Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-10-05

for it pulls upon the stomach and the
stomach pulls upon the brain, and the
brain pulls upon the nerves, and the
| agitated nerves make the hand quake.
On the top Of all this evaporation came
abuse. What sober man ever wanted to
be called drunkard? But Christ was
| called one What respecter Of the Lord S
day wants to be called a Sabbath breaker?
But be was called one. What man care
full of the company he keeps wants to
be called the associate Of prohigates?
But he was so called. What loyal man
wants to be charged with treason? But
he was charged with it. What man OF
i devout speech wants to be called a bias
| phemer? But he was SO termed What
man Of self respect wants to be struck
in the mouth? But that is where they
struck him. Or TO be the victim Of the
viIest ezpectoration? But under that he
stopped. Oh, he was o worn out Christ!
| That is the reason he died SO soon upon
| the cross.
Many victims Of orucifxion lived day
after day upon the cross, but Christ was
| in the courtroom at 70 q o'clock Of noon.
and he had expired at 8 o'clock in the
afternoon Of the same day. Subtracting
4IOii4 ZIG ll44S &C 1AOt1AS OStNYCCA4 y clIiu .
O'Clock the time taken to travel from
the courtroom to the place of execution
and the time that must have been taken
in getting ready for the tragedy, there
could not have been much more than
two hours left. Why did Christ live
only two hours upon the cross, when
others had lived 48 hours? All, he was
worn out before he got there! And you
wonder, Oh, child Of God, that, looking
into the volumes OF heaven for your
name, you find it was written with
trem bling penmanship-trem bling with
every letter of your name, if it be your
earthly name, or trem bling with every
letter Of your heavenly name, If that be
different and more eEphonious That
will not be the first time you saw the
mark OF Q quivering pen, for did you
not, oh, man, years ego see your name
go written on the back Of q letter, and
you opened il, saying, "Why. here is a
letter from mother, or 9 Here is let
ter from father, = and after you opened
it you found al the words because of
old age were traced irregularly and IN
certain, SO that you could hardly read
it at all? But after much study you
nado it out--a letter from home tell
ing you how much they missed you, ana
how much they prayed for you, and how
much they wanted to see you, and if it
might not be on earth that SO it might
be il the world where there are no part
ings. Yes, your name IS written i'll
heaven. If written at ell. with trem-
bling chirography.
Some Autographs
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in the heavenly archives, If you find it
there at all, you will find it written
with a bold hand. You have seen many
signature that because OF sickness or I
old age had tremor IL it, yet it was as
bold IS the man who wrote it. Many an
order written on the battlefield and
amid the thunder OF the cannonade has
had evidence Of excitement in every
word and every letter, and in tde speed /
with which it was folded and handed to
the officer as he pu5 his foot III the
swift stirrups. and yet that commander, 4
Notwithstanding his trembling hand,
gives q boIdnesG Of order that shows it.
self in every word written. Yoa do not
need to be told that q trembling hand
does not always mean o C0Wardly hand.
It was with G very trembling hand
Charles Carroll Of CarroIlton signed his ]
name to tie Declaration Of American I
independence, but no signer had more /
courage. And when some one said,
'EThero are many Charles CAROLS, and
it will not be known which enc it is,
he resumed the pen and wrote Charles
Carroll Of Carrollton Trembling hand !
no sign Of timidity! The daring and dc
fance seen in the way your name is
written in heaven are Il challenge to all +
earth and hell to come on if they can to T
defeat your ransomed soul.
The way your name is written there
is as much as to say: II have redeemed /
him 7 died for him / am going to +
crown and enthrone him. Nothing shall /
ever happen down in that world where
he now lives to defeatny determination
to keep him, to shelter him, to save
him. By my Almighty grace am going +
to fetch him here. lie may slip and
slide, bus he has got to come here. By
nay omn5potent sword, BY the combined
strength Of al heavens municipalities
and powers and dominions, BY the 90,
600 chariots OF the Lord Almighty, [
am going to see him through. Bold +
handwriting Tt is the boldest thing
ever written to write ny name there f
and your name there. Ho knows our
weaknesses and bad propensities better
than we know them ourselves. He f
knows al the Apollyonic hosts that are
sworn to down US if they can. he
knows all the temptations that will as
sail as between now and the moment Of T
our last pulsation Of the hearts and yet +
he dares to write cur name there. Bold I
ness! Nothing at saragossa or Chalons {
or Marathon CT TllernopyIa9 to equal
it. Nothing in the sack Of gun powder