Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-11-04

'cr-ly ene around again to Us unless
t. divine Intervention it be hindered.
Those bad or good actions may make
the circuit Of many years, but come
back to u tLey will as certainly as
that God sits on the circle Of the earth.
Jezebel. the worst woman Of the Bi-
bic - Shakespeare copying his Lady
Macbeth from her picture - slew Ma
both because she wanted his vineyard.
While the dogs were eating the body
of Naboth Elijah the prophet put down
his compass and marked a circle from
those dogs clear around TO the dogs that
should eat the body of Jezebel. the
.nurderess. Impossible" the people
said That will never happen" Who
is that being flung out of the palace
window? JoZebeI. A few hours after
they came around, hoping to bury her.
They find only the palms of the hands
and the skull. The dogs that devoured
Jezebel II the dogs hat devoured Ma
both. Oh. what q swift, what an awful
circuit
But it is sometimes the case that this
circle sweeps through a century or
through many centuries. The world
started with a theocracy for govern
ment-that is. God was the president
and emperor of the world. People got
tired of a theocracy. They said: 1--WE
dOn't want God directly interfering
with the affairs of the world. Give US
a mOnaTchE." The world had a mon
archy. From q monarchy it is going to
have a Um&ed monarchy. After awhile
the limited monarchy will be given up
and the republican form of government
will be everywhere dominant and rec
Ognized. Then the world will get tired
Of the republican form of government,
and it will Lave an anarchy, which is
no government at all. And then all ma
tons, finding out that man is not capa-
bic of righteously governing man, will
cry out again for theocracy and say,
Let God come back and conduct the
affairs of the world" Every step
monarchy, limited monarchy, republic
anism. anarchy-only different steps be-
tween he first theOcracy and the last
theocracy or segments of the great cir
Gle of the earth on which God sits.
Resolve to Do Good.
But do not become impatient because
you ann see the curve of events and
IL AOHNANIE LAdC Npu . 6ONCLA
ment is going to break down. History
tells US that in the making of the pyra-
mids it took 1000 men two years to
drag one great stone from the quarry
and put it into the pyramids. If men
short lived can afford to work so slowly
as that, cannot God in the building OF
%eternities afford to wait?
What though God should take 10000
years TO draw a circle? Shall we take
our little watch which we have to wind
up every night lest it run down and
hold it up beside the clock Of eternal
ages? If, according to the Bible, a
thousand years are in Gods sight as
one day, then, according to that calcu-
lation the 5000 years of the worlds eX-
istence has been only to God as from
Monday to Saturday.
But it is often the case that the re-
bound is quicker. the return is much
quicker, than shat. The circle is sooner
completed. You resolve that you will do
what good you can. In one week you
put a word of counsel in the heart Of a
Sabbath school child. During that same
week you give a letter of Introduction
to a young man struggling in business.
DGI III SdhIS "SCA TX A4dAO Oil "a
hortation in d prayer meeting. 1t is all
gone. You will never hear Of it perhaps,
you think. A few years after a man
up to you and says, You don't
know me. do you?" You say, NO; I
don't remember ever to have seen youf'
"Why," he says, 81 was in the Sabbath
school class over which you were the
teacher. One Sunday you invited me to
Christ; 1 accepted the offer. You see
that church with two towers yonder?"
Yes you say. He says, THAT is
where l preach" or: "Do you see that
governors house? That is where l
live"
SANDERS Foul Poison.
One day a man comes to you and
says, "Good morning" You look at him
and say, why, o have the advan-
tage of me; l cannot place YOU" He
Don't you remember thirty years
ago giving a letter of introduction to a
young mana letter of introduction to
William E. Dodge?" Yes, yes, l do"
He says: Il am the man. That was my
first step toward a fortune. But l have
retired from business now and am Civ
ing my time to p~hilanthropies and pub
lie interests. Come up to my house and
see me-"
Or a man comes to you and says: i
want to introduce myself to you. went
into a prayer meeting some years ago.
l sat back by the door. You arose to
make an exhortation. That talk chang
ed the course of my life, and if 1 ever
get to heaven under God I will W my
salvation to you" In only ten, twenty
or thirty years the circle swept out and
swept back again to your W grateful
heart.
But sometimes it is a wider circle and