Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-04-12
earth rejoice; let the multitudes of tho
isles be Glad thereof -


You see, there arc always in places Of
authority unbalanced men who want
war, because they do not realize what
war is, or they are designing men, who
want war fer the same reason that
wreekers like hurricanes, and founder
ing ships, because of what may float
ashore from the ruins. You see that
men who start wars never themselves
get hurt They make the speeches, and
others make the self sacrifices. Notice
that all those who instigated our civil
war never as consequence got SO
much as a splinter under the thumb
nail, and they all died peacefully III
their beds I had twosfriends-as thor
ough friends as old men can be TO a
young man-Wendell Phillips and Rob
ert Toombs. They were not among
those who expected anything advan-
tageous from the strife. but took their
positions conscientiously. They both
had as much to do with the starting of
the war between the north and south
as any other two men. a million brave
northern and southern dead were put
in the grave trenches. but the two IL
lustrious and honest men | have men
toned were in good health long after
the ending of things at AppomattoX,
and if those who advocated measures
recently that would have brought on
war between our country and Spain or )
England or Turkey had been successful
in bringing on the wholesale murders
they themselves would not have been
above ground, as I hope they will be,
to celebrate the birth Of the twentieth
TT God h1d NOT interviewed
would have had three wars within the
last two years-war with England, war
with Spain and war with Turkey, this
last joined by other nations transatlan-
tic To preserve the peaceful equipoise
which such men are disturbing we
need divine balancing, for which all
good men on both sides the sea ought to
be every day praying.
Advice an Tmpertinence.
Again, prayer to God for those in au-
thority is our only way Of being Of any
practical service to them. Our personal
advice would be to them, for the most
part, an impertinence. They have all
the facts as we cannot have them, and
they see the subject in all its bearings,
and we can be of no help to them ex-
cept through the supplicatiOn that our
text advises. In that way we may be
infinite re enforcement. The mightiest
thing you can do for man is to pray
for him. IF the old Bible be true-and
if it is not true it has been the only i'm
position that ever blessed the world,
turning barbarism into civilization and
tyrannies into republics-I say, if the
old Bible be true, God answers prayer.
Won NAV cyot q letter. and tbTOu oh for
getfulness or lack of time not answer it,
but God never gets a genuine letter that
ne does not make reply. Every genuine
prayer is chiId's letter to his Heaven
ly Father, and he will answer it, and
though you may get many letters from
your child before you respond some day
you say: ''There I have received ten
letters from my daughter, and I will
answer them all now and at once, and
though not in just the way that she
hopes for will do it in the best way,
and though she asked me for sheet of
music I will not give it to her, for I do
not like the music spoken Of but L will
send her a deed to house and lot, to
be hers forever So God does not in
all cases answer in the way those who
sent the prayer hoped for, but he in all
cases gives what is asked for or some
thing better. So prayers went up from
the north and the south at the time of
our civil war, and they were all an
swered at Gettysburg. You cannot
make me believe that God answered on
ly the northern prayers, for there were
just as devout prayers answered south
of Mason and Dixon's line as north of
it, and God gave what was asked for,
or something as much more valuable,
as house and lot are worth more than
sheet of music. There is not a good
and intelligent man between the gulf
of Mexico and the st. Lawrence river
who does not believe that God did the
best thing possible when he stood this
nation down i'll 1866 glorious unity,
never to be rent until the waters of the
Ohio and the Savannah, the Hudson
and the Alabama, are licked up by the
long, red tongues OF world on fire.
Yea, God sometimes answers prayers
on a large scale.
The Opened Sea.
In worse predicament nation never
was than the Israelitish nation on the
banks Of the Red sea, the rafting
shields and the gathering hoofs Of an
overwhelming host close after them.
An army could just as easily wade
through the Atlantic ocean from New
York to Liverpool as the Israelites
could have waded through the Red sea.
You need to sail on it's waters to real
ize how big it is. How was the crossing
effected? By prayer. Exodus xiv, Is:
''And the Lord said unto Moses: Where
fore criest thou unto me? Speak unto
the children of Israel, that they go for
ward"-that is, stop praying and