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

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Giles because | want you TO understand
l know all the difficulties in the way.
But l am low going to tell you how
Hann4ral may scale the Alps and how
the shackles may be unriveted and how
the paths of virtue forsaken may be
regained. First of all, throw yourself
on God. Go TO him frankly and ear
nestly and tell him these habits you
have and ask him if there Is any help
in all the of omniDotent love
to give it to you. Dc not go on with a
long rigmarole, which some people call
prayer, made up of obs and abs and
forever agt1 forever amens. Go TO God
and cry for help.
| remember that in the civil war l
was at Antietam with other members
of the Christian commission to look
after the wounded. l went into the
hospital after the battle, and l said tO
q man, Where are you hurt?" He
made no answer, but held up his arm,
swollen and splintered. l saw where
he was hurt. The simple fact is when
a man has a wounded soul all he has tC
do is to hold it up before a sympathetic
Lord and get it healed.
Young a l will stand by you.
The mountains may depart and the
hills be removed, but l will never fail
you" And then, as the soul thinks
the news is too good to be true and
cannot believe it and looks up in Gods
face, God lifts his right hand and takes
an affidavit, makes an oath, saying,
LAS l live" saith the Lord God, Il
nave no pleasure in the death of the
wicked" Blessed be God for such Cos
pei as this! ''Cut the slices thin" say
the wife to the husband, "for there will
not be enough to go around for all the
children; cut the slices hin Blessed
be God, there is a full loaf for every
one that wants it. Bread and enough
to spare! No thin slices Oh the Lords
tablet
Advice to Young Men
L remember that while living ir
Philadelphia at the time I spoke of a
minute ago the Master Street hospital
was opened, and a telegram vas re-
ceived, saying: "There will be 800
wounded men tonight. Please take
care of them.'' From my church there
went out twenty or thirty men and WO-
men. AS the poor wounded men were
brought in no one asked them from
what state they came or what was
their parentage. There was q
soldier, and the only question was how
to take off the rags most gently and
put on the cool bandage and admins
ter the cordial. And when a soul comes
to God he does not ask where you
came from or what your ancestry a
Healing balm for all your wounds,
pardon for all your guilt, comfort for
all your troubles.
Then, also, I counsel you, if you want
to get back, quit all YOU bad associ-
ates. One unholy intimacy will fill
your soul with moral distemper. In all
the ages of the church there has not
been an instance where a man kept
one evil associate and was reformed
among the sixteen hundred million of
the race not one instance. Give up
your bad companions or give up heav-
en-. 1t is net ten bad companions that
destroy a man, nor five bad compan-
ions, nor three, but one.
What chance is there for that young
man l saw along the street, our or
five young men with him, in front Of a
grOgshOp, urging him to go in, he re
sisting-violently resisting-until after
awhile they forced him to go in? 1t
was q summer night, and the door was
left open, II | saw the process. They
held him fast, and they put the cup to
his lips, and they forced dow the
strong drink. What chance is there for
such a young man?
l counsel you also to seek Christian
A6Uinn EUO.v Christian man iC hnJJn6
to help you. If he declines to help you,
he is not a Christian. Now gather up
all your energies of body, mind and soul
and, appealing to God for success, de
clare this day everlasting war against
all evil influences. A half and half
work will amount to nothing; it must
be a Waterloo. Shrink back now and
you are lost. Push on and you are
saved.
Victory over Sin.
Some of you, like myself, were born
In the country. And what glorious
news might these young men SEND
home to their parents that this after
noon they had surrendered themselves
to God and started a new life! | know
how it is in the country. The night
on. The cattle stand under the
rack, through which burst the trusses
of hay. The horses have just frisked
up from the meadow brook at the
nightfall and stand knee deep in the
bright straw that Invites them to lie
down and rest. The perch of the howell
is fufi of fowl, their feet warm under
their feathers. When the nights get
cold, the flames clap their hands above
the great backlog and shake the shad-
ow of the group up n down the wall.
Father and mother sit there for half
an hour, saying nothing. 1 wonder
what they are thinking of. After
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