Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-10-21
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" ASHINGTON. oct 2U.-ln tnlS OlS-
course DIR. Talmage calls all people to
gladness and opens all the doors Of eX-
Dectancy: texts. Genesis vi. IS. Come
Revelation xii. Ia, Come"
Imperial. tender and all persuasive is
the word come" Six hundred and
Seventy-eiGht times is it found in the
Scriptures. IL stands at the front gate
OF the Bible, as in my first text, lnV1t-
ing antediluvians into Noah's ark. and
il stands at the other gate of the Eible.
as in my second text, inviting the post
diluviaEs of all later ages into the ark
Of Saviour mercy. Come is only
q word of four letters, but it is the
queen Of words. and nearly the entire
nation of English vocabulary bows to
ats SceDter. 1t is an ocean into which
qnlptics ten thousand rivers of mean
ing. Other words drive. but this beck
OnS. All moods of feeling hath that
word come" Sometimes it weeps and
sometimes it laughs. Sometimes it
prays. sometimes it tempts, end some
times il destroys. 1t sounds from the
door of the church and from the Sc
ragltos of sin. from the gates of heaven
ana luc s5diVS Vi It'll 1t Is COllHuShI
and accresccnt of all power 1t is the
heiress of most of the past and the al
moner of most of the future. Come"
You may pronounce it SO that all the
heavens will be heard in its cadenceS
or pronounce it so that all the woes of
time and eternity shall reverberate in
its one syllable 1t is on the lip of saint
and Drof gate. 1t is the mightiest of all
snlic!tants either for good or bad.
Today weigh anchor and haul in the
plankS and set sail on that great word.
although | am sure ] will not be able
TO reach the farther shore. l will let
down the fatboming line into this sea
and try to measure its depths, and.
though tie together all the cables and
cordaGa / have on board, | will not be
able TO touch bottom. All the power of
the Christian religion is in that word
~>eomr" The GictatOrial and commend
story in religion are of no avail. The
imperative mood is not the appropriate
mood when we would have people saw
1ngly impressed. They may be coaXed,
hut they cannot be driven. Our hearts
are like our homes-at friendly knock
the door will be opened. but an at
Sempt to force open our door would
land the assailant in prison. Our theO-
logical Summaries, which keep young
men three years in their curriculum be-
fore launching them into the ministry,
Will do well if in so short a time they
can teach the candidates for the holy
office how to say with right emphasis
and intonation and power that one
word come" That man who has such
efficiency in Christian work and that
woman who has such power to per-
suede people to quit the wrong and be-
gin the right went through series Of
losses. bereavements, prosecutions and
the trials of twenty or thirty years be-
fore they could make it a triumph Of
grace every time they uttered the word
come"
The Persuasive Word.
You must remember that in many
cases our come" has mightier come"
to conquer before it has any effect at all.
Just give nc the accurate census. the
statistics of how many are down in
fraud. in drunkenness. in gambling, in
impurity or in vice of any sort, and
will give you the accurate census or
statistics of how many have been slain
Dry the word come" "Come and click
wineglaSses with me at this ivory bar"
Come and see what we can win at this
gaming table" Come, enter with me
this doubtful speculation" Come with
me and read those infidel tracts on
Christianity" "Come with me to a
place of bad amusement" "COme with
me in a gay bout through the under
ground life of the city" If in this city
there are twenty thousand who are
down In moral character, then twenty
thousand fell under the power of the
word come" | was reading Of wife
whose husband had been overthrown
by strong drink. and she went to the
saloon where he was ruined. and she
said. "Give me back my husband" And
the bartender. pointing to a maudlin
and battered man browsing in the cor
ner of the barroom. said: There he is.
Jim, wake up. Here's your wife come
for you" And the woman said: do
you call that my husband? What have
you been doing with him? Is that the
manly brow. Is that the clear eye, is
that the noble heart, that | married!
What vile drug have you given him
that has turned him into fend! Take
your tiger claws off of him. Uncoil
those serpent folds of evil habit that
are crushing him. Give me back my
husband, the one with whom l stood at
the altar ten years ago. Give him back
10 me-" Victim was he, as millions Of
others have been. of the word come"
Now. we want all the world over to
harness this word for good as others
have harneSSed it for evil, and it will
draw the five continents and the seas
between them-yea. it will draw the
whole earth back to the God from
whom il has wandered. 1t is that WOO