Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-01-14
threatened and are eyes to the blind

threatened anu are eyes 10 the UIlnu
| and sit in close rooms lest the septua-
| genarian be chilled and count out the
right number of drops at the right
| time The mother of a little child has
| her hands full, but the daughter who
| stays at home to take care of an aged
| father or mother has her hands just as
full.
After years Of filial fidelity on the
part of this self sacrificing daughter
the old folks go home. Now the
daughter is free from marital alliance,
but the damask rose in her cheek is
faded, and the crows feet have left
their mark on the forehead, and the
gracefulness is gone out of the figure,
and the world calls her by mean and
ungallant name. But, my Lord and
my God, surely thou wilt make it up
for that girl in heavenly reward! On
all the banks of the river of life there
is no castle of emerald and carbuncle
richer than that which awaits her. Its
windows look right out upon the
Kings park, and the white horses of
the chariot are being harnessed to meet
her at the gate, and if there are no 9th
ers to meet her father and mother will
be there to thank her for all she did for
them when their strength failed and
the grasshopper became a burden, and
they will say: my daughter, how kind
you were to us even until the last!
How good it is to be together in heav-
en-! That is the Kings chariot come
for you. Mount and ride to your ever
lasting home" Now, that is what 1
IL q n oh do pt ont,.oDoo
Triumphant Reception.
Know right we'll that in whatever sta
ton of life you now move, and whether
your intellectual faculty be brilliant or
dull and your worldly resources opu-
lent or poor, you may have at the gate
of heaven jubilant and triumphant re-
ceptiOn. All soldiers cannot be Hanni-
balls and MarlbOrOughs, all admiralS
cannot be DupOnts and Farraguts, all
authors cannot be Bacons and South
eys, neither can all Christians be Pauls
and Richard Cecils. Do your best right
where you are, asking Gods help, and
you will not only win glorious admis-
sion, but you will make all your life in
heaven grander and higher life.
1t is a good thing to have n healthy
ambition in this world, and why not an
ambition not to stand among the COM
parative failures of heaven saved as
by fire." but to be classified among
those who did something worthy of
immortals? The Bible distinctly tells
that there will be grades in heaven,
''as one star differeth from another
star in glory" VIII you be among the
lower grades when you may be among
the higher? Of course cherubic and
seraphic orders are fixed, and you can
not enter them, but in what low or
high order of the SainthOOd you may
live and reign forever you are now de-
Gliding by your present half hearted
ness or enthusiastic ardor. Be the
means of salvation of one man or one
woman and you stir all the heights
celestial, for there is joy in heaven
among the angels of God over one sin
ner that repenteth.
But imagine one of these scarcely
saved" Christians entering the shining
realm. He passes in a stranger. Saint
says to saint, "WhO comes there?" and
angel to angel, "Who is that?" He
moves up and down the streets and
meets no one whom he helped to get
there. He goes into the great temple
and finds among the thrOngs of the
white robed not one soul whom he
helped to join the dOXOlOgieS. He goes
into the "hOuse of many mansions
and finds not one spirit whom he help
ed to start for that high residence. L
am glad that he got in, but 1 am amaz-
ed that in the 80 or 40 or 70 years of
hi 20 J. 4 e., Cd nd no
betterment of the world which woke
the heavenly echoes. Oh, child of God,
if you had never thought of it before,
L present the startling fact that you
are now deciding not only the style of
your heavenly reception, but the grade
of your association and enjoyment of
the world without end. Are you salts
fed with yourself that you can afford
to throw away raptures and ignore
heavenly possibilities and elect your
self to lower status and classify your
self amid the less efficient when you
may mount a higher heaven?
While 1 thus discourse l am aware
that some have not taken the first step
toward heaven, and they feel like ia
cob Strawn, who took some ministers
of the gospel on the top of his house to
show his farms, reaching in every di-
rection as far as eye could see. He
was asked how many acres he owned,
and he replied 10000. 'How much is
it worth per acrew was asked, and he
replied, FIFTY dollars at least"
"Then," said the minister, you are
worth $2OOO,OOO." eyes," said Strawn,
''and L made it all myself" Then the
minister said, "You have shown me
these vast earthly possessions, and now
will you look up yonder," pointing to
the heavens. "How much do you own
up there?' and Strawn answered, with
tears in his eyes, ooh, am afraid I |