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

manded might have expected it. But
no; those who embarked disembarked.
Over the plank reaching down the side
of the ark to the Armenian cliffs on
which they had been stranded tie pro-
cession descended. No other wharf felt
SO solid or afforded such attractiveness
as that height Of Ararat when the eight
passengers put their feet on it. and no
sooner had the last one, the invalided
wife of Japheth, been helped down the
plank upon the rock than the other
apartments Of the ship were opened, and
such dash of bird music never filled
the air as when the entire orchestra of
robin redbreast, and morning lark, and
chafinch, and hooking bird, and house
swallow took wing into the bright sky,
while the cattle began to low and the
sheep to bleat and the horses to neigh
for the pasture, which from the awful
submergence had now begun to grow
green and aromatic. tell you plainly
nothing interests me more in that trag-
edy from the first to the last act than
the "exit" and the "exe1nt," than the
fact that the "shut ins'' became the
"got outs. " And now cheer with this
story all the inmates of sickrooms and
hospitals, and those prisons were men
and women are unjustly endungeoned,
and all the thousands who are bounded
on the north and south and east and
west by floods, by deluges of misfortune
and disaster. The ark of your trouble,
if it does not land on some earthly
height of vindication and rescue, will
land on the heights celestial.
Put Your Trust In God.
II you have put your trust in God,
you will come out in the garden Of the
King, among orchards bending with IL
manner of fruits and harvests that wave
in the light of sun that never sets. AS
the eight passengers of that craft of
Captain Noah never got over talking
about their seafaring experiences, so
you who have been the shut ms of earth
will add unbOunded interest to the
conversation of heaven by recalling and
reoiting your earthly experiences, and
the rougher those experiences the more
thrilling Will they be to yourself and
others who listen. AS when we sit amid
a group of soldiers and hear their story
of battle or a group of sailors and hear
their story of cyclones we feel stupid
because we have nothing in our life
worth telling, how uninteresting will
be those souls in heaven who had smooth
sailing all their lives and no accidents,
while Noah tells his story of the deIuge
and Lot his story of escape from de-
stroyed cities and Paul his story of the
AIexandrian corn ship and you tell your
story of the days and nights and years
of the times when you were shut in
You will be interesting and sought after
in heaven in proportion as you are mar
tyrized of persecution and pain on earth.
And surely you do not want to get the
advantage of heavenly association and
consideration without yourself adding
some interest to the interview. [ hail
all the shut ms because they will be the
come outs. Heaven will be all the
brighter for your earthly privations and
environments. For a man wko has al
ways lived in mansion and walked in
fine gardens and RECALLED his appetite on
best fruits and had warmest furs for
winter attire and coolest linens for Au-
gust heat and brilliant earthly sur
heaven will not be so much
a change of scene. He will be disposed
to say: ''Why, l am used to this! Don't
show me the gardensl Why, 1 was
brought up at Chatsworth. Don't invite
me into a chariot; 1 always had a splen-
did turnout. Don't invite me to the
feast. L have been accustomed to Bel
banquets. 1t would be a re-
lief to me if | could leave heaven lit
tie while and rough it in some other
world.
But what a heaven it will be for those
whose limbs were so rheumatic they
could not take a step when they get
wings! What a heaven it will be for
those who were always sick, when they
are always we'll, and after 20 years of
pain to have millions of years of health
What light will be the light of heaven
for those who on earth could not see
their hand before their faces! And
what will the music of heaven be to
those the tympanum of whose ears for
many years had ceased to vibrate! De-
MED on earth the pleasure of listening
to Handel and Haydn and Mendelssohn'
symphonies, at last reaching a world
where there has never been discord,
and hearing singing where all are per-
feet songsters and oratorios in which
ali the nations of heaven chant! Great
heaven it will be for all who get there,
but hundred times more of heaven
tor those who were shut in.
Divine Sympathy.
Meanwhile you have all divine and
angelic sympathy in your infirmities.
That satan thosoughly understood poor
1uman nature was evidenced when in
plotting to make Job do wrong the great
master of evil, after having failed in
every other way to overthrow the good
nan, proposed physical distress, and
hen the boils came which made him
swear right out. The mightiest test of
character is physical suffering. Critics
OF no nhoa,,or Go