Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-06-12

cars are more luxurious; another that
because the speed is greater; another
takes the other because he has long
been accustomed to that route, and all
the employees are familiar. So far as
our engagement to meet is concerned it
makes no difference if we only get
there Now, any one of the innumer-
able evangelical denominations, if you
practice its teaching -although some of
their trains run on a broad gauge and
some on narrow gauge-will bring
you out at the city of the New Jerusa-
lem.
Safe In Amy Church.
It being evident that you will De safe
in any of the evangelical denomina tions,
I proceed to remark, first if one of the
married couple be a Christian and the
other not, the one Christian is bound
to &C anywhere to church where the
unconverted companion is willing to go,
if he or she will go to no other. You
of the connubial partnership are a
Christian. You are safe for the skies.
Then it is your first duty to secure the
eternal safety of your lifetime associate.
Is not the everlasting welfare of your
wife impenitent, or your husband i'm
penitent, of mere Importance than
your church relationship? Is not
the condition of your companion for
the next quadrillion of years a
mightier consideration to you than the
qualification of your ecclesiastical taste
for 40 or so years? A man or woman
that would stop half minute to weigh
preferences as to whether he or she had
better go with the unconverted COM
panion to this or that church or denom
nation has no religion at all, and never
has had, and I fear never will have.
You are loaded up with what you sup
pose to be religion, but you are like
Captain Frobisher. who brought back
from his voyage of discovery a shipload
of what he supposed valuable minerals,
yet, instead of being silver and gold,
were nothing but common stones of the
field, to be hurled out AS finally useless.
Mighty God! In all thy realm is
there one man or woman protesting re-
ligion, yet so stolid, so untitled, so far
gone unto death that there would be
any hesitancy in surrendering all pref
erences before such an opportunity of
salvation and heavenly reunion? 1t
you, Christian wife, are an attendant
upon any church, and your unconvert-
ed husband does not go there because
he does not like it's preacher, or its
music, or its architecture, or it's I'M
comfortable crowding, and goes not to
any house of worship but would go if
you would accompany him somewhere
else, change your church relations.
Take your hymnbook home with you
today. Say goodby to your friends in
the neighbCring peWs, and go with him
to any one of a hundred churches till
his soul is saved and he joins you in the
march to heaven. More important than
that ring on the third finger Of your
left hand it is that your heavenly Fa-
Their command the angel Of mercy, con-
corning your husband at his conv version,
as in the parable of old, ''Put a ring en-
his hand.
The Dearest Sacrifice.
No letter of more Importance ever
came to the great city of Corinth, stu
ated on what was called the E'Bridge of
the Sea, and glistening with sculp
ture and gated with style of brass the
magnifcence of which the following
ages have not been able to successfully
initiate and overshadowed by the Aero
Corinthus, fortress of rock 2, 900 feet
hight say no letter ever came to that
great city of more Importance than
that letter in which Paul puts the two
startling questions: "What knowest
thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save
thy husband? Or how knowest thou,
0 man, whether thou shalt save thy
wife?' The dearest sacrifice on the
part Of the one is cheap if it rescue the
other. Better go to the smallest, weak
est, most insignificant church on earth
and be copartners in eternal bliss than
pass your earthly mem bership in most
gorgeously attractive church while your
companion stays outside of evangelical
privilege. Better have the drowning
saved by a scow or a sloop than let him
or her go down while you sail by in
the gilded cabins Of Majestic or Cam
pania.
Second remark: If both of the mar
ried couples be Christians but one is
SO naturally constructed that it is i'm
possible to enjoy the services of par
ticular denomination, and the other is
not so sectarian or punctilious, let the
one less particular go with the other
who is very particular. AS for myself,
l feel as much at home in one denom-
ination of evangelical Christians as an
other, and I think I must have been
born very near the line. 1 like the
solemn roll of the Episcopal liturgy,
and I like the spontaneity of the Metho-
dists and I like the Importance given to
the ordinance of baptism by the Bap-
lists and 1 like the freedom of the Con-
gregationalists and I like the govern
ment and the sublime doctrine of the
Presby terians and I like many of the
others just as much as any have men