Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-06-23

with horror that he cried: I caiinot
endure this. When nm unable to
drive that fearful thing away, it will
be tearing my flesh He rose to bis
feet and crawled and struggled on till
at length he crcpt into 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 behcried, as was Paul: some have
been burned at the stake. as were Rid
ley and Latimer. But bow different
was their future from that of the dog.
From ont those crushed and mutilatct
bodies the martyr spirits have gone
up, redeemed and gloritied, to dwell
forever before the throne.
A Legend OF King Solomon.
o yc mUtals, destined to live for
ever either in bliss or in misery. does
not the offer that Christ makes you
stir. your desire for ealvatiOn2 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
a
and glory of God. There is an old leg
cud that when King Solomon was Il
boy one day he begged his teacher to
show him miracle. Nathan thrust
his finger into the soil and dropped
therein little ICED. Immediately that
seed began to sprout While the lad
looked on the two little green leaves
grow into round stem. Then the
stem swellcd ont with the trunk Of II
large tree. Then the tree like "th"
seven branches, became like the seven
candlesticks of the affairs" and the
birds Of the afr 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 into
the deep rich red fruit which blushed
like the glow Of the setting sun. That
Is merely a legend, but there ia real
miracle which can be worked in your
lives infinitely greater than young Sol
ONION IL 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 propcnsities which distort and
deform your being. there shall grow
from that divine seed 4 plant Of beauty.
! graceful and glorious with heavenly
| lovcliuess Il al eternal i'll ever develop
| ing life. "Yc shall be like a tree plant
ed by the rivers of water, that bringcth
| forth its fruit in its season. and what
soover yc doeth shall prosper" What
is your choice? Will you live life OF
beauty and usefulness n life patterned
on that divine life which Christ lived
on earth, ending in n triumphant rcsur-
rection, or will you choose the wlcl-
ednoss, 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 yc live
after the flesh We shall die, and from
that abode of bliss, where there are
! joys forever more, you Will be excluded
with all whose natures have grown
| fierce and cruel and dcbased. with
out are dogs"
copyright. 1904 by Louis KlopSch.l