Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-08-31

and Sapphira. but in all probability
absolutely destroy my little ones also.
Falsehoods In the church: That
means many of us are weekly and
daily breaking the public pledges we
that promise which you made when
you joined the church. Have you kept
It? Every Sunday night at the close of
the meetings the members of hundreds
and thousands of Christian Endeavor
services are repeating the Christian
Endeavor pledge, Il promise him that
1 will strive TO do whatever he would
like to have me do; that will make it
the rule Of my life TO pray and read
the Bible every day and to support my
own church in every way, especially by
attending all her regular Sunday and
midweek services, unless prevented by
some reason which l can conscientious
ly give to my Saviour" Do all the
young people read the Bible every day
and conscientiously try to attend the
midweek church services? Are they
simply perjuring themselves to God
with their lips? Are they trying, con-
scientiously trying, to live up to the
teachings Of the beautiful motto, ut is
better to be than to seem?' Remember
the perjurers Of my text were destroy
ed because they were making a false
statement to the church. Many and
many church members who deliberate
~ at the church affairs continue to lie
to God and continue to break the prom
ises which they are making Sunday
after Sunday must answer to God for
their sins as Ananias and Sapphire
had to answer
Suggestion.
Thus, my friends, the whole trend of
this sermon is to prove that
Words are mighty, words are living
Serpents with their venomous stings,
Or bright angels crowding round US,
With heavens light upon their wings.
It Is to prove that every word we
utter, whether true or false, that word
shall never die 1t shall at last meet
us at the judgment seat of God and
make US explain why we ever let it
come forth from our lips. 1t is to
prove that God does not have one Ian
guage for the week day and another
for Sunday. The Paphlagonian pigeons
were said to have had two hearts, but
no human mortal can have two hearts
A man cannot have one honest tongue
with which he speaks to God and an
other false tongue with which he talks
to his fellow men. The Bible distinctly
| and emphatically states that Chris
| tians must come forth out of the sin
| full world and separate themselves
| from 1t. In no way can this be done
better than by speaking the Christian
language OF straightforward truth. Are
we ready to speak that truth wherever
it may be found?
| But there Is just one little suggestion
I would like to make before I close
Remember, lie is not always told
with the lips. It can also be spoken
by the hand and the foot. The last
words my father ever wrote in his
study were these. 1.-THE Language OF
Action" They were to be the caption
Of the next sermon he Intended tc
write. Beware, o man, that wher
you attempt to speak in this Language
of action you shall not only have ar
honest tongue, but truthful hand anG
truthful smile, a truthful shrug OF
the shoulders, truthful foot and also
very imperatively, a truthful silence
There is time to speak. There is alst
time to keep STILL But If a mar
keeps still when he ought to speal
then silence itself may speak in tn,
thunderous tones of the loudest af
frmatives or of the loudest negatives
Let your life in all its parts be Yea
yea" and may, nay" Some insects
have a thousand eyes. The human be
ing by the Language of action" ma!
have thousand tongues. These wor
ship either at the altar of truth or a
the satanic shrine of endless falsities.
copyright. 1898. by Louis Klopsch.