Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-05-04

could not raise an apple VI d DuSnoI or
wheat in a hundred years without arti-
fetal help, but is now through such
means one great garden, SO all the IN
productive parts Of all the continents
will be turned into harvest fields and
orchards. A half dozen De Lesseps will
furnish the world with all the canals
needed and will change the course Of
rivers and open new lakes, and tie
great Sahara desert will be cut up into
farms with an astounding yield cf
bushels to the acre The marsh will be
drained of its waters and cured of it's
malaria. [ saw what was for many
years called the Black swamp Of Ohio,
it's chief crop chills and fevers, but
now, by the tiles put into the ground to
carry off the surplus moisture, trans
formed into Sle richest and healthiest of
regions. The GCd who wastes nothing,
! I think, means that this world, from
! pole to pole, has come to perfection Of
i foliage and fruitage. For that reason he
keeps the earth running through space,
though so many fires are blazing down
in its timbers and SO many meteoric
terrors have threatened to dash it to
pieces. AS soon as the earth is complet-
good. The reason he does not divide it
now is because it is not done. A kind
father will not divide the apple among
his children until the apple is ripe. In
fuIfllment of the New Testament prom
Use, ''The meek shall inherit the earth, -
and the promise of the Old Testament
'He shall divide the spoil with the
strong' the world will be apportioned
to those worthy to possess it,
1t is not so now. In this country, Ca
pable of holding, feeding, clothing and
sheltering 1900, 900, 600 people, and
where we have only 60, 900, 900 inhabit-
ants, we have 1900, 600 who cannot
get honest work, and with their families
an aggregation of 3, 900, 900 that are On
the verge Of starvation. Something
wrong, most certainly. In some way
there will be q new app0rtiOnment.
Many Of the millionaire estates viii
crack to pieces on the designations Of
grandchildren and then dissolve into the
possession of the masses who now have
an insufficiency.
From Sin to righteousness.
What, you say, will become Of the
expensive and elaborate buildings now
Will become schools, art galleries, mu-
seums, gymnasiums and churches. The
world is already getting disguised with
many Of these anusements, and no won
der. What an importation of unclean
theatrical stuff we have within the last
few years had brought to our shores!
And professors Of religion patronizing
such things! Having sold out to the
devil, why don't you deliver the goods
and go over to him publicly body, mind
and soul, and Withdraw your name from
Christian churches and say, ''Know all
the world by these presents that I am
patron Cf uncleanness and child of
hellr' Sworn to be the Lords, you are
perjurers.
If you think these offenses are to go
on forever, you do not know who the
Lord is. God will not wait for the day
Of Judgment. All these palaces of sin
will become palaces of righteousness.
They will come into the possession Of
those strong for virtue and strong for
God 'He shall divide the spoil with
the strong.
China and Africa, the two richest
portions Of the earth by reason of
metals and rare woods and inexhaust-
ible productiveness, are not yet divided
up among the good because they are not
ready to be divided Wait until all the
doors that Livingstone opened in Africa
shall be entered, and Bishop Taylor
with his band of self supporting mis-
sionaries, have done their work, and
the Ashantis and Senegambians shall
know Christ as well as you know him,
CHI no loo IF no
Nile and the Niger higher civiliza-
ton than is now to be found on the
banks of the Potomac or the Hudson,
then Christ will divide up that CONT
nent among his friends. Wait until
China, which is half as large as all Eu-
rope, shall have developed her capaci-
ties for rice and tea and sugar among
edibles, and her amethyst and sapphire
and topaz and opal and jasper and por-
phyry among precious stones, and her
rosewood and ebony and camphor and
varnish trees among precious woods,
and turned up from her depths a half
dozen Pennsylvania of coal and iron,
and 90 Nevadas Of silver, and so Cali
fornias Of gold, and her 500, 900, 900 Of
people shall be evangelical. Then the
Lord will divide it up among the good.
If my text be not deception, but the
eternal truth, then the time is coming
when all the farms will be owned by
Christian farmers, and all the COM
MERGE controlled by Christian merchants,
and all the authority held by Christian
officials, and all the ships commanded
by Christian captains, and all the uni
versities under the instruction of Chris
tian professors; Christian kings, Chris
tian presidents Christian governors,
Christian mayors Christian common
council. Yet, what securing out!