Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-11-13

equipage and upholstery and sculpture
and painting paid for; two hours of
mental and moral improvement; all
the guests able to walk as steadily
down the steps of that mansion as
when they ascended them; no awaking
next morning with aching head and
bloodshot eye and incompetent for the
days duties; the social life as perfect
as refinement and common sense and
culture and prosperity and religion can
make it; the earth made better than
it was at the start, and all through
gospelizing influences, directly or in
directly.
I suppose the greatest tidal wave
that ever rolled the seas was that
which in 1868 was started by the Pc
ruvian earthquake. At africa, Peru, the
wave was so feet high and swung war
ships mile forward on the land. AT
San Pedro, Cal, the wave was 60 feet
high. 1t moved on to the Sandwich Is
lands and submerged some of them
and beat against the shores of New
Zealand and rolled up the beach of ia
pan and stopped not until it had en-
circled the entire globe. Oh, what a
wave! But the earthquake that shook
the mountain where our Lord died
started a higher and swifter and
mightier tidal wave that will roll round
and round the earth until all it's rebel
lions and denominations have gone I'M
der.
That was an exciting scene after the
battle of BOswOrth, which was fought
between Richard III and the earl of
Richmond, the king falling and the
earl triumphing, when Lord Stanley
brought the crown and handed it to the
earl, seated on horseback, while the
dying and the dead of the battle were
lying all around. But it is a more
thrilling spectacle as we look forward
through the centuries and see the last
armed and imperial iniquity of the
world slain and the crown of universal
victory put upon the conquerOr on the
white horse of the Apocalypse and all
nations "hail the power of Jesus
name" That the whole earth will be
redeemed is one Of the things long ago
settled in heaven.
Gods Plan of Salvation.
Another thing decided in that high
place is that all who are adjOined to
the unparalleled One of Bethlehem and
Nazareth and GOlgotha will be the sub
jectS of Supernal felicity without any
taking off. The old adage says that
'beggers must not be chooSerS," and
the human race in it's depleted state
had better not be critical of the mode
by which God would empalace all of
us. 1 could easily think of plan more
70, 10
than that which is called the 'plan Of
salvation" If God had allowed us to
do part of the work of recovery and he
do the rest; if we could do three-Quar-
tiers of it and he do the last quarter, if
we could accomplish most of it and he
just put on the finishing touches, many
could look with more complacency
upon the projected reinstatement of
the human family. No, no! We must
have our pride subjugated, our stub
born will made flexible and a supernat-
ural power demonstrated in us at every
step. A pretty plan of salvation that
would be, of human drafting and man.
ufacturing! 1t would be a doXology
sung to ourselves. God must have all
the glory, not one step of our heavenly
throne made by earthly carpentry; not
one string could we twist of the harp
of our eternal rejoicing. Accept all as
an unmerited donation from the skies,
or we will never have it at all.
Now" says some one, eff Christ
is the only way, what about the hea-
then, who have never heard of him?"
But you are not heather, and why
divert us from the question of our
personal salvation? Satan is always
something irrelevant. He
wants to take it out of a personality
into an abstraction. Get our own sal
walton settled, and then we will dis
cuss the salvation of other people.
But" says some one, what percent
age of the human race will be saved?
What will be the comparative number
saved and lOStY' There satan thrusts
in the mathematics of redemption. He
suggests that you find out the mathe-
NAUTICAL proportion Of the redeemed.
But be not deceived. 1 am now dis
cussing the eternal welfare of only
two persons, yourself and myself. Get
right before we bother our
selves about getting others right O
Christ, come hither and master our
easel Here are our sins-pardon
them; our wounds-heal them; our
burdens-lift them; our sorrows-com-
fort them. We want the Christ of |
Bartimeus to open our blind eyes, the
Christ Of Martha to help us in our do
nestle cares, the Christ Of Olivet to |
help us preach our sermons, the Christ |
Of Lake Galilee to still our tempests,
the Christ of Lazarus to raise our
dead. Not too tired is he to come,
though he has on his whipped Shout |
1ers so long carried the worlds woe |
and on his lacerated feet walked this |