Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-11-09

stantly vanished. One Of them would
wake up whole church. One Of them
| would sometimes electrify q whole city.
But the most wonderful one of that
Characterization the world ever saw or
heard or felt was q peasant in the far
| east. wearing plain blouse like All in
verted wheat sack, with three openings,
one fer the neck and the other two for
the arms. His father wheelwright and
| householder, and given to various car
| pentry. His mother at first under sus-
picion because Of the circumstances of
his nativity, and he chased by a Herodic
mania out OF his native land, to live
awhile under the shadows CT the sphinx
and pyramid Of Gizeh, afterw ard con-
founding the LII. .. S of Jerusalem, then
stopping the paroxysm Of tempest and
of mailman. His path strewn with slain
dropsies and oatalepsies and ophthal-
mias, TRANSPORTED on one mountain,
preaching on another mountain, dying
on another mountain and ascending
from another mountain-the greatest,
the Ioveliest, the mightiest, the kind
est, the most self sacrificing, most beau
tiful Being whose feet ever touched the
earth. Tell US, We deserts who heard our
Saviour's prayer; tell us, ye seas that
drenched him with your surf; tell US, We
multitudes who heard him preach ON
deck, on beach, on hillside; tell US,
Golgotha, who heard the stroke of the
hammer on the spikeheads and the dy-
ing groan in that midnight that dropped
Oh midnoon, did any one like Jesus
have this passion for souls?
Longing For Souls.
But breaking right in upon me is the
question, How can we get something of
this Pauline and Christly longing for
saved immortalities? I answer, by bet
ter approaching the prolongation of the
souls existence compared with every
thing physical and material. How [
hope that surgeon will successfully re-
move the cataract from that mans eye.
Tt is such a sad thing to be blind. Let
US pray while the doctor is busy with
the delicate operation. But for how
long time will he be able to give his
patient eyesight? Well, if the patient
be 40 years Of age, he will add to his
happiness perhaps so years of eyesight,
and that will bring the man to so years,
and it is net probable that lie will live
longer than that or that he will live so
long But what is good eyesight for so
years more as compared with clear
vision for the soul a billion of centuries?
I hope the effort to drive back the
typhoid fever from yonder home will be
successful. God help the doctorsi We
will wait in great anxiety until the fires
Of that fever are extinguished, and when
the man rises from his pillow and walks
out, with what heartiness we Will well
come him into the fresh air and the
church and business circles. He is so
years of age and If he shall live so
years more that will make him 90. But
what are so years more Of earthly vigor
compared with the SOULS health for q
QuadriIIion millenniums a millen-
MUM, as you know, 1000 years? This
world, since fitted up for mans resi-
dence has existed about 5000 years.
How much longer viii it exist? We will
suppose it shall last as much longer,
which is very doubtful. That will make
are or will be ~, 600 years compared
with the eternity preceding those years
and the eternity following them? Time
as compared to eternity, like the drop
of the night dew shaken from the top
VI d grass Diisu0 ny Gu6 COW EOO1 OA us
way afeiG this morning as compared
with Mediterranean and Arabian and
Atlantic and Pacific watery dominions.
A stranger desired to purchase a
farm, but the owner would not sell it
would only let it. The stranger hired it
by lease for only one crop, but he sowed
acorns, and to mature that crop 800
years were necessary. That was prac-
ticed deception, but I deceive you not
when I tell you that the crop Of the soul
takes hold OF Enending ages.
I see the author of my text seated IN
the house of Gaius, who entertained
him at Corinth, not far from the over
hanging fortress Of Aero Corinthus, and
meditating on the longevity of the soul
and getting more and more aSitated
about its value and the awful risk some
of his kindred were running concerning
it, and he writes this letter containing
the text, which Chrysostom admired SO
much he had it read to him twice u
week, and among other things he says
those daring and startling words of my
text, t'I could wish that myself were
accursed from Christ for my brethren,
my kinsmen, according to the flesh. -
Force of Tears.
Another way to get something of the
Pauline longing for redeemed immor-
talities is by examining the vast ma
chinery arranged to save this inner and
spiritual nature. That machinery start
ito revolve on the edge of the garden
of Eden, just after the cyclone of sin
Frustrated its sycamores and tamarisks
and willows and will not cease to re-
volve until the last soul Of earth shall
get rid of its last sin and enter the heav-
emily Eden. On that stupendous ma
chinery for soul saving the patriarch
put his hand, and prophet his hand, and