Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-12-05

to fix up your earthly abode, which you
will occupy at most for less than CEN
fury, and where you may perhaps stay
only ten years longer, or only one year,
or perhaps month more. Now you had
better cheerfully let God have his way,
for, you see, he has been taking care
of folks for near 5000 years, and
knows how to do it, and can see what
is best for you, better than you can
yourself. Don't think you are too in
significant to be divinely cared for. 1t
was said that Diana, the goddess, could
not be present to keep her temple at
Ephesus from burning because she was
attending upon the birth of him who
was to be Alexander the Great. But
tell you that your God and my God is
so great in small things as we'll as large
things that he could attend the cradle
Of a babe and at the same time the
burning of world.
Divine Chastisement.
And God will make it all right with
you, and there is no song that you will
sing every hour your first ten years in
heaven, and the refrain of that song
will be, 81 am so glad God did not let
me have it my own way!' Your case
will be all fixed up in heaven, and there
will be such a reversal of conditions
that we can hardly find each other for
some time. Some of US who have lived
in first rate houses here and in first rate
neighborhoods will be found, because of
our 1ukewarmness of earthly service,
living on one of the back streets of the
celestial city, and clear down at the end
of it at No. sos or 900 or 1905, while
some who had unattractive earthly
abodes, and a cramped one at that, will
in the heavenly city be in house
fronting the royal plaza, right by the
imperial fountain, or in the heights
overlooking the river of life, the char
lots of salvation halting at your door,
while those visit you who are more than
conquerors and those who are kings and
queens unto God forever
You, my brother, and you, my sister,
who have it so hard here, will have it
so fine and grand there that you will
hardly know yourself and will feel dis
posed to dispute your own identity, and
the first time l see you there l will cry
out, Didn't tell you so when you sat
down there in the pew and looked in
credulous because you thought it too
good to be true?' And you will an
swer, "You were right-the half was
not told me" So l open your dark say
ing of dependency and complaint on
my gospel harp and give you just one
bar of music, for I do not pretend to be
much of player 1.-THE Lamb which
is in the midst of the throne shall lead
them to living fountains of water, and
God shall wipe away all tears from
their eyes" But, l must confess, am
little perplexed how some of you
good Christians are going to get through
the gate, because there will be so many
there to greet you, and they will all
want to shake hands at once and will
all want the first kiss. They will have
heard that you are coming, and they
will all press around to welcome you
and will want you to say whether you
know them after being SO long parted.
Amid the tussle ana romp of reunion
l tell you whose hand of welcome you
had better first clasp, and whose cheek
is entitled to the first kiss. 1t is the
hand and the cheek of him without
whom you would never have got there
at all, the Lord Jesus, the darling of
the skies, as he cries out, 81 have loved
thee with an everlasting love, and the
fires could not burn it and the floods
could not drown it. Then you, my
dear people, having no more use for my
poor harp, on which used to open your
dark sayings and whose chords some
times snapped, despoiling the SYM
phony, you will take down your own
harps from the willows that grow by
the eternal water courses and play to-
gether those celestial airs, some of the
names of which are entitled 1.-The King
In His Beauty, - 1.-THE Land That Was
Far Off. Z" And as the last dark curtain
of mystery is forever lifted it will be
as though all the oratorios that were
ever heard had been rolled into one and
Israel In Egypt and "Jephtha's
Daughters, and Beethoven's cover
ture In c. and Ritter's first "Sonata
In d Minor and the Creation, and
the Messiah" had been blown from
the lips of one trumpet or been invoked
by the sweep of one bow or had dropped
from the vibrating chords of one harp.
Adjourned to Eternity.
But here must slow up lest in try
ing to solve mysteries l add to the mys-
terry that we have already wondered at
namely, why preachers should keep
on after all the hearers are tired. So I
gather up into one great armful all the
why's and hows and wherefores of your
life and mine, which we have not had
time or the ability to answer, and write
on them the words, Adjourned to
l rejoice that we do not I'M
all things now, for if we did
what would we learn in heaven? If we
knew it all down here in the freshman
and sophomore class, what would be
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