Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-12-12
SAFE From Temptat,o,

, again. notice that DURING that IN
nays OF storm which rocked that sh;r
vi mat universal ocean Of Nooh,s t;re
s sbI aGof which shut the captain of the
SLID sup inside the craft kept him from
60 outside perils. How those wrath.
r ~, yeas would like to have got their
we. hands on Noah and pulled him m,
anu sunk him And do all of Won Of The
great army Of the shut in realize that
.noueh you have special temptations
"neis you are now, how much of the
Uu's'ae style OF temptation you escape;
~ you, the merchant inoaroerated in
'ne siokroom, realize that every bour
VI tne DAY you spend looking out of the
Willow. or gazing at the particular fig.
ure on the wall paper. or listening to
sne CLOCKS ticks men are being wrecked
oy the allurements and uncertainties of
business life? How many forgeries are
committed, how many trust funds are
swamped, how many public moneys are
being Incorporated, how many bank.
luptc'es suffered 1t may be, it is, very
uncomfortable for Noah inside the ark.
Luz tne apartment is crowded and the
air is vitiated with the breathing of go
much human and animal life. but 1t Ia
not half as bad for him as though he
were outside the ark. There is not an
OK or camel, or an antelope, or a
sneep inside the ark as badly off as the
proudest king outside. While Won are
on the pillow or lounge you will make
no bad bargains, you will rush into no
rash Investments. you will avoid the
mistakes which thousands Of men as
good as you are every day making.
Notice also that there was limit to
the smut In experience of those ancient
mariners. l suppose the 40 days Of the
descending and uprising foods and the
lou days before the passengers could 20
ashore must have seemed to those eight
people IN the big boat like small eter.
nifty. Rain, rain, rain!" said the wife
OF Noah. Twill it never stop?" For 40
mornings they looked out and saw not
one patch of blue sky. Floating around
amid the peaks of mountains Shem and
Ham and Japheth had to hush the fears
OF their wives lest they should dash
against the projecting rocks But after
awhile it cleared off. Sunshine, glorious
sunshine! The ascending mists were
folded up into clouds. which instead of
darkening the sky only ornamented it.
AS they looked out of the windows
these worn passengers clapped their
hands and rejoiced that the storm was
over, and l think If God could stop
such storm as that he could stop any
storm in your lifetime experience. If
he can control vulture in midsky, be
can stop summer bat that flies in at
your window. At the right time be
will put the rainbow on the cloud and
the deluge Of your misfortunes will dry
up. | preach the doctrine of limitation,
relief and disenthrallment. At just the
right time the pain will cease, the
bondage will drop, the imprisoned will
be liberated, the fires will go out, the
body and mind and soul will be free.
Patience An old English proverb re-
ferring to long continued invalidism
says, "A creaking gate hangs long on
its hinges, and this may be a protraot-
ed case of Observation-Disclosures, but you
will have taken the last bitter drop,
you will have suffered the last misin.
depreciation, you will feel the gnawing
Of the last hunger, you will have faint
ed the last time from exhaustion, you
will have felt the cut of the last lancet,
you will have wept under the last
loneliness. The last week of the Noachi-
an deluge came, the last day, the last
hour, the last moment. The beating of
the rain on the roof ceased, and the
dashing of the pillows on the side of the
ship quieted, and peacefully as yacht
moves out over quiet Lake Cayuga,
Como or Luzerne the ark, with its H.
lustrious passengers and important
freight, glided to its mountain wharf.
age.
Cheer For the Sick.
Notice also that on the cessation Of |
the deluge the shut ms came out, and
they built their houses and cultured
their gardens aud started new world
on the ruins of the old world that had |
been drowned out. Though Noah lived |
$50 years after this worldwide acct
dent and no doubt his fellow passengers
centuries i warrant they never
got over talking about that voyage
Now have seen Dore's pictures and |
many other pictures of the entrance into
the ark, two and two, OF the human
family and the animal creation into that
ship which sailed between two worlds
world and the post
jiluvian world-but never saw pic
lure Of their coming out; yet their en-
barkation was not more important than
their embar kation Many crew has
entered ship that never landed. Wit
ness the steamer Portland, a few days
400, with 100 souls on board, going
down with all its crew and passengers.
Witness the line of sunken ships, reach.
ing like submarine cable of anguish
.cross the ocean depths from America
% Europe. If any ship might expect
complete wreckaRe, the one Noah COM ,
handed might have expected it. But
10; those who embarked disembarked.
Over the plank reaching down the side
Il the ark to the Armenian cliffs on
which they had been stranded the pro-
essjon descended. No other wharf felt
10 solid or afforded such attractiveness
IL that height Of Ararat when the eight
passengers put their feet on it. End no
ooner had the last one, the invalided
wife of Japheth, been helped down the
flank upon the rock than the other
apartments of the ship were opened, and
uch dash of bird music never filled
he air as when the entire orchestra OF
obin redbreast, and morning lark. and
La mnoh and rnackinQ bird and house