Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-11-30

conversion They will be like that
young girl Who was asked on joining
the church when she commenced to
love the Lord Jesus. why" she an
swered, Il never commenced to love
the Saviour. | feel that have always
loved him."
But there is another way of grating.
There is the sprouting grating By
this process whole limbs will be cut off
and new limbs from other trees will be
placed into the fork shaped crotches.
If necessary nothing need be left but
the trunk of the old tree. This was
the way Christ's life was ingrafted
into PauPs. This was the way Baxter
and Bunyan and Jerry McAuley md
Harry Monroe and the seven-deviled
Mary of ancien: and mclern times
have been converted. Whole branches
of sin, which hay. been growing for
many years upon these sinful trunks,
have been cut off. Gnarled and worm
eaten and disease producing branches.
which have only produced poisonous
leaves of sin. have been Topped off, and
into those sinful trunks have been in.
grated the long, healthy. growing
branches of the tree of life. My broth
er, from the oldest and the weakest
and the poorest and the most twisted
of human trees there is still hope that
the branches of the beams of the cross
can be ingrafted in them if they are
only willing to have chopped off their
branches of sin and to let Christ do
the migrating.
The Gospel Invitation.
But there is one thought of my text
which ought to be emphasized | do
not believe many people have stopped
to fully consider it. All fallen trees are
dead trees. Yes. But some trees which
are not fallen may be dead trees also
AS we have said, the whole life Of the
tree is in the bark or the outside of the
tree. There the sap flows up and down.
| There the connection is made between
| the roots of the tree and the leaves.
! If that bark can be once broken so that
! the sap cannot flow. then the tree dies.
! A short distance from my late country
| home farm hand became angry at his
employer. One night he took a knife
and went into the orchard and cut a
circle of the bark off each tree In one
night the man killed between fifty and
sixty trees. For this crime he was
sent to Jail. And, OH my brother, can
| it be that some one whom | am now
addressing shall soon be dead tree to
| Christ, although he is not fallen tree?
| Can it be that, though receiving the
gospel invitation again and again, you
are going to let Satan take knife and
circle about the bark or the heart of
your spiritual life? Then. indeed. you
will be dead to all heavenly pleas. You
will be dead to all the calls of the Holy
Spirit. You will have no conscience
left.
Would that instead of being a dead
tree to Christ we could become a liv-
ing tree in God! Arboriculturists de-
clare that the roots are just as wide
and strong underneath the ground as
the branches of the tree growing over
head. | myself in climbing a noun
tain have seen tree which by the
strength of its roots has been able to
grow upon the side of a precipice. Let
us as living trees sink our roots deep
and fasten them about the Calvary
Rock. Let us lift our branches high,
that our leafy hands may be cleansed
with showers of heavenly benedictions.
Then when the time comes for the hui
man tree to fall Christ will lift US up
and carry us above to become one of
the pillars of the heavenly temple, as
he once carried his own cross toward
Calvary. Upon that cross he died for
our sins.
copyright, 1908, by Louis Klopsch.l