Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-10-03
Master of the Hounds.

Yes, for some people in this world
there seems no let up. They are pursued
from youth to manhood and from man
hood into old age. Very distinguished
are Lord Stafford's hounds, the Earl of
Yarborough's hounds and the Duke of
Rutland's hounds, and Queen Victoria
pays $S, 500 a year to her master of
buckhounds. But all of them put togeth-
er do not equal in number or speed or
power to hunt down the great kennel of
hounds of which sin and trouble are
owner and master.
But what is a relief for all this pur-
suit of trouble and annoyance and pain
and bereavement? My text gives it to
you in q word of three letters, but each
letter is chariot if you would triumph,
or a throne if you want to be crowned,
or a lake if you would Stake your thirst
yes, a chain of three lalzes-G-O-D,
the one for whom David longed, and tho
one whom David found. You might as
we'll meet stag which after it's sixth
mile of running at the topmost speed
through thicket and gorge, and with the
breath of the dogs on it's heels, has come
in full sight of Scroon lake, and try to
with a drop of dew from blade of
grass as to attempt to satisfy an immor
tai soul when flying from trouble and
sin with anything less deep and high
and broad and immense and infinite and
eternal than God. His comfort-why, it
embosoms all distress. His arm, it
wrenches off all bondage. His hand, it
wipes away all tears. His Christly
atonement it makes us all right with
the past and all right with the future,
all right with God and all right with
man and all right forever. Lamartine
tells US that King Nimrod said to his
three sons: ''Here are three vases,
and one is of clay, another of amber and
another of gold. Choose now which you
will have" The eldest son, having first
choice, chose the vase of gold, on which
was written the word Empire, and
when opened it was found to contain
human blood. The second son, making
the next choice, chose the vase of am
Der, inscribed with the word "Glory,"
and when opened it contained the ashes
of those who were once called great.
Tue third son took the vase of clay, and,
opening it, found it empty, but on the
bottom of it was inscribed the name OF
God. King Nimrod asked his courtiers
which vase they thought weighed the
most. The avaricious men of his court
said the vase of gold. The poets said the
one of amber, but the wisest men said
the empty vase, because one letter of the
name of God outweighed universe
Gods Promise.
For him thirst, for his grace beg,
on his promise build my all. Without
him I cannt be happy. [ have tried the
world, and it does we'll enough as far
as it goes, but it is too uncertain %
world, too evanescent a world I am
not prejudiced witness. I have moth 4
ing against this world. I have been one
of the most fortunate, or, to use more
Christian word, one of the most blessed
of men-blessed in my parents, blessed
in the place Of my nativity, blessed in
my health, blessed in my field of work,
blessed in my natural temperament,
blessed in my family, blessed i'll my OPP
portunities, blessed in comfortable
blessed in the hope that my
soul will go to heaven through the par
doning mercy of God, and my body, I'M
less it be lost at sea or cremated in some
will lie down in the gar
1ens of Greenwood among my kindred
and friends some already gone and 9TH
ers to come after me. Life to many has
been disappointment, but to me it has
been pleasant surprise, and yet I de-