Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-04-19

gardener.
Oh, that is what helped Joseph Wedg-
wood, toiling amid the heat and the
dust of the potteries, until he could
make for Queen Charlotte the first royal
table service Of English manufacture.
That was what helped James Watt,
scoffed at and caricatured, until he could
put on wheels the thunderbolt CT power
which roars by Gay and by night i'll ev-
cry furnace Of the locomotive engines Of
America That is what helped Hugh
Miller, telling amid the auarries Of
Cromarty, until every rock became to
him volume Of the worlds biography,
and he found the footsteps Of the Gre
ator in the old red sandstone Oh, the
world wants a Christ for the office, a
Christ for tie kitchen, a Christ for the
shop, a Christ for the banking house, q
Christ for the garden, while spading
and planting ana irrigating the terri
tory! Oh, of course we want to see
Christ at last in royal robe and bedia
monded. a celestial equestrian mount
ing the white horse, but from this East
er Of 1897 to our last Easter On earth
we most need to see Christ as Mary
''supposing him to be gardener.
His First Appearance.
Another thing which the church and
the world have not noticed in regard to
the resurrection of Christ is that he
made his first postmortem appearance to
one who had been the seven deviled
Mary Magdalene. One would have sup
posed he would have made his first post
humOUs appearance to a woman who
had always been illustrious for goodness.
There are sanity women who have al
ways been saintly-saintly in girlhood,
sanity in infancy, always sanity. Ia
nearly all cur families there have been
sanity aunts. Ii my family circle it
was sanity aunt Phebe; in yours saint
~ aunt Martha or sanity aunt Ruth.
One always sanity. But not SO was the
one spoken Of in the text
While you are not to ccnfound he's
with the repentant courtesan who hac
made her long locks do the work of
towel at Christ's foot washing, you are
not to forget that she was exercised of
seven deyilT What q capital Of demon
olOgy she must have been! What a cho-
rus Of all diabolismi Seven deyils-two
for the eyes and two for the hands and
two for the,feet and one for the tongue
Seven devils: yet all these are extirpat-
ed, and now she is rs good as once she
was Bad and Christ hOnors her with the
first PCsthumCus appearance. What does
that mean?
Why, 1t means fer worst sinner great
est grace; it means those lowest down
!, y
means that the clock that strikes 3 at
midnight may strike 10 at 1nidnoon; it
means that the grace Ct Gcd is seven
times stronger than sin. Mary MagdaIene
the seven deviled became Mary Magda-
lene the seven angeIed. 1t means that
when the Lord meets US at last he Will
not throw UP to rs what we have been.
All he said to her was, "Mary!'' Many
people having met her under such cir
cunnstances would have said: LET me
see, how many devils did you have?
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
What q terrible piece you were when I
first met yCu" The most CT the Chris
tan wcmen ia our day would have
nothing to do with Mary Magdalene even
after her conversion, lest somehow they
be compromised. The only thing have
to say against women is that they have
not enough mercy fer Mary Magdalene.
Christ put ali pathos and all reminis-
cence and all anticipation and al pardon
and all comfort and ali heaven into one
word Of four letters, 'Mary!" Mark
you, Christ did not appear to some Bi-
bic Elizabeth or Bible Hannah Or Bible
Esther CT Bible Deborah or Bible Vashti,
but to Mary; not 90 q Mary against
whom nothing was said; not to Mary
the mother Of Jesus; not to Mary the
mother of James; not to Mary the sister
Of Lazarus; but to seven deyiled Mary
seven Deviled Man.
There is man seven deviled-devil
Of ayarice, devil CT pride, devil Of hate,
devil Of incidence, devil Of falsehcod,
devil Of strong drink, devil of impurity
God can taA3 them all away, or 70.
I rode over the new cantilever bridge
that spans Niagara-a bridge 800 feet
long, $50 feet Of chasm from bluff to
bluff. I passed over it without any anX-
iety. Why? Because 30 locomotives and
% cars laden with gravel had tested the
bridge, thousands Of people standing Oh
the Canadian side, thousands standing
on the American side to applaud the
achievement. And however long the
train of cur immortal interests may be,
we are to remember that Gods bridge
of mercy spanning the chasm of sin has
been fully tested by the awful tonnage
of all the pardcned sin of all the ages,
church militant standing on one bank,
church triumphant standing on the 9th
er bank. Oh, it was to the seven deviled
Mary that Christ made his first post
mortem appearance.
There is another thing that the world
and the church have not observed in re-
gard to this resurrection. and that is, it
was the morning twilight.