Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-05-27

t1n's rays Or by the stopping of the
whole planetary system I do not know
and do not Gaze. | leave it to the Chris
tian scientists and the infidel scientists
to settle that question, while 1 tell you
l have seen the same thing. "What, -
say you, not the sun standing still?''
Yes. The same miracle is performed
nowadays. The wicked do not live out
half their day, and the sun sets at noon.
But let man start out and battle for
God, and the truth, and against sin, and
the day OF his usefulness is prolonged
and prolonged and prolonged.
John Summerield was consumptive
Methodist He looked fearfully white, I
am told, as he stood in old Sands Street
church in this city preaching Christ and
when he stood on the anniversary plat
form in New York pleading for the BIZ
BILE until unusual and unknown glories
rolled forth from that book When he
was dying, his pillow was brushed with
the wings Of the angel from the skies,
the messenger that God sent down. Did
John Summerfield's sun set? Did John
Summerfeld' day end? Oh, no! He
lives on in his burning utterance in be-
half of the Christian church. The sun
stood still.
Robert McCheyne was consumptive
Presbyterian. 1t was said when he
preached he coughed so it seemed as if
he would never preach again. His name
is fragrant in all Christendom-that
name mightier today than was ever his
living presence. He lived to preach the
gospel in Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Dun
dee, but he went away very early. He
preached himself into the grave. Has
Robert McCheyne's sun set? Is Robert
McCheyne's day ended? Oh, mol His
dying delirium was filled with prayer,
and when he lifted. his hand to pro-
nounce the bonediction upon his family
and the benediction upon his country he
seemed to say: 81 cannot die now. I
want to live on and on. [ want to start
an influence for the church that will
never cease. am only 80 years of age.
Sun of my Christian ministry, stand still
over Scotland. ," And it stood still
The Dead Hero.
But it is time for Joshua to go home
He is 10 years old. Washington went
down the Potomac, and at Mount Yer
non closed his days. Wellington died
peacefully at Apsley House. Now, where
shall Joshua rest? Why, he is to have
his greatest battle now. After 10 years
he has to meet a king who has more
subjects than all the present population
of the earth, his throne a pyramid of
skulls, his parterre the graveyards and
the cemeteries of the world, his chariot
the worlds hearse-the king of terrors.
But if this is Joshua's greatest battle it
is going to be Joshua's greatest victory.
He gathers his friends around him and
gives his valedictory, and it is full of
"Reminiscences. Young men tell what they
are going to do. Old men tell what they
have done.
And as you have heard a grandfather
or d grandfather, seated by the
evening fire, tell of Monmouth or York
town and then lift the crutch or staff as
though it were a muslet to fight and
show how the old battles were won, so
Joshua gathers his friends around his
dying couch, and he tells them the story
of what he has been through, and as he
lies there, his white locks showing
down on his wrinkled forehead, | won
der if God has kept his promise all the
way through-the promise of the text.
AS he lies there he tells the story one,
two or three times-yOu have heard OLD
people tell story two or three times
overland he answers: 81 go the way
of all the earth, and not one word of
the promise has failed, not one word
thereof has failed All has come to
pass; not one word thereof has failed -
And then he turns to his family, as a
dying parent will, and says: Choose
now whom you will serve-the God of
Israel on the God of the Amorites As
for me and my house, we will serve the
Lord. F" A dying parent cannot be reck-
less or thoughtless in regard to his chill
dren. Consent to part with them at the
door Of the tomb we cannot. By the
cradle in which their infancy was rock
ed, by the bosom on which they first
lay, by the blood of the Covenant, by
the God of Joshua, it shall not be. We
will not part. We cannot part. Jehovah
Jireh, we take thee at thy promise, 81
will be a God to thee and thy seed after
thee. -
Dead, the old chieftain must be laid
out. Handle him very gently. That sa-
cred body is over 10 years of age. Lay
him out. Stretch out those feet that
walked dry shod the parted Jordan.
Close those lips which helped blow the
blast at which the walls Of Jericho fell
Fold the arm that lifted the spear to-
ward the doomed city of All. Fold it |
right over the heart that exulted when
the five kings fell But where shall we
get the FURNISHED granite for the head
stone and the footstone? l bethink my
self now. | imagine that for the head it
shall be the sun that stood still upon |
Gideon, and for the foot the moon that !