Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-10-03

clare that If did not feel that God was
now my friend and ever present help
should be wretched and terror stricken.
But want more of him. I have thought
over this text and preached this sermon
to myself until with all the aroused
energies Of my body, mind and soul
can cry out GAS the hart panteth after
the water brooks, SO panteth my soul
after thee, 0 God"
Through Jesus Christ make this God
your God and you can Withstand any
thing and everything, and that which
affrights others will inspire you. AS in
time Of an earthquake when an old
Christian woman was asked whether
she was scared, answered, "No, 1 am
| glad that have God who can shake
the world, or, as in a financial panic,
when Christian merchant was asked
| if he did not fear he would break, an
swered: Eyes I shall break when the
Fiftieth Psalm breaks in the fifteenth
verse, Call upon me in the day of trou-
| BILE; l will deliver thee and thou shalt
glorify me- - Oh, Christian men and
women, pursued Of ana6yances and ex-
ASPIRATIONS, remember that this hunt,
whether a still hunt or hunt in full
cry, will soon be over. If ever whelp
looks ashamed and ready to stink out of
sight, it is when in the Adirondacks
deer by one tremendous plunge into Big
Topper lake gets away from him. The
disappointed canine swims in a little
way, but, defeated, swims out again
and cringes with Inundated yawn at
the feet of his master. And how abashed
nj VT h xy+
bles be when you have dashed into the
river from under the throne of God, and
the heights and depths of heaven are
between you and your pursuers.
The Eternal Brooks.
We are told in Revelation xxi, o.
"Wii aout are dogs" by which l con-
clude there is whole kennel of hounds
outside the gate Of heaven. or, as when
a master goes in through door his dog
lies on the steps waiting for him to
come out, so the troubles of this life may
follow Us to the shining door, but they
cannot get in. without are dogsr' 1
have seen dogs and owned dogs that l
would not be chagrined to see in the
heavenly city. Some of the grand old
watchdOgs who are the cOnstabulary Of
the homes in solitary places and for
years have been the only protection for
wife and child, some of the shepherd
dogs that drive back the wolves and
bark away the flCcks from going too
rear the precipice, and some Of the dogs
whose necks and paws Landseer, the
painter, has made immortal, would not
find me shutting them out from the gate
of shining pearl. Some of those old st.
Ro1oar6 dnuS fhat houo lifted chi11Cy
travellers out of the Alpine snow, the
dog that John Brown, the Scotch essay
list, saw ready to spring at the surgeon
lest in removing the cancer he too much
hurt the poor woman whom the dog felt
bound to protect, and dogs that we ca
ressed in our childhood days or that in
later time lay down on the rug in seem
ing sympathy when our homes were
desolated. say, if some soul entering
heaven should happen to leave the gate
ajar and these faithful creatures should
quietly walk in it would not at all dis
turb my heaven. But all those human
or brutal hounds that have chased and
torn and lacerated the world-yea, all
that now bite Or worry Or tear to pieces
shall be prohibited. without are
dogsp' No place there for harsh critics
or backbiters or despoilers of the reputa-
lions of others. Down with you to the |
kennels of darkness and despair The |
hart has reached the eternal water |
brooks, and the painting of the long |
chase is quieted in still pastures and |
"there shall nothing hurt or destroy in
all Gods holy mountain
Oh, when some of you get there, it |
will be like what hunter tells of when |
pushing his canoe far up north in the
winter and amid the ice foes and 100 |
miles, as he thought, from any other
human beings! He was startled one day
as he heard stepping on the ice, and
he cooked the rifle, ready to meet any
thing that came near. He found a man,
barefOoted and insane from long expo
sure, approaching him. Taking him into
his canoe and kindling fires to warm
him, he restored him and found out
where he had lived and took him to his
home and found all the village in great
excitement. A hundred men were
searching for this lost man, and his
family and friends rushed out to meet
him, and, as had been agreed at mis-
first appearance, bells were rung and
guns were fired and banquets spread
and the rescuer loaded with presents.
Well, when some of you step out of this
wilderness, where you have been chilled
and torn and sometimes lost amid the
icebergs, into the warm greetings of all
the villages of the glorified and your
friends rush out to give you welcoming
kiss, the news that there~is another soul
forever sayed will call the caterers of
heaven to spread the banquet and the
bellmen to lay hold Of the rope in the
tower, and While the chalices click at
the feast and the bells clang from the