Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-10-07

times the last illness of the Christian is
a struggle. He is almost through the
voyage. The waves of temptation TOSS
his soul, but he waits for the morning
At last the light dawns, and the tides
Of JOY rise III his soul, and he sails I'D
and casts anchor within the vale.
CTS Thine Heart Right?"
Is thy heart right? What question can
compare with this in importance? It is
a business question. Do you not realize
that you will soon have to go out of
that store, that you will soon have to
resign that partnership, that soon among
all the millions of dollars worth of
goods that are sold you will not have
the handling of yard of cloth, or q
pound Of sugar, or a penny worth of
anything; that soon, if CONFEDERATION
should start at Central park and sweep
everything to the Battery, it would not
disturb you; that soon, if every cashier
should abscond and every insurance
company should fail, it would not affect
you? What are the questions that stop
this side the grave, compared with the
questions that reach beyond it? Are you
making losses that are to be everlasting?
Are you making purchases for eternity?
Are you jobbing for time when you
might be wholesaling for eternity?
What question of the store is so broad
at the base, and so altitudinous, and so
Overwhelming as the question, els thy
heart right?'
Or is it q domestic question? Is it
something about father or mother or
companion Or son or daughter, that you
think is comparable with this question
in Importance? Do you not realize that
by universal and inexcrable law all
these relations will be broken up? Your
father will be gone, your mother Will
be gone, your companion will be gone,
your child will be gone, you will be
gone, and then this supernal question
will begin to harvest its chief gains, or
deplore its worst losses, roll up into it's
mightiest magnitude or sweep its vast
circles.
What difference now does it make to
Napoleon III whether he triumphed or
surrendered at Sedan, whether he lived
at the Tuileries or at Chiselhurst,
whether he was emperor or exile? They
laid him out in his coffin in the dress
of a field marshal Did that give him
any better chance for the next world
than if he had been laid out in a plain
shroud? And soon to Us what will be
the difference, whether in this world
we rode or walked, were bowed to or
maltreated, were applauded or Missed
at, We're welcomed in or kicked out,
while laying hold Of every moment of
the great future, and burning in all the
splendor or grief, and Overarching and
undergoing all time and all eternity, is
the plain, simple, practical, thrilling,
agonizing, overwhelming question, els
thy heart right?'' Have you within
you a repenting heart, an eXpectant
heart? If not [ must write upon your
soul what George Whitefeld wrote up
on the window pane with his diamond
ring. He tarried in an elegant house
over night, but found that there was no
God recognized in that house. Before
he left his room in the morning, with
his ring he wrote upon the window
pane, Zone thing thou lackest. After
the guest was gone the housewife came
and looked at the window, and saw the
inscription, and called her husband and
her children, and God, through that
ministry Of the window glass, brought
them all TO Jesus Though you may to-
day be surrounded by comforts and lux
uries, and feel that you have need Of
nothing, if you are not the children OF
God, with the signet ring of Christ's
love, let me inscribe upon your souls,
cone thing thou lacl-cst -