Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-08-16
rapids of temptation and death

der.
All, when I told you to take care of
yourself you misunderstood me if you
thought I meant you are to depend upon
human resolution, which may be dis
solved in the foam of the wine cup or
may be blown out with the first gust of
temptation. Here is the helmet, the
sword of the Lord God Almighty.
Clothe yourself in that panoply, and
you shall not be put to confusion. Sin
pays we'll neither in this world nor the
next, but right thinking and right be-
lieving and right acting will take you
in safety through this life and III trans
port through the next.
never shall forget prayer I heard
a young man make some 10 years ago.
1t was very short prayer, but it was
a tremendous prayer: 80 Lord help us!
We find it SO very easy to do wrong and
SO hard to do right! Lord, help usP'
That prayer. warrant you, reached the
ear of God and reached his heart. And
there are 100 men who have found out
i, 900 young men, perhaps, who have
found out-that very thing. 1t is SO very
easy to do wrong and so hard to do
right.
got letter one day, only one para
graph, which shall read:
Having moved around somewhat. /
have run across many young men Of in
telIigence, ardent strivers after that
will-o'- the wisp-fortune- of one
of these would speak. He was young
Englishman of % or "a years, who
came to New York, where he had no ac-
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keep him couple of weeks He had
been tenderiy reared, perhaps I should
say too tenderly, and was not used to
earning his living and found it ex-
trelnely difficult to get any position that
he was capable of filling. After many
vain efforts in this direction he found
himself on a Sunday evening in Brook
Ign, near your church, with about So
left of his small capital Providence
seemed to lead him to your door, and
he determined to go in and hear you.
He told me his going to hear you
that night was undoubtedly the turning
point in his life, for when he went into
your church he felt desperate, but while
listening to your discourse his better
nature got the mastery. I truly believe
y
your sounding the depths of his heart
that night alone brought him back to his
God whom he was so near leaving. !"
A Great Reality.
That is the echo of muItitudes. am
not preaching an abstraction, but a
great reality. o friendless young man,
o prodigal young man, o broken
hearted young man, discouraged young
man, wounded young man, commend
to you Christ this day, the best friend
a man ever had! He meets you this
Despise not that emotion ris-
ing in your soul; it is divinely lifted.
Look into the face of Christ. Lift one
prayer to your fathers God, to your
mothers God, and this morning get the
pardoning blessing. Now, while I
speak, you are at the forks of the road,
and this is the right road, and that is
the wrong road, and [ see you start on
the right road.
One Sabbath morning at the close of
the service I saw "a gold watch of the
world renowned and deeply lamented
vioIinist Ole Bull You remember he
died in his island home off the coast of
Norway. That gold watch he had
wound up day after day through his
last illness, and then he said to his COM
panion, CHOW, I want to wind this
watch as long as | can, and then when
1 am gone | want you to keep it wound
up until it goes to my friend, Dr. Dore-
mus, in New York, and then he will
keep it wound up until his life is done,
and then I want the watch to go to his
young son, my especial favorite. p"
The great musician who more than
any other artist had made the violin
speak, and sing, and weep, and laugh,
and triumph-for it seemed when he
drew the bow across the strings as if
all earth and heaven shivered in de-
lighted sympathy-the great musician,
in room looking off upon the sea, and
surrounded by his favorite instruments
of music, closed his eyes i'll death.
While all the world was mourning at
his departure Is crowded steamers fell
into line of funeral procession to carry
his body to the mainland. There were
30, 900 Of his countrymen gathered in
an amphitheater of the hills waiting to
hear the eulogium, and it was said
when the great orator of the day with
stentorian voice began to speak the 3d.,
600 people on the hillsides burst into
tears. Oh, that was the close of life
that had done so much to make the
world happy! But have to tell you,
young man, if you live right and die
right, that was a tame scene compared
with that which will greet you when
from the galleries of heaven the 144,
900 shall accord with Christ in crying,
stWnI1 done thOu oOOd and faithful |
servant!'' And the influences that on
earth you put in motion will go down
from generation to generation, the in
fuences you wound up handed to your
children, and their influences wound |