Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-04-13

!s.eep and oxen 100 Tat to kill, SO ne
,houcht he would steal them. Nobody
would know it. lie drove these stolen
sheep ard oxen toward home, but stop
ped to report to the prophet how he had
executed his mission, when in the dis
lance the sheep began to bleat and the
oxen to below. The secret was out and
Samuel said to the blushing and con-
fused Saul, ''What meaneth the Heating
of the sheep that I hear and the below
ing of the cattle?'' All, my nearer, you
cannot keep an iniquity still. At just
the wrong time the sheep will bleat
and the oxen will below. Achan cannot
steal the Babylonish garment without
being stoned to death, nor Arnold betray
his country without having his neck
stretched Look over the police arrests.
These thieves, these burglars. these
counterfeiters, these highwaymen, these
assassins, they all thought they could
bury their iniquity SO deep down it
would never come to resurrection but
there was some shoe that answered to
the print in the soil, some false keys
found in their possession, some bloody
knife that whispered of the death, and
the public Indignation and the anathema
of outraged law hurled them into the
dungeon or hoisted them on the gallows.
Francis I, king Of France, stood coun
selling with his Csscers how he could
take his army into g,aly, when Ameril,
the fool Of the court, leaped out from q
corner of the room and said, ''You had
better be consulting how you will get
your army back. And it was found
that Francis I, and not Ameril, was the
fool. Instead Of consulting as to the best
way Of getting into sin, you had better
consult as to whether you will be able
to get cut of it. IF the world does not
expose you, you will tell it yourself.
There is an awful power in an aroused
conscience. A highwayman plunged out
upon Whitefeld as he rode along on
horseback, a sack of money on the horse
money that he had raised for orphan
asylums-and the highwayman put his
hand Oh the gold, and Whitefield turned
to him and said, ''Touch that if you
dare; that belongs to the Lord Jesus
Christ And the ruffian skunk into the
forest Conscience Conscience The
ruffian had a pistol, but Whitefield
shook at him the finger of DOOM Do not
think you can hide any great and pro-
tracted sin in your heart, my brother
In an unguarded moment it will slip off
the lip, or some slight action may for
the moment set ajar this door that you
wanted to keep closed. But suppose that
in this life you hide it, and you get
along with this transgression burning in
your heart, as ship on fire within for
days binders the flames from bursting
out by keeping down the matches, yet at
last III the Judgment that iniquity will
blaze out before God and the universe
Links of the Universe.
Learn also from this subject that there
is an inseparable connection between
all events, however remote The uni
verse is only one thought of God Those
things which seemed fragmentary and
isolated are only different parts of that
great thought. How far apart seemed
these two events-Joseph sold to the
merchants and his rulership of
you see in what mysterious
way God connected the two into one
plan. So the events are linked together.
You who are aged men look back and
group together a thousand things in
your life that once seemed isolated. One
undivided chain of events reaches from
the garden of Eden to the cross of
Calvary, and thus up to the kingdom of
heaven. There is relation between the
smallest insect that huns in the sum
mer air and the archangel on his throne.
God can trace a direct ancestral line
from the blue jay that this spring will
build its nest in the tree behind the
house to some one of the flock Of birds
which, when Noah hoisted the ark s
window, with a whir and dash of
bright wings, went out to sing over
Mount Ararat. The tulips that bloom
in the garden this spring were nursed
by the snowf1akes. The farthest star on
one side of the universe could not look
toward the farthest star on the other
side of the universe and say, ''You are
no relation to me, - for from that bright
orb a voice of light would ring across
the heavens responding, eyes, yes, we
are sisters" Nothing in Gods universe
swings at loose ends. Accidents are only
Gods way of turning leaf in the book
of his eternal DEGREES. From our cradle
to our grave there is a path all marked
out. Each event in our life is connected
with every other event in our life Our
losses may be the most direct road to
our gain. Our defeat and our victory
are twin brothers.
The whole direction of your life was
changed by something which at the time
seemed to you trif1ing, while some oc-
currence which seemed tremendous af-
fected you but little. Gods plans are
beyond all comprehension.
He molds us and turns and directs us,
and we know it not. Thousands of years
are to him as the flight of a shuttle.
The most terrific occurrence does not
make God tremble The most trium-
plant achievement does not lift him in