Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-07-12

Breath foul with the corruption Of the
ages! Stand up, satyr, filthy goat, buzz
zard 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 sem
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 sentence! 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 brand
the forehead Of intidelity with all the
crimes of self imnlolation for the last
century on the part of those who had
their reason.
My friends, if ever your life, through
it's abrasions and its 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
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Christ came to medicine all wounds.
In your trouble 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
we'll as your cradle.
Why was it that at midnight, just at
midnight, the destroying angel struck
| the blow that set the Israelites free
from bondage? The 430 years were up
at IL O'Clock that night. The 430 years
were not up at IL, 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
from earthly bondage. By his grace
make not the worst of things, but the
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 chain of gold as
heavy as had been chain Of iron. Fol
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 "the de.
lectable orchard of the leonine prison. y
And remember that this brief life is
surrounded by rim, very thin but
very important rim, and close up tC
that rim is a great eternity, and you
had better keep out Of it until Cod
breaks that rim and separates this from
that. To get rid of the sorrows Of earth
do not rush into greater sorrows. TX
get rid Of a swarm of summer insects
leap not into jungle of Bengal tigers
There is a sorrowless world, and it il
so radiant that the MONDAY sun is only
the lowest doorstep, and the aurora thai
lights up our northern heavens, con
founding astronomers as to what it Ca
be, is the waving of the banners Of the
procession CONE to take the conqueror'
home from church militant to churct
triumphant, and you and have 10, 0O(
reasons for wanting to 90 there, but WI
will never get there either by self i'm
notation or impenitency. All our SIM
slain by Christ who came to do tina
thing, we want to go in at just tn
time divinely arranged and from
couch divinely spread, and then tn,
clang of the sepulchral gates behind u
will be overpowered by the clang Of thu
opening of the solid pearl before US
O God, whatever Others may choose
give me Christian s life, Christian
death, Christian 8 burial, a Chris
fian q immOrta lily