Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-07-12

all the AMaIek1CeS or SIN nom my heart
Here is jealousy-down goes that Anal
ekite Here is neutrality-suspicious. goes
that Amalekite," and what slaughter
ne makes among his sins, striking right
and left! What is that out yonder, lift
ing up his head? 1t is Agag-it is world
illness. 1t is an old sin he cannot bear to
strike down. 1t is darling transgres-
sion he cannot afford to sacrifice. Oh,
my brethren, I appeal for entire conse-
Grafton Some of the Presby terians call
it the "higher life. The Methodists.
I believe, call it perfection I do not
care what you call it, without holi-
ness no man shall see the Lord" I
know men who are living with their
soul in perpetual communion with
Christ and day by day are walking
within sight of heaven. How do know?
They tell me SO. I believe them. They
would not lie about it. Why cannot we
all have this conservation? Why s1ay
some of the sins in our soul and leave
others to bIeat and below for our ex-
posure and condemnation? Christ will
not stay in the same house with Agag.
You must give up Agag or give up
Christ. Jesus says, ''All Of that heart
or none. - Saul slew the poorest of the
sheep and the meanest of the oxen and
kept some of the finest and the fattest,
and there are Christians who have slain
the most unpopular of their transgres-
sions and saved those which are most
respectable 1t will not do. Eternal
war against all the Amalekites-nO mer-
oy for Agag!
learn further from this subject that
it is vain to try to defraud God. Here
Saul thought he had cheated God out
of those sheep and oxen, but he lost
his crown, he lost his empire. You can
not cheat God out of a single cent.
Here is man who has made SO, 900
in fraud. Before he dies every dollar of
it will be gone, or it will give him viO-
lent unrest. Here is a Christian who
has been largely prospered. He has not
given to God the proportion that is due
in charities and benevolences. God
comes to the reckoning, and he takes it
all away from you. How often it has
been that Christian men have had
large estate and it is gone. The Lord
God came into the counting room and
said: ''I have allowed you to have all
this property for 10, 1 5 or 20 years, and
you have not done justice to my poor
children. When the beggar called upon
you, you bounded him off your steps;
when my suffering children appealed to
you for help, you had no mercy. l only
asked for so much Or so much, but you
did not give it to me, and now I will
take it all. -
The Safe Course.
God asks of us one-seventh of our time
in the way of Sabbath. Do you suppose
we can get an hour of that time success
fully away from its true object? No, no.
God has demanded one-seventh of. your
time. If you take one hour of that time
that is to be devoted to Gods service
and instead of keeping his Sabbath use
it for the purpose of writing up your
accounts or making worldly gains God
will get that hour from you in some I'M
expected way. God says to Jonah, You
60 to Nineveh. He says: "No,
won't. I'll go to Tarshish. He starts
for Tarshish. The sea raves, the winds
blow and the ship rocks. Come, ye
whales, and take this passenger for Tar
shishi No man ever gets to Tarshish
whom God tells to go to Nineveh. The
sea would not carry him; it is Gods
sea. The winds would not watt him;
they are Gods winds. Let a man at
tempt to do that which God forbids him
to do or to go into a place where God
tells him not to 60, the natural world
as well as God is against him. The
lightnings are ready to strike him, the
fires to burn him, the sun to smite him,
the waters to drown him, and the earth
to swallow him. Those whose princely
robes are woven out of heartstrings,
those whose fine houses are built out of
skulls, those whose springing fountains
are the tears of oppressed nations, have
they successfully cheated God?
The last day will demonstrate. 1t
will be found out on that day that God
vindicated not only his goodness and
his mercy, but his power to take care of
his own rights and the rights of his
church and the rights of his oppressed
children. Come, We martyred dead,
awake and come up from the dungeons
where folded darkness hearsed you and
the chains like cankers peeled loose the
skin and wore off the flesh and ratified
on the marrowless bones. Come, We mar
tyred dead, from the stakes where you
were burned, where the arm uplifted
for mercy fell into the ashes and the
cry Of pain was drowned in the snap
ping of the flame and the bowling Of
the mob; from valleys of Piedmont and
Smithfeld market and London Tower
and the highlands of Scotland Gather
in great procession and together clap
your bony hands, and together stamp
your moldy feet and let the chains that
bound you to dungeons all clank at
once and gather all the flames that
burned you in one uplifted arm Of fire
and plead for a judgment. Gather all
the tears ye ever wept into a lake and