Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-08-12


happy is the man whom God correct
eth Though he cause grief, yet viii
he have compassion MANY are the
Affections Of the righteous, but the
Lord delivereth him out of them all"
Weeping may endure for a night, but
joy cOmeth in the morning" l am de-
termined that no one shall go out of
this house uncontrolled. Yonder is a
timid and shrinking soul who seems to
hide away from the consultations l am
uttering as a child with a sore hand
hides away from the physician, lest he
touch the wound too roughly, and the
mother has to go and compel the little
patient to come out and see the phySi-
clan. So l come to your timid and
shrinking soul today and compel you
to come out in the presence of the Di-
vine Physician. He will not hurt you.
He has been healing wounds for many
years, and he will give you gentle and
omnipotent medicament.
A Well of GIadness.
But people, when they have trouble.
go anywhere rather than to God. De
Quincy took opium to get rid of his
troubles, Charles Lamb took to punch,
Theodore Hook took to something
stronger, Edwin Forrest took to theat-
rical dissipation, and men have run all
around the earth, hoping in the quick
transit to get away from their miSfOr-
tunes. 1t has been a dead failure.
There is only one we'll that can Stake
the thirst Of an afflicted spirit, and that
is the deep and ineXhaustible we'll of
the gospel.
But some one in the audience says,
Notwithstanding all you have said
this morning, l find no alienation for
my troubles" Well, l am not through
yet. l have left the most potent con
sideration for the last. 1 am going I'd
soothe you with the thought of heaven,
However talkative we may be, there
will come q time when the stoutest and
most emphatic Interrogation will evoke
from us no answer. AS soon as we
have closed our lips for the final ST
lence no power on earth can break that
taciturnity. But where, o Christian,
will be your spirit? In a scene of in
finite gladness; the spring morning OF
heaven waving its blossoms in the
bright air; victOrS fresh from battle
showing their scars; the rain of earth
ly sorrow struck through with the rain
bow Of eternal joy; in one group God
and angels and the redeemed - Paul
and Silas, Latimer and Ridley, Isaiah
and Jeremiah, Payson and John Mil
ton, Gabriel and Michael, the archan
GEL long line of choristers reaching
across the hills; seas of joy dashing to
the white $1ach; cOnQuerors marching
from gate to gate, you among them
Oh, what q great flock God will gatheI
around the celestial we'll! No stone on
the wells mouth while the shepherd
waters the sheep. There Jacob will
recognize Rachel, the shepherdess. And
standing on one side of the we'll of eter.
nal rapture your children and stand.
ing on the other side of eternal rapture
your Christian ancestry, you will be
bounded en- all sides by n joy SO keen
and grand that no other world has ever
been permitted to experience it. Out OF
that one deep we'll of heaven the Shep.
herd will dip reunion for the bereaved,
wealth for the poor, health for the sick,
rest for the weary. And then all the
flock Of the Lords sheep will lie down
in the green pastures, and world with
out end we will praise the Lord that on
this summer Sabbath morning we were
permitted to study the story of jacob
and Rachel at the well.
Copyright 1901, by Louis Elopsch. N. "