Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-02-18

only one thing, and that to show ali ma
tions the way into the harbor OF Gods
mercy and to the crystalline Wharves Of
| the heavenly city, where the lmmortals
are waiting for new arrivals Dead sky
larks, when they might have been flying
! seraphs.
q Question OF Belief.
Here also come, covering up the old
/ gospel, some who think they can by law
and exposure OF crime save the world,
/ and from Portland, Me, across to San
/ Francisco, and back again to New Or
/ leans and Savannah, many OF the minis
| tiers have gone into the detective bust
ness Worldly reform by all means, but
unless it be also gospel reform it will
! be dead failure. In New York iss chief
! work has been to give Us a chsnge of
bosses. We had Democratic boss, and
now it is to be a Republican boss, but
the quarrel is, Who shall be the Repub-
lican? Politics Will save the cities the
same day that satan evangelizes perdi-
ton
Here comes another class of people
who in pulpit and outside Of it cover up
the gospel with the theory that it makes
no final difference what you believe or
how you act you are bound for heaven
anyhow. There they SIT side by side,
in heaven: Garfield, and Guiteau, who
shot him; Lincoln, and John Wilkes
Booth, who assassinated him; Washing
ton, and Thomas Paine, who slandered
him; Mana Sahib, and the missionaries
whom he dubbed to death at Cawnpur;
Herod and the children whom he mas
sacred; Paul, and Nero, who beheaded
him. AS result Of the PRONUNCIATION of
such mongrel and conglomerate heav-
en-, there are millions Of people in Chris
tendon who expect to go straight to
heaven from their seraglios, and their
inebriation, and their suicides, when
among the ioudest thunders that break
over the basaltic island to which St.
John was expatriated was the one III
which God announced that ''the abOm
Unable and the murderers and who're
mongers and sorcerers and idolaters and
all liars shall have their place in the
lake which burneth with fire and brim-
stone, which is the second death. . /
correct what l said when I declared the
gospel was buried so feet deep. It is
buried 200 feet deep. Had the glorious
gospel been given full opportunity, I
think before this the world would have
had no need of pulpit or sermon OF
prayer or church, but thanksgiving and
hosannas would have resounded in tho
temple to which the mountains would
have been pillars, and the blue skies the
dome, and the rivers the baptistery, and
all nations she worshipers in the audi
forum of the outspread world. But Sc
far hot T aTl-0 +I,n
opening sentence of this sermon, the
greatest ncvelty of our time is the gos
pei. And lea ne say co the hundreds
and thousands of educated and splendid
young men about to enter the gospel
ministry from the theological seminaries
of all denominations, on this and the
other side Of the SEAS that there is no
drawing power like the glorious gospel.
Him hath God lifted up to draw all
men unto him. " Get your souls charged
and surcharged with this gospel, and
you will have large audiences and Will
not have to announce in order to assem-
BILE such audiences q Sunday night sa-
cred concert, with a brief address by
the pastor, or the presence Of ''Black
PATHS, or Creole MINISTRIES, or some
new exposure of Tammany. or a sermon
accompanied by magic lantern or ste
reopticon views.
Glorious News.
The glorious gospel of the blessed God
as spoken of in my text will have more
drawing power, and when that gospel
gets full swing it viii have a lnomen-
tum and power mightier than that Of
the Atlantic ocean when under tho
Of no ota7.o cf7riI-
the highlands of the Navesink The
meaning of the word "gospel' is 'good
news,'' and my text says it is glorious
good news, and we must tell it in our
churches, and over our dry goods coun-
tiers, and in our factories, and over our
thrashing machines and behind our
plows, and on our ships decks, and in
our parlors, our nurseries and kitchens,
as though It were glorious good news,
and not with a dismal drawl in our
voice, and a dismal look on our faces,
as though religion were a rheumatic
twinge, or a dyspeptic pang, or q ma
larial chill, or an attack of nervous
prostration. With nine 'Fblesseds" or
Ehappys, " Christ began his sermon on
the mount-blessed the poor; blessed
the mourner; blessed the meek; blessed
the hungry; blessed the nerciful; bless
ed the pure; blessed the peacemakers;
blessed the prosecuted; blessed the re-
viled; blessed, blessed, blessed happy,
happy, happy. Glorious good news for
the young as through Christ they may
have their coming years ennobled. and
for lifetime all the angels of God their
coadjutors and all the armies of heaven
their allies. Glorious good news for the
middle aged as through Christ they may
have their perplexities disentangled, and
their courage rallied, and their victory
over all obstacles and hindrances made
c17ro Glorio,1c cyOoI r,oxryc fo, J,o