Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-06-13

lion eggs every year. A common ouean
ant lays eighty thousand eggs ira dav
Herbert Spencer declared that if the
cattle prOpagated themselves as randi
! IL as the insectile world the cattle
would die of starvation in week
But. though the human race does nor
| reproduce itself as rapidly as the in
sectile world, or even as the cattle. yet
if allowed to live on this earth uninter-
ruptedly, it would soon be impossible
! for the growing members of the human
family to exist,
New generations come, and room
must be made for them. The infant
| leaves the cradle to a successor and,be-
comes the youth, the youth passes on
to manhood and on to old age, and the
Younger generations tread upon his
heels at every step. At last he passes
on into eternity. What then? the
apostle says, 1T doth not yet appear
what we shall be-" but we know
enough of that life to be full of hope.
To those who through Christ have
made peace with God there is the
promise of continued development.
.sThey that wait on the Lord" saws
the prophet, shall renew their
strength; they shall mount up with
wings as eagles; they shall run and
not be weary, and they shall walk and
not faint" In that heavenly state
| there shall be neither hunger. nor pain.
nor WEAKNESS, nor sickness, nor death.
Even the eagle, long lived as it is.
grows Old and dies, but there we shall
live forever And the love of our
Father in heaven is eternal. The
eagles affectiCsls are transferred from
one brood to the next, but nothing can
separate us from the love of God.
whose heart is large enough for all
his children.
Dread Sin Like Serpent
Would you have such a future to an
ticipate? Then let that power which
God promises to impart come even now
into your life. The only thing that can
blot out that prospect is sim Dread sin
as you would dread the bite of ser
pent. Theodore L. Cuyler, the grand
old man of the Brooklyn pulpit, graph
ically described a scene which l have
carried in my memory for many years.
A peasant living upon the mountain
side was on his way home in the even
ing hour. Tired after a hard days
work, he turned to look down the val
ley which as panorama stretched
away at his feet Suddenly he saw a
mighty winged eagle begin to lift itself
from distant cliff. Higher and high
er it rose, gorgeous amid the fires of
the setting sun. Suddenly its move
ments became labored. 1t struggled
and fought in midair and seemed to be
gasping for breath. First one wing be-
came helpless, then the second wing.
Then the huge bird, like a stone, shot
through the air and fell dead almost at
the peasants feet. The peasant could
not understand the cause until he went
to the side Of the bird and picked up
the still warm corpse. Then to his
horror there Wriggled from between
his fingers TIM serpent that had
fastened itself unSer the birds wing
and sucked the lie out of the mon
arch of the air. So sin as a venomOuS,
clinging serpent, tries to fasten itself
upon us. The mightier winged we are
the more anxious that satanic serpent
is for our life's blood. But God will to-
day not only save us, as the mother
eagle does her young, but he does more.
Christ has given us his life in order to
overcome the power of the serpent. He
has died in order that we might live.
In this text of an eagle stirring up the
nest Of her young cannot you feel the
touch Of a saving Christ?
| would send this gospel message
everywhere. The Episcopalian rector
reads the Scriptures on the Sabbath
day, upon a lecturn made up of the
outstretched wings of an eagle. Some
writer's declare that these eagles wings
symbolic st. Johns inspired vision,
which beheld the heavenly glories, as
the eagles eye looks into the light OF
the dazzling sun. Others assert that
those eagles symbolic the fight of the
gospel message over the world. The
last Interpretation to me is the most
beautiful. May this sermon not only
have in it the message of Gods love,
but may it have the speed which every
gospel message should have-the speed
like the lightning, which can bring to
every sinful heart not only salvation,
but emancipation from sin. May God
bless US tod-y as we use the eagles
eyrie for a pulpit.
And as on eagles wings we soar
To see the face of Christ once more
May heaven come down our souls to meet
And glory crown the mercy seat.
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