Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-06-08
AN ILL EAST WIND.
REV. DR.. TALMAGE SAYS THAT GOD
CONTROLS 1T.

Grace to Be What We Should Be Unde,
BILE.
WASHINGTON, June I'm his dis
out the consultations which the religion
of Christ extends to all who are in trou-
bic and specially to such as are in deep
misfortune or sufsaring from bereave-
ment. He chose as his text Exodus x,
ID, ''And the Lord brought an east
wind upon the land all that day and all
that night.
The reference here is not to cyclone,
but to the long continued blowing of the
wind from an unhealthful quarter. The
north wind is bracing, the south wind
is relaxing, but the east wind is irritat-
ing and full of threat. Eighteen times
does the Bible speak against the east
wind. Moses describes the thin ears
blasted by the east wind. The psalmist
describes the breaking of the ships of
Tarshish by the east wind. The locusts
that plagued Egypt were borne in on the
east wind. The gourd that sheltered
Jonah was shattered by the east wind,
and in all the 5000 summers, autumns.
winters, springs, of the worlds exist
ence the worst wind that ever blew is
the east wind Now. if God would only
give US climate of perpetual nor west
er, how genial and kind and placid and
industrious Christians we would all be!
But it takes almighty grace to be what
we ought to be under the east wind.
no Obi of
the east wind the most of the worlds
villainies, frauds, outrages, suicides
and murders have been Matched out. l
think if you should keep meteorologi-
cal history of the days of the year and
put right beside it the criminal record
of the country you would find that
those were the best days for public NOR
ais which were under the north or west
wind, and that those We're the worst
days for public morals which were I'M
der the east wind. The points of the
compass have more to do with the
worlds morals and the church's piety
than you have yet suspected. Rev. DR..
Archibald Alexander, eminent for learn
ing and for conservation, when asked by
one of his students at Princeton whether
he always had full assurance of faith,
replied, eyes, except when the wind
blows from the east" DR.. Francia, die
tator of Paraguay, when the wind was
from the east, made oppressive enact
ments for the people, but when the
weather changed repented him of the
cruelties, repealed the enactments and
was in good humor with all the world.
Climatic Changes.
Before overtake the main thought of
my subject I want to tell Christian
people they ought to be observant of
climatical changes. Be on your guard
when the wind blows from the east.
There are certain styles of temptations
that you cannot endure under certain
styles of weather. When the wind blows
from the east, if you are of a nervous
temperament, go not among exasperat-
ing people, try not to settle bad debts,
do not try to settle old disputes, do not
talk with bigot on religion, do not go
among those people who delight in say
ing irritating things, do not try to collect
funds for a charitable institution, do
not try to answer an insulting letter. Ii
these things must be done, do them
when the wind is from the north, or the
south, or the west, but not when the
wind is from the east.
You say that men and women ought
not to be SO sensitive and nervous I adj
NIT it, but I am not talking about what
the world ought to be. I am talking
about what the world is. While there
are persons whose disposition does not
seem to be affected by changes in the at
mosphere, nine out of ten are nightly
played upon by such influences. O
Christian man! under such circum-
stances do not write hard things against
yourself, do not get worried about your
huctuating experience You are to re-
member that the barometer in your soul
Is only answering the barometer of the
weather Instead of sitting down and
being discouraged and saying, II am
not Christian because don't feel eX-
hilarant,' get up and look out of tho
window and see the weather yane point
ing in the wrong quarter, and then say
sGet thee behind me, satan, thou prince
of the power of the air: get out of my
house; get out of my heart, thou demon
of darkness horsed on the east wind.
Awayr However good and great you
may be in the Christian life, your soul
will never be independent of physical
condition. feel I am uttering a most
practical, useful truth here, one that
may give relief to a great many Chris
tians who are worried and respondent
at times.
Dr. Rush, monarch in medicine,
after curing hundreds of cases of mental
depression, himself fell sick and lost his
religious hope. and he would not believe
his pastor when the pastor told him
that his spiritual depression was only a
consequence of physical depression. An
drew Fuller, Thomas Scott, William
Cowper, Thomas Boston, David Brain