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


Here is a young man just come from
college. He is kind. He is loving. He
is enthusiastic. He is eloquent. By one
spring he may bound to heights toward
which many men have been struggling
for wears. A profession opens before
him. He is established in the law. His
friends cheer him. Eminent men en-
courage him. After awhile you may see
him standing in the American senate or
moving a popular assemblage by his elo-
O11ence. as trees are moved in whirl-
wind. Some night he retires early. A
fever is on him. Delirium, like a reck-
less charioteer, seizes the reins of his
intellect. Father and mother stand by
and see the tides Of his life going out to
the great ocean. The banquet is coming
to an end. The lights of thought and
mirth and eloquence are being extin-
puished. The garlands are snatched from
the brow. The vision is gone Death at
the banquet
We saw the same thing on q larger
scale illustrated in our civil war. Our
whole e Gu had been sitting at ma
tional quet-nOrth, south, east and
west. NL@t Grc:l was there but we
grew it CT cur hills? What invention
was there bat OCr rivers must turn the
new wheel and ratio the 1trango shut
tie? What warm 1uTs lat our traders
must bring them frCll he arctic? What
fish but our nets must sweep them for
the markets? What music but it must
sing in our halls? What eloquence but
it must speak in our senates? Ho, to the
national banquet, reaching from noun
tain to mountain and from sea to sea!
To prepare that banquet, the sheepfOlds
and the aviaries of the country sent their
best treasures. The orchards piled up on
the table their sweet fruits. The presses
burst out with new wines. To sit at that
table came the yeomanry of New Hamp-
shire, and the lumbermen of Maine, and
the Carolinian from the rice plantation,
and the western emigrant from the
pines Of Oregon, and we were all broth
ers-brothers at a banquet. Suddenly
the feast ended. What meant those
mounds thrown up at Chickamauga,
Shiloh, Atlanta, Gettysburg, South
Mountain? What meant those golden
grainfelds turned into pasturing
ground for cavalry horses? What meant
the cornfelds quilted with the wheels of
the heavy supply train? Why those
rivers Of tears-those lakes of blood?
God was angry Justice must come. A
handwriting on the wall The nation
had been weighed and found wanting.
Darkness Darknessl Woe to the north
Woe to the south Woe to the east Woe
to the west! Death at the banquet.
Sure and Sudden
I have also to learn from the subject
that the destruction of the vicious and
of those who despise God will be very
sudden. The wave of mirth had dashed |
to the highest point when the invading |
army broke through. TWAS unexpected. |
Suddenly, almost always, comes the |
doom of those who despise God and defy |
the laws of men. How was it at the !
deluge? Do you suppose it came through |
q long northeast storm, SO that people |
for days before were sure it was coming? |
No. suppose the morning was bright;
that calmness brOOded on the waters |
that beauty sat enthrOned on the hills, |
when suddenly the heavens burst and |
the mountains sank like anchors into |
the sea that dashed clear over the Andes
and the Himalayas
The Red sea was divided. The Egyp-
tians tried to cross it. There could be
no danger. The Israelites had just gone
through. Where they had gone, why not
the Egyptians? Oh, it was such beau
tiful walking place. A Pavement Of
tinged shells and pearls, and on either
side two great walls Of water-sOlid.
There can be no danger. Forward, great
host of the Egyptians Clap the cy1nbals
and blow the trumpets Of victory After
them We will catch them yet, and they
shall be destroyed. But the walls begin
TO tremblei They rock! They fall The
rushing watersl The shrek of drowning
men! The swimming Of the war horses
n vain for the shore! The strewing Of
he great host on the bottom of the sea,
II pitched 10y the angry wave on the
battered, bruised and loath-
some wreck Suddenly destruction came.
One half hour before they could not have
believed it. Destroyed, and without
emedy.
I am just setting forth a fact, which
you have noticed as we'll as L Ananias
comes to the apostle. The apostle says,
Did you sell the land for SO much?''
He says, "Yes.'' It was lie Dead, as
luick as that Sapphire, his wife, comes
II. ''Did you sell the land for so much?'
Yes - It was lie, and quick as that
he was dead Gods judgments are
1pon those who despise him and defy
lin. They come suddenly.
Words of Warning.
The destroying angel went through
Egypt. Do you suppose that any of the
people knew that he was coming? Did
hey hear the flap of his great wing?
No! No! Suddenly, unexpectedly, he
anne.
Skilled sportsmen do not like to shoot