Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-09-17

the arrow glanced against a tree and
killed the king. Instead of going out
with shafts to pierce and raZorS to cut,
we had better initiate the friend of
Richard Coeur de Lion. Richard, in
the war of the Crusades, was captured
and imprisoned, but none of his friends
knew where, SO his loyal friend went
around the. land from stronghold to
stronghold and sang at each window
snatch of song that Richard Coeur de
Lion had taught him in other days.
And one day coming before Jail where
he suspected his king might be incar-
cerated, he sang two lines of song and
Immediately King Richard responded
from his cell with the other two lines,
and so his whereabouts was discovered,
and a successful movement was at
once made for his liberation. So let us
go up and down the world with the
music of kind words and sympathetic
hearts, serenading the unfortunate and
trying to get out of trouble men who
had noble natures, but by unforeseen
circumstances have been incarcerated,
thus liberating kings. More hymn
book and less razor.
Especially ought we to be apologize
and merciful toward those who while
they have great faults have also great
virtues. Some people are barren Of vir-
tues; no weeds verify, but no flowers.
l must not be too much enraged at
nettle along the fence if it be in a field
containing 40 acres of ripe Michigan
wheat. Some time ago naturalists told
us there was on the sun spoA 10000
miles long, but from the brightness and
warmth l concluded it was good deal
of a sun still The sun can afford to
have a very large spot upon it, though
it be 10000 miles long, and L am very
apologize for those men who have
great faults while at the same time
they have magnificent virtues.
Gods Providence.
Again, when L read in my text that
the Lord shaves with the hired razor Of
Assyria d. land of Jud@a I think my
self of the precision Of Gods provi-
dence. A razor swung the tenth part
of an inch out of the right line means
either failure or laceration, but Gods
dealings never slip, and they do not
miss by the thousandth part of an inch
the right direction. People talk as
though things in this world were at
loose ends. Cholera sweeps across
Marseilles and Madrid and Palermo,
and we watch anxiously. Will the cpl
demic sweep Europe and America?
People say: THAT will entirely depend
on whether the incubation is q sue
cessful experiment.; that will depend
entirely on quarantine regulations; that
will depend on the early or late ap-
pearance Of frost; that epidemic is
pitched into the world, and it goes
laundering across the continents, and
1t is all guesswork and all appalling
perhaps" l think perhaps that God
had something to do with it and that
his mercy may have in some way pro-
tected US, that he may have done as
much for us as the quarantine and the
health officers It was right and a ne
cessity that all caution should be used
but there have come enough macaroni
from Italy and enough grapes from the
south of France and enough rags from
tatterdemalions and hidden in these
articles of transportation enough chol-
eraic germs to have left by this time all
the cities mourning in the cemeteries.
l thank all the doctors and quaran-
tines, but more than all and first of all
and last of all and all the time / thank
God. In all the 5000 years Of the
worlds existence there has not one
thing merely happened So" God is
not an anarchist, but a King, Father.
When little Tad, the son of President
Lincoln. died. all America sympathized
with the sorrow in the White House.
He used to rush into the room where
the cabinet was in session and while
the most eminent men of the land
were discussing the questions of ma
tional existence. But the child had no
care about those questions. Now, God
the Father and God the Son and God
the Holy Ghost are in perpetual session
in regard to this world and kindred
worlds. Shall you, his child, rush in to
criticise or arraign or condemn the di- |
vine government? No. The cabinet Of
the eternal three can govern and will
govern in the wisest and best way, and
there never will be a mistake and, like
razor skillfully swung, shall cut that
which ought to be avoided. Precision
to the very hairbreadth. Earthly time
pieces may get out of order and strike
wrong, saying it is 1 o'clock when it is
2 or 2 when it is g. Gods clock is al
ways right. and when it is 1 it strikes
1. and when it is II it strikes II, and
the second hand is as accurate as the
minute hand.
The Lords Hired Razors.
Further, my text tells US that God
sometimes shaves nations: In the |
same day shall the Lord shave with |
razor that is hired" With one sharp
sweep he went across Jud9a, and down t
went its pride and it's power In 1861 |
God shaved the American nation. We |