Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-01-09

height aud circumference all those who
gaze into it until they can look no
more, but each succeeding time you
look it seems higher and wider and
grander and more supernatural. All the
then known world taxed TO furnish the
splendor of the mosque, and many Of
the great blocks of stone brought from
Alexandria, from Athens, from Thebes,
from Baalbec. Marbles veined and star
red and striped and interlaced, and the
whole building adorned with depths of
blue, and whiteness of snow, and glow
Of fire, until all terms of magnificence
are depreciation, and years after your
most extravagant dreams struggle to re-
build it. But after all, [ cannot forget
that it is a destroyed church, and that
one day that building, which had been
dedicated to God, was transferred to
that religion which has Mohammed for
it's prophet. One day, centuries ago,
100, 900 people had fed between it's
walls from the devastating war of the
Turk, but all in vain, for Mohammed
II, on horseback and followed by in
furiate mobs, rode into that church, the
hoofs gathering the sacred floors, while
the conqueror shouted the victory of
superstition and invoked Allah, the god
of Arabs and Turks, to accept the stu
pendous pile in dedication. What a
deseoration and what worldwide de-
spair! But that which the nations now
most need is a hero, leader, a cham
pion, an incarnated God, to turn all the
mosques of superstition and all the
basilicas of sin into temples of right
eousness, and to rededicate this world,
so long given up to wickedness and sin,
to the God who in the beginning pro-
nounced it very good. Such a hero, such
a leader, such a champion, such an in
carnated God we have. He comes riding
in upon the white horse of eternal VIC
tory, and we can, in more exalted sense
than that which the soldiers of David
felt, cry out, "Thou art worth 10, 600
of u.s.
COnquerOr of Worlds.
The world has had other conquerors,
yet they subdued only nation or con-
tinent, but here is one who is to be
conqueror of hemispheres. Other physi-
clans have cured sufferings, but here is
a Doctor who gave sight to those who
were born blind and without surgery
Strengthened the crooked back and
changed the mum bness of paralysis into
warm circulation, and who will yet ex-
tirpate all the ailments of the world,
until the last cry of the worlds distress
shall change into a song Of GONZALES
cence. Other kings have ruled wide
realms, but here is King that will yet
reign in all the earth as he now reigns
in heaven. There have been other his.
torians who told the story of nations,
but here is one who tells us Of things
that occurred before the world was.
There have been other generals who
commanded men, but here was Gener-
al who commanded seas and hurricanes.
There have been other prophets, but
here is one out of whose life and career
Moses and David and jeremiah and
Ezekiel and Micah and Malachi and
Zechariah dipped their inspiration.
There have been other merciful hearts
all up and down through the ages, but
here is one who loves us with an ever
lasting love and whose mercy antedates
the birth of the first mountain, and the
wash of the first sea, and the radiance
of the first aurora, and the chant of the
morning stars at the creation and will
continue after the last rock has melted
in the final confiagration, and Atlantic
and Pacific oceans have rolled out of
their beds, and the last night shall have
folded up its shadow, and our Lord
shall have cried out in the same words
that sounded through the night of
Johns Punishment on Patmos, 81 am
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the end, the first and the last" Then
all the mightiest of heaven will gather
around the .ncarnated God of whom l
preach, each one saying it for himse f,
but all together uttering it in mighty
chorus, "Thou Son of David, thou Son
of Mary, thou Son of God, thou art
worth 10, 900 of us. ;"
But / must not close without COM
mending to you this wonderful Christ
here and now as your pardon for all sin
and your solace for all grief and your
triumph in all struggle. Down at Nor
folk few days ago, a gentleman was
telling me of one of our warships in
Cuban waters. Before it left a northern
harbor some Christian ladies at much
expense and with fine taste bought and
furnished for that war vessel pulpit,
from which the chaplain might read
the service and preach while on ship
board The pulpit was made in the
shape Of a cross and it was beautifully
damaslzed and tasseled. The ship got
into the battle before Santiago, and the
vessels of the enemy began to sink, and
their crew were struggling in the wa
tiers, when, from this ship speak of,
the officers and sailors began to throw
over chairs, planks, tables, to help the
drowning save themselves. After awhile
everything movable had been thrown