Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-09-20

Hope For Discouraged TollerS In the
Lords Vineyard = Christian Conste1In-
tions That VIII Beam on Forever.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.-This dis
course flashes bright light into the life
of Christian workers and offers sub
lime hope for all those who are discour-
aged in their attempts to do good. DR..
Talmage's text is Daniel xii, 8, 'fThey
that turn many to righteousness shall
shine as the stars forever and ever.
Every man has a thousand roots and
a thousand branches. His roots reach
down through all the earth. His branch
es spread through all the heavens. He
speaks with voice, with eye with hand,
with foot. His silence often is loud as
thunder and his life is dirge or a dox-
ology There is no such thing as mega
tive influence. We are all positive in
the place we occupy, making the world
better or making it worse, ON the Lords
side or on the DEVILS, making up rea-
sons for our blessedness or Punishment,
and we have already done work in peo-
pling heaven or hell. I hear people tell
of what they are going to do. A man
who has burned down city might as
well talk of some evil that he expects to
do, or a man who has saved an empire
might as well talk of some good that he
expects to do. By the force of your evil
influence you have already consumed
infinite values, or you have by the pow
er of right influence won whole king
doms for God.
1t would be absurd for me, by elabo-
rate argument, to prove that the world
is off the track. You might as well
stand at the foot Of an embankment,
amid the wreck of a capsized rail train,
proving by elaborate argument that
something is out of order Adam tum-
bled over the embankment 60 centuries
ago, and the whole race, in one long
train, has gone on tumbling in the same
direction. Crash Crash! The only ques-
ton now is, By what leverage can the
crushed thing be lifted? By what ham
mer may the fragments be reconstruct
ed? I want to show you how we may
turn many to righteousness and what
will be our future pay for SO doing.
Charm of a Right Example.
First, we may turn them by the
charm of a right example a child COM
ing from filthy home was taught at
SO much improved in appearance that
its mother washed her face, and when
the father of the household came home
and saw the Improvement in domestic
appearance he washed his face The
neighbors, happening in, saw the change
and tried the same experiment, until
all that street was purified, and the next
street copied Us example, and the whole
city felt the result of one sck2olboy
washing his face That is fable by
which we set forth that the best way to
get the world washed of its sins and
pollution is to have our own heart and
life cleansed and purified. a man with
grace in his heart and Christian cheer
fitness in his face and holy consistency
in his behavior is a perpetual ser-1ac.1,
and the sermon differs from others III
that 1t has but one head and the longer
1t runs the better.
There are honest men who walk down
Wall street making the teeth CT iniqui-
ty chatter. There are happy aen who
go into q sickroom and by look help
the broken bone to knit and the excited
nerves drop to 4 calm beating. There
are pure men whose presence silences
the tongue OF uncleanness The might
lest agent Of good on earth is q consist
ent Christian. l like the Bible folded
between lids Of cloth or calfsl5in or
morocco, but I like it better VIXEN in
the shape of q man, it goes out into tie
world q Bible illustrated. Courage is
beautiful to read about but rather
would l see o man with all the world
against him confident as though all the
world were for him Patience is beau
tiful to read about, but rather would l
see buffeted soul calmly waiting for
the time of doliverance. Faith is beau
tiful to read about, but rather would |
find man III the midnight walking
straight on as though he saw every
thing. Oh, how many souls have been
turned to God by the charm Of a bright
example!
When, III the Mexican war, the
troops were wavering, q general rose in
his stirrups and dashed into the enemy's
lines, shouting, ''Men, follow mer'
They, seeing his courage and DISPOSE
ton, dashed on after him and gained
the vic@sry. What men want to rally
them for God lis an example to lead
them. All your commands to others to
advance amount to nothing as long as
you stay behind. To affect them Alright
you need to start for heaven yourself,
looking back only to give the stirring
cry of ''Men, follow!''
The Power of Prayer.
Again, we may turn many to right
eousness by prayer. There is no such
detective as prayer, for no one can hide
away from it. 1t puts its handfon the
shoulder of man 10, 900 miles Off 1t
alights on ship midatlantic The
little child cannot understand the law
of electricity or how the telegraph oper-
ator, by touching the instrument here,
NAV dart q MESA cn r1pdpT. fro