Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-05-30
THU lovely source OF true delight.
Whom l, unseen, adore,
Unveil thy beauties to my sight,
That may love thee more.
None to Help.


None to Help.
I remark also in regard to this first
bird mentioned in the text that it was
q defenseless bird When the eagle is
assaulted, with it's iron beak it strikes
like bolt against it's adversary. This
was q dove or q sparrow, we do not
know Just which. Take the dove or pi-
geon in your hand, and the pecking of
its beak on your hand makes you laugh
at the feebleness of its assault. The
| reindeer, after it is down, may fell you
with it's antlers The OK, after you think
it is dead. may break your leg in it's
death struggle The harpooned whale
in its last agony, may crush you In the
coil of the unwinding rope. But this
was a dove or a sparrow-perfectly
harmless, perfectly defenseless-type of
him who said, 81 have trod the wine
press alone, and there was none to
help" None to help! The murderers
have it all their own way. Where was
the soldier i'll the Roman regiment who
swung his sword in the defense of the
divine martyr? DID they put one drop
of oil on his gashed feet? Was there one
in all that crowd manly and generous
enough to stand up for him? We're the
miscreants at the cross any more inter
fered with in their work of spiking him
fast than the carpenter in his shop driv
ing nail through a pine board? The
women cried but there was no balm in
their tears. None to help, none to help!
o my Lord Jesus, none to help! The
wave of anguish came up to the arch of
his feet, came up to his knee, foated
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his temples, yet none to help. Ten thou
sand times 10, 900 angels in the sky,
ready at command to plunge into the
bloody affray and strike back the hosts
Of darkness. yet none to help, none to
helpi
Oh, this dove of the text, in it's last
moment, clutched not with angry talons.
1t plunged not a savage beak. 1t was
dove-helpless, defenseless. None to
help! None to help!
AS after severe storms in the morn
ing you go out and find birds dead on
the snow, so this dead bird of the text
makes me think of that awful storm
that swept the earth on crucif1xion day,
when the wrath of God and the malice
CT man and the fury of devils wrestled
beneath the three crosses. AS we sang
just now:
Well might the sun in darkness hide
And shut his glories in,
When Christ, the mighty Maker. died
For man. the creatures SIM
Blood Atonement.
But l come now to speak of this Sec
ond bird of the text. We must not let
that fly away until we have examined
it. The priest took the second bird, tied
it to the hyssop branch, and then plung-
ed it in the blood of the first bird. All,
that is my soul, plunged for cleasing in
the Saviour's blood. There is not enough
water in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
to wash away our smallest sin. Sin is
such an outrage on Gods universe that
nothing but blood can atone for it. You
know the life is in the blood, and as
the life had been forfeited nothing
could buy it back but blood. What was
it that was sprinkled on the doorposts
when the destroying angel went through
the land? Blood. What was it that
went streaming from the altar of an
cient sacrifice? Blood. What was it
that the priest carried into the holy of
holes, making intercession for the peo-
pie? Blood. What was it that Jesus
Great drops Of blood What does the
wine i'll the sacramento cup signify?
Blood What makes the robes of the
righteous in heaven SO fair? They are
washed in the blood of the Lamb. What
is it that cleanses all our pollution?
The blood of Jesus Christ, that cleanseth
from all sin.
l hear somebody saying, 81 do not
like such sanguinary religion as that"
Do you think it is very wise for the pa
tient to tell the doctor, 81 don't like
the medicine you have given me?' If
he wants to be cured, he had better take
the medicine. My Lord God has offered
US balm, and it is very foolish for us
to say, Il don't like that balm" We
had better take it and be saved But
you do not oppose the shedding of blood
in other directions and for other ends
Ii hundred thousand men go out to
battle for their country and have to lay
down their lives for free institutions is
there anything ignoble about that? No;
you say, GLORIOUS sacrifice rather"
And is there anything ignoble in the
idea that the Lord Jesus Christ by the
shedding of his blood delivered not only
one land but all lands and all ages from
bondage, introducing men by millions
and millions into the liberty of the sons
OF God? Is there anything ignoble about
that?
AS this second bird of the text was
plunged in the blood of the first bird so
we must be washed in the blood of
Christ or go polluted forever.
Let the water and the blood,
From thy side healing flood,
Be of sin the double cure,
Save from earth and make pure.
Sin Is Slavery.