Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-01-15

SKY can see the mole mlQSraSS. we
are able to see mountains and caverns
of another world, but perhaps the in
habitants of other worlds can see the
towers of our cities, the flash of our
seas, the marching of our professions,
the white robes of our weddings, the
black scarfs of our obseQuies. 1t pass
es out from the guess into the positive
when we are told in the Bible that the
inhabitants of other worlds do come to
this. Are they not all miniStering Spir
it's sent>forth to minister to those who
shall be heirs of salvation?
The Divine Inspection.
But human inspection and angelic
inspection and stellar inspection and
lunar inspection and solar inspection
are tame as compared with the thought
of divine inspection. You converted
me 20 years ago." said a colored man
to my father. "How sop said my ia
ther Twenty years ago." said the
other, Gin the old schoolhouse prayer
meeting at Bound Brook you said in
your prayer, Thou God seest me- and
1 had no peace under the eye of God
until 1 became a Christian" Hear it:
y
place" His eyelids try the children
of fire" His eyes were as a flame of
fire." II will guide thee with mine eye"
Oh, the eye of God so full of pity, so
full of power, SO full of love, so full of
Indignation, so full of compassion, so
full of mercy! How it peers through
the darkness! How it outshines the
day! How it glares upon the offender!
How it beams on the penitent soul!
Talk about the human eye as being in
describably wonderful = how much
more wonderful the great, searching,
overwhelming eye of God! All eternity
past and all eternity to come on that
retina. The eyes with which we look
into each others face today suggest it.
1t stands written twice on your face
and twice on mine unless through cas-
ualty one or both have been obliterat-
ed. "He that formed the eye, shall he
not see?" Oh, the eye of God! 1t
sees our sorrows to assuage them, sees
our perpleXities to disentangle them,
sees our wants to sympathize with
them. If we fight him back, the eye
of an antagonist. If we ask his grace.
the eye of an everlasting friend.
You often find in a book or manu-
script star calling your attention to a
footnote or explanation. That star the
printer calls an asterisk. But all the
stars Of the night heavens are asterisks
calling your attention to God, an all
observing God. Our every nerve a
divine handwriting. Our every muscle
a pulley divinely swung. Our every
bone sculptured with divine sugges-
tiveness. Our every eye a reflection of
the divine eye. God above us, and God
beneath us, and God before us, and
God behind us, and God within us.
What a stupendous thing to live! What
a stupendous thing to die! No such
thing as hidden transgression.
A dramatic advocate in olden times
at night in a courtroom, persuaded of
the innocence of his client charged
with murder and of the guilt of the
witness who was trying to swear the
poor mans life away-that advocate
took up two bright lamps and thrust
them close up to the face of the wit
ness and cried, MAY it please the
court and gentlemen of the jury, be-
hold the murderer and the man prac-
ed that he was the criminal instead of
the man arraigned at the bar. Oh, my
friends, our most hidden sin is under a
brighter light than that; it is under
the burning eye of God.
Sight Restored.
He is not a blind giant stumbling
through the heavens. He is not a
blind monarch feeling for the step of
his chariot Are you wronged? He
sees it. Are you poor? He sees it.
Have you domestic perturbation of
which the world knows nothing? He
sees it. "Oh," you say, my affairs
are so insignificant 1 can't realize that
God sees me and sees my affairs" Can
you see the point of pin? Can you
see the eye of needle? Can you see
mote in the sunbeam? And has God
given you that power of minute OBJ
servation, and does he not possess it
himself? ''He that formed the eye,
shall he not seeY
But you say: "God is in one world,
and l am in another world. He seems
so far off from me l don't really think
he sees what is going on in my life"
Can you see the sun 95,OOO,OOO miles
away? And do you not think God has
as prolonged vision? But you say,
'"There are phases of my life, and there
are cOlors, shades of color in my an
nOyanceS and my veXations that /
don't think God can understand" Does
not God gather up all the colors and
all the shades of color in the rainbow?
And do you suppose there is any phase
or any shade in your life that he has
not gathered up in his own heart?
Besides that I want to tell you it
will soon all be over, this struggle.
That eye of yours so exquisitely fash
toned and strung and hinged and roof |
ed will before long close in the last