Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-09-01


world If you are going into any dam
gerous region it is also very important
for you to have passport. This pass
port, signed by the secretary of state
at Washington, is a notification that
you are an American citizen If any
foreign nation insults or maltreats you,
that nation will have to answer for the
insult to the United States government.
Getting an Eternal Passport.
Now, my friend, as you have to take
an eternal journey, as perhaps in the
very near future you will have to
leave this old planet and go into the
endless life beyond, what spiritual
preparation have you made for the
momentous embarkation? Have you
made the proper spiritual preparation
for the journey which shall take you
into country where you would like to
live through endless eternity, where
you would like to live until time itself
shall be no longer? Have you in readi-
ness for this eternal journey a letter
of credit made out at the Bank of Di-
vine Grace? Have you an eternal pass
port written in red ink-written in the
blood which flowed out of the wounded
side of dying and an atoning Christ?
If you have not such letter of credit,
you are i'll prepared, you are lost in
deed, even though in this world you
had all the wealth of a Rothschild,
Vanderbilt, Rockefeller or an Astor
even though you once on earth lived
t. g
Dives Of old, at whose gate the dogs
were licking the sores of a dying beg
gar. Shrouds have no pockets, and q
skeletons bony fingers can hold no
| gold, and all your worldly riches will
! then be but dross, which you cannot
carry with you on that last journey.
But, if you have the letter of credit of
divine grace and the passport stamped
with the crimson seal of Calvary, then
the long journey will be accomplished
safely, and the gates of the New Je-
rusalem will be opened unto you, no
matter how financially poor you may
have been on earth, because you are
pleading there for admittance in
| Christs name.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, the richest man
of his day, lay dying, turning his back
upon his $9O,000,000 as though he had
been the poorest outcast in the street,
he had to ask his Christian wife to
pray for him and sing one of the old
Christian hymns which she had learned
in her fathers house. May we, one
and all, never make the mistake the
aged millionaire made in trying to fix
up our divine passport at the last mo-
ment May we, long before our earthly
demise, apply at the Bank of Grace
for a letter of credit which will sue
cessfully carry us through the dark
days when we are dying and be suffi-
cient for us until we realize the bright
and triumphant advent of heavenly
welcome.
The Long, Long Journey.
The smile Of death as long jour
ney away from the family fireside is
very striking. When a man takes a
long earthly journey, he is very apt to
gather his family about him and say,
IF | should take this journey, in all
probability l will return home at such
and such a time" or if the father is
going into new country to establish
another home he says to his children:
after | am settled there and find ev-
erything all right you can sell the
goods and pack up and come TO me.
will be in such and such a place at
such and such a time" Or perhaps the
man who is about to take long jour
ney will do as my father and myself
did when we started on our journey
around the world We were to SET
sail from San Francisco and go by the
way of the Sandwich Islands, Samoa
Australia and India. 1t was d long
hard journey, and mother was phys
ically unable to undertake it. So ia
Their said: Mother you take the two
girls and go to Europe and meet
Frank and myself as we come around
the world. Meet us either at Brindis
or in Paris or London" SO mother
set sail from New York and went east
Father and myself set sail from Sal
Francisco, going west. We were al
to meet by a preconcerted plan at the
French capital.
My brother, as you must take thi;
long journey through the valley of Thu
shadow of death with the divine pass
port in your hands, how can you eve
expect to rejoin your loved ones unless
you make previous arrangements witt
them where to meet? Having a lette
of credit at the Bank of Grace, yol
say you expect to journey to the Celes
tial City. Have you ever told you
loved ones about that city? Have yo1
: ever told them how to get to that cen
: ter of the universe? Have you eve
told them there is only one way
reach your destination, and that is fo
/. them to obtain forgiveness of their sin
by the blood of the Lamb, so that thei
heavenly advent shall be made pos
5 sible? If it is important for you t
mako Snirit11o1 nrpno tioDS for tb