Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-08-22

| Ward Beecner, Iatner Is at last learn
ing TO love usturer' He stepped nm to
| rho side of tile OLD man and said. Ga
ther. how do you like the picture ?
What do you like about it mostY,
"WelI. Henry" said the old man. 81
was studying that picture to see whetb.
er the artist had aimed that gun right.
Yes I think that hunter will hit the
| rabbit. l think he WILL | think he
will" "Ah. father" said Henry Ward
"can you not see anything more in
| that picture than cruel man shedding
| the blood of an innocent. playful rab-
| bitY
| No, Henry Ward Beecher's mind and
LYMAN Beecher's mind were cast in
| different molds. They both had their
| limitations. What one could do in a
! mental way the other could not do.
| though both of those brains belonged
| IN the master minds of the last CEN
| fury. Now, as we all have our phys
zeal limitations, is it preposterously IN
/ inst for us to~complain because we
/ also have our spiritual limitations? If
| the only way to cross the Atlantic or
| the Pacific is in a steamship or a sail
| ing craft, is it not absurd for us to
| complain because we have to sail over
| the great sea of eternity in a gospel
| lifeboat!
If the United States government
| compels us to obey certain social laws.
/ enacted upon the statute books by the
dictates of it's own national legisla-
tors. is it unjust for God to declare
/ that when we surrender our Iearts to
| him we should come to him in his
way and not in ours? If we have our
mental limitations and only in a fee
BILE and incomplete way can grasp the
infinite thought of God, are we not
foolish in setting up ourselves as
| judges and critics of his methods
| Ought we not rather to accept his
plans and hum5ly to submit ourselves
| to his rule? That is the way to true
freedom. When we accept the truth
| that he has revealed to US and give
| ourselves to his guidance, we learn by
| experience that the truth makes us
free. The finite mind yields to the
infinite and grows into its true develop
ment. Therefore shall we not today
premacy of Gods Will, whose
Thoughts are not our thoughts and
whose ways are not our ways"
| Limitations of Freedom.
True freedom always has it's limita-
tons. The Christian life, too, has its
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the way, the truth and the life; no man
cometh unto the Father but by me.'
There is only one way to God, one
door, one true life. But after we have
once entered through that open door
| then we are free. Aye, we may become
transcendently and eternally free. Is
| not my text right when it says, ''In
Christ the truth shall make you free p
| The freedom he gives is the freedom
| from sin, the freedom from punish
| ment, but that freedom, like all others,
can be obtained only by submitting to
Christs rule. In one way alone can
| we gain that freedom, and that is, by
| the way of the cross. In his service
is endless joy and pleasures Cor ever
| more.
My brother, my sister, are you ready
to let the truth make you free? In
antebellum days there was a beautiful
scene enacted in one of the southern
slave markets. A young black girl
stood upon the auction block and was
being sold to the highest bidder Rough
men were trying to buy her for evil
| in af Il
| ISLANDERS was a Christian gentleman,
holding by the hand his own young
daughter. The young girls heart went
| out for the sufferings Of her black sis
ter, and she persuaded her father to
| purchase the slave. Higher and higher
| went the price, but at last the Chris
tian gentleman bought the young slave.
When the black girl was handed over
to her new master he said: MARY, 1
bought you for my daughters sake.
I now give you your papers of freedom.
You can go where and when you
| please You are free" "What, mas
ter, am free? Can go where 1 will ?
Then l shall go and stay with you"
Oh, she was a slave before the auction.
She was slave after the auction. But
now she had become a slave Of love.
Will you not, o man, O woman, hear
Christ's proclamation of emancipation
from sin? Will you not let "the truth
make you free'-that is, will you not,
in Christ's name, cease to be a subject
of sin, but in bondage for the love of
Christ? He died to make you free.
1 hic irir 70 will If
be eternally free, yet still In bondage
to Jesus Christ?
. Lord, oh, teach me what to do;
l. Make me faithful make me true.
| Help me, ere too late 1t be,
/ Something yet to do for thee.
Copyright, 1904, by Louis Klopsch.1