Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-12-09
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Blessings of quick information: News
lapers falling all around US thick as
leaves ina September e%quinoctial. News
three days old rancid and stale. We
see the whole world twice a day
through the newspaper at the break.
fast table and through the
at the teatable, with an extra" here
and there between.
Blessing of gospel proclamation: Do
you not know that nearly all the mis-
sionary societies nave been born within
a hundred years and nearly all the BIZ
bic societies and nearly all the great
p~hilanthropic movements? Christian
ity is OF the march, while infdelity is
dwindling into imbecility. While inf
deity is thus dwindling the wheel of
Christianity is making about a thou
sand revolutions In a minute. All the
copies of Shakespeare and Tennyson
and Disraeli and of any ten of the
most popular writers of the day less in
number than Che copies of the Bib
going out from u printing presses. A
few years ago in six weeks more than
10000 900 copies of the New Testament
PURCHASER hOC given away Jul pun
chased, because the world will have it.
The most popular book today is the
Bible, and the mightiest institution is
the church, and the greatest name
among the nations n more honored
than any is the name of Jesus.
Wonders of self sacrifice. A clergy
man told me in the northwest that for
six years he was a missionary at the
extreme north, living 400 miles from a
postoffice, and sometimes, the Their
mometer 40 degrees below zero, he
slept out of doors in winter, wrapped
in rabbit skins woven together. 1 said:
"Is it possible? You do not mean 40
degrees below zero?' He said, 81 do,
and l was happy" All for Christi
Where is there any other being that
will rally lei enthusiasm? Mothers
sewing their fingers off to educate their
boys for the gospel ministry. For nine
years 10 luxury on the table until the
course through grammar schoo Inc
college and theological seminary be
completed. Poor widow putting her
mite into the Lords treasury, the face
Of emperor or president impressed upon
the coin not so conspicuous as the
blood with which she earned it. Mil
lions of good men and women, but
more women than men, to whom Christ
Is everything. Christ first and Christ
last and Christ forever.
Why, this. age is not SO character
lied by invention and scientific ex-
ploration as it is by gospel proclama-
ton. You can get no idea of it unless
o can ring all the church bells in one
chime and sound all the organs in one
diapason and gather all the congrega-
tons of Christendom in one "Gloria In
Excelsis." Mighty camp meetings.!
Mighty Ocean Groves! Mighty Chau-
%tauquas! Mighty conventions of Chris
tian workers! Mighty general assem-
blies Of the Presbyterian church,
Mighty conferences of the Methodist
church! Mighty associations of the
Baptist church! Mighty conventions
of the Episcopal church, There may
be many years of hard work yet before
the cOnSummatiOn, but the signs are
to me so encouraging that 1 would not
be unbelieving if I saw the wing of the
ap~ocalyptic angel spread for it's last
triumphal flight in this days sunset or
if tomorrow morning the ocean cables
ohO04o ) Oo / tHS hS"0 th0L
Christ the Lord had alighted on Mount
Olivet to proclaim universal dominion.
The Divine Purpose.
All dead churches, wake up! Throw
the shutters of stiff e~cclesiasti-
cism and let the light of the spring
morning come in! Morning for the
land! Morning for the sea! Morning of
emancipation! Morning Of light and
love and peace! Morning of a day in
which there shall be no chains to
break, no sorrows to assuage, nc des-
to shatter, no woes to compass
Blessed Christ, descend! Scar
red temple, take the crOwni Bruised
hand, take the scepter! Wounded foot,
on the throne! Thine is the king
These things l say because l want
you to be alert. 1 want you to be
watching all these wonders unrolling
from the heavens and the earth. God
has classified them, whether calami-
tous or pleasing. The divine purposes
are harnessed in traces that cannot
break and in girths that cannot slip
and in buckles that cannot loosen and
are driven by reins they must answer.
L preach no IaIallSm. a SWartny engi-
neer at one Of the depots In Dakota
said, "When will you get on the loco
motive and take a ride with u.s."
"Well," / said, NOW, if that suits
you" So I got on n side of the To-
connective, and a Methodist minister,
was also invited, got on the other
side, and between us were the engineer
and the stoker. The train started. The
engineer had his hand on the agitated
pulse of the great engine. The stoker