Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-07-11

against. It was long and serious and
profound study, and, using the same
principles of evidence in this religious
matter as l always do in secular mat
tiers, | have come to the decision that
the Bible is a supernatural book, that
it has come from God and that the only
/ safety for tie human race is to follow
! its teachings. - ''Judge, that will do
80 back again to your pillow Of dust on
! the banks of the Ohio" Next [ put
upon the witness stand a president Of
the United States-John Quincy Adams.
President Adams, what have you 80
say about the Bible and Christianity"
The rresidentSeplies: Il have for many
| years made ith practice to read through
the Bible once Il year. My custom is to
read four OF five chapters every morning
Immediately after rising from my bed.
! It employs about an hour of my time
and seems to me Che most suitable man
ner of beginning the day In what light
soever we regard the Bible, whether
with reference to revelation, to history
or to morality, it is an invaluable and
| ineXhaustible mine of knowledge and
virtue. VChancellor Kent, what do
you think Of the Bible?" Answer, "No
other book ever addressed itself so au-
thoritatively and SO pathetically to the
Judgment and moral sense of mankind. -
"EdnIHnd Burke, what do you think of
the Bible?'' Answer, 81 have read the
Bible morning, noon and night and
have ever since been the happier and
the better man for such reading
Young men of America, come out of
the circle of infidels-mostly made up
of cranks and imbeciles-into the COM
pany of intellectual giants and turn
your back on an infdelity which de-
stroys body and soul.
What Ihfdelity Has Done.
All, i3idelity, stand up and take thy
sentence. In the presence of God an
gels and men stand up, thou monster,
thy hip blasted with blasphemy, thy
cheek Scared with uncleanness, thy
breath foul with the corruption of the
ages! Stand up, satyr, filthy goat buzz
gard of the nations leper of the centu-
ries! Stand Up, thou monster, infidelity
Part man, part panther, part reptile,
part dragon; stand up and take thy SEN
tence! Thy hands red with the blood in
which thou hast washed, thy feet GRIM
son with the human gore through
which thou hast waded, stand up and
take thy sentenced Down with thee to
the pit and sup on the sobs and groans
of those thou hast destroyed, and let thy
music be the everlasting miserere of
those whom thou hast damned! I brand
the forehead Of infdelity with all the
crimes of self immolation for the last
century on the part of those who had
their reason.
My friends if ever your life, through
its abrasions and it's molestations, should
seem to be unbearable and you are
tempted to quit it by your own hebest,
do not consider yourself as worse than
others. Christ himself was tempted to
cast himself from the roof of the tenn
pie, but as he resisted so resist We.
Christ came to medicine all wounds
In your trouble I prescribe life instead
of death People who have had it worse
than you will ever have it have gone
songfully on their way. Remember that
God keeps the chronology of your life
with as much precision as he keeps the
chronology Of nations, your grave as
well as your cradle.
Why was it that at midnight just at
midnight, the destroying angel struck
the blow that set the IsraeIites free
from bondage? The 40 years were up
at IL o'clock that night. The 430 years
were not up at II, and / o'clock would
have been tardy and too late. The 430
years were up at 10 o'clock, and the
destroying angel struck the blow, and
Israel was free. And God knows Just
the hour when it is time to lead you up
Srom earthly bondage. By his grace
70 l,-+ ~,
best of them. If you must take the
pills, do not chew them. Your everlast-
ing rewards will accord with your
earthly perturbations, just as Caius
gave to Agrippa q chain of gold as
heavy as had been chain of iron. For
the asking you may have the same grace
that was given the Italian martyr, AL
gerius, who, down in the darkest of dun
geons, dated his letters from 1.-THE de-
lectable orchard of the leonine prison.
And remember that this brief life is
surrounded by a rim, very thin but |
very important rim, and close up to |
chat rim is a great eternity, and you
had better keep out of it until God |
breaks that rim and separates this from |
that. To get rid of the sorrows of earth !
do not rush into greater sorrows. To |
get rid of swarm of summer insects |
leap not into a jungle of Bengal tigers
There is a sorrowless world, and it is
SO radiant that the MONDAY sun is only |
the lowest doorstep, and the aurora that
lights up our northern heavens, con-
founding astronomers as to what it can
be, is the waving of the banners of the
procession come to take the conquerors
home from church militant to church
triumphant, and you and l have 10, 900
reasons for wanting to go there, but we