Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-03-01

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Subsidiaries who was in the employ of
Alexander the Great, and he offered to
hew a mountain in the shape of his
master, the emperor, the enormous fig
ure to hold in the left hand a city of
10, 900 inhabitants, while with the right
hand it was to hold a basin large enough
to collect all the mountain torrents.
Alexander a%pp1auded him for his in
genuity, but forbade the enterprise be-
cause Of its costliness. Yet | lave to
tell you that our King holds in one hand
all the cities of the earth, and all the
oceans, while he has the stars of heaven
for his tiara.
Earthly power goes from hand to
hand from Henry I to Henry Ii and
Henry III, from Charles I to Charles
II, from Louis I to Louis II and Louis
III, but from everlasting to everlasting
is God. God the first, God the last, God
the only. He has one telescope, with
which he sees eyerything-his omnis-
cience. He has n bridge, with which
he crosses everything-his omnipres-
ence. He has one hammer, with which
he builds everything-his omnipotence.
Put two tablespoonfuls of water in the
palm of your hand, and it will over
flow, but Isaiah indicates that God puts
the Atlantic, and the Pacific, and the
Arctic, and the Antarctic, and the Med
i~terranean, and the Black sea, and all
the waters of the earth in the hollow of
his hand. The fingers the beach on one
side, the wrist the beach on the other.
"He holdeth the water in the hollow of
his hand.'
The Blue ibbon
AS you take a pinch of salt or powder
between your thumb and two fingers, sc
Isaiah indicates God takes up the earth.
He measures the dust of the earth, the
original there indicating that God takes
all the dust of all the continents be-
tween the thumb and two fingers. 70,
wrap around your hand a blue ribbon
five times, ten times. You say it is five
hand breadths or it is ten hand breadths.
So indicates the prophet God winds the
blue ribbon of the sky around his hand.
HE meteth out the heavens with a
span" You know that balances are
made of a beam suspended in the miGs
die, with two basins at the extremity o.
equal heft. In that way what vast hefv
has been weighed But what are all tn.
balances of earthly manipulation COM.
pared with the balances that Isaiah saw
suspended when he saw God putin.
into the scales the Alps and the Apen
mines and Mount Washington and tn
Sierra Nevadas? You see the earth had
to be ballasted. 1t would not do to have
too much weight in Europe, or too
much weight in Asia, or too much
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when God made the mountains he
weighed them. The Bible distinctly
says SO. God knows the weight of the
great ranges that cross the continents,
the tons, the pounds avoirdupois, the
ounces, the grains, the millegrams-
just how much they weighed then and
just how much they weigh now. "He
weighed the mountains in scales and
the hills in a balance" Oh, what a God
to run against! Oh, what a God to dis
obey Oh, what a God to dishonor! Oh,
what a God to defyl The brightest, tn,
mightiest angel takes no familiarity
with God. The wings of reverence are
lifted. with twain he covered the
Another seraphic posture in the text.
The seraph must not always stand still.
He must move, and it must be without
clumsiness. There must be CELEBRITY and
beauty in the movement. with twain
he did fly" Correction, exhilaration.
at u slow gait. for we only
crawl in the service when we ought t.
fly at the divine bidding. Exhilaration
in the fact that the soul has wings as
the seraphs have wings. What is a
An instrument of locomotion.
They may not be like seraphs' wing,
they may not be like birds wing, but
the soul has wings. God says so. HE
shall mount up on wings as eagles"
We are made in the divine image, and
God has wings. The Bible says so.
Healing in his wings" "Under the
shadow of his wings" under whose
wings hast thou come to trust" The
soul with folded wing now wounded
wing, broken wing, bleeding wing,
Gagged wing. Aye, I have it now! Gagged
bars of bone and under curtains
Of flesh, but one day to be free. I hear
the rustic of pinions in Seagrave's poem
we sometimes sing:
Rise, my soul. and stretch thy wings.
I neal the rustic of pinions in Alex
ander Pope's stanza, where he says:
mount, / fly.
o death, where is thy victory?
On Wings to Eternity.
A dying Christian not long ago CRIED
out, "Wings, wings, wings!'' The all
is full of them, coming and going, COM
and going. You have seen how tn
dull, sluggish chrysalid becomes the
butterfly the dull and the stupit
and the lethargic turned into the alert
and b beautiful. Well, my friends, in
world we are in the chrysalid state.
Death will unfurl the wings. Oh, if W.
could only realize what a grand thing