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

and thousands of those poor miserable
physical mutations that cover in the
dark corners OF the Palestine cities or
sun themselves upon the hard stones
like the blind or the crippled beggars
who there seem to be everywhere. And
so when St John declares. without
are dogs" l believe he means that in
heaven we shall have no blinded eyes,
no diseased skins, no crippled limbs,
no deaf ears and no physical disfgure-
ments. All the hideous physical sights
which one sees in the wards of the
hospitals shall be forever done away.
Physical Infrmity Hard to Bear.
How much this transformation means
to many sufferers none but they can
realize 1t is very hard for the de-
formed and the crippled TO maintain
spiritual and mental sweetness and
serenity. 1t is easy for a man with
fine constitution and a perfect physical
form to be cheerful and happy, but
how difficult for one who has to suffer
continual pain and is shut out by de-
formity from the sports and exercises
of companions to be sweet tempered
and genial to all about him. What is
the matter with So-and-so?" L once
asked a dear friend of mine about a
mutual acquaintance. He is so tOuchy
and sensitive that the least wind from
the east will twist him all out of
shape" Yes" answered my friend
that is true, but perhaps you have
forgotten that that man was born
lame If you ever stop to think, you
will also find that nearly all men and
women born with physical infirmities
are cross and grabbed and touchy and
sensitive" Il never thought of it" l
answered. Il believe-yes, L know you
are right" Physical infirmity is &C
companied by and, in fact, involves
mental pain and anguish. All this will
be done away with in the celestial city.
There Will be no defects or defOrm1-
ties there to sadden the soul and try
the temper of the redeemed. The with
cred limb, the distorted spine, will be
left behind with the mental and Sp1r-
itual deformities they have produced.
The cripple will rejoice that the gnaw-
ing agony that made his life on earth
a period of humiliation and suffering
is gone forever. without are dogs"
Let me illustrate my thought in an
other way, the thought that a healthy
body is very apt to be the incasement
of a healthy mind and soul. Here is
little child born into your home, as my
first little girl came into my home. You
look in wOnderment upon that child.
For weeks and months you go among
your friends Boosting about that baby.
"Why," you say, that is the most per
feet dispOsitiOned child | ever knew.
She never cries. She is always smiling
and cooling. She never aWakens us at
night She is as happy as a sunbeam
creeping into our bedroom in the early
morning" But after that little child
| has been in your home eight or ten
months suddenly her nature seems to
undergo a radical change. Tie hot
| hand of fever touches her forehead.
| The red marks blotch her fair skin.
Raked and twisted with pain, she cries
all the day and most of the night, and
even in her sleep she continually ut
tiers low, moaning whine What is
the matter? Has the child's DISPOSE
ton changed? Oh, no. The physical
| body has become diseased, and now the
mind is fretting in sympathy. Thus
we find that a perfect body is apt to
have a perfect mind and an imperfect
body an imperfect mind. So when St.
John says, without are dogs" l be-
| /, hot in 70
| have no physical infrmities, no club
foot like Lord Byron, no gnarled and
| twisted nervous organization like Alex
ander Pope, no blinded eyes like John
Milton, no deaf ears like Beethoven, no
skin 1eprouS and covered with sores.
1t shall be physically a "dOgless heav-
en-" Oh, my brother, thank God for
rectiOn!
The Howl of Warning.
Roaming again through the crowded
streets of Palestine, 1 find that the
same merciless tribal bitterness and
mortal enmities which were once rife
among the North American Indians are
prevalent among the dogs of the east
As each Indian tribe owned it's own
territory and in time of war it meant
death for a member Of one tribe to be
found wandering about in the LAND OF
strangers so the dogs Of the east take
possession Of the different streets of
the great cities Each canine tribe has
its sentinels standing guard at the end
of the streets. Then if one dog of an
other tribe enters that street the howl
of warming is given. At once all the
other dogs of that tribe leap to their
feet and, as a pack of hungry wolves,
make a mad rush for that stranger to
tear him limb from limb.
We must study my text in the canine
language Of the east. Old hunters tell
us that no man has truly heard a lion
roar unless he has heard the king of
the forest sound his call of defiance
in the dark jungles of the African con-
tinent Then the awe striking power
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