Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-10-16

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blessed in my family, blessed in my
opportunities, blessed in a comfortable
livelihood, blessed in the hope that
my soul will go to heaven through the
pardoning mercy of God. and my body,
unless 1t be lost at sea or cremated in
some cOnfiagration, will lie down
among my kindred and friends, some
already gone and others to come after
me. Life to many has been q disap-
pointment, but to me it has been a
pleasant surprise, and yet decl1&e
that If I did not feel that God was
now my friend and ever present help
should be wretched and terror struck
But 1 want more of him. 1 have
thought over this text and preached
this sermon to myself until with all
the aroused energies of my body, mind
and soul I can cry out, GAS the hart
panteth after the water brooks, SO
panteth my soul after thee, o God!'
Through Jesus Christ make this God
your God, and you can withstand any
thing and everything, and that which
affrights others will inspire you-as in
time Of earthquake, when an old
Christian woman, asked whether she
was scared, answered, mo; 1 am glad
that I have a God who can shake the
world" or as in a financial panic, when
a Christian merchant, asked if he
did not fear he would break, answered,
Eyes, shall break when the Fiftieth
Psalm breaks in the fifteenth verse,
Call upon me in the day of trouble;
will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify
me-" o Christian men and women,
pursued of annoyances and exaspera-
lions, remember that this hunt, wheth-
er q still hunt or a hunt in full cry, will
soon be over. If ever a whelp looks
ashamed and ready to sink out of sight,
it is when in the Adirondacks deer by
one long, tremendous plunge into big
Upper lake gets away from him. The
disappointed canine swims in little
way, but, defeated, swims out again
and cringes with humiliating yawn at
the feet of his master. And how abash-
ed and ashamed will all your earthly
troubles be when you have dashed into
the river from under the throne of God
and the heights and depths of heaven
are between you and your pursuers!
Eternal Water Brooks.
We are told in Revelation xxi, 10,
'Without are dogs" by which 1 con-
clude there is whole kennel of
hounds outside the gate of heaven, or,
as when a master goes in a door, his
dog lies on the steps waiting for him
to come out, so the troubles of this life
may follow us to the shining door, but
they cannot get in. without are
dogs" 1 have seen dogs and owned
dogs that l would not be chagrined
to see in the heavenly city. Some of
the grand old watchdogs who are the
constabulary of the homes in solitary
places and for years have been the only
protection of wife and child, some Of
the shepherd dogs that drive back the
wolves and bark away the flock from
going too near the precipice and some
of the dogs whose neck and paw Land
seer, the painter, has made immortal
would not find me shutting them out
from the gate of shining pearl. Some
of those old st. Bernard dogs that
have lifted Derishing travellers out of
the Alpine snow; the dog that John
Brown, the Scotch essayist, saw ready
to spring at the surgeon, lest, in re-
the poor woman whom the dog felt
bound to protect, and dogs that we
caressed in our childhood days, or that
in later time lay down on the rug in
seeming sympathy when our homes
were desOlated-I say if some soul en-
tering heaven should happen to leave
the gate ajar and these faithful crea-
lures should quietly walk in it would
not at all disturb my heaven. But all
those human or brutal hounds that
have chased and torn and lacerated
the wOrld-yea, all that now bite or
worry or tear to pieceS-Shall be pro-
hibited. without are dogs" No place
there for harsh critics or backbiters or
1espoilers of the reputation of others.
Down with you to the kennels of dark
ness and despair! The hart has reach
ed the eternal water brooks, and the
painting of the long chase is quieted in
still pastures, and "there shall be moth
ing to hurt or destroy in all Gods holy
mount
Oh, when some of you get there it |
will be like what a hunter tells Of !
when he was pushing his canoe far up |
north in the winter and amid the ice |
foes and a hundred miles, as he |
thought, from any other human beings. |
He was startled one day as he heard |
L stepping on the ice, and he cooked |
he rifle, ready to meet anything that |
zane near. lie found a man, barefoot
I'd and insane from long exposure, ap-
preaching him. Taking him into his
canoe and kindling fires to warm him,
lie restored him, found out where he
lad lived and took him to his home
ind found all the village in great ex-
element. A hundred men were search
ng for this lost man, and his family