Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-12-26

derln2 armies TO Wher0 they can 90 the
most Wholesale murder say if all
this woe has been wrought, how much
worse would it have been if the Christ
~ revelation had not been let down
from heaven on five runged ladder of
musical scale and there had been no
preaching of good will all up and down
Christendom for 10 centuriesi The
Bethlehem manger has given the most
potent suggestion of peace the world
has ever received. The cavalry horses
cannot eat out of that manger.
Light on Dark Pillows.
I take anather step forward in show
ing the narrow escape you and 1 had
and the world had in the secretion of
Christ's birthplace from the Herodic
detectives. and the clubs with which
they would have dashed the babe's life
out, when [ say that without the life
that began that night in Bethlehem
the world would have had no illumined
deathbeds Before the time of Christ
good people closed their earthly lives in
peace, while depending upon the Christ
to come and there were antediluviau
saints and Assyrian saints and Egyptian
saints and Grecian saints and Jerusalem
saints long before the clouds above
Bethlehem became balcony filled with
the best singers of a world where they
all sing, but l cannot read that there
was anything more than a quieting
guess that came to those before Christ
deathbeds. Job said something border
ing on the confident, but it was mixed
up with a story of "skin worms that
would destroy his body. Abraham and
Jacob had little light on the dying
pillow, but compared with the after
Christ deathbeds it was like the dim
tallow candle of old beside the modern
cluster of lights electric. I know Elijah
went up in memorable manner, but it
was terrible way to goa whirlwind
of fire that must have been splendid to
look at by those who stood on the banks
of the Jordan, but it was a style of
ascent that required more nerve than
you and ever had, to be a placid &C.
cupant of a chariot drawn by such
wild team. The triumphant deathbeds,
as far as | know, were the after Christ
deathbeds. What procession of hosan-
mas have marched through the dying
room of the saints of the last 10 centu-
ries What cavalcade of mounted halle
luiahs has galloped through the dying
visions of the last 2, 900 years save 100!
Peaceful deathbeds in the years B. @.
Triumphant deathbeds, for the most
part, reserved for the years A. D.. Be-
hold the death beds of the Wesleys, of
the Doddridges, of the Leigh Richmonds,
of the Edward Paysons; of Vara, the
converted heather chieftain, crying in
his last moments: "The canoe is in the
sea. The sails are spread. She is ready
for the gale. 1 have a good Pilot to
guide me. My outside man and my in
side man differ. Let the one rot till the
trumpet shall sound, but let my soul
wing her way to the throne of Jesus"
Of dying John Fletcher, who entered
his pulpit to preach, though his doctors
forbade him, and then descended to the
communion table, saying. 81 am going
to throw myself under the wings of the
cherubim before the mercy seat" thou
sands of people few days after follow.
ing him to the grave, singing:
With heavenly weapons he has fought
The battles of the Lord,
Finished his course and kept the faith
And gained the great reward.
OF Pastor Emile Cook, the great
French evangelist, who sat in my
church in Brooklyn one Sunday morn
ing and in a few days shipwrecked
and dying, after his wife said to him,
"God will help you, my dear; he will
give you peace, replying: "But 1 have
it. Peace! Ihave it'll" OF Prince Albert,
quoting with his last breath, Crock of |
Ages, cleft for me, let me hide myself |
in thee OF the dying soldier who had !
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not talk, and when the chaplain ap-
preached him motioned for pencil and |
paper and wrote: ST am a Christian, |
prepared to die. Rally round the flag! |
Rally round tie fag" OF John Brown
of Haddington, who said: 81 desire to
depart and be with Christ, and, though
I have lived 60 years very comfortably |
in this world, would turn my back up
on you all to be with Christ. There is
no one like Christine one like Christ.
I have been looking at him these many
years and never yet could find any
fault in him but was of my own max
ing. though he has seen 10, 900 faults
in me. Oh, what must he be in himself
when it is he that sweetens heaven,
sweetens Scripture sweetens ordinances,
sweetens earth, sweetens trial" OF
John Janeway, saying in his last mo-
ments: 81 have done with prayer and
all other ordinances. Before, few
hours are over l shall be in eternity
singing the song of Moses and the Lamb
shall presently stand on Mount Zion
with an innumerable company of an
gels and with spirits of just men made
perfect and with Jesus, the mediator of
tho now oOvanapt HalloI1iah -, Soma
one ought to preach course of sermons
On triumphant Christian deathbeds,
and then let some one preach sermon
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