Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-12-30

armor or ribbed armor. fashioned in
ancient foundry, but no one can give
you the outfit you need except God,
who is master of this world and the
Internal world, from which ascend the
mightiest hostilities. Lay hold of God.
Nothing but the arm of Omnipotence is
strong enough for the tempted
Strength I'm the Gospel Armor.
Young man, put on the entire gospel
outfit. If you have come from the
country to live in the city, initiate the
example of a young man who arrived
in New York on Saturday night, in
tending the following Monday to enter
his place of employment. On Sunday
morning, carrying out the good advice
before leaving his country home, he
went to church. Standing at the door,
he was abashed as the beauty and
fashion and wealth swept through the
doors of the sanctuary, and he dared
not go in. AS he was about turning
to go away a gentleman said, Have
you a seat, young MANI mo, sir"
do you belong to the cityY' mo,
sir" where is your home" I'm the
country" 'How long have you been
in the city?' 81 came in last night"
What are you going to do hereF Il
hope to go into business tomorrow"
THAT is right. You have begun well,
young man. Never forsake the God of
your fathers. Come, / will give you
a seat i'll my pew" The next morning
the young man presented his letter in
business circles. what do you want,
young man?" said the Scotch mer-
chant II want to get credit on some
leather, upper and SOLE" "Have you
references?" 81 think I can get refer
ences. My father has friends here"
young man, did I not see you yester-
day in Mr.. Lenox's pew?" Il do not
know, sir. / was at church, and
kind gentleman asked me to sit in his
pew" Eyes, young man, that was
Robert Lenox. I will trust any one
that Mr.. Lenox invites into his pew.
You need not trouble yourself about
references. When these goods are
gone, come.and get more" That young
man became an eminent merchant and,
more than that, a Christian merchant,
and he attributed all his success to
that first Sabbath in the city. Young
man just arrived, put yourself under
There hangs your helmet. Take it
down. There is your breastplate. Ad-
Just it. There is all the harness for
safety and triumph. Put it on.
Also see in my subject the folly of
Understanding the enemy. That was
Benhadads fatal mistake. He could
whip them before shutdown. He want
ed less than half day to capture Sa-
maria and make the king of Israel ca
pitulate But what he thought was so
easy turned out to be the impossible.
Better overeStimate than undereSt-
mate the other side. We who are try
ing to make the world what it ought
to be contend not with homunculi. We
wrestle not with striplings. We have
whole army Of antagonists trying to
halt the King of God and overthrow
the cause of righteousness. If we Sc
cure the victory, it will be struggle
as fierce as when Darius and AleXan-
der grappled each other at Arbela, as
when Joan of Arc rode triumphant at
Orleans, as when the Russians met the
SwedeS at Poltava, as when Marlbor-
ough commanded the allied armies at
Blenheim. Those were fights for earth
" crowns and dominiOns, but the fight
that now goes on between all the allied
armies of heaven and all the allied ar
mics of hell is to settle whether God
or Satan is to have possession of this
planet.
Put Off the Harness.
I congratulate all those who are now
in the thickest of life's battles that the
time is coming when the struggle will
end and you will put the harness off,
helmet and greaves and breastplate
having fulfilled their mission. You
cannot in one visit to London Tower
see all. You must go again and again
to that place, which is associated with
the story of Lady Jane Grey and Anne
Boleyn and Walter Raleigh and Sir
Thomas More. You will see the crowns
of kings and queens, the robe worn by
the Black Prince, and silver baptismal
fonts from which royal infants were
christened, and the block on which Lord
Lovat was beheaded. But no part of
London Tower will more interest you
than the armory, in which is skillfully
and impressively arranged n collection
of all styles of armor worn between
the thirteenth and eighteenth centu-
ries, suggesting 500 years of conflict
cuirass and neck guard and chin piece
and lance rest and gauntlet and girdle
and mailed apron. You see just how
from head to heel those old time war
riors were defended against sharp
weapons.
o We soldiers of Jesus Christ, when
the war of life is over and the victors
raSt in tho soldiers, home on the heay-
emily heights perhaps there may be in
the city of the sun a tower of spiritual
armor such as incased the warriors for
Christ in earthly combat! Some day
we may be in that armory and hear