Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-04-25

But twas thus the bottle spake-"but
l have Conquered more
Than all your famous conquerors Sc
famed and feared of yore.
Then come. ye youths and maidens all
come. drink from out my cup
The beverage that dulls the brain and
burns the spirit up,
That puts to shame the conquerors who
STAY their scores below,
For / have deluged millions with the lava
tide of woe.
Though in the paths of battle darkest
waves of blood may roll,
Yet while l killed the body 1 have also
damned the soul!
The cholera the plague. the sword. such
ruin never wrought
As /, in mirth or malice, on the innocent
have brought.
And still l breathe upon them, and they
shrink before my breath,
And year by year my thousands tread the
dismal road of death"
From this awful doom of the drunk.
ard will you not escape and in Christs
name escape now? Will you not, O
drunkard, promise with Gods help to
let your scarlet sins be cleansed whittier
than the driven snow?
Christ Ready to Forgive.
Christ is ready to cleanse also the de.
bauchee's sins. By that l mean Christ
is ready to forgive those who have i'm
morally broken up the sanctity of the
home. He forgave the sins of Rahab.
who concealed the Hebrew spies: he
fOrgave the sins of David, who stole
the poor mans eve; he forgave the
sins of the dissOlute woman who talk.
ed with him at the Samaritan well: he
fOrgave the sins of the woman de.
nOunced by the scribes, to whom he
turned and said: Woman. where are
thine accusers? Doth no man con.
denim thee? Neither do | condemn
thee. Go and sin no more" Christ is
ready to forgive the social outcast's
sins, as he was ready to forgive the
scarlet sins of the dying thief and the
murderer.
But, though the Bible declares there
is but one objectionable sin, and that
is the sin against the Holy Ghost, vet
strange to say, most people are moi
willing to forgive the sins of Iibertin
ism, especially if the social outcast be
longs to the female sex. Alas. alas
Even the best of men, the leaders If
our churches and pulpits, are otter
ready to look upon the breakers of the
seventh commandment as moral de.
generates who have no chance for Ill
innate rescue either in this world OF
in the next. Many people are apt tc
look upon immoral outcasts in the
same way that the stern old Scottish
elder looked upon the actions of his
hayward daughter in the beautiful,
story in Ian Maclaren's Bonnie Brie1
Bush He prOfessed to believe in the
unlimited power of Gods forgiveness
yet when his only daughter, his moth
erless girl, his one child, who was all
to him, had been led into sin he turned
to the clerk of the village kirk and
said: aye, blot her name off the
books. She is my child, but blot hel
name off the booksr'
But, oh, my brother and sister
though man is hard upon fallen man
and woman especially hard upon faller
woman, yet God today offers pardon
and peace for every penitent Magda
lene. Though your sins against mo
rality may be as scarlet, they shall be-
whittier than the driven snow.
st. EitaliS was a poor monk who in
the seventh century was supposed tc
haunt the evil resorts of the AIexan
drian capital. For many years the peo
pie thought he was a hypocrite and 6
lbertlne. One early morning, wher
seen coming out of a place of evil re
sort, lie was fatally struck down by 9
passerby. with the scathing words
How dare you, raScaI-h0w dare yor
outrage Christ by not mending youl
wicked Ways?" But hardly had the
breath left the body of the humble
monk than it was found out by test
mOny that for years he had given his
life to saving social outcasts. VIVA.
Christian women are doing for ex-cOn.
victs st. Vitalis was doing for faIler
men and fallen women. At his funera.
those social Outcasts, whom he had by
the power of the Holy Spirit rescued
marched in front Of his bier, chanting
this cry: I'VE have lost our deliverer
We have lost our instructor! God heir |
us. God help usr' Today Christ i.
and into the haunts of the immorally |
vile and to say: Come unto me and |
will make thee pure. Come, every man !
Come, every woman. Though vom
sins be as scarlet they shall be as
white as the driven snow; though they |
be red as crimson, they shall be as
wool"
Pardon For ALL
Christ is ready to forgive the muir.
derer's sins. By that do mean that
he is ready to forgive the highwayman
who, with lifted gun, shoots down the
innocent pedestrian? By that do mean
that Christ is ready to forgive the
tiend who poisons the helpless child OF
who in the dark night drives the knife
into the heart Of his sleeping adver
sary? Yes, Jesus is ready to forgive
the convicted murderer though he
may be standing upon the scaffold IN
der the hangman's moose about to ex.
plate his awful crime. Pardon for