Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1896-02-07

ss.Aalls = Halug good u-Wss n = FilHra-- 'f'lf
Win All light; Il i rubeserut with n sum
merry glow; Il Il arb1rescsnt with all sweet
shaae. l have seen the sun fi-e on Mount
Washington, and from the hptop Hou--, but
thrre was no beauty in that compared vita
the dhNsFrng from on high when Christ
gives llght 10 soul I have heard farrVa
sing' but there was no music IN that com
pared with tue voice 81 Christ when He said.
Tiny sins are forgiven thee; 20 In peace.
Good news! let every one cut down a branch
81 this tree Of life ami wave i. Let him
throw it down and kinile IL. Let all the way
from Mount Zalmon 10 shechen be lllai
with thetossiug Joy. Good news This bon-
IRE Of the gospel shall consume the last tenn
pie Of sin, ami will illumine the sky with
apOcalypiic JOY, that Jesus Christ came into
the world 10 save sinners. ANY new plan
that makes man quit hissin, and that pros.
trates q wrong, / am as mu h in favor OF as
though all the doctors. and the bishops, and
the archbishOps, aud the synods, ant the
acaiemtcal gowusmen 81 Christianity sane
TONED IL. The temple 81 Berth must come
down, and do not care how il comes
Still further | learn from this subieet the
power Of example. II Abimelech had sat
down on the grass ana to d his men TO 20 and
get the boughs and 20 out to the battle, they
would never hal gone at all, or IL they had
II would have been without any spirit or
effective result, but when Abimelech goes
with his own AK and hews down a branch
and with Abimelech's arm puts il on ABIme-
lech's shoulder and marches on, then, my
text says. all the people did the same. How
natural that was. What made Garibaldi and
Stonewall jackson the most magnetic COM
manders OF this century? They always rode
ahead. Oh, the overwhelming power Of ex-
ample! Here Is the father on the wrong road.
All his boys 20 on the wrong road. Here is
father who enlisis orChrist. His children
enlist. saw in some OF the picture CALLER
les Of Europe that before many Of the great
works OF the great masters, the old masters
there would be sometimes four aud five ar
fists takirg copies Of pictures. These copies
they were going 10 carry with them. per
haps to distant lands, and | have thought
that your life and character are mas
terpiecc, and IL is being copiei |, and long af-
ter you are gone will bloom or blast in the
homes Of those who knew you and be Cor
gon or Madonna. Look out what you say.
Look out what you do. Eternity will hear
the echo. The best sermon ever preached is
a holy life The best music ever chanted is
consistent walk. II you want others TO
serve God, serve Him yourself IL you want
others to shoulder their duty, shoulder
yours Where Abimelech goes his troops
60. Oh, start out for heaven to-day, and
your family will come after yOu and your
business associates will come after you, and
your social friends will join YOU. With one
branch Of the tree OF life for baton, marshal
just as many Rs you can gather Oh. the in.
finite, the semiOmnipotent power Of good
or bad example,
l saw last summer, near the beach, n
wrecker's machine. II was a cylinder with
some holes at the side made for and thrust
ing in oi some long poles with strong lever
age, and when there Is any vessel in trouble
or going to pieces in the offiug, the wreckers
shoot a rope out 10 the suffering men They
grasp ii, an the wrsckers turn the cylinder.
and the rope winds around the cylinder, and
those VINO are shipwrecEed are saved. So at
your feet, to-day. there is an influence with
tremendous leverage. The rope attached
TO 1t swings far out into the billowy future.
Your children. your children's children and
all the generations that are 10 follow will
grip thatiufiueRce aud feel the long reach
ing pull long after the iigur1s on your tomb
stone are So near worn out that the visitor
cannot tell whether il was 1895 or 1876 or
1896 that YOU died.
Still further / learn from this subject the
advantage OF concerted action. II Abims-
ia had merely gone out witha tree bran n,
the work would not have been ACCOMPLISHED,
or if ten, twenty or thirty men had gone,
but when ali the axes are lifted and all the
snarp edges fall and all these men carry
each his tree branch down and threw II
about the temple the victory is gaineJ--the
temple falls. Ny friends. where there is one
man in the church Of God at this day Shout
deTnc his whole duty there are great
many who never lift an ax or swing a bUugh.
Ii seems 10 me rs il there were ten drones in
every hive 10 one busy bee as though there
We're twenty sailors sound asleep in the
ships AammOcks 10 four men on the stormy
deck. II seems Us II there were 80 OOI men
belonging to the reserve corps, and oily 1000
active cOmbatants. On. We all want our
boats 10 get over 10 the golden sands
but the most OF Us are seated either in
the PROV or in the stern, wrapped in
our striped shawl, holding q big handled
sunshate, while others are biStered in the
heat aud gull until the oarlocks groau and
the blades bend till they snap. Oh, you re.
hgious sleepyheads. wake up. You have
lain 50 long in one place that the ants and
caterDiliars have begun 10 crawl over you!
What do you know. my brother, about liv-
ing gospel made to storm the world? Now,
my idea OF q Christian is a man on fire with
zeal Tor Col. and il your pulse ordinarily
beats sixth times minute when You think
of other themes and talk about other themes,
II your pulse does not 20 NJ to seyenty-hye
or eighty when yoU come TO talk about
Christ aud heaven, il is because you do not
know the one and have a poor chance Of
getting to the other.
In a former charge one Sabbath | took
into the pulpit the church records, and
laid them on the pulpit ami opened them
and said; Brethren here are the church
records find great many of you whose
names are down here are off duty" Some
were afraid | would read the names, for at
that time some OF them were deep in the
worst kind Of oil stocks and were Idle rs 10
'E,-i-4 inn, Il. d.
today should bring the church records into
the pulpit and read, oh, what a tiutter there
would be! There would not be fans enough
in church to keep the cheeks cool. do not
know but II would be a good thing IL the
minister once in awhile should bring the
church records in the pulpit and cali the
roll, for that is what | consider every church
record TO he-merely muster roll of the
Lords army-and the reading OF it should
reveal where every soldier is and what he is
doing,
Suppose in military circles on the morning
OF battle the roll was called, and out of 1000
men only 100 men in the regiment answered
What excitement there would be in the
camp! What would the colonel say? What
high talking there would be among the
captains and majors and the adiutants.
suppose word came to headquarters that
these delinquents excused themselves on the
SiVuhu 'ha' 'ley Aau oNeTslept themselves,
or the morning was damp and they were
afraid Of getting their feet wet, or that they
Were busy cooking rations. My friends, this
is the morning OF the day of God Amighty's
battle. Do you not see the troops? Hear
ye not all the trumpets of heaven and all
the drums of hell? Which side are you on?
II you are on the right side, to what
cavalry troop, to what artillery service
to what garrison duty DO you belong3
In other words, in what Sabbath school
do you teach2 In what prayer meeting
do you eXtort? To what penitentiary do you
do you announce the riches OF heaven?
What broken bone of sorrow have you ever
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