Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-01-04

the beautiful centripetal of righteous
ness, and from it d groan reached heav,
Ell. Such q sound bad never been heard
there. Plenty Of sweet sounds, but never
an outcry of distress or an echo of agony.
At that one groan the Prince rose from
all the blissful circumference and start
ed for the outer gate and descended into
the night of this world Out of what a
bright harbor into what rough sea
''Stay with us'' cried angel after angel
and potentate after potentate. 'No, .
said the Prince: 81 cannot stay. / must
be off for that wreck Of a world. I must
stop that groan [ must hush that dis
tress. I must fathom that abyss. l must
redeem those nations. Farewell, thrones
and temples, hosts cherublc, seraphlc,
archangeIic! I will come back again,
carrying on my shoulder ransomed
world. Till this is done I choose earthly
scott to heavenly reclamation, and a
cattle pen to a king palace, frigid zone
of earth to atmosphere of celestial radi-
ance. I have no time to lose, for bark ye
to the groan that grows inightier while
I wait! Farewell! FAREWELL" "Ye
know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.
that, though he was rich, yet for your
sakes he became poor.
Was there ever contrast SO overpow-
ering as that between the MONDAY of
Christ's celestial departure and the mid
night of his earthly arrival? Sure
enough, the angels were out that night
III the sky, and an especial meteor acted
as escort, but all that was from other
worlds, and not from this world. The
earth made no demonstration of well
world steps out at a depot, cheers re-
sound, and the bands play, and the flags
wave. But for the arrival of this mis-
Prince CT the skies not a torch
Jared. not Il trumpet blew, not plume
futtered. All the music and the pomp
wero overhead Our world opened for
him nothing better than barn door.
The rajah of Cashmere sent to Queen
Victoria bedstead of carved gold and
a canopy that cost $3.50, 900, but the
world had for the Prince Of heaven and
earth only litter of straw. The crown
Jewels in the Tower of London amount
to SIS, 900, 900, but this mem Der of eter-
nal royalty had nowhere to lay his head.
To know how poor he was. ask the camel
drivers, ask the shepherds, ask Mary,
ask the three wise men of the east who
afterWard came to Bethlehem. To know
how poor he was, examine all the rec
ords of real estate i'll all that oriental
country and see what vineyard or what
field he owned Not one. OF what mort
gage was he the MORTGAGE? OF what
tenement was he the landlord? OF what
lease was he the lessee? Who ever paid
him rent? Not owning the boat on
which he sailed, or the beast on which
be rode, or The pillow OH which he slept
he had so little estate that, in order to
pay his tax, he had to perform a mir
acle, putting the amount Of the assess
nent in a fish's mouth and having it
1aued ashore. And after his death the
world rushed in to take an inventory of
MS goods, and the entire aggregate was
;he garments he had worn, sleeping in
Them by night and travelling in them by
lay, bearing on them the dust of the
and the saturation of the sea.
st. Paul in my text hit the mark when
ne said of the missionary Prince, "For
7our sakes he became poor.
A Succinct Biography.
The world could have treated him
better if it had chosen. 1t had all the
means for making his earthly condition
comfortable. Only few years before,
when Pompey, the general, arrived in
he was greeted with arches
md a costly column which cele brated
he 100000 people whom he had
lilled or conquered, and he was allowed
% wear his triumphal robe in the SEN
tie. The world had applause for impe
ial butchers, but buffeting for the
Prince of Peace Plenty of golden cha1-
ces for the favored to drink out of, but
'ur Prince must put his lips to the
bucket Of the we'll by the roadside after
lie had begged for drink. Poor? Born
II another mans barn and eating at
mother man s table and cruising the
axe in another mans fishing smack
md buried in another mans tomb
Four inspired authors wrote his biogra-
Thy, and innumerabl9 lives of Christ
ave been published, but he composed
lis autobiography in most compressed
way. He said, 81 have trodden the wine
ress alone.
Poor in the estimation of nearly all
he prosperous classes. They called him
sabbath breaker, wine bibber, traitor,
lasphemer and ransacked the dictionary
# opprobrium from cover to cover to
xpress their detestation. I can think |
ow of only two well to do men who
spoused his cause. Nicodemus and Jo-
eph of Arimathea. His friends for the !
1ost part were people who, in that eli |
nate where ophthalmia, or infamma-
ion of the eyebalI, sweeps ever and anon
s a scourge, had become blind, sick |
eop]e who were anxious to get we'll !
nd troubled people in whose family
here was some one dead or dying. If
e had purse at all, it was empty or |
Ii ,laot he |