Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-09-21

REV. Dr.. Ta,LHAc1sS WORDS or HOPE
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tian Ccuraxc re. Sunlight Of Progress
Is Fast C'er5.,l.s a: .1iss the world.
WAsa1NGToS. Hc2f. 20.-If the clarion
note CO tLis sermon, delivered at the ma
tionaI capital, oocld sound through
Christendom. It yyo1:d give everything
good lew start Dr. Talmaga's text
was Romans xiii, y, "The day is at
hand -
Back from the mountains. and the
seaside, and the springs, and the farm
house, your cheeks broIzed and your
spirits lighted, hail you home again
with the vu-;!s Of Gehazi TO the Shu-
nammite: SIS 1t well with thee? Is it
we'll with thy husband? Is it we'll with
the child?" On some faces I see the
mark Of recent grief, but all along the
track Of tears ] see the story Of resurrec-
ton and res1rion, when all tears are
done; the deep ploWiIg of the keel, fol-
lowed by the fash Of the phosphores-
cence. Nov that / have asket1you in
regard TO your welfare you naturally
ask how I I'm. Very well, thank you.
Whether it was the bracing air of the
mountains, or d cath i'll the surf Of
Joy of standing III this great group of
warm hearted friends, or whether it is
q new appreciation OF the goodness of
God, cannot tell. 7 simply know L am
happy. It was said that John Mofatt,
the great Methodist preacher, occasion
ally got fast in his sermon, and 10 eX-
tricate himself would cry fHalleluiah""
I am in 10 such pTedicament today, but
l am full OF the same rhapsodic ejacula
tion.
Starting cut this morning on a new
ecclesiastical year, I want to give you
the keynote Of my next 2 months min
istry. want TO set it to the tunes Of
"Antioch, - ARIEL Coronation. I
want to put q new trumpet stop into
my sermons. We do wrong if we allow
our personal sorrows to interfere with
the glorious fact that the kingdom is
coming. We are wicked if we allow ap-
prehepsion Of national disaster to put
down our faith il God and in the mis-
sion Of our American people. The God
who hath been on the side of this ma
ton since the 4th Of July, 1776, will
see to it that this nation shall not COM
NIT suicide on Nov. 3, 1896. By the
time the unparalleled harvests of this
summer get down to the seaboard we
shall be standing IN sunburst Of ma
tional prosperity that will paralyze the
psssimist3 who by their evil prophecies
are disappearing the God who hath
blessed this nation as he hath blessed no
other.
Notes CT G1adness.
III all our Christian work you and I
want moro CT the element of gladness.
No man had right to say that Christ
never laughed. Do you suppose that he
was glum at the wedding in Cana of
Galilee? Do you suppose that Christ
was unresponsive when the children
clambered over his knee and shoulder
at his own invitation? Do you suppose
that the evangelist meant nothing when
he said of Christ, "He rejoiced III spir-
it?' Do you believe that the divine
Christ who pcurs all the waters over
the rocks at VernaI falls, Yosemite,
does not believe in the sparkle and gal
lop and tUmuitaOus joy and rushing
raptures Of human life? I believe not
only that the morning laughs, and that
the mountains laugh, and that the seas
laugh, and that the cascades laugh, but
that Christ laughed. Moreover, take a
laugh and q tear into an alembic and as
say them and test them and analyze
them, and you will often find as much
of the pure gold of religion in laugh
as in tear. Deep spiritual joy always
shows itself in facial illumination.
John Wesley said lie was sure of a good
religious impression being produced be-
cause of what he calls the great glad
ness he saw among the people. Goddess
merriment is blasphe1ny anywhere, but
expression CT Christian joy is apprOpri
ate everywhere.
Moreover, the outlook of the world
ought to stir us to gladness. Astrono-
mers disturbed many people by telling
them thai there was danger Of stellar
collision. We were told by these astron-
omers that there are worlds coming very
near together, and that we shall have
plaques and wars and tumults and per-
haps the worlds destruction. Do not be
scared. If you have ever stood at rail
road center where 10 or 20 or 80 rail
tracks cross each other and seen that
by the movement of the switch one or
two inches the train shoots this way
and that without colliding, then you
may understand how so worlds may
come within an inch Of disaster and
that inch be as good as 1000, 900 miles.
If human switch tender can shoot the
trains this way and that without harm,
cannot the hand that for thousands of
years has upheld the universe keep our
little world out of harms way? Chris
tian biologists tell Us that this world
was millions Of years in building. Well,
now, do not think God would take
millions of years to build q house which
was to last only 5000 years. There is
nothing IN the world or outside the
world, terrestrial or astronomical. to ex-
cite dismay. 1 wish that some stout
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