Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-03-18

from the full inkhorn of his mercy give
a saving call to all nations That day
may be far off, but it is helpful to
think of it's coming. AS DR.. Raleigh
declared that when so miles at sea off
the coast of New England the cattle on
board the ship as well as himself
scented the clover on the New England
hills, so we amid all the tossing waves
of the worlds controversies inhale the
redolence of the white lilies of univer-
sal peace.
Stop Wars Horrors.
Is it not time that the boosted inven-
ton of new and more explosive and
more widely devastating weapons of
death be stopped forever, and the Cos
pei have q chance and the question be
not asked, How many shots can be
fired in a minute, but How many souls
may be ransomed in a day? The world
needs less powder and more grace, few
err fOrtresses and more churches, less
power to destroy and more power to
save. Oh [ am sick of the warcries,
and the eXtinguished eyesight, and the
splintered bones, and the grave trench
es. and the WidoWhOOd and Orphanage
and childlessness which sob and grOan
and die in the wake of the armies on
both sides Of the sea! oh, for less of
the slaughter weapon and more OF the
evangelizing inkhOrn! Oh, for the stop
ping OF the science of assassination,
that crime of crimes, that woe of woes,
that horror of horrors, that hell of
hells-war, which this moment stands
reeking with blood, and washing itself
in tears, and disappearing the heavens,
and pushing off the edge of this life
men who have as much right to live as
you and | have, and blasting homes in
which there dWellS as much loneliness
as in our own! Would that the merci-
full angel Of my text might take the last
weapon of war and fling it off and
fling it down with such force that it
shall clang on the lowest round of the
perdition where the first keen edge of
human strife was sharpened! War! In
the name of Almighty God and of all
the hOmesteads it has destroyed and is
now destroying, 1 hate it. I denounce
it. I curse it.
Book of Truth.
book that was ever printed is as true
as that book, which Moses began and
John finished-then the time will come
when all the weapons of cruelty will
stop, and the inkhorns Of evangelical
ton will have their way. In the mu-
seums of the world the carbine and the
cannon and the bomb Will be kept as
curiosities, and children will be incred-
ulOus as parents tell them that civiliz-
ed nations once employed such instru-
montS of death and more incredUlOus
when told by their parents that the ar
my that killed the most men was con-
sidered the most glorious army. The
red horse of carnage that st. John saw
in vision and the black horse of fam
inc and the pale horse of death will be
stabbed, and the white horse of pros
perity and peace, mounted by the King
of Kings, will lead the great army
with banners. Through the cOnvicting,
sanctifying power of the
Eternal Spirit may we all march in
that procession! Hail, thou Mighty
Rider of the white horse in the final
triumph! Sweep down and sweep by, |
thou Angel of the New Covenant, with |
the inkhOrn of the worlds evangelical |
ton! "The mountains and the hills I
shall break forth into singing, and all |
the trees of the field shall clap their /
hands. Instead of the thorn shall come I
up the fir tree, and instead of the brier /
shall come up the myrtle tree and it /
shall be to the Lord for name for an /
everlasting sign that shall not be cut .
off,
copyright, 1901, by Louis Klopsch, N. VI