Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-12-14
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thyself to be another:' She had right
to ask for the restoration of her son. She
had no right to practice that falsehood.
It is never right to do wrong. Some
times you may be able to conceal an af-
fair. It is not necessary to tell every
thing. There is natural pressure to the
| lips which seems to indicate that silence
sometimes is right, but for double deal
| ing, for moral shutting. for counterfeit
and for sham God has nothing but
anathema and exposure He will tear off
the lie. He will rip up the empiricism.
He will scatter the ambnscade. There
are people who are just ready to be
duped. They seem to be waiting to be
deceived They believe in ghosts. They
saw one themselves once. They heard
something strange in an uninhabited
house. Going along the road one night,
| something approached them in white
and crossed the road. They would think
| it very disastrous to count the number
| of carriages at funeral. They heard in
| a neighbours house something that por-
| tended death in the family. They say
| it is a sure sign of evil if bat fly into
room ON a summer night or they see
the moon over the left shoulder. They
would not for the world undertake any
| enterprise on Friday, forgetful of the
fact that if they look over the calendar
of the world they will see that Friday
has been the most fortunate day in all
the history of the world.
AS near as can tell, looking over the
calendar of the worlds history, more
grand, bright, beautiful things have
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of the week. They would not for the
world begin anything on Friday. They
would not for the world go back to
the house for anything after they
had once started. Such people are
ready to be duped. Ignorance comes
along, perhaps in the disguise of med
ical science, and carries them captive,
for there are always some men who have
found some strange and mysterious weed
in some strange place and plucked it in
the moonshine, and then they cover the
board fences with the advertisements of
"elixir'' and "panaceas' and "Indian
mixtures and tineffable cataplasms''
and ''unfailing disinfectants and
lightning salves'' and instantaneous
ointments, - enough to stun and scarify
and poultice and kill half the race.
They are all ready to be wrought upon
by such impositions. All, my friends,
do not be among such dupes. Do not act
the part of such persons as have been
describing. Stand back from all chi
canery, from all imposition. They who
practice sucn imposition shall be exposed
in the day Of Gods indignation. They
may rear great fortunes, but their dap
pie grays will be arrested on the ROAD
some day, as was the ass by the angel
of God with drawn sword. The light of
the last day will shine through all such
subterfuges, and, with voice louder
than that which accosted this imposition
of the text: Come in, thou wife of Jer-
oboam. Why feignest thou myself to be
another?' with voice louder than that
God will thunder down into midnight
darkness and doom and death all two
faced men, and all charlatans, and all
knaves, and all jockeys, and all swind-
lers. Behold how the people put on the
masks and behold how the Lord tears
them off
Fixed Providence.
My subject also impresses me with
how precise and accurate and particular
are Gods providences. Just at the mo-
ment that woman entered the city the
child died. Just as it was prophesied,
so it turned out, so it always turns out.
The event occurs, the death takes place,
the nation is born, the despotism is
overthrown at the appointed time. God
drives the universe with a stiff rein.
Events do not just happen SO. Things
do not go slipshod. In all the book Of
Gods providences there is not one eff.
Gods providences are never caught in
dishabille. To God there are no surpris-
es, no disappointments and no accidents.
The most insignificant event flung out
in the ages is the connecting link be-
tween two great chains-the chain of
eternity past and the chain of eternity
to come.
am no fatalist, but I should be COM
pletely wretched if I did not feel that
all the affairs of my life are in Gods
hand, and all that pertains to me and
mine, just as certainly as all the affairs
of this woman of the text, as this child
of the text, as this king of the text, were
in Gods hand. You may ask me hun
dred questions cannot answer, but I
shall until the day of my death believe
that am under the unerring care Of
God, and the heavens may fall, and the
world may burn, and the Judgment may
thunder, and eternal ages may roll, but
not hair shall fall from my head, not
shadow shall drop on my path, not a
sorrow shall transix my heart without
being divinely arranged-arranged by
loving, sympathetic Father. He bottles
our tears, he catches our sorrows. and
to the orphan he will be a Father, and
to the widow he will be husband, and
to the outcast he will be home, and to
the most miserable wretch that this day
crawls up out of the ditch of his abom-
ination crying for mercy he will be an