Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-11-04


old soldiers because they are weak and
worn and because they tainted bv the
brook Besor? Are they going to get no
part of the spoils Of the victory? inst
look at them. Do you think those crew
ices in the face are wrinkles? No. They
are battle scars. They fought against
sickness, they fought against trouble.
they fought against sin, they fought for
God, they fought for the church. they
fought for the truth, they fought for
heaven. When they had plenty of mon
ey their names were always on the sub
scription list When there was any hard
work to be done for God they were
ready to take the heaviest part Of it.
When there came great revival they
were ready to pray all night for the
anxious and the sin struck. They were
ready to do any work, endure any sacri-
fee, do the most unpopular thing that
God demanded of them. But now they
cannot go further. Now they have phys
ical infirmities. Now their head trou-
bles them. They are weak and faint by
the brook Besor. Are they to have no
share in the triumph? Are they to get
none of the treasures, none Of the spoils
Of conquest? You must think that Christ
has very short memory if you think he
has forgotten their services.
Fret not, ye aged ones. Just tarry by
the stuff and wait for your share of the
spoils Yonder they are coming. I hear
the bleating Of the fat lambs, and see
the jewels CLINT in the sun. It makes me
laugh to think how you will be sur
Oh, "a
over your neck and tell you to go in and
dine with the king. 1 see you backing
out because you feel unworthy. The
shining ones come up on the one side
and the shining ones come up on the
other side, and they push you on, and
they push you up, and they say, "Here
is an old soldier of Jesus Christ" and
the shining ones Will rush out toward
you and say, Eyes; that man saved my
soul, or they will rush out and say,
"Oh, yes; she was with me in the last
sickness - And then the cry Will go
round the circle: Como in, come in,
come in, come upl We saw you away
down there, old and sick and decrepit
and discouraged because you could not
go to the front, but AS his part is that
part be that tarrieth by the stuff. -
The Veterans and the NObOdies.
There is high consolation also in this
for aged ministers. I see some Of them
here today. They sit in pews in our
churches. They used to stand in pulpits.
Their hair is white with the blossoms of
the tree of life, their names marked on
the roll Of the general assembly, or Of
the consolation, emeritus. They some
times hear a text announced which
brings to mind a sermon they preached
90 years ago on the same subject. They
preached more gospel on $500 year
than some of their successors preach ON
81, 1000. Some Sunday the old minister
is in a church, and near by in another
pow there are husband and a wife and
row of children. And after the benedic-
ton tho lady comes up and says, doc
tor, you don't know me, do you?"
"Well, 4" lie says, ''your face is familiar,
but 1 cannot call you by name. "
why" she says, lyon baptized me,
and you married me, and You buried my
father and mother and sisters. - ooh,
yes he says. "My eyesight isn't as
good as it used to be. ~ They are in all
our churches-the heroes of 1920, the
heroes of 1882, the heroes of 1857. By
the long grave trench that cut through
half a century they have stood sounding
the resurrection. They have been iii
more Balaklavas and have taken more
SevastOpOls than you ever heard Of
Sometimes they get a little fretful be.
cause they cannot be at the front They
hear the sound of the battle and the old
war horse champs his bit. But the CO.
900 ministers of religion this day stand
ing in the brunt of the fray shall have
no moro reward than those retired vet
Grams. my father, my father, the chart
OTIS of Israel and the horsemen thereof. "
Gas his part is that goeth down to the
battle, SO shall his part be that tarrieth
by the stuff.
Cheer up, men and women of unap-
preciated services. You Will get your
reward, if not here, hereafter When
Charles Wesley comes up to Judgment,
and the thousands of souls which were
waited into glory through his songs
shall be enumerated, he will take his
throne Then John Wesley will come
up to Judgment, and after his name has
been mentioned in connection with the
salvation Of the millions of souls
brought God through the Methodism
which he founded he will take his
throne. But between the two thrones of
Charles Wesley and John Wesley there
will be a throne higher than either, on
which shall sit Susannah Wesley, who,
with maternal conservation in EpwOrth
rectory, Lincolnshire, started those two
souls on their triumphant mission of
sermon and song through all following
ages. Oh, what day that will be for
many who rocked ChriNian cradles with
weary foot, and who patched wornout
garments and darned socks, and out of
a small income made the children com