Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-05-11


rah. hut also the father of Ishmael by
his handmaiden Hagar. David and Solo
mon were tie husbands of many wives.
But now the condition Of society is all
changed. The marital status has gone
klck TO the Edenic state. Now by law
there is only one husband for one wife
and one wife for one husband. 1t has
gone back TO the ideal condition God
first ordained, which the psalmist de-
tcribed when he wrote, God setteth
the solitary in families" Such being
the social condition among the civilized
races. / believe we are one and all
ready TO grant that no class Of men
are more willing to recognize their re-
sponsibility to God than those who
eonscientiously try to fulfill their re-
sponsibilities in family life.
Intolerance Overthrown.
The next great battle for the worlds
redemption was fought and won when
the frowning walls of religious In
tolerance were battered down and the
/ torture dungeons of the dark ages were
| forever opened TO the purifying light
/ All, the battle for religious liberty was
1 long and bitter struggle! 1t was
not won in day, decade, genera
| ton or a century. 1t fought its way
through the flying stones and the
bloody swords and the spears and the
martyrdoms of Christians of apostolic
times. The fight for emancipation went
on among the cracking flames Of burn
ing Rome. 1t clutched by their threats
the man eating monsters that leaped
into the Roman Coliseum. 1t detied
the lowering looks and the blasphe-
nous oaths of the mobs that gathered
I'm the Florentine square of beautiful
Italy to see Savonarola die. 1t suffered
all the agonies which Fox recorded in
his History of the Lives and Suffer
ings and Triumphant Deaths Of the
Primitive as Well as the Protestant
Martyrs" 1t steeled the backbone Of
lion hearted Martin Luther as we'll as
of John Huss. 1t fought its battle I'M
til at last the opened Bible was placed
In the hand Of the common people and
every man was free to worship God &C
cording to the dictates of his con-
science, whether in the Christian
church, the Jewish temple or the Mo-
hammedan mosque.
No man can be said to worship God
in sincerity and truth unless he bows
before the mercy seat under the I'M
pulse of q free will. When Torque-
| mazda headed the inquisitiOn and
Charles TX. was drunk with human
blood and Bloody Mary" signed the
- a ~ nd
Charlemagne forcibly drove the people
of his kingdom into the rivers, where
+, like struggling cattle, the priests bap
tized them by the wholesale, fear may
have made the frightened men an(
women bow and profess Christ, bu
fear never yet made a true Christian
You cannot terroriZe man into thu
i. kingdom Of God with the eXecutiOner'
: ak or the slave masters lash.
: The Bible is full of the gospel invita-
: tons ITO come" "Come, for all thing
;, are now ready. Come. come, come!
= But upon no page of the Bible can yo'
: find anywhere the words written
Come to Christ against your will!
= "Come with hate in your heart!
"Come with defying sin on your lips!
. "Come as a trembling murderer is lie
= to the scaffold or to Incarceration fo
lifew Thus we find that the secon
: great onward movement for the world
; redemption was taken when bigotry
. swarthy limbs were manacled, whe
:! the kissing tongue of persecution wa
e stilled and when religious liberty coul
% lift up her smiling face toward I'll
y heavens and stretch forth her whit
g hands to lead, as well as to protect,
70 free human race.
- The World In Sympathy.
ia The next great onward movement II
N the worlds redemption is to be four
NJ in the commercial supremacy whit
70 has brought all the five continents al
the islands of the sea into sympathet
N touch There was a time when m;
m rarely travelled 100 miles from the pla
a. where he was born. His grave W
90 dug only a short distance from whe
nj the tree was planted out of which |
OF cradle was cut The world was n
Ia only divided into nations, but the +
nd tons into distinct and antagonis
,r. clans. The Scotchman born in t
II highlands could not understand the
90 alect of the lowlanders. But now {
ar erywhere commercialism is making
i'm one blood all nations that dwell up
ra. the face of the earth. The Americ
ID sailors "Yo, HEAVIER is heard by
re wharfs of Tarshish. The East 1ndi
ss- merchantmen and the ships for Chi
NV and Japan and the Philippines
IN Australia and New Zealand follow ca
mol other through the Suez canal. I
W railroads of Brazil and the steamsl
,ot lines of Chile and Buenos Ayres q
|, a Cape Town are owned by foreign c
TOR itai. The Russian warships are be
aw built in the American shipyards.
ind great international war is becom
nm more and more an impossibility
cause the Turkish mortgages are
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