Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-11-04

AIiI IL CURVES dTOulu ana 1t Is aiming
at your heart. You had better dodge
It. You cannot dodge it. 1t rolls into
your bosom, and after it rolls in a
word OF Al old book rolls in after it.
saying. With what measure We mete
1t shall be measured to you again"
FiIiaI InGratftude.
You m~altreated an aged parent. You
~begrUdge him the roOm in your house.
You are impatient of his whimsicaIi-
ties and garrulity. 1t makes you mad
to hear him tell the same story twice.
You give him food he cannot masti-
cate. You wish he was away. You
wonder if he is going to live forever.
He will be gone very soon. His steps
are shorter and shorter He is going to
stop. But God has IN account to set
tie with o OF that subject. After
awhile your eye will be dim, and your
gait will halt, and the sound of the
grinding will be low, and you will tell
the same story twice, and your chill
dren will wonder if you will never be
taken away. They called you father
once. Now they call you the old man."
If you live a few years longer, they
will call you the 'old chap What
are those rough words with which
your children are accosting you? They
are the echo of the very words YOU
used in the ear of your old ather
forty years ago. What is that which
you are trying to chew, but find it
unmasticatable and your Jaws ache
and you surrender the attempt? Per
haps it may be the gristle which you
gave to your father for his breakfast
forty years ago.
A gentleman passing along the ave
u saw a son dragging his father into
the street by the hair of the head. The
gentleman, outraged at this brutal con-
duct, was about to punish the offender,
when the old man arose and said:
Don't hurt him. It's all right. Forty
years ago this morning | dragged out
my father by the hair of his head!" It
is a circle. Other sins may be adjourn
ed to the next world, but -maltreatment
of parents is punished in this world.
That circle is made quickly, very quick
ly. Oh, what a stupendous thought that
the good and the evil we start come
back to us! Do you know that the judg-
day will be only the points at
which the circles join, the good and the
bad We have don coming back to us
unless divine Intervention hinder-com-
ing back to us with welcome of delight
or curse Of condemnation?
Gods Mighty Memory.
Oh, I would like to see Paul, the inva-
lid missionary, at the moment when his
influence comes to full orb-his infiu-
ence rolling out through Antioch,
through Cyprus, through Lystra,
through Corinth, through Athens,
through Asia, through Europe, through
America, through the first century,
through five centuries, through twenty
centuries, through earth, through heav-
and at last the wave of influence,
made ull circuit, strikes his
soul. Oh, then 1 would like to see him!
n can tell the wide sweep Of the
circle of Paul's influence save the n
is seated on the circle of the earth.
l should not like to see the cOunte-
nance of Voltaire when his influence
to full orb. When the fatal hem
Orrhage seized him at eighty-three years
Of age, his influence did not cease. The
most brilliant man of his century, he
had used all his faculties for a%ssaulting
his bad influence widen
ing through France, widening out
through Germany, widening through all
Europe, widening through America,
widening through the 1913 years that
nave gone since he died, widening
through earth, widening through the
great future, until at last the accumu
.ated influence of his baleful teachings
and dissolute life will beat against his
1ismayed spirit, and at that moment
t will be enough to make the black
hair of eternal darkness turn white
with horror. No one can tell how that
mans influence girdled the earth
save the one who is seated on the circle
# the earth-the Lord Almighty.
well, now" say some, this, In
respects, is a very glad theory
and in others a very sad one. We
like to have the good we have
lone come back to US. but the thought
hat all the sins we have e. commit
will come back to IS fills us with
affright." My brother, I have to tell
you God can break that circle and will
so at your call. I can bring twenty
passages of Scripture to prove that
when God, for Christ's sake, forgives
a man the sins Of his past life never
back. The wheel may roll on
md on, but you take your position
behind the cross, and the wheel strikes
the cross and is shattered forever. The
sins fly off from the circle and fall at
light angles with complete oblivion.
Forgiven! Forgiven! The meanest
hing a man can do is after some diff
Guilty has been settled to bring it up
again, and God will not do anything
ike that. Gods memory is mighty
to hold all the events of the
ages. but there is one thing that is
sure to slip his memory, one thing he