Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-11-14

enemies with an OK goad. Under God,
spittIe cured the blind mans eyes in
the New Testament story. Take all the
faculty you have and say: 80 Lord !!
Here is what I have. Show me the field
and back me up by omnipotent power.
Anywhere, anyhow, any time for God. :"
Two men riding on horseback came to
a trough to water the horses. While the
horses were drinking one of the men
said to the other few words about the
value Of the soul, then they rode away,
and in opposite directions, but the words
uttered were the salvation of the one to
whom they were uttered, and he became
the Rev. Mr.. Champion, one of the
most distinguished missionaries in
heather lands, for years wondering who
did for him the Christian kindness, and
not finding out until in bundle of
books sent him to Africa he found the
biography of Brainerd Taylor and pic
ture of him, and the missionary recog.
nized the face in that book as the mali
who, at the watering trough for horses,
had said the thing that saved his soul.
What opportunities. you have had in the
past What opportunities you have now !!
What opportunities you will have in the
days to come! Put on your hat, oh, wo-
man, this afternoon and go and comfort
that young mother who lost her babe
last summer. Put on your hat, oh, man,
and go over and see that merchant who
was compelled yesterday to make an as
signment and tell him Of the everlast-
ing riches remaining for all those who
serve the Lord. Can you sing? Go and
sing for that man who cannot get we'll
and you will help him into heaven. Let
it be your brain, your tongue, your eyes,
your ears, your heart, your lungs, your
hand, your feet, your body, your mind,
your soul, your life, your time, your
eternity for God, feeling in your soul,
"To this end was I born -
Divine Direction.
It may be helpful if I recite my own
experience in this regard. I started for
the law without asking any divine di-
rection. I consulted my own tastes. [
liked lawyers. and courtrooms and
judges and juries, and reveled in hear.
ing the Frelinghuysens and the Brad
legs OF the New Jersey bar, and as as
sistant Of the county clerk, at sixteen
years of age, I searched titles natural
ICED foreigners, recorded deeds, received
the confession of judgments, swore wit
ness and juries and grand juries. But
after awhile I felt call to the gospel
ministry and entered it, and I felt some
satisfaction in the work. But one sum-
mer, when I was resting at Sharon
Springs, and while seated in the park
of that village, said to myself, eff I
have an especial work to do in the
world l ought to find it out now, " and
with that determination [ prayed as [
had never before prayed, and got the
divine direction, and wrote it down in
my memorandum book, and | saw my
life work then as plainly as [ see it
now. Oh, do not be satisfied with gen
eral directions! Get specific directions
Do not shoot at random. Take aim and
fire. Concentrate. Napoleon's success
in battle came from his theory of, break
ing through the enemy's ranks at one
point, not trying to meet the whole line
Of the enemy's force by similar force.
One reason why he lost Waterloo was
because he did not work his usual the
Dry, and spread his force out ovqr q wide
range. 0 Christian man, 0 Christian
woman, break through somewhere! Not
a general engagement for God, but a
particular engagement, and made in an
sWer to prayer. If there are 1000, 000,
900 people in the world. then there are
1, 600, 900, 900 different missions to full
fill, different styles of work to do, diff
ferent orbits in which to revolve, and
if you do not get the divine direction
there are at least i, 500, 900, 600 posi-
bilities that you will make mistake.
On your knees before God get the mat
ter settled SO that you can firmly say,
"To this end was born.
Eternal Life.
And now I come to the climacteric
AS near as I can tell,
you were built fer happy eternity, all
the disasters which have happened to
your nature to be overcome by the blood
of the Lamb if you will heartily accept
that Christly arrangement We are all
rejoiced at the increase in human Ion
gevity. People live, as near as I can OBJ
serve, about ten years longer than they
used to- The modern doctors do not
bleed their patients on all occasions as
did the former doctors In those times
if man had fever they bled him, if he
had consumption, they bled him, if he
had rheumatism, they bled him, and if
they could not make out exactly what
was the matter they bled him. Olden
time phlebotomy was Deaths coadjutor.
All this has changed. From the way I
see people skipping about at 80 years
Of age I conclude that life insurance
will have to change their ia
BILE of risks and charge man no more
premium at 70 than they used to do
when he was 60, and no more premium
at so than when he was 40. By the adj
of medical science and the
wider acquaintance with the laws of
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