Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-06-16

passed before him ana bowed and
kissed his hand and mockingly told
him how well he looked. And when the
French statesman died he was boil
stored up ia bed, playing a game of
cards! But when the Satanic reapers
came to gather that mans harvest of
corruption they did not take along
MaZarin's pictures or his cardinals
hat, which he had disgraced. They
only took away his sinful and depraved
heart. Mazarin sowed to the flesh.
The Satanic reapers garnered the cor
ruption.
The Way of Escape.
Well" says some discouraged soul,
convicted of his past sins, what am I
to do? l fully realize my evil past.
Must l die an eternal death? Is there
no hope for me?" Yes, my brother,
there is hope for you if you repent of
your sins and throw yourself upon
Christ's mercy, as wide as the forgive
ness of God. | only quoted one-half Of
the verse from which my text was tax
en-. The last half of the verse reads
thus, "But he that soweth to the spirit
shall of the spirit reap life everlast-
ing" The first half is a red light Of
warning flashed far out over the trou-
bled sea Of sin. The second half is a
beacon inviting you up the Narrows to
the harbor of Peace.
First, my brother, you must get your
heart right for the spiritual seed plant
ing. In the far east the ancient pillow
was made out of wood and not from
iron. You must let the beam Of the
cross pillow up your sinful heart Then,
having prepared the ground for the
spiritual seed planting, you must go to
work for God with ten times one hun
dred times-aye, with a thousand times
the zeal you have ever felt as disci-
pie of sin. You must enlist yourself,
| body, mind and soul, for the gospel
| planting. AS l said before, you can
not change the past. The past is dead.
But, oh, by the power of the Holy Spir
| it you can spiritualize the future! You
! can make your last earthly days hon
ored days in heaven and on earth, be-
| cause they have been lived for God
and to help your sinful fellow man.
"Whosoever will, let him come and
take of the water of life freely" That
means you; that means me. We can
all come.
NO." you answer, II will not. can
not, dare not come to Christ now.
have had too black a past. l have
sown too many evil seeds to the flesh.
l feel a great deal like that young col
lege boy who was dying from an acct
dent in Edinburgh. When the chap
lain knelt by his bedside and said, My
| lad, will you repent of your sins and
look to Christi he answered: No, sir.
1 have served the devil all my life, and
served him we'll, and now at this last
moment would not be so mean as to
ask Christ to take my broken down
body and my wreck of life. No, sir,
would not be so mean.''
Sow to the Spirit Now.
But, my sinful friend, even with all
your sinful past, is that right? Is
that what Christ would have you do?
If you had a hayward boy, and he had
run away from home and trampled
upon your bleeding heart for many
years, would you want him to stay
away and die hardened against you
and bitter merely because he had been
sinful and hayward? No! If you
knew where he was dying today, you
would take the very first train to him.
You would go, if necessary, without
even a change of garments. You would
walk up and down the train while it
was in motion, because your anxiety
would not let you sit STILL and you
would rush into the hospital and rush
to the ward and throw yourself by his
bed just to give him a kiss of love and
pardon. So Jesus today begs you to
live for him and come to him. My
brother will you let the cross be the
pillow to change your heart? Will you
take the good seed in your hand and
go forth to SOW to the Spirit, so that
you may reap life everlasting?
When John Todd was lying upon his
dying bed, he had a strange vision. An
angel seemed to lead him up and uu
until the dying man stood upon the
heights of a great mountain. Then the
angel asked him, dying man, dost
thou see anything?" And as John
Todd shaded his eyes to look he saw
away off in the distance fend incar.
nate. The face of that fiend had upon
it the look of unutterable woe. The
features were so hideous and the suf-
ferings of this lost spirit were so great
that John Todd hid his face in his
hands, crying: Enough, enough!
cannot look any longer. Then the
angel turned and said, THAT lost spirit
o dying man, would have been your
own had not your soul been cleansed
by the blood of the Lamb" Then the
angel of the Lord said, "Lcok, O dy
ing man, lookr' And as John Todd
lifted his eyes again, behold, there was
seen another spirit. 1t was garmented
with robe as white as the driven