Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-10-05

good. true, pure, noble. Christian life.
Have you kept your VOW? Are you
willing to go to church with her now
as you did when you were engaged to
her? Are you helping her to set the
right example before your children
your children and hers? Remember.
man. you made a promise TO her and to
God on the night of your wedding
Will you seek the old path of conse-
Grated love. which wound through the
days of your courtship and ended on
the night you took your heart love as
bride from her fathers home?
Keep Your Pledges.
But there is still one more path |
want you to seek. That is the one
which led down by the cradle of your
children. When your first child was
: born, if you had the least spark of
manhood in your makeup, you wanted
to be good man for your baby's sake.
Even the lowest form of human being
feels the uplifting power when child
is born to him. In the graveyard of
Henniker, \. H.. can be found a tomb
| stone with the name, Mary, wife of
AOuidS w dlldCt~ upon IL.
| The history of that name is this: In
| June, 1720. ship was sailing across
| the Atlantic. 1t was attacked and
| boarded by pirates. The crew was
| strapped to the masts, preparatory to
| being thrown overheard and drowned.
| Just before the wholesale murder was
to take place the captain of the pirates
fnIrn6 in q G q q nv tha
name of Mrs. James Wilson, with
newborn baby lying by her side. He
! instantly asked her. is it boy or
| girl?' "A girl. was the answer. will
you let me name herr the rough pirate
asked. IF you will | will unstrap
your husbands crew and let your ship
| go free" Yes was the answer.
| Then, said he. Il name her Mary"
Mary Wilson grew up to be an old wo-
man and died at the age of ninety-four
! years as Mrs. Mary Wallace and was
buried in the little graveyard at Hen
mixer. AS tuat pirate in "a. probability
| saved that crew on account of the
memory of nis own little daughter so
the birth of every irstborn child
makes almost every father pledge him
self to God to be better and purer
man and noble Christian. Have you
kept the VOW you made when your
first baby was born?
Besides that. my brother, have you
also tried to follow out that pledge you
made to God in the night when your
baby was very sick? You we'll remem-
Der the grave faces of the physicians.
You we'll remember how you knelt by
the crib and said. 20 God. if you will
make my baby we'll | pledge to you
my future life" You well remember
the pledge you made to God on the
night your baby died. Nearly every
one of us has had a child's death
in our family. Have you kept that
pledge? Have you kept the pledge you
made to God on the old path which
once led down to the cradles of your
living children and now also leads
down to the graves of your dead ba-
bies!
The Way to Happiness.
But how are you going to find your
way back to these old paths? Some of
you have been away from these paths
for many years You are lost COM
pletely lost You will never find your
way out from the mountains of sin
unless you have a divine guide. The
Importance of guide to one lost in
the mountains of earth or of sin can
never be overestimated | remember,
some years ago. when bicycling through
the mountains of West Virginia. we
were completely lost. We wandered
around and around until the sun sank
and the twilight covered up her somber
face with a black robe and hid herself
in total darkness. We CROPPED our way
along. shuddering at the fiendish yell
of screech owl aud the glttering eyes
that might be those of proving pam
ther. After awhile we saw a dim
light in the distance. We struggled
on until we could knock at that house
and be taken in. Then in the morning
we were safe because our host. as a
guide. directed us on Today, We lost
and wearied sinners. Christ is ready to
be your guide. He will lead you out
of the mountains of sin. He will lead
you to the old paths which are all con-
verging into the one Christian path
that leads to the foot of the heavenly
throne. Will you let him lead you
Will you let him pardon you? Will
you let Jesus save you!
May the old paths of Christian love
today become to you the new paths of
Christian service. We have read that
in 1892. a party of men were encamped
upon the battlefield of Pea Ridge. in
Nor A,.i-o
cooking their supper by the camp fire
they exploded a buried twelve pound
PARROT cannon shell which had beer
fired there out of a Federal gun on
June II. 1862. thirty years before
Would that this sermon. like that bur
led shell. might have an explosive pow
er. May it awaken all the sweet and
holy memories of the past-memories
twenty. thirty. forty and even fifty
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