Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-05-13

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! OlOtS out all this scene from my eyes,
as by the mists Of a great Niagara, for
the dash and the plunge of these great
torrents of life dropping down into the
fathomleSs and laundering abysm of
suffering and woe. [ sometimes think
that just as God blotted out the church
es of Thyatira and Corinth and Lao
dicea because of their sloth and stolid-
| fly he will blot out American and Eng
lish Christianity and raise on the ruins
a stalwart, wide awake missionary
church that can take the full meaning
of that command: go We into all the
world and preach the gospel to every
creature. He that believeth and is
baptized shall be saved, but he that be-
lieveth not shall be damned" a COM
mand, you see, punctuated with a
throne of heaven and a dungeon of hell.
More Backbone Needed.
I remark, further, if you want to sue
coed in spiritual archery you must have
courage. If the hunter stands with
trembling hand or shoulder that finch
es with fear, instead Of his taking the
catamount the catamOunt takes him.
What would become of the Greenland
er if when out hunting for the bear he
should stand shivering with terror on
an iceberg? What would have become
of Du Chaillu and Livingstone in the
African thicket with a faint heart and
a weak knee? When q panther comes
within 20 PAGES of you, and it has it's
eye on you, and it has squatted for the
fearful spring, STEADY therev' Cour-
age, o We spiritual archers! There are
great monsters Of iniquity prowling all
around about the community. Shall
we not in the strength of God go forth
and combat them? We not only need
more heart but more backbone. What
is the church of God that it should fear
to look in the eye any transgression?
There is the Bengal tiger Of drunken
ness that prowls around, and instead
of attacking it how many of us hide
under the church pew or the commun-
ion table! There is SO much invested in
it we are afraid to assault it-millions
of dollars in barrels, in watts, in spigOts,
in cOrkscreWs, in gin palaces with mar
BILE floors and Italian top tables, and
chased ice coolers, and in the strych-
nine, and the lOgWoOd, and the tartaric
acid, and the nux vomica that go to
make up our pure" American drinks.
looked with wondering eyes on the
Heidelberg tun." 1t is the great liq-
uor vat Of Germany, which is said to
hold 800 hOgsheads of wine, and only
three times in a hundred years it has
been filled. But as | stood and looked
at it l said to myself: 'That is nothing
800 hogsheads. Why, our American
vat holds 100000 barrels Of strong
drink, and we keep 100000 men with
nothing to do but to see that it is fill
ed" Oh, to attack this great monster
of intemperance and the kindred mon
sterS Of fraud and uncleanness requires
you to rally all your Christian courage!
the press, through the pulpit,
the platform, you must assault
it.
Christian Reform.
Would to God that all our American
Christians would band together, not
for crackbrained fanaticism, but for
holy Christian reform! l think it was
in 1893 that there went out from Luck
now, India, under the sovereign, the
greatest hunting party that was ever
projected. There were 10000 armed
men in that hunting party. There
were camels and horses and elephants.
On some princes rode, and royal ladies
under exquisite housings, and 500
coolies waited upon the train, and the
1esOlate places Of India were invaded /
by this excursion, and the rhinOcerOs /
and deer and elephant fell under the
stroke of the saber and bullet After
awhile the party brought back trophies
worth $4,000 rupees, having left the |
wilderness of India CHASTITY with the I
slain bodies of wild beasts. Would to |
Sod that instead of here and there a /
'traggler going out to fight these great |
monsters of iniquity in our country |
he millions of members of our church
IS would band together and hew in /
vain these great crimes that make
he land frightful with their roar and
Are fattening upon the bodies and |
souls of immortal men! Who is ready
5or such a party as that? Who will
De mighty hunter for the Lord?
l remark, again, if you want to be
in spiritual archery you
need not only to bring down the game,
out bring it in. l think one of the
most beautiful pictures of Thorwald-
sen is his Autumn 1t represents a
;portsman coming home and standing
lnder a grapevine. He has a staff over
lis shoulder, and on the other end of
hat staff are hung a rabbit and a
)race of birds. Every hunter brings
home the game. No one would think
# bringing down a roebuck or whip
,ing up q stream for trout and letting
hem lie in the woods. At eventide
he camp is adorned with the treasures
f the forest-beak and fin and antIer.
If you go out to hunt for immortal
ou1s, not only bring them down under
he arrow of the gospel, but bring them