Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-12-18
Has nersecution ceased? Ask that

from morning to night he is the butt Of
all the mean witticisms of unbelieving
employees. Ask that wife whose hus-
band makes her fondness for the house
of God and even her kneeling prayer
by the bedside a derisiOn and is no
more fit for her holy companionship
! than a filthy crow would be fit COM
panion for a robin or a golden oriole
Compromise with the world and sur
render to it's conventiOnalities and it
may let you alone, but all who will live
godly in Christ Jesus must suffer per-
secutiOn. Be a theater going, card
playing, wine drinking, round dancing
Christian aEQ you may escape critt-
cism and social pressure. But be an
up and down, out and out follower Of
Christ, and wording will wink to
wording as he speaks your name, and
you will be put in many a doggerel and
snubbed by those not worthy to black
en- your oldest shoes. When the bridge
at Ashtabula broke and let down the
most Of the carload Of passengers to in
slant death, Mr.. P. P. Bliss was seated
on one side Of the aisle of the car
writing down a Christian song which
he was composing, and on the other
side a group Of men were playing
cards. Whose landing place in eterni-
tyWOuld you prefer-that of 2. 2. Bliss,
the gospel singer, or Of the card play
ers?
A great complaint comes from the
theaters about the ladies' high hats
because they obstruct the view Of the
stage, and a lady reporter asked me
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her that if the indecent pictures Of &C
tresses in the show windows were &C
curate pictures Of what goes on in
many Of the theaters night by night
then it would be we'll if the ladies' hats
were a mile high, SO as to completely
obstruct the vision. If professed Chris
tians go to such places during the
week, no one will ever persecute them
for their religion, for they have none,
and they are the joke of hell. But let
them live a consecrated and Christian
life and they will soon run against
sneering opposition.
Band Together.
For a compromise Christian charac-
ter an easy time now, but for conse-
Grated behavior, grimace and carica-
of free America, there are now no
swords or fiery stakes, but for the
souls Of thousands of the good, in a
figurative sense, rack and gibbet and
Torquemada. The symbol of the do
nestle and social and private and pub
lie suffering Of a great multitude of
Gods dear children, pillars Of smoke.
What an exciting scene in India when,
during the sepoy rebellion, a regiment
of highlanders came up and found the
dead body of one of General Wheelers
daughters, who had been insulted and
mauled and slain by the sepoys. So
great was the wrath against these MUIR
derers that the Scotch regiment sat
down, and, cutting off the hair of this
dead daughter of General Wheeler,
they divided it among them, and each
one counted the number of hairs given
him, and each took an oath, which was
executed, that for each hair of the
murdered daughter they would dash
out the life of a bestial sepoy. But as
we look over the story Of those who in
All ages have suffered for the truth,
while we leave vengeance to the Lord,
let us band together in one solemn
VOW, one tremendous oath, after hay
ing counted the host of the martyrs,
that for each one of those glorious
men and women who died for the truth
an immortal shall live, live with God
and live forever.
But, as I already limited in the first
sentence of this sermon, nothing can
be more beautiful than the figures of
smoke on a clear sky. You can see
e Ill.
volatile vapor, now enchanted castles,
now troops of horsemen, now banner
ed procession, now winged cOurierS,
now a black angel of wrath under a
spear Of the sunshine turned to an an
gel of light, and now from horizon to
horizon the air is a picture gallery
filled with masterpieces of which God
is the artist burning clouds Of smoke
born in the sunrise and evening clouds
of smoke laid in the FURNISHED sep
ulchers of the sunset.
The beauty of the TRANSPORTED smoke
is a divine symbol of the beauty Of the
church. The fairest of all the fair is
she. Do not call those prosecutors Of
whom 1 spoke the church. They are
the parasites of the church, not the
church itself. Her mission is to cover
the earth with supernatural glad
ness, to open all the prison doors, to
balSam all the wounds, to moss all the
graves, to burn up the night in the
fireplace Of a great morning, to change
iron handouts into diamonded wrist
lets, to turn the whole race around and
whereas it faced death, commanding
it, Fright about face for heavenr' Ac-
cording to the number of the spires of
the churches in all our cities, towns
and neighborhoods are the good
homes the worldly DrOSDaritieS and