Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-06-21

sary of coronation, but to a corona
ton itself-aye, to two coronations.
Brought up as we are, to love as no 9th
er form of government that which is
republican and democratic, we, living
on this side of the sea, cannot so easily
as those living on the other side of the
sea appreciate the two coronations to
which all up and down the Bible you
and are urgently invited. Some of you
have such morbid ideas of religion that
you think of it as going down into
dark cellar, or out on barren COM
mon, or as a hagellation, when, so far
from a dark cellar, it is a palace, and
instead of a barren common 1T is a
garden, atoss with the brig htest foun-
tains that were ever rainbowed, and
instead of fagellation it is coronation,
but coronation utterly eclipsing the
one whose sixtieth anniversary is now
being celebrated. 1t was a great day
when David, the little king who was
large enough to thrash Goliath, took
the crown at Rabbah-a crown weigh
ing a talent of gold and encircled with
precious stones-and the people shout
ed, ''Long live the king" 1t was
great day when Petrarch, surrounded
by 10 patrician youths clothed in scar
let, received from a senator the laurel
crown, and the people shouted, '.Long
live the poeti'
Tt was a great day when Mark An
tony put upon Caesar the mightiest tiara
of all the earth, and in honor Of divine
authority Caesar had it placed after
ward on the head of the statue of Jupiter
Olympus. 1t was great day which the
greatest of Frenchmen took the diadem
of Charlemagne and put it on his own
brow. 1t was great day when, about
an eighth of a mile from the gate of Je-
rusalem, under sky pallid with thick
est darkness and on a mountain tram
meled of earthquake, and the air on
fire with the blasphemies of a mob, a
crown of spikes was put upon the pal
lid and agonized brow of our Jesus.
But that particular coronation, amid
tears and blood and groans and SILVER
ing cataclysms, made your own corona
tion possible. Paul was not a man to
lose his equilibrium, but when that old
missionary, with crooked back and in
famed eyes, got a glimpse of the crown
coming to him, and coming to you, if
you will by repentance and faith accept
it, he went into ecstasies, and his poor
eyes flashed and his crooked back
Strengthened as he cried to Timothy,
"There is laid up for me a crown of
righteousness, and to the Corinthians,
''These athletes run to obtain a cor
ruptible, we an incorruptible,' crown"
And to the Thessalonians he speaks of
''the crown of glory, and to the Philip
plans he says, my joy and crown"
The apostle Peter catches the inspira-
ton and cries out, eye shall receive a
crown of glory that fadeth not away"
and st. John joins in the rapture and
says, Faithful to death, and I will
give thee a crown of life, and else
where exclaims, "Hold fast that nc
man take thy crown" Crowns, crowns,
crowns! You did not expect in coming
here today to be invited to a corona
ton. You can scarcely believe your own
ears, but in the name of pardoning
God and sacrificing Christ and an ON
nipotent Holy Spirit and triumphant
heaven I offer each one crown for the
asking. Crowns, crowns! How to get
the crown? The way Victoria got her
crown, on her knees. Although eight
duchesses and marquises, all in cloth of
silver, carried her train, and the win
dows and arches and roof of the abbey
shook with the ''Te Deum' of the organ
in full diapason, she had to kneel, she
had to come down. To get the crown of
pardon and eternal life, you will have
to kneel, you will have to come down.
Yea. History says that at her corona
tiOn not only the entire assembly wept
with profound emotion, but Victoria
was in tears. So you will have to have
your dry eyes moistened with tears, in
your case tears of repentance, tears of
joy, tears of coronation, and you will
feel like crying out with jeremiah,
"Oh, that my head were waters and
mine eyes fountains of tears.
Yes, she was during the ceremony
seated for awhile on a lowly stone called
the Liza Fail, which, as 1 remember it,
as have seen it again and again, was
rough and not foot high, a lowly and
humble place in which to be seated. and
if you are to be crowned king or queen
to God forever you must be seated on
the Liza Fail of profound humiliation.
After all that she was ready for the
throne, and let me say that God is not
going to leave your exaltation half done.
There are thrones as well as crowns
awaiting you. ST. John shouted, 81
saw thrones, and again he said, "They
shall reign forever and ever" Thrones!
Thrones! Get ready for the coronation.
But invite you not only to your own
coronation, but to mightier and the
In all the ages of time no
one ever had such hard time as Christ
while he was on earth Brambles for
his brow, expectoration for his cheek, |
whips for his back, spears for his side,
snikeS for his feet cOntumelY for his |