Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-05-09

may be to round off the work you have
already done; to demonstrate the pa
thence you have been rec ommending all
| your lifetime; perhaps to stand a light
| house at the mouth of the bay to light
others into harbor; perhaps to show
/ how glorious sunset may coma after
stormy day.
If aged men do not feel strong enough
for anything else, let them sit around
/ in our churches and pray, and perhaps
in that way they may accomplish more
good than they ever did in the meridian
of their life. It makes us feel strong to
see aged men and women all up and
down the pews, their faces showing
they have been on mountains of trans
figuration. We want in all our churches
more men like Moses, men who have
been through the deeps and climbed up
the shelled beach on the other side. We
want aged Jacobs. who have seen lad
llers which let down heaven. into their
5rta.ms. We want aged Peters, who have
been at Pentecosts, and aged Pauls, who
have made Felix tremble. There are
here and there those who feel like the
woman of 90 years who said to Fonte-
nellie, who was IS years Of age, ssDeath
appears to have forgotten u.s. - 'Hush,
said Fontenelle, the wit, putting his
finger to his lip. No, my friend, you
have not been forgotten. You will be
called at the right time Meantime, be
holly occupied.
Let the aged remember that by in
creased longevity of the race men are
not as old at 60 as they used to be at
so, not as old at 20 as they used to be
at 60, not as old at 80 as they used to
be at 70. Sanitary precaution better I'M
derstood; medical science further adj
vanced; laws of health more thoroughly
adopted; dentistry continuing for lon
ger time successful mastication; homes
and churches and courtrooms and places
of business better ventilated-all these
have prolonged life, and men and wom-
en- in the close of this century ought not
to retire until at least Is years later
than in the opening of the century. Do
not put the harness off until you have
fought few more battles. Think of
Moses starting out for his chief work an
octogenarian; 40 years of wilderness life
after 40 years of palace life, yet just be-
ginning.
There lies dying at Hawarden, Eng
lduu, Ou6 I'll Gu6 I1OSG WOuu6Tlul Iu6u
that ever lived since the ages of time
began their roll. He is the chief citizen
of the whole world. Three times has he
practically been king of Great Britain.
Again and again coming from the house
of commons, which he had thrilled and
overawed by his eloquence on Satur-
day, on Sunday morning reading pray
ers for the people with illumined coun.
tenance and trimming eyes and re-
sounding voice, saying: 81 believe in
God the Father Almighty, Maker of
heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ,
his only Son, our Lord.
The world has no other such man to
lose as Gladstone; the church has no
other such champion to mourn over.
shall never cease to thank God that on
Mr.. Gladstone's invitation I visited
him at Hawarden and heard from his
own lips his belief in the authenticity
Of the Holy Scriptures, the divinity of
Jesus Christ and the grandeurs of the
world to come. At his table and in the |
walk through his grounds I was i'm
pressed as I was never before, and prob |
ably will never be again, with the maj
esty of a nature all consecrated to God |
and the worlds betterment. In the |
presence of such man what have those |
to say who profess to think that our re-
ligion is a pusillanimous and weak and |
cowardly and unreasonable AFFAIR." |
Matchless William E. Gladstonei
Still further, watch this spectacle of |
genuine courage No wonder when |
Moses scattered the rude shepherds he |
won Zipporah's heart. What mattered |
it to Moses whether the cattle or the |
seven daughters of Jethro were driven |
from the troughs by the rude herdsmeni
A sense of Justice fired his courage, and |
the world wants more of the spirit that |
will dare almost anything to see others |
righted. All the time at wells of COM
fort, at wells of joy, at wells of religion
and at wells of literature there are out
RACES practiced. the wrong herds get
ting the first water. Those who have
the previous right come in last if they
come in at all. Thank God we have
here and there a strong man to set
things right I am SO glad that when
God has an especial work to do he has
some one ready to accomplish it. Is
there a Bible to translate, there is a
Wyclif to translate it; if there is a
literature to be energized, there is
Shakespeare to energize it; if there is
an error to smite, there is Luther to
smite it; if there is to be a nation freed,
there is a Moses to free it. But courage
is needed in religion, in literature, in
craftsmanship. in all spheres; heroics
to defend Jethro's seven daughters and
their focks and put to flight the insolent
invaders. And those who do the brave
work will win somewhere high reward.
The loudest cheer of heaven is to be
given 'sto him that overcometh.
How God Calls.