Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-04-06

saders will be annihilated as chemist
with a pestle brushes a substance in a
mortar. Ii is the Waterloo, the York
town. the Agrigentum. the Solferino,
the Chalons. the Thermopylse, where
all the powers and principalities OF
darkness shall be forever overthrown
by the principalities and powers of
light, and Christ shall be proclaimed
King of kings and Lord of all.
Why is the city to be the great field
wherein the sovereignty of Christ shall |
be universally recognized? In the city |
there is commingling of all classes. |
Among the throngs who came forth on |
Palm Sunday to greet Jesus l see the |
good and the bad, the autocrat and the
plebeian, the mighty capitalist and the
small shopkeeper, the Pharisee, the
disciple, the curiosity seeker. oil COM
mingling, all circling, some cheering
and some cursing under their breath.
We are not to suppose for moment
that all who came forth to see Jesus
threw branches In his way. Oh, no!
The high priests hirelings were In
that crowd, as we'll as Jesus disciples.
am thankful that you and live In a
great city. We live in a city where
our influence for good can tell most
effectively If we only use that infiu-
ence as Jesus would have US do. Ii
we capture Paris for Christ we cap
| ture France; London for Christ means
| England saved; Berlin for Christ means
| Germany bowling before the cross. If
we capture New York and Chicago and
our other great cities for Christ, we
capture America for Christ. Oh, what
a blessed opportunity it is for us to be
able to fight under the standard of the
cross, where the Satanic forces are I'M
limbering their heaviest artilleries and
where every blow struck for Jesus can
rebound with the best of all results!
The City and the Country.
But while congratulate you because
you are able to testify for Jesus In
large city also cast my eyes over the
hills and send forth gospel congratula-
ton to the Christian farmhOuses that
are helping us in this Christian strug-
gle. city is a great human reservoir
which collects it's streams of life from
everywhere. Many of those streams
trickle down from country hills, where
cattle are lowing and horses neighine
and sheep bleating and harvests way
ing. These country streams of human
/, life are the brooks which clarity thu
, | muddy waters of a large metropolis
The country farmer and his wife arr
, very apt to fear that their boys ant
their girls will be swallowed up in ;
large city and never heard from again
But want to tell you that the major
I ity of the mightiest workers for Chris
y in the large cities have been born upo
f farm. A short time ago thirty-elgh
+ prominent business men of New 1or
:. city sat at a banquet in the Unlo
q League club on Fifth avenue HOY
! many of them do you suppose cam
\ from the country? Thirty-six out G
8 the. thirty eight. A history of prom
q nent lawyers, ministers, doctors an
q merchants in a large city was ono
II compiled Eighty per cent were foun
O. to come from the country. Thus, J
# farmers and farmers wives, do M
n mourn whenever your stout hmDe
n boys and beloved girls leave you II
G the great cities. Remember that yo
10 are giving them to the service of Jes1
Christ. Remember that your praye
and Christian training are now
bring forth their gospel results in t
= place where they are most needed.
N When my father, then young cou
~ try minister, was called to large CT
- church, my grandfather, David L;
~, mage, protested against his going.
ho said: de Witt, you are doing we'll nc
a. in your little country church. Why
20 you go into that large city where 20
- influence will be swallowed up and
nd one ever hear from you again| d
no De Witt Talmage answered: Father
Cd must go. 1t is my duty to go. l
;+s lieve God is calling me to that fie
80 And if go in his name he will bl'
me-" God did bless him. And
~, farmers and farmers wives, God v
- also bless and is blessing the Christi
bau work of your Christian children in
same way if he has called them to
mo in a great city.
Pm, Palm Sunday emphasizes the f
+ho that the easiest way to capture a
,od for God is to go after the masses. "
-, are the masses? They are the most
Al folks. They are the common pee
who for tho most part fill our churcl
7o,, And yet they are the common pee
49, who today. if they are only reused "
holy enthusiasm, can conquer this
~. world for Christ. They can do it
nc easily as the common people who ca
,ans out to greet Jesus on Palm Sun
,,,1, made the Pharisees and the L
priests hirelings at that time afrai'
lift their threatening fingers or to
Jesus any harm. Today that rellg
u y. organization which is most splrltu
y II influential for Jesus is tire chit
LOT which appeals to the employee as
ho' as to the employer, to the poor IN
pur- hT. 90 rroII &c 70 the rich mans