Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-06-11


listen to what you say. SO thy way for
this time. When I have a convenient
season, will call for thee %
Another reason why Felix sent Paul
to the guardroom and adjourned this sub
ject was he was so very busy. In ordi-
nary times he found the affairs Of state
absorbing, but those were extraordinary
times. The whole land was ripe for in
surrection. The Sicarii, a band of assas-
sins, were already prowling around the
palace, and l suppose he thought, 81
can't attend to religion while [ am SO
pressed by affairs Of state % 1t was
business among other things that ruined
his soul, and I suppose there are thou
sands of people who are not children Of
God because they have SO much bust
ness It is business in the store-losses,
gains, unfaithful employees.
$50 Thy Way For This Time"
It is business in your law ofice-sub-
pOenas, writS you have to write out, pa
pers you have to file, arguments you
have to make. 1t is your medical pro-
fession, with it's broken nights and the
exhausted anXieties of life hanging
upon your treatment. It is your real es-
tate 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 wear
ing economy of trying to meet large ex-
penses with a small income. Ten thou
sand voices of ''business, business, bust
ness drown the voice of the eternal
I'll / 49, -
ing Judgment day, overcoming the voice
of eternity, and they cannot hear; they
cannot listen. They say, go thy way
for this time.'' Some of you look upon
your goods, look upon your profession,
you look upon your memorandum books,
and you see the demands 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 yon say:
"Go thy way for this time. When [ have
a convenient season, I will call forthee."
Oh, 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 exciting period of it-between
the payment Of the money and the tax
ing of the receipt? The moment he
comes you will have to go. Death
waits for no man, however high, how
ever low. VIII you put your office,
will you put your shop in comparison
with the affairs of an eternal world,
affairs that involve thrones, palaces,
dominions eternal? Will you put 900
acres of ground against immensely?
Will you put 40 Or 80 years of your
life against millions of ages? Oh, Felix,
you might better postpone everything
else, for do you not know that the up
holstering of Tyrian purple in your pal
ace will fade and the marble blocks Of
Casarea will crumble, and the breakwa-
ter at the beach, made of great blocks
of stone 60 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 a. 1
yet you wave him back to the guar
room, saying: "Go thy way for this
time. When l have convenient sea-
son, I will call for thee.
The Favor of Men.
Again, Felix adjourned this subject
of religion and put off Paul's argument
because he could not give up the hon
ors of the world Ee was afraid some
how he would be compromised himself |
in this matter. Remarks he made after
ward showed him to be intensely ambi-
tious. Oh, how he Rugged the favor Of
men!
never saw the honors of this world i'll
their hollowness and hypocrisy SO much
as in the life and death of that wonder
full man, Charles Sumner. AS he went
toward the place of burial, even indie
pendence hall in Philadelphia asked |
that his remains stop there on their way
to Boston. The flags were at half mast
and the minute guns on Boston COM
mon throbbed after his heart had ceased |
to beat. Was it always SO? While he |
lived, how censured of legislative reso- |
buttons; how caricatured of the picto-
rials; how charged with every motive
mean and ridiculous; how all the urns
of scorn and hatred and billingsgate |
emptied upon his head; how, when
struck down in senate chamber, there |
were hundreds of thousands of people |
who said, Good for him; serves him
right" how he had to put the ocean
between him and his maligners that he
might have a little peace, and how,
when he went off sick, they said he was
broken hearted because he could not |
get to be president or secretary of state!
0 commonwealth of Massachusetts,
who is that man that sleeps in your pub
lie hall covered with garlands and
wrapped in the stars and stripes? Is
that the man who, only few months
before, you denounced as the foe of re-
publican and democratic institutions? |
Is that the same man? Ye American |
people, ye could not by one week of fu
neral eulogium and newspaper leaders,
which the dead senator could neither |