Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-12-18

manger where Jesus was born.
Peace! Forever roll off the sky the
black pillars of smoke from the Maren-
COS and Salamancas and Borodinos
and Sedans and Gettysburgs Of earth!
And right after them roll into the heav-
ems the peaceful vapors from the Chin
neys of farmhouses and asylums and
churches and capitals of Christian ma
lions, and as the sunlight strikes
through these vapors they will write
in letters Of jet and gold all over the
sky from horizon to zenith, "Glory to
God in the highest, and on earth peace,
good will to men,"
While thinking Of these things I look
ed out from my window, and the wind
was violently blowing. And 1 saw
from many cliiAneys the smoke tossed
in the air and whirled in great velocity,
volume after volume, fold after fold,
and carried on the swift wind were
the great pillars of smoke. And helped
by Solomon in the text I saw the speed
of the church symbolized. Do you real
ize the momentum the church of God
is under? Why, the smoke of a CHM
ney on the top of Mount Washington
hour is slow as cQ@pared with the
celebrity Of good influences. For SO
centuries the devil had it his own way
among the nations. Nearly all the
great missionary movements have been
started within the century, and see
what one century has done to recover
the world from SO centuries of devas-
tation. What great REVEALS! What
mighty churches! What saved mil
lions!
From the ruins Of Babylon and AS
syria and Nineveh and the valleys of
the Nile combinations have been ex-
numed, proving to all fair minded men
that the Bible is the truest book ever
written. The mythologies of Egypt
were found to have embodied in them
the knowledge of mans expulsion from
paradise and the sacrifice of q great
emancipation. Moses account of the
creation, corroborated by the hammer
Of Christian biologists; the oldest pro-
fame writer's, HirOmus, Helanicus and
Berosus, confirming the Bible account
of ancient longevity; Tacitus and Pliny
confirming the Bible accounts of de-
stroyed Sodom and Gomorrah; Tacitus
and Porphyry telling the same story
of Christ as Matthew and Luke told;
Macrobius telling of the massacre Of
children in Bethlehem and Phlegon
sketching at the crucifiXion.
1t is demonstrated to all honest men
that it is not so certain that William
Cullen Bryant wrote ''ThanatOpsis" or
Longfellow wrote "Hia watha" as that
God, by the hand of prophet and apos-
tleJ wrote the Bible. All the wise men
in science and law and medicine and
literature and merchandise are grad
ually coming to believe in Christianity,
and soon there will be no people who
disbelieve in it except those cOnSpicu-
Gus for lack of brain or men with two
families, who do not like the Bible be-
cause it rebukeS their swinish prOpen-
stiles.
The Open Door.
The time is fastening when there
will be no inf1dels left except libertines
and harlots and murderers. Millions
of Christians where once there were
thousands and thousands where once
there were hundreds. What n bright
evening this, the evening of the nine
teenth century! And the twentieth
century, which is about to dawn, will,
in my opinion, bring universal victory
for Christ and the church that now is
marching on with step double quick or,
if you prefer the figure of the text, is
being swept on in the mighty gales of
blessing, imposing and grand and ma
jestic and swift like pillars of smoke.
Oh, come into the church through
Christ the door, door more glorious
than that of the temple of Hercules,
which had two pillars, and one was
gold and the other emerald! Come in
today! The world you leave behind is
a poor world, and it will burn and pass
off like pillars of smoke. Whether the
final confiagration will start in the coal
mines of Pennsylvania, which in some
places have for many years been burn
ing and eating into the heart of the
or whether it shall begin
near the California geysers, or wheth-
err from out the furnaces of CotOpaXi
and Vesuvius and Stromboli it shall
burst forth upon the aStOnished ma
tions 1 make no prophecy, but all geol-
ogists tell us that we stand on the lid
of a world, the heart of which is a rag
ing, roaring, awful fame, and some
day God will let the red monsters out
of their imprisonment Of centuries, and
New York on fire in 1885, and Charles
ton on fire in 1865, and Chicago on fire
in 1872, and Boston on fire in 1873
were only like one spark from black
smiths forge as compared with that
last universal blaze which will be seen
in other worlds. But gradually the
flames will lessen, and the world will
become a great living coal, and that
will take on ashen hue, and then our
ruined planet will begin to smoke, and
the mountains will smoke, and the val