Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-07-30

hide human dissolution. The uplifted
wave of Galilee was high, but he had
to come down before with his feet he
could touch it, and the whirlwind that
arose above the billow was higher vet
but he had to come down before with
his lip he could kiss it into quiet. Beth.
lehem a STOPPING down. Nazareth a
stopping down. Death between two
burglars a STOPPING down. Yes, it was
III consonance with humiliations that
went before and self abnegations that
came after when on that memorable
day in Herod's temple he stopped down
and wrote on the ground.
His Finger ON the Ground.
Whether the words he was writing
were in Greek or Latin or Hebrew
cannot say, for he knew all those Ian.
guages. But he is still STOPPING down,
and with his finger writing on the
ground, in the winter in letters of crys.
tails, In the spring in letters of flowers,
in summer in golden letters of harvest,
in autumn in letters Of fire on fallen
leaves. How it would sweeten up and
enrich and emblazon this world could
we see Christ's caligraphy all over it!
This world was not flung out into space
thousands of years ago and then left to
look out for itself. 1t is still under the
divine care. Christ never for half Sec
ond takes his hand off it, or 1t would
soon be q shipwrecked world, defunct
world, an obsolete world, an abandoned
world, dead world. LET there be
light" was said at the beginning. And
Christ stands under the wintry skies
and says let there be snowflakes to en-
rich the earth, and under the clouds of
spring and says come, ye blossoms, and
make redolent the orchards, and in Sep
TENDER dips the branches in the vat Of
beautiful colors and swings them into
the hazy air. No within of mine is this.
without him was not anything made
that was made" Christ writing on the
ground.
If you could see his hand In all the
passing seasons, how it would illumine
the world! All verdure and foliage
would be allegoric, and again we would
hear him say as of old, Consider the
lilies of the field, how they grow" and
we would not hear in the whistle of a
quail or the cawing of raven or the
roundelay Of a brown thrnsher without
saying, behold the fowls of the air,
they gather not in barns yet your
heavenly Father feedeth them." and a
Dominic hen of the barnyard could not
cluck for her brood but we would hear
Christ saying as Of old, "How often
would have gathered thy children TO-
gether, even as hen gathereth her
chickens under her wings" and through
the redolent hedges we would hear
Christ saying, II am the rose Of Sha-
ron.' We could not dip the seasoning
from the saltcellar without thinking
of the divine suggestion. "Ye are the
salt of the earth, but if the salt hath
lost its SAVIOR it is fit for nothing but
to be cast out and trodden under foot
of men,"
Awake From Stupidity.
Let MS wake from our stupidity and
take the whole world as parable.
Then, if with gun and pack of hounds
we start off before dawn. and see the
morning coming down off the hills to
meet us, we would cry out with the
evangelist, 1.-THE dayspring from on
high hath visited u.s." or, caught in
snowstorm, while struggling home, eye
brows and beard and apparel oil covered
with the whirling fakes, we would cry
out with David, "Wash me, and
shall be whittier than snow" In pic
ture gallery of Europe there is on the
ceiling an exquisite fresco, but the peo
pie having to look straight up it wearied
and dizzied them and bent their necks
almost beyond endurance. So great
looking glass was put near the floor,
and now visitors only need to look easily
down into this mirror and they see the
fresco at their feet, and so, much OF the
high heaven of Gods truth is reflected
in this world as in mirror, and things
that are above are copied by things
around us.
What right have we to throw ava,
one of Gods Dibles-aye, the first Bibl'
he ever gave the race? We talk about tn
Old Testament and the New Testament
but the oldest Testament contains tn
lessons of the natural world. Some PEG
pie like the New Testament SO well the!
discard the Old Testament. Shall w
like the New Testament and the Olt
Testament SO we'll as to depreciate tn
oldest-namely, that which was writer
before Moses was put afloat on the boa
Of leaves which was calked with as
phaltum or reject the Genesis that wa
written centuries before Adam lost RI
and gained wife? No, no! Whel
Deity stoops down and writes Oh tn
ground, let us read it.
would have no less appreciation o
the Bible Oh paper that comes out Q
the paper mill, but would urge appre
citation of the Bible in the grass, tn
Bible in the sand hill, the Bible III tn
peranium, the Bible in the asphodel
the Bible in the dust. Some one aske
an ancient king whether he had seen tn
ecl;nse of the sun. mo" said he. v
have SO much to study on earth ! nav
no time to look at heaven. > Ana II GU
faculties were all awake i'll the study c
God we would not have time 10 9
much further than the first grass olaoe
have no fear that natural religion WI
ever contradict what we call reveale
religion. have no sympathy with y. ~
followers of Aristotle, who after tn
telescope was invented would not 100
thronph it lest it contradict some OF tn
theories of their great master. sna
he glad to put against one lid OF tn
Bible the microscope and against VI
other lid of the Bible thu telescope