Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-11-07

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Aye, You have been thrown twice.
but that does not mean, oh, worsted
soul. that you are thrown forever! I
have no authority for saying how many
times man may sin and be forgiven or
how many times he may fall and yet
rise again. but l have authority for
saying that he may fall 400 times and
400 times get up. The Bible declares
that God will forgive 20 times z, and if
you will employ the rule of multiplied
ton you will find that 20 times Z is 400.
Blessed be God for such gospel Of high
hope and thrilling encouragement and
magnificent rescued A gospel of lost
sheep brought home on Shepherds
shoulder, and the prodigals who got in
to the low work of putting husks into
swines' troughs brought home to jewell
~ and banqueting and hilarity that
made the rafters ringi
Tires sketches Of the same man: A
happy home, Of which he and lassie
taken from neighbours house are the
united head. Years Of happiness roll on
after years of happiness. Stars pointing
down to nativities. And whether an.
nounced in greeting or not every morn.
ing was GOOD morning" and every
night GOOD night" Christmas trees
and May queens, and birthday festivi-
ties and Thanksgiving gatherings
around loaded tables. But that husband
and father forms an unfortunate &C.
quaintance who leads him in circles too
too late houred, too scandal
GUS. After awhile, his money gone and
not able to bear his part of the expense,
he is gradually showed out and ignored
aud pushed away. Now, what di.
lapidated home is hist A dissipated life
always shows itself in faded window
and impoverished wardrobe,
and detected surroundings, and in bro
ken palings Of the garden fence, and the
unhinged gate, and the dislocated door.
bell. and the disappearance of wife and
children from scenes among which they
shone the brightest and laughed the
gladdest. If any man was ever down,
that husband and father ia down. The
fact Ia, he got into wrestle with evil
that pushed and pulled and contorted
and exhausted him worse than any
Olympian game ever treated Grecian,
and be was thrown Thrown out of pros.
perity into gloom. Thrown out of good
into bad. Thrown out Of
health into iuvalidism. Thrown out OF
happiness into misery; but one day,
while Sinking through one of the back
streets, not wishing to be recognized, a
good thought crosses. his mind, for he
has heard of men flung fat rising again.
Arriving at his house, he calls his wife
in and shuts the door and says: "Mary,
| am going to do differently. This is
not what promised you when we were
You have been very patient
with me and have borne everything, al
though would have had no right to
complain if you had left me and gone
nome to your father house. It seems to
ne that once or twice, when was not
myself, l struck you, and several times,
know, l called you hard names. Now
want you to forgive me. am going
% do better, and l want you to help
ne." "Help your" she says. "Bless
your soul! OF course will help you!
Knew you didn't mean it when you
reated me roughly All that is in the
past Never refer to it again Today
ct us begin anew. " -
Sympathizing friends come around
ind kind business people help tho man
% something to do, so that be can again
,arn living. Tho children soon have
SO that they can 60 to school
The old songs which the wife SAM:
7ears ago come back to her memory.
md she sings them over again at the
cradle or while preparing the MONDAY
neal Domestic resurrection He comes |
lone earlier than he used to. and he is
,lad to spend the evening playing games
With the children or helping them with
arithmetic or grammar lessons which |
re little too hard. Time passes on,
md some outsider suggests to him that |
le is not getting as much out of life az
10 ought and proposes IN occasional
'isit to scenes of worldliness and dissi-
fter much solicitation twice. Then his
I'D habit comes back. He says he has
,een belated and could not get back I'M
il midnight. He had to see some west
I'm merchant that had arrived and talk
f business with him before he got out
f town Kindness and geniality again
|uit the disposition of that husband and
ather. The wife's heart breaks in a
lew place. That man goes into second
vrestle with evil habit and is flung,
nd all hell cackles at the moral defeat.
i told you so, say many good people
Who have no faith in the reformation
f a fallen man. IL told you sol You
made great fuss about his restored
ome, but l knew it would not last.
7ou can't trust these fellows who have
nee gone wrong" So with this unfor.
innate, things get worse and worse. and
is family have to give up the house,
nd the last valuable goes to the pawn
roker's shop. But that unfortunate
IAN is sauntering along the street one
unday night, and he goes up to church
DOR, and the congregation are singing
he second hymn, the one just before
ermon, and it is William Cowper's
lorious hymn:
There is fountain filed with blood
Drawn from Emmanuel's veins,
And sinners plunged beneath TINT flood
Lose all their guilty stains
Wnverlng mt the Door.
He goes into the vestibule Of the
hurch and stops there, not feeling we'll
nough dressed to go among the wor-
hipers, and he hears the minister say,
You will find the words of my text in
luke, the nineteenth chapter and tenth
erse, 'The Son of Man IL come to seek