Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-03-28

PEI nO JULIUS.
rilla ranks are filed up for the most
part with iconoclasts and anarchists
and cutthroats. But the gospel soldier
must be regularly enlisted man. de
tailed for work to some one Bible
class, to soTGe one Sunday school, to
some one prayer meeting, to some one
church. A gospel soldier is a Chris
tan who obeys orders. How can you
obey Christ's orders unless you have
taken your individual place in the Cos.
pei ranks of Christ's great army, calico
the church?
The true gospel soldier always con-
siders the posts of danger the posts of
honor. He wants to hear the singing
of the shells, even though that martial
song may have to be accompanied by
his own death rattle. He wants to be
as most of the soldiers were after they
had enlisted for the Spanish American
war. Oh, how anxious the officers and
privates alike lOnged for the front.
They wanted to have a glorious part
in the liberation of downtrodden Cuba.
Some men had to die for that liberia
ton. Then the brave fellows of the
different regiments, by telegram upon
telegram, sent to the governors and to
the officials at Washington, practically
said, I'VE are ready to go to the front
aye, to sacrifice our lives, if need be.
in our cOuntry'S service" So eager
were those soldiers for dangerous sery-
ice that when some Of their colonies
received the kilograms that switched
them from the transports at Tampa to
Jacksonville. Fla, there were sorrow
and disappointment in many hearts.
Posts of Difficulty.
Posts of danger and difficulty are al.
ways posts Of honor in the United
States army. And yet to hear some
Christian soldiers talk you would sup
pose that the posts in Christ's army
where there are difficulties are the
posts to be avoided or deserted. Even
some Of the ordained ministers of
Jesus Christ feel that way. oh"
says visiting clergyman, Il am 50
discouraged. Why, there has been
nothing but friction and trouble in my
church ever since l came to it. The
people have fought and misrepresentel
every minister who ever occupied this
pulpit, and they have been finding
fault with and misrepresenting me- l
am so discouraged. l wish God would
| find me another place" Well, my
brother, 1 confess you are having
| hard time CT it. l confess that some
| churches have bad record. I know
| of one church that for forty years has
made its chief fame in breaking down
| it's different ministers. One pastor aft
| er another has been destroyed in reg.
| ular order as he came to it's parson.
| age. One minister was so tantaliZed
| and attacked that under the persecu-
| ton of it's members he committed sui
eide. But, tell me, you who have been
| having a hard time in that church, do
you not think you are getting along
there as we'll as any one else could:
ooh, yesv' you answer. 81 know I am
In spite of three baking elders and
two obstinate, fault finding trustees
we are taking in new members all the
time. Never in the church's history
has it been doing so much good"
Then, my brother, instead of complain
ing about your lot you should be con.
graduated. Go ahead and do your
work. God has honored you above all
others. He has put you in a difficult
position. Post of difficulty always posi-
of honor
Sunday school teacher, that is a
tough class of boys you have You
came to me the other day with tears in
your eyes. Some people may think
am talking about an imaginary case
but you know l am not Those boys
at times poster you so much that you
have half made up your mind to give
up the class. Do not do it. Those
boys may stick pins into each other
They may come to class with dirty
faces. They may seem to be migrate
full. But remember. Q Christian SOL
der if you desert your post now and
leave those boys they will not obey the
voice of another teacher. They will
not come to church at all. You must
be to those boys what DR.. T. J. Ber
nardo is to the London newsboy, and
Charles n. Crittenton is to the Flor
ence Crittenton missions, and what
Livingstone was to Africa, and Carey
was to India. The gospel heroes of the
past have given up their all to win
their victories. They labored, they
shaved, they sacrificed themselves
among the outcasts. go thou and dc
likewise
| A Fact to Realize.
But there is another great fact which
the good soldier of Jesus Christ should
realize. The duties Of the camp right
~ performed are sometimes just as es-
sential for Gods work as duties rightly
| performed at tie front. The work
which is done by the commissary and
the surgeon has sometimes a greater
part to play in winning martial victo-
ries than the spectacular color sergeant
has in leading the charge before the
enemy's breaStworks. What defeated
Napoleon Bonaparte in his famous
Russian, invasion? The bayonets OF
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