Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-01-01

ed island of world. He was ordered
back from it's shores and struck
through with lances of human hate as
soon as he landed. Shepherds dog
baying on the hills that Christmas
night was better treated than this Res
cuer of a race, yet keeping right on,
brambles on brow, feet on spikes,
flagellated with whips that had Jumps
of lead fastened to them, through mid
nights without lanterns, through
storms without a shelter, through
years that got blacker until they ended
in monday with the sun blotted out.
Mightiest tale ever told, and keep on
telling it until the last sorrow is as
suaged, and the last animosity Is
quenched, and the last desert is white
with the lily, and golden with the cow
slip, and blue with the gentian, and
crimson with the rose.
While reading my text the fourth
time bethink myself that the story Of
life will end when the group breaks
up. The "tale that is told" stops when
the listeners depart. Sometimes we
have been in groups interestedly lis
tening to some story told when other
engagements or the hour of the night
demanded the going Of the guests.
That stopped the story. By this exit
Of another year I am reminded that
these earthly groups will break up. No
family group, Or social group, or re-
igious group, or political group stays
long together. Suppose some one should
take from the national archive the
roll of yonder United States senate
chamber or the roll Of yonder house of
representatives as it was made up 20
years ago and then call the roll. The
silence would be mightier than the
voices that would hear and respond.
The family group breaks up. Did
you ever know a household that for 25
years remained intact? Not one. Was
there ever a church record the same
after the passage Of 25 years or Is
years or 10 years? The fact is that the
story of our life will soon end, because
the group of listeners will be gone. So
you see if we are going to give the
right trend and emphasis we must give
1t right away. If there are old people
in the group Of our influence, all we
can do for them will be in five or ten
years. If there are children around us,
in 10 or Is years they will no longer
be children, and they will be fashion
ing the story of their own life. what
thy hand findeth to do, do it with all
thy might" Passing all, passing ev-
erything, as "tale that is told"
My text, in referring to the years, re-
minds me that in II hours this year
will forever have gone away. Ninety
nine out of the hundred years of this
century will have disappeared. We
have only one year Of the century left.
There ought to be something especial
ly suggestive in the last year of a CEN
fury. 1t ought to be a year of I'M
paralleled industries, of unhcard Of
Not a person in any Of
our audiences this day can remember
the first years of this century. Not a
person in any of our audiences today
will ever again see the last year of a
century.
End of the Century.
Through medical science the worlds
longevity may be greatly improved in
the future, as it has been in the past,
but it would not be well for the people
to live too long. Some of them would,
through their skill at acquisitiveneSS,
gather too much, and some multimil-
lionaires would become billiOnaires and
and some would after
awhile pocket a hemisphere. No
Death is useful in it's financial limita-
tons, and then all have enough sor-
rows and annoyances and sufferings
by the time they become nonagenari-
ans or centenarianS to make it desira-
bic to quit. Besides that, it would not
be fair so long to keep so many good
Did people out of heaven. So it is well
that those who stand by the
1eathbed Of the nineteenth century will
not be called to stand by the deathbed
IF the twentieth century.
Oh, crowd this last year with pray
,rS, with hosannas, with kind words,
with helpfulness. Make the peroration
IF the century the climax of Christlike
leeds. Close up the ranks of God, and
Turing this remaining II months
charge nightly against the host of |
Abaddon. Have no reserve corps. Let |
'wiftest gospel cavalry gallop, and |
heaviest moral artillery roll, and |
nightiest evangelistic batteries thun-
Ter on the scene. Let ministers of the !
gospel quit all controversy with each |
'ther and in solid phalanX march out |
or the worlds disinthrallment. Let |
printing presses, secular and religious,
make combined movement to instruct |
nd emancipate the world. On all the
ills let there be Elijahs praying for
a great RAIN" and on every contested |
leld Joshuas to see that final victory
s gained before the sun goes down,
nd every mountain become a transfig-
ration, and every Galilee a walking
lace of him who can hush a tempest.
Let us be jealous of every month, of
very week, Of every day that passes