Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-04-26
.1uliy and looked out on the wreck of

Christ, bounded of prosecutors, de-
MED a pillow, worse maltreated than
IL thieves on either side of the cross,
human hate smacking its lips ia salts
fiction after it had been draining its
last drop of blood, the sheeted dead
bursting from the sepulchers at his cru
cifixioni Tell me, o Gethsemane and
Golgotha, were there ever darker times
than those? Like the booming of the
midnight sea against the rock, the
surges of Christ anguish beat against
the gates of eternity, to be echoed back
by all the thrones of heaven and all the
dungeons of hell. But the day of re-
ward comes for Christ. All the pomp
and dominion Of this world are to be
hung on his throne, crowned heads are
to bow before him on whose head are
many crowns, and all the celestial wor-
ship is to come up at his feet, like the
humming of the forest, like the rushing
of the waters, like the laundering of the
seas, while all heaven, rising on their
thrones, beat time with their scepters,
"Hallelniah, for the Lord God omnipo-
tent reigneth."
That song Of love, now low and far,
Ere long shall swell from star to star;
The golden spired Apocalypse.
Importance Of Little Things.
Again, I learn from my subject that
events which seem to be most insignif-
cant may be mOmentous. Can you i'm
agine anything more unimportant than
the coming of a poor woman from Moab
to judah? Can you imagine anything
more trivial than the fact that this Ruth
1c< I, 70 Of Cl,k
just happened to alight on that field of
Boazp Yet all ages, all generations,
have an interest in the fact that she
was to become an ancestress of the Lord
Jesus Christ, and all nations and king
doms must look at that one little Incl
dent with thrill of unspeakab1e and
eternal satisfaction. So it is in your
history and in mine. Events that you
thought of no Importance at all have
been of very great moment. That casual
conversation, that accidental meeting
you did not think of it again for long
while, but how it changed all the
phases of your life.
It seemed to be of no Importance that
Jubal invented rude instruments of mu-
sic, calling them harp and organs, but
they were the introduction of all the
worlds minstrelsy, and as you hear the
vibration of stringed instrument, even
after the fingers have been taken away
from it, SO all music now of lutte and
drum and cornet is only the long con-
tinued strains of Jubal's harp and Ju-
balls organ. It seemed to be matter of
very little Importance that Tubal Cain
learned the uses of copper and iron, but
that rude foundry of ancient days has
its echo in the rattle of Birmingham
machinery and the roar and bang of fac
tories on the Merrimac.
1t seemed to be a matter of no impor-
lance that Luther found Bible in
monastery, but as he opened that Bible
and the brass bound lids fell back they
Jared everything, and the rustling of
the wormed leaves was the sound of the
wings of the angel of the reformation.
1t seemed to be matter of no lmpOr-
lance that a woman whose name has
been forgotten dropped tract in the
way of very bad man of the name of
Richard Baxter. He picked up the tract
and read it, and it was the means of
his salvation. In after days that man
wrote a book called 1.-THE Call to the
Unconverted, that was the means of
bringing multitude to God, among
others Philip Doddridge. Philip Dod-
bridge wrote book called 1.-The Rise
and Progress of Religion" which has
brought thousands and tens of thousands
into the kingdom of God and among
others the great Wherefore. WILDER
force wrote book called "a Practical
View of Christianity, which was the
means of bringing great multitude to
Christ, among others Leigh Richmond.
Leigh Richmond wrote a tract called
'3The Dairyman's Daughter, which
has been the means of the salvation of
unconverted multitudes. And that tide
of influence started from the fact that
one Christian woman dropped Chris
tian tract in the way of Richard Bax-
ter, the tide of influence rolling on
through Richard Baxter, through Phil
ip Doddridge, through the great Wilber-
force, through Leigh Richmond, on, on,
on, forever, forever. So the insignifi-
cant events Of this world seem, after
all, to be most momentous.
Female Toilers.
Again, I see in my subject an illus
tration of the beauty of female industry.
Behold Ruth toiling in the harvest
field under the hot sun Or at noon TAX
ing plain bread with the reapers or eat
ing the parched corn which Boaz handed
to her. The customs of society, of
course, have changed, and without the
hardships and exposure to which Ruth
was subjected every intelligent woman
will find something to do.
I know there is a sickly sentimental
l..o
there are persons of no practical service
to the household or community, and,
though there are SO many woes all
around ahOut them in the world thew