Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-12-31

word fifty spoken is like apples of gold
in baskets of silver
SO also is a word of invitation potent
AID beautiful. Who can describe the
drawing power of that word, so small
and yet 50 tremendous, Conner 1t is
a short word, but its influence is as
long as eternity; not a sesquipedalian
word spreading it's energy over many
syllableS, but mOnOSylIabic. Whether
calling in wrong direction or right di-
rectiOn many have found it irresistible.
That one word has filed all the places
of dissipation and dissoIuteness. 1t is
responsible for the denominations that
curse the earth. Inquire at the door of
prisons what brought the offender
there and at the door of almShOuSes
what brought the pauper there and at
the door of the lost world what was the
cause of the incarceration, and if the
inmates speak the truth they will say,
''The word come brought us here"
Come and drink. Come and gamble.
Come and sin. Come and die Pro-
nounce that word with one kind Of in
Election, and you can hear in it the toll
ing of all the bells of confagration and
woe.
The chief baker in prison in Pha-
raoh's time saw in dream something
quite different from apples of gold in
baskets of silver, for he said to Joseph,
81 was also in a dream, and, behold, 1
had three white baskets on my head,
and in the uppermOst basket there was
all manner of baked meats for PEa-
raoh, and the birds did eat them out of
the baskets upon my head" Joseph in
terpreted the dream and said it meant
that the chief baker should be behead-
ed. and the birds would eat his flesh.
So many a man has in his own bad
habits omens of evil that peck at him
and foretelI doom and death.
A Mighty Word.
But, oh, the power of that word
"come" when Alright uttered! We do
we'll when we send young men into
schools and colleges and theological
seminaries and by nine years of in
struction and drill hope to prepare
them to sound Alright that sweet and
enrapturing and heaven descended
word come" The gospel we believe
in is a gospel of come" That word
speak all the churches. That word is
now building thrones for cOnquerOrS
and FURNISHED cOrOnets for kings and
queens. That word is to sound so clear
ly and impressively and divinely that
the day is advancing when all nations
shall respond: I'VE come! We Gomez
And while the upper sleeps toward
God and heaven will be thrOnged with
redeemed souls ascending there will
not be one solitary traveller on the road
of sin and death.
In the Kremlin at Moscow is what is
called the king of Bells" but it is a
ruined bell, and it has sung no sound
for near 200 years. 1t is 81 feet in cir
conference, and in height it is more
than ten times the height of the aver
age men, and it took a score of men to
swing its brazen tongue. 1t weighs
200 tons. On the 10Th of June 1706, in
a great fire it fell and broke. 1t broke
at the part which was weakened by the
jewels which the ladies of Moscow
threw into the liquid metal at the cast
ing. The voices of that bell are fOrev-
err hushed. 1t will never ring again Ell
Their at wedding or Obsequy or corona
ton. What majestic and Overpowering
silence! EnthrOned and everlasting
Quietude! One walks around it full of
wonder and historical Renaissance and
sOlemnity. On it are figures in relief
representing ear and empress and
Christ and Mary and the evangeliSts.
But as | stood before it last summer |
bethought myself of a greater bell and
one still ringing. 1t is the gospel bell
ages ago hung on the beam of the
cross. 1t has VaSter circumference and
with mightier tongue sounds across
seas and continents and awakens ech-
oes amid Alpine and Himalayan and
Sierra Nevadan ranges. The jewels of
affection thrown into it at it's casting
by ransomed souls of earth and heaven
have not weakened it, but made it
stronger and more glorious. Evangel-
lists and apostles rang it, and martyrs
lifted their hands through the flames
to give it another sounding. 1t will
ring on until all nations hear it and
accept it's invitation, "Come, conner 1t
will not fall, as did that of Moscow.
No storm can stop it. No earthquake
can rock it down. When the fires of
the last day blaze into the heavens
amid the crash of mountains and the
groan of dying seas, its clear, resound-
ing voice will be heard calling to the
last inhabitant of the burning planet,
Come, Gomez
But it requires now no great strength
to ring that bell. With this weak hand,
yesterday formed and tomorrow turned
to dust, lay hold that gospel bell in in
vitation to all to whom these words
shall come on whatever land or what
ever sea, in high places or low. 1 ring
out the word, "Come. come!' Come
and have your sorrows solaced. Come