Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-01-20

suit, to go home and roll on the floor in
agony.
But to make up for this lack of ont
spoken religion there needs to he and
will be great day when, amid the so
IDENTITIES and grandeurs of listening
universe, God will "say So" No statis-
tics can state how many mothers have
rocked cradles and lowered over infan
tile sicknesses and brought up their
families to manhood and womanhood
and launched them upon useful and sue
cessful lives, and yet never received one
"Thank you" that amounted to any
thing The daughters became queens in
social life or were affianced in highest
realms of prosperity; the sons took the
first honors of the university and became
radiant in monetary or professional
spheres. Now the secret of all that up
lifted maternal influence must come out
Society did not say SO; the church did
not say SO; the world did not say So but
on that day of all other days, the last
day, God will say So
There are men to whom life is grind
and a conflict, hereditary tendencies to
be overcome, accidental environments to
be endured, appalling opposition to be
met and conquered, and they never SO
much as had a rose pinned to their coat
lapel in admiration. They never had q
soing dedicated to their name. They
never had a book presented to them
with a complimentary word OH the fly
leaf. All they have to show for their
lifetime battle is scars. But in the last
day the story will come out, and that
life will be put in holy and transcendent
rhythm, and their courage and persist
ence and faith and victory will not only
be announced but rewarded. "These are
they that came out of great tribulation
and had their robes washed and made
white in the blood of the Lamb. God
will say so!
We miss one of the chief ideas of a
last Judgment. We put into the picture
the fire, and the smoke, and the earth
quake, and the descending angels, and
the uprising dead, but we omit to put
into the picture that which makes the
last judgment a magnificent oppUrtu-
nifty. We omit the fact that it is to be a
day of glorious explanation and COM
mendation. The first justice that mil
lions of unrewarded and unrecogniZed
and unappreciated men and women get
will be ON that day, when services that
never called forth SO much as newspa-
per line of finest pearl or diamond type,
as the printers term 1T, shall be called
up for coronation. That will be the day
of enthrOnement for those whom the
world called "nObOdieS. " Joshua, who
commanded the sun and moon to stand
still, needs no last Judgment to get JUS
tice done him, but those mal do need a
last Judgment who at times Ill all
armies, under the most violent assault,
in obedience to command themselves
stood still. Deborah, who encouraged
Barak to bravery in battle against the
oppressors of Israel, needs no last judg-
ment to get justice done her, for thou
sands of years have clapped her APP
plause But the wives who in all ages
have encouraged their husbands in the
battles of life, women whose names
were hardly known beyond the next
street or the next farmhouse, must have
God say to them: "You did well. You
did gloriously. 1 saw you down in that
dairy. l watched you in the old farm
house mending those children s. clothes.
l heard what you said in the way of
cheer when the breadwinner of the
household was i'll despair. l remember
all the sick cradles you have sung to. |
remem Der the backaches, the headaches,
the heartaches | know the story of your
knitting needle as we'll as l know tho
story Of a queen rs sceptGr. Your castle
ON the heavenly hill is all ready for
you. Go up and take it. " And turning
to the surprised multitudes of heaven he
will say, "She did what she could. -
God will say SO.
Personal Experience.
And now / close with giving my own
personal testimony, for 1 must not en-
join upon others that which L decline
myself to do. Born at Bound Brook, N.
j., of parentage as pious as the world
ever saw, attest before earth and heav-
EN- that [ have always felt the elevating
and restraining influence of having had
good father and Il good mother, and if
I am able to do half as we'll for my
children as the old folks did for me |
will be thankful forever. The years of
my life passed on until, at about Is
years of age, [ felt the pressure of eter-
nal realities, and after prayer and reli-
gious counsel passed into what l took to
be a saved state and Joined the church.
and [ attest before earth and heaven
that I have found it a most helpful and
inspiring association. l like the COM
partnership SO we'll that cannot be sat-
isfied if l have day less of it than all
eternity. After graduating at collegiate
and theological institutions l had the
hands of ~ or IL good men put upon
my head in solemn ordination, at Belle
vile, n. j., and l attest before earth and
heaven that the work of the gospel min
istry has been delightful, and expect
to preach until my last hour. Many
times I have passed through deep water