Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-07-22

! cutlOnerS OF the law, and they go scot
/ free. You say they had their prOvoca-
tons. God gave life, and he alone has
a right to take it, and he may take it
by visitation of Providence or by an
executioner of the law, who is his mes
senger. But when a man assumes that
divine prerogative he touches the low
est depth of crime.
Society is alert for certain kinds Of
murder. If a citizen going along the
road at night is waylaid and slain by
! robber, we all want the villain ar
! rested and executed. For all garroting,
for all beating out of life by a club or
an Ak or a slungshot, the law has quick
spring and heavy stroke, but you know
that when men get aff1uent and high
position and they avenge their wrongs
by taking the lives of others great sym
pathy is excited. Lawyers plead, la
dies weep, judge halts, jury is bribed,
and the man goes free. If the verdict
happen to be against him, new trial
is called on through some technicality,
and they adjourn for witnesses that
never come and adjourn and adjourn
until the community has forgotten all
about it, and then the prison door
opens, and the murderer goes free.
Now, if capital punishment be right
I say let the life of the polished muir
derer go with the life of the vulgar as
sassin. Let us have no partially Of
gallows, no aristocracy of electrocution
chair. Do not let US float back to bar
bariSm, when every man was his own
Judge, jury and executioner and that
man had the supremacy who had the
sharpest knife and the strongest arm
and the quickest step and the stealth
lest revenge. He who willfully and in
hatred takes the life of another is a
murderer, [ care not what the provoca-
ton or the circumstances. He may be
cleared by an enthusiastic courtroom,
he may be sent by the government Of
the United States as minister to some
foreign court or modern literature may
polish the crime until it looks like hero
ISM but in the sight of God murder is
murder, and the judgment day will so
reveal it.
Now, do not be fascinated by the CLAM
our thrown over crime of whatever
sort. Because others have habits that
seem brilliant, but yet at the same
time are wicked do not choose such
faults. Stand independent of all such
influences. Put your confidence in the
Lord God. He will be your strength.
vengeance is mine. 1 will repay,
saith the Lord" Cultivate old fash
toned honesty. This book is full of it.
Old fashioned honesty such as was spO-
ken of by DR.. Livingstone, the famous
explorer. You may not know he was
descended from the highlanders. DR..
Livingstone said that one day one OF
the old highlanders called his children
around him and said: "Now, my lads,
I have looked all through our family
line. / have gone back as far as l can,
and | find that all our ancestors were
honest people. There doesn't seem to
be one rogue among them, and you
have good blood. Now, my lads, be
honest"
-Four Plain Questions.
There are hundreds Of young men
who have good blood. Shall l ask three f.
or four plain questions? Are your hab- +
its as good as when you left your IA
theirs house? Have you a pool ticket T
in your pocket? Have you a fraudu-
lent document? Have you been expert /
menting to see how accurate an imita-
ton you could make of your employers I
signature? Oh, you have good blood. +
Remember your fathers prayers. Re +
member your mothers example. Turn .
not in an evil way. Have you been 60
ing astray? Come back. Have you
ventured out too far?
AS l stand in pulpits looking over
audiences sometimes my heart fails
me. There are SO many tragedies pres
ent, so many who have sacrificed their
integrity, SO many far away from God.
Why, my brother, there have been too
many prayers offered for you to have
you go overheard. And there are those
venturing down into sin, and my heart
aches to call them back.
At Brighton Beach or Long Branch
you have seen men go down into the
surf to bathe and they waded out far
Their and farther, and you got anxious
about them. You said, II wonder if
they can SWIM" And you then stood
and shouted: Come back! Come back!
You will be drowned!' They waved
their hand back, saying, ''No danger"
They kept on wading deeper down and
farther out from shore until after
awhile a great wave with a strong I'M
dertow took them out, their cOrpses
the next day washed on the beach. So
I see men wading down into sin far
Their and farther, and l call to them:
"Come back! Come back! You will be
lost; you will be lost!' They wave
their hand back, saying, "No danger;
no dsngerw Deeper down and deeper
down until after awhile a wave sweeps
them out and sweeps them off forever.
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