Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-01-18

! 6uOIt uHdu lOr !ilo To I'LL al OUNCE, LIN
courage begins TO rally, and my faith be-
gins to mount, and my enthusiasm is
all af1ame, and the words Of my text
this moment just fit nay lips and ex-
press the triumph Of my soul, and I cry
out: "Who art thou, O great mountain!
Before Zeru bbabeI thou shalt become @
plain. -
The Mountain OF Sin.
My experiences with the shovel are
that you cannot do much by one push
Of that implement, and that after you
have been digging with it an hour VIII at
you have accomplished seems very lit
tie, but just go along by the place where
they are building railroad through a
mountain and see what a great work
1000 shOvels can do and know that
while there are 1000 shovels at work
on this side Of the mountain there
are 1000 shovels busy on the other
side, and all have to do is to manage
my own particular shovel 1t cheers me
to think that against this old mountain
Of sin there are hundreds of thousands
and millions of shovels this moment
busy, and we are all at work under the
one engineer who came down from his
throne Ia heaven to oversee and help
the removal of that mountain, and who
has contracted to have it done. have
seen the contract, and he is well pa:G
for it. The compensation promised by
the throne Of heaven is st will give
thee the heather for thine inheritance
and the uttermost parts of the earth for
thy possession. The reason SO many of
us are idle is that we want bigger
shovel or we would like to manage some
great hydraulic engine. No, brother.
Stick to your shovel Dig away in your
Sabbath classes. Dig away in your mis-
slons. Dig away in your homes. Dig
away in your pulpits. Do the work next
to you. Do not spend too much time
looking at the great size of the noun
ta1ns or at the way others use their
shoyels All that you can accomplish to-
ward the removing of that mountain
will be with your own particular shovel.
Remember little David, with Saul's
helmet on him, dropping clear down
over his ears even unto his shoulders
But when he got in his hand the boys
sling, how we'll he used it'll If you do
not understand Greek, do not attempt
to tell the people what the text is in
the original. If you do not understand
Latin, attempt no drafts upon Latinity
You who want to help in the removal
OF the mountain hold on to your shovel.
Much time has been lost by the fact
that many of the sharpest shovels, in
stead of being used for the removal of
the mountain, have been used in fight
ing each other.
Old and New School Shovels.
The great Presbyterian church was
hindered by the fight that for
years went on between old school shov-
els and new school shoveIs, and it was
not until the meeting of the general as
sembly at Pittsburg 80 or 40 years ago
that many good men made up their
minds that shovels are not made to fight
with, but to dig with. Many of the old
went around with bandaged
foreheads which had not been struck by
the swords III the battle for God but by
the shovels of ecclesiastical imbroglio.
They had special admiration for that
psalm of David which said, blessed be
the Lord which teacheth my hands to
war and my fingers to fight So also
The Methodist church had q battle of
shovels over the questions of lay dele
CATIONS and womanly representation. I
Am glad to say that most of the ecclesi-
astical pugilists in all denominations
are dead and that they had big flu
lerals. But there are so many shovels
low rightly engaged that no statistics
IAN count them. tell you the noun
'ain is coming down. 1t is coming down
'apidly. 1t will all come down. There
ire those who hear or read these words
who will gaze upon it's complete pros
ration; for what is the use of my keep
ng back any longer the full statement
II the fact, which / have somewhat de-
aged through lawful sermonic strategy,
he fact that the Lord God Almighty,
n the full play of his omnipotence,
will accomplish this supernal work. If
Tod can build mountain, / guess he
AN remove mountain. After God has
given full opportunity for the shovels
lie will come in with his thunderbolts.
Ne have amplified the idea of the Lamb |
L God. l tell you now of the lion.
here is thought that I have never
cen projected, and yet it is the most |
herring of all considerations and plain
Scrlptural, the thought that as at the
pening OF the gospel dispensation in
he Chrlstly and Johanian and Pauline
avs the machinery of the natural
World was brought into service, the
hadow of eclipses and the agitation of
earthquakes, tempests put to sleep un-
er the voice of divine lullaby. iron
otis of prisons showed back by invisible
1uscle, kindling of flame on heads of
by instantaneous pharmacy
lasted vision given full eyesight, and
be dead returned from the eternal
7orld, mingling amid earthly scenes,
, it will be again.
Return of the Supernatural.