Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-12-12

so silenced that I will not remember
that did hear them? Are you chained
| to your room now, your powers OF loco
motion all gone, or if coming to the
house of God every step is a torture?
DO you forget when, III childhood
you danced and skipped because you
ware so full of life you had not patience
! to walk, and in after years you climbed
the mountains of Switzerland, putting
your alpenstock high up on glaciers
which few others ever dared and jump
ed long reaches in competition and after
a walk of ten miles you came in jocund
as the morning? 0 you shut ms, thank
God for vivid memory of the times
when you were free as the chamOis on
the rocks, as the eagle going straight for
the sun When the rain pounded the
roof of the ark, the eight voyagers on
that craft did not forget the time when
it gayly battered in summer shower,
and when the door of the ark shut to
keep out the tempest they did not forget
the time when the door of their home
in Armenia was closed to keep out the
spring rains which came to fill the cups
| of lily and honeysuckle and make all
the trees of the wood clap their hands
Safe From Temptation.
Again, notice that during that 40
days of storm 1eaich rocked that ship
on that universal ocean of Noah's time
the door which shut the captain of the
ship inside the craft kept him from
many outside periIs. How those wrath
full seas would like to have got their
wet hands on Noah and pulled him out
and sunk him! And do all of you of the
great army of the shut in realize that,
though you have special temptations
where you are now, how much of the
outside style of temptation you escape?
Do you, the merchant incarcerated in
the sickroom, realize that every hour
of the day you spend looking out of the
window, or gazing at the particular fig
ure on the wall paper, Or listening to
the clocks ticks men are being wrecked
by the allurements and uncertainties Of
business life? How many forgeries are
committed, how many trust funds are
swamped, how many public moneys are
being misappropriated, how many bank
ruptcies suffered! 1t may be. it is, very
uncomforta BILE for Noah inside the ark,
for the apartment is crowded and the
air is Initiated with the breathing Of so
much human and animal life, but it is
not half as bad for him as though he
were outside the ark There is not an
OK, or a camel, or an antelope, or
sheep inside the ark as badly off as the
proudest king outside. While you are
on the pillow or lounge you will make
no bad bargains, you will rush into nc
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 shut in experience of those ancient
mariners I suppose the 40 days of the
descending and uprising floods and the
$50 days before the passengers could go
ashore must have seemed to those eight
people in the big boat like small eter-
nifty. Grain, rain, rainr' said the wife
of Noah. "Will 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 Il
sunshine! The ascending mists were
folded up into clouds, which instead of i
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 | think if God could stop |
such storm as that he could stop any |
storm in your lifetime experience. If |
he can control a vulture in midsky, he |
can stop summer bat that flies in at |
your window. At the right time he |
will put the rainbow on the cloud and |
the deluge of your misfortunes will dry
up. l 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-
1A UCAuSO O0AAO, uuO AASO OdJs edO AoSo
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 it's IL
lustrious passengers and important
freight, glided to it's mountain wharf
age.
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