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


monster leader of the elephantine herd
every shaggy named Bengal king.
must die q violent death So dies the
dog. but. thank God, so does not die the
Christian.
Sometimes it's true that the body of
man may die the death of a dog. but
the Christian has hope in his death.
Though his body perish in battle or in
accident. though it may be crushed or
burned, so that it cannot be recognized.
his soul is safe. He has the conscious
ness that Christ is able to keep that
which has been committed to him and
whatever may befall the body the soul
will be preserved.
John B. Cough in one of his wonder
ful lectures gives a description of the
remarkable escape of his father, who
was an old English soldier, from dying
q horrible death. II was during the
famous Franco-English war of 1909,
when the British troops were retreat
ing before lightning h0rSed Marshal
Soult. Hungry and faint and sick
from exposure and lack of food and
also from loss Of blood from q wound
in the chest, young Cough staggered
along with his regiment as long as he
could and then fell by the roadside to
die He must die" said his son. 1T
seemed inevitable that he must die.
Suddenly, as he lay upon the ground,
large bird OF prey, with a red neck
growing out Of a rufIie Of feathers.
came sW0Oping along, almost touching
nv fathers body with its wings. and
then. circling up, it alighted On a point
of a rock and turned its blood red eve
on it's intended victim. As my father
saw that horrible thing watching and
waiting to tear him in pieces, even be
fore life was extinct, it so filed him
with horror that he cried: I cannot
endure this. When l am unable to
drive that fearful thing away, it will
be tearing my flesh He rose to his
feet and crawled and struggled on till
at length he crept into a hut and found
safety" The death which menaced
that wounded man is the death which
awaits the eastern dog. When he is
incapable of defending himself he is
torn to pieces. Men, too, have per-
ished through the vindictive passions
of their fellows. Some have been cru
cited, as was Christ; some have been
stoned, as was Stephen; some have
been beheaded. as was Paul; some have
been burned at the stake as were Rid
ley and Latimer But how different
was their future from that of the dog!
From out those crushed and mutilated
bodies the martyr spirits have gone
up, redeemed and glOrified, to dwell
forever before the throne.
A Legend of King Solomon.
O We mOrtaIs. destined to live for
ever either in bliss or in misery, does
not the offer that Christ makes you
stir your desire for salvation? Accept
his proffered gift, and then, be your
end what it may, your being rooted
up from this world, with its bitter
fruits of sorrow and pain and misery,
will mean nothing more than your be-
| ing transplanted into that supernal
| garden in which you will grow and
flourish and bear fruit to the honor
and glory of God. There is an old leg
| end that when King Solomon was
boy one day he begged his teacher to
show him a miracle. Nathan thrust
| therein little seed. Immediately that
seed began to sprout. While the lad
looked on the two little green leaves
grew into a round stem. Then the
stem swelled out with the trunk of
| large tree. Then the tree, like "the
seven branches, became like the seven
candlesticks Of the affairs" and tie
birds of the air flew into those branch
es and builded there their nests and
reared their young While he looked
| the blossoms grew upon that tree, and
| then those blossoms were changed in-0
the deep rich red fruit which blushed
| like the glow Of the setting sun. That
is merely a legend, but there is a real
miracle which can be worked in your
lives infinitely greater than young Sol
onion is supposed to have seen.
The seed of eternal life planted by
the Holy Spirit in your heart can
change your whole nature. Instead of
those qualities which degrade you to
the level of the brutes, instead of the
sinful propensities which distort and
J deform your being, there shall grow
from that divine seed a plant of beauty,
graceful and glorious with heavenly
loveliness and eternal in ever develop
ing life. "Ye shall be like tree plant
ed by the rivers of water, that bringeth
| forth its fruit in its season, and what
sOever ye doeth shall prosper" What
is your choice? Will you live a life of
beauty and usefulness, a life patterned
| on that divine life which Christ lived
on earth, ending in triumphant resur-
rectiOn, or Will you choose the wick
edness, the vice. the corruption, of the
world, feeding like the eastern dog on
the carrion of life and becoming in
nature like him? Remember, if We live
! after the flesh We shall die, and from
! that abode of bliss. where there ar
! joys forever more, you will be excluded