Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-12-24

money, nothing Of sacrifice. nothing of
/ humiliation. But the most expensive
movement that the heavens ever made
was this expedition SaIvatOry. 1t cost
the lie of a King. 1t put the throne of
God in bereavement. 1t set the uni
| verse aghaSt. 1t made OmnipOtence
weep and bleed and shudder 1t taxed
the resources of the richest of all en-
pires. 1t meant angelic forces detailed
to fight forces demoniac. 1t put three
| worlds into sharp cOllisiOn-one world
to save, another to resist and another
to destroy. It charged on the spears
and rang with the battleaXes of human
and diabolic hate. Had the expedition
of love been defeated the throne of God
would have fallen, and satan would
have mounted into supremacy, and sin
would have forever triumphed, and
mercy would have been forever dead.
The tears and blood of the martyr of
| the heavens were only part Of the in
finite expense to which the GOdhead
went when it proposed to save the
world.
Now, the only fair thing for human
hearts to do is to echo back that sOver-
! eign love. You and 1 have stood in
mountainous regions where, uttering
| one distinct word, the echoes would
! come back with a resonance startling
| and captivating, and from all our
| hearts there should sound unto the
| heavens responses glorious and long
continued. Let the world change it's
| 10 = e.,
more payment by lances, by hammers;
no more payment by blows on the
cheek and scourging on the back and
hOOting of mObS, but payment in ardOrs
of soul, in true surrender of heart and
love to the God that made us and the
Christ who ranSomed us and the Eter-
nal Spirit who by regenerating power
makes us all over again.
Beyond Comparison.
Alexander the Great, with his host,
was marching on Jerusalem to capture
and plumber it. The Inhabitants came
out clothed in white, led on by the high
priest, wearing q inter and glittering
breastplate on which was emblazoned
the name of God, and Alexander, see
ing that word, bowed and halted his
army, and the city was saved. And if
we had the love of God written in all
our hearts and on all our lives and on
all our banners at the sight of it the
hosts Of temptation would fall back,
and we would go on from victory unto
victory until we stand in Zion and be-
fore God.
Leander swan across the HellespOnt
guided by the light which Hero the fair
held from one of her tower windows,
and what Tablespoons of earthly strug-
gle can we not breast as long as we can
see the torch of divine love held out
from the tower windows of the King!
Let love of God to us and our love to
God clasp hands this minute. O We dis
satisfied and distressed souls who roam
the world over looking for happiness
and finding none, why not try this love
of God as sOlace and inspiration and
eternal satisfaction? When a king was
crossing a desert in caravan. no water
was to be found, and man and beast
were perishing from thirst. Along the
way there were StreWn the bones of
caravans that had preceded. There
were harris or reindeer in tie kings
procession, and some one knew their
keen scent for water and cried out,
Let loose the harris or reindeer" 1t
was done, and no sooner were these
creatures lOOsened than they went sour
rying in all directions looking for wa
ter and soon found it, and the king and
his caravan were saved, and the king
wrote on some tablets the words, which
he had read some time before, CAS- the
hart panteth after the water brooks so
panteth my soul after thee, O God"
Some have compared the love of God
to the ocean, but the comparison fails,
for the ocean has a shore, and Gods
love is bOundleSS. But if you insist on
comparing the love of God to the ocean
put on that ocean four swift sailing
craft and let one sail to the north and
one to the south and one to the east
and one to the west, and let them sail
on a thousand years and after that let
them all return and some one hail the
fleet and ask them if they have found
the shore of Gods love, and their four
voices would respond: mo shore! No
shore to the ocean of Gods mercy!'
copyright, 1900, Louis Klopsch, N. VI