Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-02-18
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words of triumphant faith.
| congratulate all aged Christians
that the mOlting season will soon be
over, and you will mount higher than
eagle ever assembled. What a good
thing that you are soon to get rid Of
winters cold and summers heat and
drenching rain and lowering clouds
and live III superbest climate of the
universe, whether it be this world
made over as to atmosphere and con-
tour or in some star which mighty tele-
scope halls from the observatory or in
some center around which all world.
wheel. 1t is all ready and has been
ready, as near as I can calculate, since
1871 years ago, when Christ went up
after saying, 81 go to prepare a place
for you What good thing to get rid
of this worlds vicissitudes and to have
no surprises except those that are eX-
hilarant, as when Milton may ring a
new canto or ChrysostOm may speak
with q new eloQuence or Handel may
render new symphony, for l do not
suppose that those who were mighty on
earth are going to be idlers in heaven.
What a good thing it u.s. all We aged
Christians, that you can soon get rid of
du1led ear and sight that requires
strong eyeglasses and infirmities which
make you hold on to the banister, leav-
ing you painting at the head of the
stairs, and enter a land of eterna.
health, where the most rubicund cheek
of robust life on earth would be enact
alton compared with the vigor of the
immortals. What a good thing to get
beyond being misunderstood and blam-
ed for what you could not help and
picked at by hard world and then
pass into a heavenly society where all
think we'll Of each other and friend
ships are eternal, depreciation and
SANDER and backbiting unknown, for
the gate of heaven was shut against
them in the statement, without are
dogs" What good thing to have sat
isfying and glorious explanation of
things that puzzled you 20 or 40 or so
years, to have the Interrogation point
abolished and all mystery solved and
Gods government indicated, and you
will see why he allowed sin and sorrow
to come into the world and why the
bad were permitted to live so long and
the good were cut off in the time of
their greatest usefulness and why so
many of the cOnsecrated find life a
struggle, while many Of the infamous
ride prosperously, princes afoOt and
beggars a-horseback, and the last hon
est question shall have been answered.
Gibbon in his history says that Mo-
manned had a dream in which he
thought that, mounted on the horse
BOrak, he assembled the seven heavens
and approached within two bow shots
of the throne and felt cold that pierre
ed him to the heart when his shoulder
was touched by the hand of God. That
might do for MOhammed'S heaven, but
not for a Christian heaven. No cold
hand put upon your shoulder there, no
cold hand of repulse or doubt, but the
warm hand of welcome. the warm
hand of sanity communion, the warm
hand of God.
Youth Renewed.
L congratulate all Christians who are
in the eventide. Good cheer to all of
you. Your best days are yet to come.
You are yet to hear the best songs, see
the grandest sights, take the most de-
lightful journeys, form the most ele-
waiting friendships, and after 10000
years of transport you will be no near
er the last rapture than when you
were thrilled with the first.
In heaven you will have what most
pleases you. Archbishop Leighton's
desire for heaven was a longing for
Christ and purity and love. and he has
found there what he wanted. John
Foster rejoiced at the thought of heav-
hnooI1Sp tbarn 20 could Sfl11U
secrets of the universe without re-
and he has been RECALLING him
self in that research. Southey thought
of heaven as a place where he would
meet with the learned and the great
Chaucer and Dante and Shakespeare.
He no doubt has found that style of
That great and good DR..
Dick was fond of mathematics, and
he said he thought much of the time
in heaven would be given to that
study, and l have no doubt that since
ascension he has made advancement
in that science. The twelve manner
of fruits spoken of in Revelation
means all kinds of enjoyment in heav-
en-, for twelve manner of fruits in
cludes all the chief fruits that are
grown on trees. 1 suppose there will
be as many kinds of enjoyment in
heaven as there will be inhabitants.
You will have in heaven just what
you want. Are you tired? Then heav-
IN will be rest. Are you passionately
fond of sweet sounds? Then it will be
music. Are you stirred by pictures?
There will be all the colors on the new
heavens and on the Jasper sea, and the
walls imbedded with what splendors!
Are you fond of great architecture?
There you will find the temple of God
and the Lamb and the uplifted thrones.
Are you longing to get back to your