Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-10-05

saws that plain penmanship IS the brevet
of incapacity. Then there are some
wE,r. through too much demand upon
their energies and through lack of time,
lose the capacity Of making the pen in
teIi;gibIe. and much Of the writing of
this world IS indeoipherable We have
seen piles Of ine1plicable chirography,
and we ourselves have helped augment
the magnitude. We have not been sure
OF the name signed, or the sentiment
expressed, or whether the reply was af-
frl,ative or negative. Through indis-
tinct penmanship last wills and testa-
ments have been detected, widows and
orphans robbed Of their inheritance,
railroad trains brought into collision
through the dim words of a telegram
nut into the hand Of conductor. and
regiments in this wise, MISLEADING their
instructions, have been sacrificed in
battle.
I asked Bishop Covie, in Auckland,
New Zealand, the bishop having been
in many Of the wars, what Tennyson, in
his immortal poem, THE Charge Of the
Light Brigade, = meant By the words,
sfSome one had blundered, and the
bishop said that the awful carnage at
BaIaklava was the result Of an indis-
tinotly written and wrongly read mill
tary order. ''Some one had b1undered. "
But your name, once written in the
Lambs book of life, Will be SO unnnis-
taxable that all heaven can read it at
the first glance. 1t will not be taken
for the name Of some other, so that in
regard to it there shall come to be dis
putation. Not one Of the millions and
billions and ouadrillions Of the finally
saved will doubt that it means you and
only you. Oh, the glorious, the raptur-
Gus certitude of that entrance. on the
heavenly roll. Not saved in q promiscu-
Gus way. Not put into a glorifed mob.
No, no! Though you came up the worst
sinner that was ever saved, and some
body who knew you in this world at one
time as absolutely abandoned and DISCO
lutte should say, II never heard cf your
and | do not believe you
have & right to be here, you Gould just
laugh laugh Of triumph, and turning
over the leaves containing the names of
the redeemed, say: Read it for your
self. That is my name, written out in
full, a1d do you not recognize the hand
No young scribe Of heaven en-
tered that. No anonymous writer put it
there. Do you not see the tremor in the
lines? Do you not also see the holiness
Of the letters? Is it not as plain as yon-
der throne, IS plain as yonder gate? Is
not the name un1eistakable aud the
unmistahabl The cruel
fed Lord wrote it there the day I re-
pented and turned Hear it! Hear It'll
My name is written there! There!"
Plainly Written.
I have sometimes been tempted to
think that there viii be SO many Of US
in heaven that VIC Will be lost in the
crowd. No. Each che Of Us Will be as
distinctly picked out and recognized as
was Abel when he entered from earth,
the very first sinner saved. and at the
head Of that long procession of sinners
saved il all the centuries. Ny dear
hearers, if we once get there I do not
want it left uncertain rs &c Whether we
are to stay there. After you and get
fairly settled there ii our heavenly
home we do not want cur title proved /
defective. We do not want to be elected /
from the heavenly premises. We do not
want some one TO say: ''This is not
-FOUR room III the house Of many man
;ions. and you have on an attire that
vou ought not to have taken from the
wardrobe, and that IS not
really your name on the books. If you
lad more carefully CANNED the writ
ng III the register at the gate, you
Tould have found that the name was
lot yours at al, bat mine. Now, move /
9ut, while I move in Oh, what /
after once worslli ping III
temples to be compelled to /
urn your back On the music, and after
having joined the society Of the blessed /
% be forced TO clit it forever, and after /
having clasped cur long lest kindred III
en- brace to have another sepa-
alton! What al agony would there be /
Il sJch & goodby to Lcaveni Glory be i
% Goa on high shat car names Will be I
10 plainly written III those volumes that |
neither saint ncr cherub nor seraph nor
,rchangel shall doubt it for one moment I
or 800 eternities. If there were room +
or Sc many. The Oldest iRhabitant Of
heaven can read it, and the child that
eft it's mother IS lap last night for heaven
an read it. You will not just look at +
7our nanle and close the book, but you
vii stand and solilcquize and say: us
t not Wonderful that my name IS there
1t all? How much it cost my Lord to T
ret it .therei Unworthy am to have it
Il the same book with the sons and F
daughters of nartyrdom and with the +
'hoioe spirits of all time. But there it
s, and SO plain the word and SO plain
IL the letteEs!'2
And you will tarn forward anu back
ward the leaves and see other names
here, perhaps your fathers name, and
our mothers name, and your Brothers. +
sane, and your sisters name, and your
Tife'e name, end apostolic names, and
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