Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-06-20

start up from his bed with fright.
Then follows the suggestive silence as
the battle evidently ends by the death
of the victim or by the escape of the
pursued.
No seIfshness In Heaven.
What is the Johannian meaning of
this mortal combat between the tribal
dogs of the east? Why, it means that
in heaven there are to be no family
meannesses, no contemplate, merciless
ways such as are often found at the
earthly fireside. 1t means that instead
of one father and one mother gather
ing their own children about them in
one mansion of light" and saving
to one of themselves, shut the door
and keep every one else out; we have
enough, and more than enough now:
let all others take care of themselves
as best they cam" all men will be
brothers, and all women sisters. There
we shall all be sons and daughters of
one God, who is the Father, and have
kinship to one Christ, who is the Elder
Brother. 1t means that in heaven
there will be no envious plebeian blood.
and no distinctive, supercilious. aristo-
cratic blood, because there we shall all
have been washed in the royal blood Of
Jesus. 1t means that in heaven no
wealthy mans wife will be able to
suck out the life Of a poor sewing girl
merely because she is poor. and no en-
pl0yer will be able to grind his en-
ployees down until it means physical
and mental and often spiritual death.
1t means no vendetta or blood feud: it
also means no financial vendetta or
money feud.
Roaming again through the dark, mar
row, crowded streets of eastern Pales-
tine | surmise, from the words of nv
text, that heaven is to be a place of
hOnOred and jubilant occupations It is
to be a place where the words ''me-
nial' and "serviIe' 'scavenger" and
"scullion," "hireling' and dependent"
"lackey" and ''underling" will be I'M
known. All words signifying a degrad-
ed work will forever disappear when
the IexicOns of earth shall be forever
consumed upon the funeral pyre Of
burning world. 1t does not mean that
/ heaven is to be place of hamilton and
stagnation and stupidity. But it does
mean that heaven is to be a place
where all workmen shall be honored
alike and Where the duties of one i'm
mortal shall be respected as much as
are the occupations Of other immor-
tails
Why do | make these two astounding
statements? First, because l find re
corded in the eighth chapter of Revela-
ton the startling fact that there was
silence in heaven about the space Of
half an hour" If heaven was always
| q still place would st. John have writ
| ten that sentence in reference to the
| day of judgment. If you would inter
| pref that passage in q common sense
way would you not practically say,
"Why, heaven is such busy place that
all the angels and archangels and re-
| deemed immOrtalS are working, and
working all the time? But when ST.
John saw the books of the judgment
opened then there was an awful still
ness. Every winged messenger kept
still, every work ceased, every occupa-
ton was suspended" AS Albert Barnes
! interpreted this passage, Then there
was an awful stiffness, as if all heaven
was reverently waiting for the develop
ment." Oh, yes, heaven is to be a busy
place. 1t has been very busy during
all the years and the millenniums that
are past. 1t will be very busy during
all the eternities that are to come, with
the exception of one cessation Of work
| for short time, when there shall be
''silence in heaven for about the space
of half an hour"
Dogs of the East Were scavengers
Following my first premise that
heaven is to be a busy place my sec
Ond premise is likewise true How do
l know that the busy occupations Of
heaven will never offer despised work
for the redeemed immortals? The
words Of my text prove that. The dogs
Of the east were the scavengers. The
eastern people Lad no wonderful sys-
TENS of sewerage as have We They
had no means OF carrying away by
| SubterraneaH pipes the Offal and refuse
Of their large towns. But all the refuse
OF the kitchens and the homes and the
barns were and are thrown into the
streets, where the dogs devour them
In heaven, however, we shall have
none Of the repulsive and abhorrent
occupations with which earth has been
cursed. DO you wonder that when
rode into Damascus and saw lying in
the streets the dead body of a horse
over which the dogs were fighting and
gormandizing, | should catch a glimpse
Of heavenly vision, where there shall
be no loathsome occupations as is this
one of the canine scavengerS of the
east? Heaven is to be place of con-
tinual work. Heaven is, however to
be place of glorious, happy, jubilant,
honOred occupations.
Roaming again through the narrow.
crowded streets of eastern Palestine |
know from the smile of my text that
the Christians earthly translation is
| not 70 he n horror q FRO cody q terrific