Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-05-10

want to utter it aloud. lest some one
should drop down under its power, If
any man shall take away from the words
of the prophecy of this book, God shall
take away his part out of the book of
life and out of the Holy City,
While, then, we watch the ravens
Gods spirit sweep down the sky with
divine food, and On outspread wing
pause at the lip of every soul hungering
tor comfort.
On the banks of what rivers have been
The great battles of the world? While
you are looking over the map of the
world to answer that, will tell you
that the great conflict today is on the
Potomac, on the Hudson, on the Missis-
sippi. on the Thames. on the Savannah,
on the Rhine, on the Nile, on the
Ganges, on the Hoang-Ho. It is bat
tie that has been going on for 5000
years. The troops engaged in it are
900, 900, 900, and those who have
fallen by the way are vaster in number
than those who march. It is a battle
for bread.
Out For Ravens.
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chair in their pictured study, with their
slippered feet on a damask ottoman,
and say that this world is a great scene
of avarice and greed. It does not seem
so to me. IF it were not for the absolute
necessities of the cases, nine-tenths Of
the stores, factories, shops, banking
houses of the land would be closed to-
morrow. Who is that man delving in
the Colorado hills, or toiling in New
England factory, or going through q
roll of bills in the bank, or measuring
fabric on the counter? He is champion
sent forth in behalf of some home circle
that has to be cared for, in behalf of
some church of God that has to be sup
ported, in behalf of some asylum of
mercy that has to be sustained. Who is
that woman bending over the sewing
machine, or carrying the bundle, or
sweeping the room, or mending the gar
ment, or sweltering at the washtub?
That is Deborah, one of the Lords her.
Dimes, battling against Amalekitish
want, which comes down with iron
chariot to crush her and hers. The great
question with the vast majority of peo-
pie today is not home rule, but whether
there shall be any home to rule; not
one of tariff, but whether there shall be
anything to tax. The great questions
with the vast majority of people are:
"How shall I support my family? How
shall meet my notes? How shall pay
my rent? How shall I give food, cloth
ing and education to those who are de-
pendent upon me?" Oh, if God would
help me today to assist you in the solu-
tion of that problem, the happiest man
in this house would be your preacher.
1 have gone out on a cold morning with
expert sportsmen to hunt for pigeons. I
have gone out on the meadows to hunt
for quail. have gone out on the marsh
to hunt for reedbirds, but today am
out for ravens.
Winged Caterers.
Notice, in the first place in the story
of my text, that these winged caterers
came to Elijah direct from God.
81 have commanded the ravens that
they feed thee" we find God saying in
an adjoining passage. They did not
come out of some other cave. They
God freighted them, God launched
them and God told them by what cave
to swoop. That is the same God that is
going to supply you. He is your Father
You would have to make an elaborate
calculation before you could tell me
how many pounds of food and how
many yards Of clothing would be neces-
sary for you and your family. but God
knows without any calculation. You
have plate at his table, and you are
going to be waited on, unless you act
like naughty child and kick and
scramble and pound saucily the plate
and try to upset things.
God has a vast family, and every
thing is methodized, and you are going
to be served if you will only wait your
turn. God has already ordered all the
suits Of clothes you will ever need, down
to the last suit in which you will be laid
out. God has already ordered all the
food you will ever eat, down to the last
crumb that will be put in your mouth
in the dying sacrament 1t may not be
just the kind of food or apparel we
would prefer. The sensible parent de-
ponds Oh his own Judgment as to what
ought to be the apparel and the food of
the minor in the family. The child
would say, "Give me sugars and con-
fections - ooh, nor' says the parent.
''You must have something palmer
first. . The child would say, sob, give
me these great blotches of color in the
garmentr' "No," says the parent;
that wouldn't be suitable -
Now, God is our Father, and we are
minors, and he is going to clothe us and
feed us, although he may not always
yield to our infanti1e wish for the
sweets and glitter. These ravens of the
text did not bring pomegranates from
the glittering platter of King Ahab
They brought bread and meat God had
all the heavens and the earth before him