Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-02-08
No SECT IN HEAVEN.

.Talking of sects till late one eve,
Df the various doctrines the saints believe,
Frhat night stood in troubled dream
Mn BY the side of a darkly flowing stream.
But the aged father did not mind;
And his long gown foated out behind,
+. AS down to the stream his way he took,
His pale hands claspi a gilt-edged book.
#ssI'm bound for Heaven; and when Pm there
/ shall want my Book of Common Prayer;
And though put on starry crown,
M / should feel quite lost without my gown"
Then he fixed his eyes on the shining track,
But his gown was heavy and held him back ;
But the poor old father tried in vain
n single step in the food to gam.
saw him again on the other side,
But his silk gown foated on the tide;
And no one asked in that blissful spot
Whether he belonged to .the church, or not.
Then down to the river a Quaker strayed.
His dress of sober hue was made;
"My coat aud hat must be all of gray,
I cannot go any other way"
Then he buttoned his coat straight up to his
chin
And steadily, solemnly, walked in;
And his broad brimed hat he pulled down
tight
Over his forehead so cold and white.
But strong wind carried away his hat;
A moment he silently sighed after that,
and then as he gazed to the farther shore
The coat slipped off, and was seen no more.
As he entered Heaven his suit of gray
Went quickly sailing away-away-
And none of the angels questioned him
About the width of his beavers brim.
Next came DIR. Watts, with a bundle of
psalms
Tied nicely up in his aged arms,
And hymns as many-a very wise thing,
That the people in Heaven call round"
might sing.
But L thought that he heaved an anxious
sigh,
AS he saw that the river ran broad and
high,
And he looked rather surprised, as one by
The Psalms and Hymns in the waves went
down.
And after him, with his M S.,
Came Wesley, the patteIn of goodness;
But he cried Dear me what shall do?
through"
And there on the river far and wide,
Away they went down the swollen tide;
And the saint, astonished, passed through
alone,
without his manuscripts, up to the throne.
Then gravely walking, two, saints by name,
Down to the stream together came;
pt1f bau en- ut he
1 saw one saint from the other shrink.
"Sprinkled or plunged may ask you. friend
How you attained to Iife's great end?'
"Thus, with few drops my brow"
But 1 have been dipped, you'll see me
now.
'sAnd 1 think it will hardly do,
AS Pm close communion, to cross with you;
You're bound, 1 know,to the realms of bliss
But you must go that way, I'll go this"
Then straightway p1unging with all his
might
Away to his left-his friend at the right
Apart they went from this world of sin;
But at last together they entered in.
But now, while the river was rolling on,
A Presbyterian church went down;
Of women there seemed an innum'ra BILE
throng,
But the men coula count. as they passed
along.
And concerning the road, they could never
agree
The old or the new way, which it could be,
Nor ever a mome MT pause to think
That both would lead to the rivers brink.
And a sound of numbering long and loud
Came ever up from the moving crowd;
you're in the old way and Pm in the new;
That is the false, and this is the true"-
Or, ..I'm in the old way and you're in the
. new,
That is the false and this is the true"
But the brethren only seemed to speak
Modest the sisters walked, and meek;
And if ever one of them CHANGED to say
What troubles she met with on the way,
How she longed to pass on the other side.
Nor feared to cross over the swelling tide,
A voice arose from the brethren then:
"Let no one speak but the holy men,
For have you not heard the words of Paul,
OH let the women keep silence alp
watched them long in my curious dream
Till they stood by the borders of the stream;
Then just as L thought, the two ways met
But all the brethren were talking yet,
And all would talk on, till the heaving tide
Carried them over, side by side.
Side by side, for the way was one,
The toi1some journey of life was done,
And priest and quaker, all who died,
Came out alike on the other side.
No forms crosses or books had they,
No gowns of silk or suits of gray,
No creeds to guide them or NJ s.,
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