Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-07-27
from mightiest catapult, Whose son
art thou, thou young man?''
Natures Two Forces.

"Well ~ says some one, CnaG theory
discharges me from all responsibility.
Born of sanctifed parents, we are bound
to be good, and we cannot HEP our
selves. Born of unrighteous parentage,
we are bound to be evil, and we cannot
help ourselves - Two inaccuracies. AS
much as if you should say: THE centrip-
etal force in nature has tendency to
bring everything to the center, and
therefore all come to the csylter. The
! centrifugal force in nature has a tend
ency to throw every thing to the periph-
| ery, and therefore everything will go
out to the periphery" You know as
well as know that you can make the
centripeta1 force overcome the centrif-
ugal, and you can make the centrifugal
overcome the centripetal, as when there
is a mighty tide Of good in a family
that may be overcome by determina-
ton to evil; as in the case of Aaron
Burr, the libertine, who had for father
President Burr. the consecrated; as in
the case of Pierrepont Edwards, the
scourge of New York society 80 years
ago, who had Christian ancestry,
while. on the other hand, some of the
best men and women of this day are
those who have come of an ancestry of
which it would not be courteous to
speak in their presence. The practical
and useful object of this sermon is to
show you that if you have come of a
Christian ancestry then you are sol
EMMY bound to preserve and develop
the glorious Inheritance, or if you have
come of depraved ancestry then it is
your duty to brace yourself against the
evil tendency by all prayer and Chris
tian determination, and you are to find
out the family frailties, and in arming
the castle put the strongest guard at the
weakest gate. With these smooth stones
from the brook [ hope to strike you,
not where David struck Goliath, in the
head, but where Nathan struck David,
in the heart. Whose son art thou, thou
young MANI"
There is something in all winter holt
days to bring up the old folks. I think
many of our thoughts at such times are
set to the tune of ''AuId Lang Syne"
The old folks were SO busy at such
times in making us happy and perhaps
ON less resource made their sons and
daughters happier than you on larger
resources are able to make your sons
and daughters. The snow lay two feet
above their graves, but they shook off
the white blankets and mingled in the
holiday festivities-the same wrinkles,
the same stoop of shoulder under the
weight of age, the same old style of
dress or coat, the same smile, the same
tones of voice. I hope you remember
them before they went away. If not,
hope there are those who have recited
to you what they were, and that there
may be in your house some article of
dress or furniture with which you asso-
ciate their memories I want to arouse
the most sacred memories of your heart
while [ make the impassioned interrog-
atory i'll regard to your pedigree,
"Whose son art thou, thou young man?''
a Christian Ancestry.
First / accost all those who are de-
scended Of a Christian ancestry do
not ask if your parents were perfect.
There are no perfect people now, and {
do not suppose there were any perfect
people then. Perhaps there was some
times too much blood in their eye when
they chastised you But, from what
know of you, you got no more than you
deserved, and perhaps a little more
chastisement would have been salutary.
But you are willing to acknowledge, I
think, that they wanted to do right
From what you overheard in converse
tions and from what you saw at the
family altar and at neighbOrhOOd Obse-
quies you know that they had invited
God into their heart and their life.
There was something that sustained
those old people systematically. You
have no doubt about their destiny. You
expect if you ever get to heaven to
meet them as you expect to meet the
Lord Jesus Christ.
That early association has been a
charm for you. There was time when
you got right up from house of in
EQUITY and walked out into the fresh air
because you thought your mother was
looking at you. You have never been
very happy in sin because of q sweet old
face that would present itself. Tremu-
lOus voices from the past accOsted you
until they were seemingly audible, and
you looked around to see who spoke.
There was an estate not mentioned in
the last will and testament, a vast es-
tate of prayer and holy example and
Christian entreaty and glorious mem
DRY. The survivors Of the family gath
cred to hear the will read, and this was
to be kept and that was to be sold, and
it was s1share and share alike But
there was an unwritten will that read
something like this: I'm the name of
God, amen. I, being of sound mind, be-
queath to my children all my prayers
for their salvation; | bequeath to them
all the results of lifetime's toll; be-
queath to them the Christian religion,
which has been SO much comfort to me,
and I hope may be solace for them; I
bequeath to them a hope of reunion
when the partings of life are over.
Share and share alike. may they in