Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-12-19

he was to. speak at Glasgow University, of
which he was a graduate. 1t was the Gus
tom of the undergraduates to make sport
of those who came to speak before and
to them, in which pea shooters and witt
cisms and jokes played a prominent part.
Speaking of DIR. Livingstone's appearance
DIR. Ferguson says: "When DR.. Livings-
tone appeared, gaunt and wrinkled with in
cessant toll and hardship and the torture
of twenty-seven fevers, blackened by years
of African suns, and with one arm hang
ing useless from a lions bite, the wags on
the upper benches somehow forgot their
ammunition and kept remarkably still.
Poking fun at such a man did not carry
with the crowd. The students Joined in
the applause and let the doctor speak.
When he said he should soon go back to
Africa, and that he had three objects in
view in doing SO, sto open fresh fields for
British commerce, to suppress the slave
trade and to propagate the Gospel of
Christ" the last clause fell on the audi
ence with thrilling emphasis. The most
irrepressible boy in the galleries appre-
ciated the superb climax, and caught the
%contagion of the missionary's earnestness.
LIN oONtO1 1NAS1ASo PAOooAJ ~ IL I'LL
orable careers of many of his own class
mates, and with pathetic sadness to the
fate of some who had gone the wrong way.
Beseeching the young men to lead nobl
lives, and inviting volunteers among them
to share the sacrifices of his African work,
he asked, "Shall I tell you what sustained
me in my exiled life, among strangers
whose language I could not understand"
In the moments pause that followed the
question the house was hushed. 'It was
this that comforted me-" continued the
speaker: "LooO, 1 am auth goa alUay, euen
unto the end of the world."
The effect of that sublime text, unex-
pected, evidently, by every one, could
hardly have been surpassed on any occa-
sion since it's first utterance in Galilee.
Every heart felt the power of a grand
promise-the grandest of all time. DR..
Livingstone was both it's witness and ex-
ample. President and professors dropped
their heads in reverence before the worlds
great Redeemer. Unquestionably among
the awed students this feeling was largely
mingled with reverence for the Redeemer's
great servant. Dying in the heart of At
RIGA, alone with his negro servants, when
phOJ 1Ooho h1AA1 II LIS tSho liz was oPOA
his knees, his head bowed upon his hands,
as though offering his last prayer for Afri-
ca. Who can question but that in those
last moments that glorious promise
of the divine presence was more of a reality
than it had ever been before. The sign of
the cross, suffering privatian for his sake
had made the mark deep in his soul.
The sign of the cross. 1t can mean moth
ing to you or me unless it be that the life of
him who there was made a sacrifice shall
lead us day by day into a true discipleship.
We as a people stand in our national life
for liberty. liberty that touches the indi-
vidual life and makes the civic life noble
and strong; liberty that means righteous
ness not license; liberty that with strong,
sympathetic hand makes its owe felt in
all world wide needs. When Armen lay
crushed and bleeding beneath the heel of
the great assassin, how Americas voice
was raised in vehement protest, and with
what free hand she sent her silver and
gold for their comfort and help. When
Cuba in her struggles for liberty against
the greed and oppression of Spanish rule,
turned her stricken face toward America
and reached out her manacled hands, it
was " III II W1Uh ali Ii hCAltoSO
that had been onrs of a score of generations
who had loved their liberty and their God,
we could not sit silent and inactive, and
we gave not alone of our silver and gold,
the products of our factories and farms,
but the best blood that flows in the veins
of Americas sons. There has been stamp
ed upon our hearts by the rugged honesty
and the upright character of those who
first settled the hills and valleys of old
New England, the stamp of liberty, such
liberty that has been it's best because Upon
their souls had been traced by the hand of
divine love, under great trials and hard
ships, the sign of the cross. The sign of
the cross is upon our national life. God
may not be in our national constitution
but he is in the hearts of those whom we
have elected to our leadership. In our
navy no flag is allowed to float above the
stars and stripes save one, the banner with
the crimson cross upon a white background,
which denoting our first allegiance to Je-
hovah, floats the sign of the cross above
the folds of "O1d Glory" and while that
flag is there no craft is allowed to approach
the ship. When Capt. Philip called his
men to the quarter deck, and then with
barred head led them in thanksgiving to
God for the almost bloodless victory, he
expressed the sign of the cross whose pow
er was felt in his life. God speed the day
when in political life, enjoying the
rights and privileges of American citizen
ship, the cross and all that it means may
so sway hearts and lives that every cloud
that now casts it's dark shadow over us
may be driven away forever before the
beams of the worlds Son of righteousness,
and the sign of the cross. be no less a SYM
Dol, but more a divine reality, because of