock, and the de-
stroying angel struck the blow, and
Israel was free. And God knows just
the hour when it is time to lead you Up
from earthly bondage. By his grace
make not the worst of things, but the
best of them. If you must take the pills,
do not chew them. Your everlasting re-
wards will accord with your earthly
perturbations, just as Caius gave to
Agrippa chain of gold as heavy as
had been his chain of iron. For your
asking you may have the same grace
that was given to the Italian martyr,
Algerius, who, down in the darkest of
dungeons, dated his letter from "the
delectable orchard of the Leonine pris-
on. :"
There is q sorrowless world, and it is
SO radiant that the MONDAY sun is only
the lowest doorstep and the aurora that
lights up our northern heavens, con-
founding astronomers as to what it Can
be, is the waving of the banners of the
procession come to take the conquerors
home from church militant to church
triumphant, and you and | have 10, O0O
reasons for wanting to go there, but
we will never get there either by self
immolation or impenitency All our
sins slain by the Christ who came to dc
chat thing, we want to go in at just the
time divinely arranged and from a
couch divinely spread, and then the
clang of the sepulchral gates behind us
will be overpowered by the clang of the
opening of the solid pearl before us.
U God, whatever others may choose,
give me Christians life, Christian s
death, a Christians burial, Chris
tian's Immortality!