Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-01-27


and become an immortal athlete. But
hear hear; remark pertinent to all
people, whether in the twenties, the
thirties, the fOrties, the ffties, the six
ties, the seventies or beyond
The Need of All Ages.
What we all need is to take the SUI
pernatural into our lives. Do not let
us depend on brain and muscle and
nerve. We want mighty supply of
the supernatural. We want with us a
divine force mightier than the waters
and the tempests, and when the Lord
took two steps on bestormed GaliIee,
putting one foot on the winds and the
other on the waves, he proved himself
mightier than hurricane and billow.
We want with us a divine force greater
than the fires, and when the Lord cool
ed ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS furnace until
Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego did
not even have to fan themselves he
proved himself mightier than the fire.
We want divine force stronger than
wild beast, and when the Lord made
Daniel lion tanner he proved himself
stronger than the wrath of the iungles.
There are so many diseases in the
world we want with us a divine Phvsi-
clan capable of combating ailments.
and our Lord when on earth showed
what he could do with catalepsy and
paralysis and Ophthalmia and demen-
tia. Oh, take this supernatural into all
your lives! How to get it? Just as
you get anything you want-by appli-
cation.
a man got up in a New York prayer
meeting and said: God is my partner
| did business without him for twenty
years and failed every two or three
years. | have been doing business
with him for twenty years and have
not failed once" Oh, take the super
natural into all your affairs. l had
such an evidence of the goodness of
God in temporal things when l entered
life, | must testify. Called to preach
at lovely Belleville, in New Jersey, I
entered upon my work. But there
stood the empty parsonage, and not a
cent had | with which to furnish it.
After preaching three or four weeks
the officers of my church asked me if
L did not want to take two or three
weeks vacation. | said, YES" for I
had preached about all | knew, but
feared they must be getting tired of
me. When l returned to the village
after the brief vacation, they handed
me the key of the parsonage and asked
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it. Not suspecting anything had hap
pened, l put the key into the parson-
age door and opened it, and there was
the hall completely furnished with car
pet and pictures and hatrack, and
turned into the parlOrs, and they were
furniShed-the sOftest sofas | ever sat
on-and into the study, and l found it
furnished with bookcases, and l went
into the bedrooms, and they were fur
nished, and into the pantry, and that
was furnished with every culinary ar
ticle, and the spicebOXes were filled,
and a -four barrel stood there ready to
be opened, and | went down into the
dining room, and the table was set and
beautifully furnished, and into the
and match lay on the top of the stove,
and all l had to do in starting house
keeping was to strike the match. God
inspired the whole thing, and if ever
doubt his goodness all up and down
the world call me an Migrate 1 testify
that have been in many tight places,
and God always got me out, and he will
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But the most of you will never reach
the eighties or the seventies or the six
ties or the fifties or the forties He
who passes into the forties has gone
far beyond the average of human life.
Amid the uncertainties take God
through Jesus Christ as your present
and eternal safety. The longest life
is ONLY q small fro Cmopt of tbo oroo+