Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-12-07

i'll discussion, all these astronomers of
earth, about what the aurora borealis
was, and none of them could guess.
They know now; they have been out
there TO see for themselves.
What are our departed Christian
chemists doing? Following out their
own science, following out and follow
ing out forever. Since they died they
have solved 1000 questions which puz-
zled the earthly laboratory. They stand
on the other side of the thin wall of
electricity-the thin wall that seems to
divide the physical from the spiritual
world; the thin wall of electricity, SO
thin the wall that ever and anon it
seems to be almost broken through
broken through from one side by tele-
phonic and Geographic apparatus, bro
ken through from the other side by
strange influences which men in their
ignorance call spiritualistic manifesto
tions. All that matter cleared up. They
laughing at us as older brothers will
laugh at inexperienced brothers, as they
see US with contracted brow experiment.
ing and experimenting, only wishing
they could show us the way to open all
the mysteries. Agassiz, standing amid
his student explorers down in Brazil,
coming across some great novelty in the
rocks, taking off his hat and saying:
Gentlemen, let US pray We must have
divine illumination. We want wisdom
from the Creator to study these rocks.
He made them. Let US pray" Agassiz
going right on with his studies forever
and forever.
Tho RIen of the law.
But what are the men of the law
who in this world found their chief Joy
in the legal profession, what are they
doing now? Studying law in q universe
where every thing is controlled by law
from the fight Of humming bird to
fight Of world-law, not dry and hard
and drudging, but righteous and mag
nifcent law, before which man and
cherub and seraph and archangel and
God himself bow. The chain of law
long enough to wind around the i'm
mensities and infnity and eternity.
Chain of law. What place to study
law, where all the links of the chain
are in the hand.
What are cur departed Christian
friends who in this world had their Joy
in the healing art doing now? Busy at
their old business. No sickness in heav-
ell, but plenty of sickness on earth,
plenty of wounds in the different parts
of Gods dominion to be healed and to
be medicated. Those glorifed souls
coming down, not in lazy DOCTORS gig,
but with lightning locomotion. You
cannot understand why that patient got
we'll after all the skillful doctors had
said he must die. Perhaps Abercrombie
A No. l.
many years doctoring the bodies and
the souls Of people in Scotland, went up
TO God in 1914. Perhaps Abercrombie
touched him. / should not wonder If
my old friend DR.. John Brown, who
died in Edinburgh-John Brown, the
author of 'Rab and His Friends;"
John Brown, who was as humble a
Christian as he was skillful physician.
and world renowned author-I should
not wonder if he had been back again
and again to see some Of his old pa
tients. Those who had their JOY in
healing the sickness and the woes of
earth, gone up to heaven, are come forth
again for benignant medicament.
Grander SociaIity.
But what are our friends who found |
their chief JOY IL conversation and in
sooiality doing now? In brighter con-
versation there and in grander social
ty. What q place to visit in, where your
next door neighbors are kings and |
queens, you yourselves kingly and |
queenly If they want to know more |
particularly about the first paradise
they have only to go over and ask Ad-
am. IL they want to know how the sun |
nd 20 no 1-- TO
go over and ask Joshua. If they want |
to know bow the storm pelted Sodom, |
they have only TO go over and ask Lot.
If they want to know more about the
arrogance Of Haman, they have only to
go over and ask Mordecai. If they want
to know how the Red sea boiled when
it was cloven, they have only to go over
and ask Moses If they want to know
the particulars about the Bethlehem
advent, they have only to go over and
ask the serenading angels who stood
that Christmas night in the balconies
of crystal. If they want to know more
of the particulars of the crucifxion,
they have only to go over and ask who
were personal spectators while the
mountains crouched and the heavens
got black in the face at the spectacle.
If they want to know more about the
sufferings of the Scotch covenanters,
they have only to go over and ask An
drew Melville. IF they want to know
more about the old time rsvivals, they
have only to 90 over to ask Whitefeld
and Wesley and Livingston and
Fletcher and Nettleton and Finney.
Oh. what a place 10 visit inl If eter-
nifty were one minute shorter, it would
not be long enough for such sociality.
Think Of our friends who in this world
were passionately fond of flowers turn
ed into paradise. Think Of our friends
who were very fond of raising superb