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

beautiful CITY If splendid men aud gra-
cious VIC ecu u ia 9 triet tina ;
hers Re-, g her d r, ~
my hand, int she cnu.d not g
hands, for her hand was palsied - ID
to her, "How long have you been down
on this bed?" She smiled and made no
answer, for her tongue had been palsied,
but those standing around said, eff.
teen years. said to her. "Have you
been able to keep your courage up all
that timer" She gave very little mo-
tion Of her head in affirmation. for her
whole body was paralytio. The sermon
had preached that morning had no
power on others compared with the
power that silent sermon had on me-
What was the secret of her conquest
over pain and privation and incapaoity
to move? Shall tell you the secret? |
will tell You The Lord shut her in
Luther's Faith.
There is a good deal of fanatcism
abroad about the recovery of the sick,
but il we had as much faith az Martin
Luther we would have Luther's sue.
cess. His friend Myconius was very i'll,
and Luther fell upon his knees aod sal !:
20 Lord, mo- Thou must not yet t. 't'uar
brother Myconius to thyself Til, ...sa
will not prosper without him, AD,er
Then he wrote: "My Dear My con
There is no cause for fear The 4
will not let me hear that you n,eG 4.
You shall not and mnst not dle
Amen" Luther's letter so ex>llr, My
conius that an ulcer on his lune. rohe,
and he got we'll Would to Goj to.t
like that we might be able to pay, nat
we might have similar results! Oh.
men and women, visible aud invisible,
the probability is you will never write
your autobiography. 1t is the most DIFF.
ficult book to write, because y0i are
tempted to omit passages in your life
that were not complimentary to your,
self, and to quote from diary, which
is always incomplete, because there are
some things which you do not think
best to write down. AS you will not
undertake an autobiography, the story
of yourself, will take the responsible.
ity of presenting your biography, which
is the story of ones life by some one
else. If you will give your love and
trust to him of Bethlehem and Calvary.
this will be your biography: "Born at
the right time, but the most important
event in his life was when he was born
again. Died at the right tins, but long
before that he had died unto sim He
had many crises, but in all of them was
divinely directed; weaknesses, but they
were divinely sympathized with. In his
life there were many sorrows, wave
after wave, storm after storm, but he
outrode everything and landed in eternal
safety. Why? Why? Because the Lord
shut him in. :"
But do not think that heaven is made
up of an indiscriminate population.
Some of my friends arc so generous in
their theology hat they would let every
body i'll without reference to condition
or character. Do not think that llber-
tines and blasphamers and rejecters of
God and his gospel have "letters of
credit" that will draw anything from
the bank of heaven. Pirate crafts will
not be permitted to 60 up that harbor.
If there are those who as to heaven are
to be "shut ms" there are those who
will belong to the "shut outs" Heaven
has IL gates, and wi - gates
imply wide open entrance for those who
arc properly prepared to enter them
they imply that there are at least IL
possibilities that many will be shut
out, because gate is of no use unless it
can sometimes be- closed Heaven is not
an unwashed mob. Show your tickets
or you will not get in-tickets that You
may get without money and without