Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-01-20

uate from the theological seminary
and take the pulpits of America as
CEpou.ders Of the Holy Scriptures,
what advocates they will be of that
CC-pel for the truth of which the mar
tyrs died! Hail the Polycarps and
Hugh Latimers and John KnOXes of
the twentieth century, believing the
Bible is true in spots! Would to God
that some great revival of religion
might sweep through all the theOlog-
ical seminaries of this land, confirming
the faith of the coming expounders of
al entire Bible!
The Right to BORROW.
Furthermore, in that scene Of the
text God sanctions borrowing and sets
forth the Importance Of returning. l
do not think there would have been
any miracle performed if the young
man had owned the Ak that slipped
the helve. The young man cried out
in the hearing of the prophet, alas,
master. for it was BORROWER He had
a right to borrow. There are times
when we have not only a right to bOr-
row. but it is a duty to borrow. There
are times when we ought to lend, for
Christ in his sermon on the mount de-
clared, From him that would borrow
of thee turn not thou away" 1t is
riCht that one borrow the means of
/ getting an education, as the young stu
+ dent Of my text borrowed the AK. 1t
! is right to borrow means for the for
varding of commercial ends. Most Of
1 the vast fortunes that now OvershadOw
/ the land were Matched out of q bor-
! rowed dollar.
If in any assembly it were requested
/ that those who had never borrowed
hold up their hands, none would be
! lifted, or if here and there hand were
! lifted we would know that it was a
case Of inveracity. Borrow! Why,
we are borrowing all the time. We
| borrow from the Lord the sunlight
! that shows US our way, the water that
! Stakes our thirst, the food that re-
freshes us three times a day, the pill
low on which we slumber. We borrow
/ gladness from our friends; we borrow
all elevated surroundings. The church
( borrows all it's beauty from the Christ
who founded it. In our songs and SER
mons we borrow from the raptures Of
/ heaven.
! We borrow time; we. will borrow
/ eternity. and that constant borrowing
implies return. For what we borrow
from God we must pay back in hearty
thanks and Christian service, in i'm
prOvCment of ourselves and helpful
ness fer others. For what we borrow
/ in the shape Of protection from good
government we must pay back in pa
triotic devotion. For what we borrow
from our parents III their good exam
pie and their hard work wrought for
Us in our journey from cradle to man
hood or womauhood for all the ages to
come we ought to be paying back.
The halleluiahs Of heaven will be re-
turned for crucifXion agony.
Debt a Calamity.
Hayden the painter said his ruin be.
gan the day he began TO borrow mon
cy. ana he wrote in his diary. Here
began debt and obligation, out Of which
have never been and never shall be
extricatcd as long as l live" DR..
Johnson said: do not accustOm your
self to consider debt only as an in
convenience You will find it q calam-
ity" We have q right to borrow for
the absolute necessities, expecting to
pay back again. but we ought never to
borrow for the Injuries According to
the Laws of Amasis,' in Egypt if Il
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he had borrowed he was deprived of all
obscquies. If that law were in vogue
in our times, how many postponed and
imnQsaible funerals!
Furthermore, let us admire these
young men Of Elishas theological sem
mary for the fact that they were earn
ing their own way. The most of those
today who are successful in the pro
LESSONS. indicating the sick or advo
eating the law or preaching the gospel
fought their own way on and up
Those are the kind of men who know
what education is worth and know
how to use it. Many Of US remembe
that in college days the sons of atfluen
fathers. with plenty of money to spenC
crowded with books never read AM
, wardrobes that kept them in perpleXit,
as to which of many garments wa
appropriate for the weather that day
were worth to the world nothing the,
and have been worth to the world notl
ing since, while the young men in co
: lege who had to ecOnOmize thre
3 months in order to get some book the
: needed and who could hardly rails
: money for tlSair diploma have sine
;, wrought nightly for God and tn
truth. turning the world upside dow
. because it was wrong side up.
? In the summer watering places nortl
= south. east and west, in the great b
tells serving at table and in baggag
:. room. are theological students who al
T. in preparation for the ministry, carr
i. ing in July and August the means /
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