Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-03-04

crushed ankles. no fractured thighs
Give ms for treatment moderate sinners.
velvet coated sinners and sinners with
a gloss On It is as though man had a
farm OF 5000 acres and put all his
work OH one acre. He may raise never
so large ears of corn, never so big heads
of wheat, he would remain poor The
church of God has bestowed it's chief
care Oil one aero and has raised splendid
men and women il that small inclo-
sure, but the field is the world That
| means North and South America Eu-
rope Asia and Africa and all the is
lands of the sea.
Something to Know.
1t is as though after a great battle
there were left so, 900 wounded and dy-
ing on the field and three surgeons gave
all their time to three patients under
their charge. The major general comes
in and says to the doctors, Come out
! here and look at the nearly so, 600 dy-
ing for lack Of surgical attendance. "
F'No" say the three doctors, standing
there and tanning their patients; eve
have three important cases here, and
we are attending them, and when we
are not positively busy with their
wounds it takes all our time to keep the
! flies off - In this awful battle of sin
and sorrow, where millions have fallen
on millions, do not let US spend all our
time in taking care of few people, and
when the command comes go into the
world" say practically: ''No; I cannot
go. I have here few choice cases, and
I am busy keeping off the flies. " There
are multitudes today who have never
had any Christian worker look them il
the eye, and with earnestness in the ac-
centuation say, Gomez or they would
long ago have been in the kingdom. My
friends, religion is either sham or
tremendous reality. If it be a sham, let
us cease to have anything to do with
Christian association. If it be a reality,
then great populations are ON their way
to the bar Of God untitled for the or
deal, and what are we doing?
In order to teach the multitude of out
siders we must drop all technicalities
out Of our religion When we talk to
people about the hypostatic union and
French encyclopedianism and erasti-
anism and complutensianism, we are as
impolitic and little understood as if
physician should talk to an ordinary
patient about the pericardium and in
tercostal muscle and scorbutic symp-
toms. Many of US come out of the thee
logical seminaries SO loaded up that we
take the first ten years to show our peo-
pie how much we know, and the next
ten years get our people to know as
much as we know, and at the end find
that neither of US knows anything as we
ought to know. Here are hundreds of
thousands of SHINING, struggling and dy
ing people who need to realize Just one
thing-that Jesus Christ came to save
them and will save them now. But we
go into profound and elaborate defini-
tion of what justification is, and after
all the work there are not outside of the
learned professions 5, 900 people in the
United States who can tell what justif-
cation is. will read you the definition:
Classification is purely forensic act,
the act Of q judge sitting in the forum,
in which the Supreme Ruler and Judge,
who is accountable to none, and who
alone knows the manner in which the
ends of his universal government can
best be attained, reckons that which
was done by the substitute, and not OH
account of anything done by them, but
purely upon account of this gracious
method of reckoning, grants them the
full remission OF their sins. -
The Multitude of SISeptics.
Now, what is justification? Twill tell
you what justification is. When q sim
ner believes, God let's him off One sum-
mer in Connecticut [ went to large
factory, and l saw over the door writ
ten the words, mo admittance - I
entered and saw over the next door,
mo admittance. - OF course I en-
tered. / got inside and found it
pin factory, and they were making
pins, very serviceable, fine and useful
pins So the spirit of exclusiveness has
practically written over the outside door
of many q church, mo admittance -
And if the stranger enter he finds prac-
tically written over the second door,
mo admittance, - and if he goes in
over all the pew doors seems written,
mo admittance, - while the minister
stands in the pulpit, hammering out his
little niceties of belief, pounding out the
technicalities of religion, making pins.
In the most practical, common sense
way, and laying aside the nonessentials
and the hard definitions of religion, go
out on the God given mission, telling
the people what they need and when
and how they can get it,
Comparatively little effort as yet has
been made to save that large class of
persons in our midst called skeptics, and
he who goes to work here will not ,e
building upon another mans founda-
tion. There is a great multitude of
them. They are afraid of us and our
churches, for the reason we do not
know how to treat them. One of this
class met Christ, and hear with what
tenderness and pathos and beauty and
success Christ dealt with him: '"Thou