Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-09-05
season. Gospel of shoes! Gospel of hats
Gospel of clothes for the naked


Again, let us look around and see
how we may serve our generation.
What shortsig GIFTED mortals we would
be if we were anxious to clothe and feed
only the most insignificant part of a
man-namely, his body-while we put
forth no effort to clothe and feed and
save his soul Time is a little piece
broken off a great eternity. What are
we doing for the souls of this present
generation? Let me say it is genera
ton worth saving. Most magnificent
men and women are in it, We make a
great ado about the improvements in
navigation, and in locomotion, and in
art and machinery. We remark what
wonders Of telegraph and telephone and
the stethoscope. What Improvement is
electric light over tallow candle But
| all these improvements are insignificant
compared with the improvement in the
! human race. In olden timex once in
! awhile great and good man Or woman
would come up, and the world has
made a great fuss about it ever since;
| but now they are SO numerous we
scarcely speak about them. We put
halo about the people of the past but
think if the times demanded them it
would be found we have now living in
this year 1898 so Martin Luthers, so
George Washingtons, so Lady Hunting
dons, so Elizabeth Frys During our
civil war more splendid warriors in
north and south were developed in four
years than the whole world developed
in the previous 90 years. I challenge
the 1900 years before Christ and also
the IS centuries after Christ to show
me the equal of charity on a large scale
of George Peabody. This generation of
men and women is more worth saving
than any one of the $50 generations
that have passed off. Where shall we
begin? With ourselves That is the pill
lar from which we must start. Prescott,
the blind historian, tells US how Pizarro
saved his army for the right when they
were about DESERVING him. With his
sword he made a long mark ON the
ground. He said: "My men, on the
north side are desertion and death on
the south side is victory; on the north
side, Panama and poverty; on the south
side, Peru with all it's riches. Choose
for yourselves For my part go to the
south. - Stepping across the line one by
one his troops followed, and finally his
whole army.
The Dividing Line.
The sword of Gods truth draws the
dividing line today. On one side of it
are sin and ruin and death on the other
side of it are pardon and usefulness and
happiness and heaven. You cross from
the wrong side to the right side, and
your family will cross with you, and
your friends and your associates The
way you go they will go. If we are not
saved, we will never save any one else.
How to get saved? Be willing to &C.
cept Christ and then accept him in
simultaneously and forever. Get on the
rock first and then you will be able to
help others upon the same rock. Men
and women have been saved quicker
than I have been talking about it.
What! Without prayer? Yes. What
Without time to deliberately think it
over? Yes What! Without a tear?
Yes. Believe; that is all. Believe what?
That Jesus died to save you from sin
and death and hell. Will you? Do you?
You have. Something makes me think
you have. New light has come into
your countenance. Welcome welcomed
you to save others? By testimony Tell
it to your family. Tell it to your bust
ness associates. Tell it everywhere.
We will successfully preach no more
religion and will successfully talk no
more religion than we ourselves have.
The most of that which you do to bene-
fit the souls of this generation you will
effect through your own behavior. Go
wrong, and that will induce others to
go wrong. Go right, and that will in
duce others to go right. When the great
Centennial exhibition was being held
in Philadelphia, the question came up
among the directors as to whether they
should keep the exposition open on Sun
days. when director who was man
of the world from Nevada, arose and
said, his voice trembling with emotion
and tears running down his cheeks: 81
feel like a returned prodigal. Twenty
years ago [ went west and into region
where we had no Sabbath, but today
old memories come back to me- and [
remember what my glorifled mother
taught me about keeping Sunday, and |
[ seem to hear her voice again and feel |
as [ did when every evening [ knelt by
her side in prayer. Gentlemen, 7 vote /
for the observance of the Christian Sab
bath, and he carried everything by |
storm, and when the question was put,
"Shall we open the exhibition on the
Sabbath" it was almost unanimous,
"No, no. What one man can do if he |
does right, boldly right, emphatically
right!
Glorious Sleep.
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to serve this generation, not to antag- I
onize it, not to damage it, not to rule |
it, but to serve it. would like to do
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