Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-05-28

poor that, in the most delicate and SOL
emn hour that comes to a woman's
soul, she was obliged to lie down
among drivers grooming the beasts OF
burden.
Complete Triumph.
1 imagine Christ one day standing in
the streets of Jerusalem. A man de-
scended from high lineage is standing
beside him and says: my father was
merchant prince. He had a castle on
the beach in Galilee. Who was your
father?' Christ answers, Joseph, the
carpenter" man from Athens is
standing there. unrolling his parch-
ment of graduation, and says to Christ
'Where did you go to schOOl|" Christ
answers, 81 never graduated" Aha!
The idea Of such an unheralded young
man attempting to command the atten-
ton Of the world! AS we'll some little
fishing village on Long Island shore at
tempt to arraign New York. Yet no
sooner does he set his foot in the
towns or cities of Jud9a than every
thing is in commotiOn. The people go
out on picnic, taking only food enough
for a day, yet are so fascinated with
Christ that, at the risk Of starving,
they follow him out into the wilder
ness. A nobleman falls down fat be-
fore him and says, ''My daughter is
dead" A beggar tries to rub the dim
ness from his eyes and says, "Lord,
that my eyes may be opened" A poor,
sick, painting woman presses through
the crowd and says, II must touch the
HOY Of l, n
love their mother better than any one
else struggle to get into his arms and
to kiss his cheek and to run their fin
gers through his hair and for all time
putting Jesus so in love with the little
ones that there is hardly a nursery in
Christendom from which he does not
take one, saying: 81 must have them.
I will fill heaven with these For ev-
cry cedar that 1 plant in heaven L will
have so white lilies. In the hour when
l was a poor man in Jud3a they were
not ashamed Of me, and now that l
have come to throne | do not de-
spise them. Hold it not back, o weep
ing mother! Lay it on my warm heart
Of such is the kingdom of heaven"
Again, l remark, there was no or
ganization in his behalf, and that was
against him. When men propose any
great work, they band together, they
write letters of agreement, they take
oaths of fealty, and the more complete
the organization the more and COM
plete the success. Here was one who
went forth without any organization
and alone. If men had a mind to join
in his company, all right; if they had a
mind not to join in his company, all
we'll. If they came, they were greeted
with no loud salutation; if they went
away, they were sent with no bitter
anathema. Peter departed, and Christ
turned and looked at him; that was all.
All this was against him. Did any
one ever undertake such an enterprise
amid such infinite embarrassments and
by such modes? And yet 1 am here to
say 1t ended in a complete triumph.
Notwithstanding his worldly occupa-
ton, his poverty, his plain face, his I'M
pretending garb, the fact that he was
schoolless, the fact that he had a brief
life, the fact that he was not accompa-
MED by any visible organization-not-
withstanding all that, in an exhilara-
ton which shall be prolonged in ever
finished the work which thou gavest
me to do"
Beyond Human Power.
See him victorious over the forces of
nature. The sea is crystal sepulcher.
1t swallowed the Central America, the
President and the Spanish armada as
easily as any fly that ever floated on it.
The inland lakes are fully as terrible in
their wrath Some of us who have
sailed on it know that Lake Galilee,
when aroused in storm, is OverWhelm-
ing, and yet that sea crouched in his
presence and licked his feet. He knew
all the waves and the wind. When he
beckoned, they came. When he froWn-
ed, they fled. The heel of his foot
made no indentatiOn on the SOlidified
water. Medical science has wrought
great changes in rheumatic limbs and
diseased blood, but when the muscles
are entirely withered no human power
can restore them, and when a limb is
once dead it is dead. But here is a
to him, "Stretch forth thy hand" and
he stretches it forth.
In the eye infirmary how many dis
eases of that delicate organ have been
cured? But Jesus says to one blind,
"Be openv' and the light of heaven
rushes through gates that have never
before been opened. The frost or an
ak may kill tree, but Jesus smites
one dead with a word. Chemistry may
do many wonderful things, but what
chemist, at a wedding, when the wine
gave out, could change pail of water
into a cask Of wine? What human
voice could command a school of fish?
Yet here is voice that marshals the
scaly tribes until, in a place where they