Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-03-25

Sell: w ell, L OuSnG hou " 80 on THIS
way about my mother death. She had
suffered enough She had borne other
peoples burdens long enough. I am glad
that father and mother are together in
heaven, and they will be waiting to greet
US, and il will be only little while
anyhow, and God makes 10 mistakes. -
Or you soliloquize, saying: ut is hard
to lose my property. l am sure worked
hard enough for it, But God will take
care Of us, and. as to the children, the
money might have spoiled them, and we
find that those who have to struggle for
themselves generally turn out best,
and it will all be well if this upsetting
of our worldly resources leads us to lay
up treasures in heaven" Or you soliIo-
quize, saying, cit was hard to give up
that boy when the Lord took him. I ex-
pected great things of him, and, oh, how
we miss him out of the house, and there
are so many things I come across that
make one think of him, and he was such
q splendid fellow But then what an
escape he has made from the tempta-
lions and sorrows which come to all
who grow up, and it is a grand thing to
have him safe from all possible harm,
and there are all those Bible promises
for parents who have lost children, and
we shall feel drawing heavenward that
we could not have otherwise expert
enced.'' And after you have said that
you get that relief which comes from an
outburst of tears I do not say to you,
as some say, do not cry. God pity peo-
pie in trouble who have the parched eye
ball and the dry eyelid and cannot shed
a tear. That makes maniacs. To Gods
people tears are the deWs Of the night
dashed with sunrise. l am SO glad you
can weep. But you think these things
you say to yourself are only soliloquies.
No, no; they are the Comforter, who is
the Holy Ghost
Help to the Preacher.
Notice also the Holy Ghost as the
preachers reimbursement You and I
have known preachers encyclopedia in
knowledge, brilliant as an iceberg when
the sun smites it, and with Chesterfield
ian address and rhetorical hand uplifted
with diamond big enough to dazzle an
assembly and SO surcharged with vOcab-
ulary that when they left this life it
might be said of each Of them as De
Quincy said of another that in the act Of
dying he committed robbery, abscond-
ing with valuable polyglot dictionary,
yet no awakening or converting or sane
tifying result, while some plain man,
with humblest phraseoIogy, has seen
audiences whelmed with religious inhu-
ence. 1t was the Holy Ghost. What q
useful thing it would be if every minis
ter would give the history of his ser
mons! Years ago at an outdoor meet
ing in the state of New York [ preached
to many thousands. There had beer
much prayer Oh the grounds for great
of the Holy Ghost at that
service, and the awakening power eX-
ceeded anything I ever witnessed since
[ began to preach, with perhaps the ex-
oeption of two or three occasions. Clcr-
gymen and Christian Workers by the
score and hundreds expressed themselves
as having been blessed during the serv-
ice. That afternoon I took the train for
an outdoor meeting in the state of Ohio,
where | was to preach Oh the night of
the next dag. AS the sermon had proved
so useful the day before and the thome
was fresh in my mind, resolved to re-
produce it, and did reproduce it as far rs
could, but the result was nothing ut
all. Never had I seemed to have any
thing to do with q fiatter failure. What
was the difference between the two serv-
ices? Some will say, "You were tired
with long Journey. No, I was not
tired at all. Some will say, t'Tho tenn
pOral circumstances in the first case
were more favorable than i'll the last. >
No. they were more favorable in the
last The difference was in the power
Of the Holy Ghost-mightiIy present at
the first service, not seemingly present
at all at the second. [ call upon tho
ministers 90 America to give the history
of sermons, for [ believe it will illus
trato as nothing else can the truth of
that Scripture, "Not by might nor by
power, but by my Spirit, saith the
Lord
On the Sabbath of the dedication of
one Of our churches in Brooklyn, at the
service, 32S souls stood up to
profess Christ. They were the converts
in the Brooklyn Academy of Music,
where we had been worshiping The re-
oeption Of SO many understand many
Of them baptized by immersion-had
made it an arduous service, which con-
5inued from half past 10 in the morn
ing until half past 2 in in the after
noon. From that service we went
home exhausted, because there is
nothing SO exhausting as deep emo
ton. A messenger was sent out to
obtain a preacher for that night, but
the search was unsuccessful, as all the
ministers were engaged for some other
place. With no preparation at all for
The evening service, except the looking
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feeling almost too weary to stand up,
began the service, saying audibly while
the opening song was being sung al
though because Of the singing no one but
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