Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-04-15

DOlSterOuS demonstration. Have you
lever cried for joy? There are tears
which are eternal rapture in distilla-
ton.
Everything Explained.
There are hundreds of people who
are walking day by day in the sublime
satisfaction that all is for the best, all
things working together for good for
their sou. How a man can get alOng
through this life without the eXplana-
ton is to me a mystery. What, is that
child gone forever? Are you never to
get it back? Is your property gone for
ever? Is your soul to be bruised and
to be tried forever? Have you no eX-
PLANTATION, no Christian explanation,
and yet not a maniac? But when you
have the religion of Jesus Christ in
your soul it explains everything so far
as it is best for you to understand.
You look off in life, and your soul is
full of thanksgiving to God that you
are so much better off than you might
be- A man passed down the street
without any shoes and said: II have no
shoes. Isn't it a hardship that l have
no shoes? Other people have shoes.
No shoes, no shoes!" until he saw a
mar who had nc feet. Then be learned
a lesson. You ought to thank God for
what he does instead of grumbling for
what he does not. God arrange all
the weather in this world-the spiritual
weather. the moral weather as we'll as
the natural weather. What kind of
weather will it be today?" said some
one to a farmer. The farmer replied,
at will be such weather as | like"
what do o mean by that?" asked
the other. Well" said the farmer,
sit will be such weather as pleaseS the
Lord. and what pleases the Lord pleas
es me-"
Oh, the sunshine, the sunshine of
Christian explanation! Here is some
one bending over the grave of the dead.
What is going to be the consolation?
The flowers you strew upon the tomb?
Oh, no! The services read at the grave?
oh, no! The chief consolation on that
grave is what falls from the throne Of
God. Sunshine, glorious sunshine
resurrection sunshine!
Supernatural Vision.
Again, | find a great e. of the sun
shine of this Bible and of our religion
in the climacteric joys that are to come.
man who gets up and goes out from
4 concert right after the opening vOlun-
has been played and before the
prima donna sings or before the or
chestra begins has a better idea of that
than that man has who sup
poses that the chief joys of religion
Are IN this world. We here have only
the first note of the eternal orchestra.
shall in that world have the joy of
discovery, we will in five minutes
catch up with the astronomers, the ge-
the scientists, the philosophers
# all ages, who so far surpassed us i'll
his world. We can afford to adjourn
and geology and many of
sciences to the next world, because
shall there have better apparatus
better opportunity. | must study
,heSe sciences so far as to help me in
work, but beyond that | must give
myself to saving my own soul and say
.ng the souls of others, knowing that
II one fash of eternity we Will catch it
Ill. Oh, what an observatory in which
% study astronomy heaven will be,
not by power of telescope, but by SUI
)e%rnatural vision, and, if there be some
hing doubtful 10000, 900 miles away,
one stroke of the wing you are
here, by another stroke of the wing
are back again, and all in less time
| tell you, catching it all in one
of eternity.
And geology! What a place that will
pc to study geology when the world is
)eing picked to pieces as easily as n
schoolgirl in botanical lessons pulls the
eaf from the corolla! What a place to
study architecture, amid the thrones
the palaces and the cathedrals-St.
and st. PauI's rOOkeries in COM
)arisOn.
Sometimes you wish you could make
he tour of the whole earth, going
lrOund as others have gone, but you
not the time, you have not the
You will make the tour yet
Turing one musical pause in the eter-
lal anthem. l say these things for
he comfort of those people who are
lbridged in their OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
people to whom life is humdrum, who
oil and work and toll and work and
aspire after knowledge, but have no
lime to get it and say, eff l had the
opportunities which other people have,
low l would fill my mind and soul
With grand thoughts! Be not dis
outraged, my friends. You are going
o the university yet. Death will only
n~atriculate you into the royal college
IF the universe.
Peace Sublime.
What q ST1hIima thing if was that |
DR.. Thornwell of South Carolina
in his last dying moments!
As he looked up he said, 1T opens; it
expands, it expands" Or as Mr.. Top
ady, the author OF Crock of Ages" in
lis last moment or during his last
hours looked I'D and said, as though