Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-10-21

or the first fortune vanished. Those Of
US who have felt the consolatory power
of religion have a right to speak out OF
our own experiences and say, Conner
The Star of Faith.
What dismal work of coincidence the
world makes when it attempts :6 con-
dole! The plaster they spread does not
stick. The broken bones under their
bandage do not knit. A farmer was
lost in snowstorm on prairie of the
far west. Night coming on and after he
was almost frantic from not knowing
which way to go, his sleigh struck the
rut of another sleigh, and he said, Il
will follow this rut, and it will take me
out to safety" He fastened on until
he heard the bells of the preceding
horses; but, coming up, he found that
that man was also lost, and, as is the
tendency of those who are thus con-
fused in the forest or on the moOrs,
they were both moving in a circle, and
the runner of the one lost sleigh was
following the runner of the other lost
sleigh round and round. At last it oc-
Cured to them to look at the north
star, which was peering through the
night, and by the direction of that star
they got home again. Those who fol-
low the advice of this world in time Of
perpleXity are in a fearful round, for it
is one bewildered soul following anoth-
er bewildered soul, and only those who
have in such time got their eye on the
morning star Of our Christian faith can
find their way out or be strong enough
to lead others with an all persuasive
invitation.
But" says some one, you Christian
people keep telling us to come yet
you do not tell us how to come" That
charge shall not be true on this occa-
sion. Come believing! Come repenting!
Come praying! After all that God has
been doing for six thousand years,
sometimes through patriarchs and
sometimes through prophets and at
last through the elimination of all the
tragedies on Golgotha, can any one
think that God will not welcome your
coming? Will a father at vast outlay
construct a mansion for his son and
lay out parks white with statues and
green with foliage and all a-sparkle
with fountains and then not allow his
son to live in the house or walk in the
gospel mercy and will he then refuse
entrance to his children? VIII gov
eminent at great expense build life
saving stations all along the coast and
boats that can hover unhurt like pc
trel over the widest surge and then,
when the lifeboat has reached the
wreck of a ship in the offing, not allow
the drowning to seize the life line or
take the boat for the shore in safety
Shall God provide at the cost of his
only Sons assassination escape for
sinking world and then turn deaf ear
to the cry that comes up from the
breakers?
Snap the ShnckIe.
But" you say, "there are so many
things 1 have to believe and so many
things in the shape of a creed that l
have to adopt that l am kept back"
No, no! You need believe but two
things-namely, that Jesus Christ came
into the world to save sinners and that
YOU are one of them. But" you say,
81 do believe both of those things" Do
you really believe them with all your
heart? YES" Why, then, you have
passed from death into life. Why, then,
you are q son or a daughter of the
Lord Almighty. Why, then, you are an
heir or an heiress of an Inheritance
that will declare dividends from now
until long after the stars are dead.
Halleluiah! Prince of God, why do
you not conc and take your coronet?
Princess of the Lord Almighty, why do
you not mount your throne? Pass up
into the light. Your boat is anchored,
why do you not go ashore? Just plant
your feet hard down, and you will feel
under them the Rock of Ages. l chal-
which a man in the right spirit appeal
ed for the salvation Of the gospel and
did not get it. Man alive, are you going
to let all the years of your life go away
with you without your having this
great peace, this glorious hope, this
bright expectancy? Are you going to
let the pearl of great price lie in the
dust at your feet because you are too
indolent or too proud to stoOp down
and pick it up? Will you wear the
chain of evil habit when near by you is
the hammer that could with one stroke
snap the shackle? Will you stay in the
prison of sin when here is gospel key
that could unlock your Incarceration?
No, no!
Pardon For All.
AS the one word "come" has some
times brought many souls to Christ, l
will try the experiment of piling up
into a mountain and then send down
in an avalanche Of power many of
these gospel comes" "Come thou and
all thy hOuSe into the ark" ''COme INTO
me all ye who labor and are heavy
laden, and I will give you rest;" "Come,
for all things are now ready" "Come
with us. and we will do you good;"
"Come and see;" 1.-THE Spirit and the