Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-12-12

man who o.. u ADVICE from you to tn
o uv Importance Of his not pepleo,;n aoou
Wv" wv. SOUL but through Ch,is. ' Lux! ~
Give bir better than this world 'c con,
thu ' n,mMwhy, all the business man eUO :,
that ; !. .", room say: Good Nov
hoss IL religion" And the ola,L no Nv
I nola OF the story and tall =, v'e e &c
m rna' the weisher and cooper and H bacs :
"rh. Standing on the doorsten san
ana' is splendid Now, that y Soy .as
call religionw '"a' Is wha
Effective Sermons.
dor 10 good thing to preach on a SIM
uay morning, the people Assem- hIs I0n :.
mos' respectable attire and seated - =.
neatly nesv cushions the preacher standing II
neatly upholstered pulpit surroundad h. :,
b friends, and after an ipspirins
lynn has been sung, and that sa,mos
II preached in faith will do oood I w..
we one most effective sermon is preached h,
one seated in dressing gown in an arm
cnalr INTO which ,no invalid has with
much care been lifted, the surronnd;no
she'Ves filled with medicine bot,los
zone to produce sleep, some for the re'
Iiel OF sudden paroxysm, some for atm.
ulaht' some for tonic, some for anodvne
ana some for febrifuge, the pale preach.
.. quot'ng promises Of the gospel, telling
ol the slories of a sympathetic Christ,
assuring the one or two or three persons
VINO near 1t of the mighty re.eptorce.
ments OF religion. You say that to such
sermon there are only one or two or
!nree hearers. Aye! But the visitor cali.
lns at that room, then closing the door
soi.ly and going away, tells the story.
ana the whole neighborhood hears il
ana 1t will take all eternity to realize
the grand and uplifting influence of
tnat sermon about God and the SOUL
though preached to an audience of oplv
oDe man or one woman. The Lord has
orc ned all such invaIids for a STYLE of
usefulness which athletics and men of
200 healthy avoirdupois cannot affect
~ was not an enemy that fastened you
IN that room or sent you on crutches,
the longest journey you have made for
many weeks being from bed to sofa and
from sofa to looking glass, where you
are shocked at the pallor of your own
check and the pinchedness of your fea
lures, then back again from mirror to
sofa, and sofa to bed, with long sigh
saying, "How good it feels to get back
again to my old place Oh the pillow"
Remember who it is that appointed the
day when for the first time In many
years you could not go to business, and
who has kept record of all the weary
lays and all the sleepless nights of your
'xile from the world. Oh, weary man
Oh, feeble woman 1t twas the Lord who
shut you in. Do you remember that
some OF the noblest and best of men
nave been prisoners? Ezekiel prisoner,
jeremiah prisoner, Paul a prisoner,
st. John prisoner, John Bunyan
prisoner. Though human hate seemed
% have all to do with them, really the
AUTu Euu6 tu6u1 III.
Noah's Voyage.
No doubt while OH that voyage Noah
md his three sons and all the four ladies
Il the antediluvian world often thought
# the bright hillsides and the green
ields where they had walked and of the
lomos where they had lived. They had
lad many years OF experiences. Noah
vas 600 years old at the time of this
of nature. He had seen 600
600 summers, 600 au-
lmns, 600 winters. We are not told
ow old his wife was at this wreck of
arth and sky. The Bible tells the age !
great many men, but only once
ives a womans age. At one time it |
ives Adams age as 1870 years and
ared's age as lG2 years and Enoch's
g as 1865 years, and all up and down
le Bible il gives the age of men, but
oes not give the age of women. Why?
ecause, suppose, woman's age is
one of our business. But all the men
I'd women that tossed in that oriental
aft had lived long enough to remem-
sr a great many Of the mercies and
ndnesses of God and they could not
lot out, and think they had no dis
osition to blot out, the memory Of those
.ightnesses, though now they were
tut in. Neither should the shut in of
If time forget the blessings of the
,st. Have you been blind for ten years!
hank God for the time when you saw
clearly as any of us can see and let
10 pageant of all the radiant landscapes
I'd iIumined skies which you ever
oked upon kindle your rapturous graft
de. do not see Raphael's Madonna
San Sisto" in the picture gallery of
resden, nor Ruhens' descent From
@ Cross at Antwerp, nor Michael
ngelo's "Last Judgment" on the CELL
q Of the Vatican nor St. Sophia at
nor the Parthenon on
9 Acropolis, nor the TAI Mahal Of In
a, but shall l not thank God that l
we seen them? Is it possible that such
idnight darkness shall ever blast my
sion that l cannot call them up again!
,rhaps you are SO deaf that you cannot
ar the chirp Of bird or solo OF canta-
ice or even organ in full diapason,
ough you feel the foundations tremble
der its majestic roll, or even the
understorm that makes Mount Wash
gton echo. But are you not grateful
at once you could hear trill and chant
d carol doxology? cannot this hour
ar Jenny Lind sing "Comin Through
a Rive, "or Ole Bulls enchanted viol,
Parepa Rosa's triumphant voice over
INV thousands Of voices and many
,usands of instruments in the nation
peace jubilee Of 50 years ago, all
,se sounds accompanied by the ring
, of bells and the guns on Boston
,nmou. but can l ever have my ears