Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1905-01-19

morning cannot make you become a
"child Of light" If you arc not willing
TO do so Of your own accord.
Tho gospel light, like that of the
suns light. with all of its creating,
saving power, is the easiest Of all great
influences to be resisted. The light
nings strike everywhere. They cut to
the right ana to the left. With one
blow they can split rocks and wreck
homes and dismantlc trees. The suns
heat cannot be ignored, even If one
would. When the hot summer months
come, all who can do so heo from the
cities and HE themselves away to the
woods or the scashorc. Closed doors
and windows make the sitting air only
the more oppressive. The poor little
children moan and cry. The sick. II
they arc not taken away to the sea-
shore or the high mountains, often die
The city parks are crowded with SUI.
fering humanity.
Cannot Escnpe Thunder.
You cannot escape if you would the
sounds of the cannonading of the ele-
mcnts when the thunderstorm begins
to grow and TO crash. The frightened
girl may run TO her bedroom and close
the windows and draw the shades and
bury her ears in the pillows. The
booming discharges of the heavenly
artillcrics send their echoes even
through stone walls. But the sunlight
can be overcome so easily that all one
has to do is to close the cyelids and tie
a bandage over the face, and as blind
man he will have to gropc his way
along the darkness All one has to do
ia to plant the flowers under the shad-
ows Of wall. and you can sec them
pale end droop and vlthcr and die.
Light may have Il creating, develop
I ing. Il protecting. n saving influence,
but light will never force its way
through IL blocked vestibule or through
thick obstruction which has been
erected to keep it out. Thus the gos-
pei light will never enter your heart
unless you wish it TO come. Christ
said. 81 am the light" What is your
answer? VIII you accept that light?
Will you reject It and live in eternal
darkness?
What is your life to be: What Is
your death to be? What Is your .terni-
ty to be? one moonlight night upon
the Hudson river there came the quick
ring Of the pilots bell. warning the en-
gineer that danger was ahead. II was
a moonlight night No boat was near
rhe ship was in midStream. so the en-
gncer could not tell what the signal
meant. He went at once to the pilot
house. There he found the old pilot dy-
Ing As he lifted up the PROSTATE man
the pilot murmuretl. 1T is dark. A
mist has settled upon the river. and I
cannot see. Tell the captain it is dark
and l cant see.' oh. my friends. Is
your life'S close TO be shrouded in dark
mistS? Is Your "river of death" to be
In spiritual sense like that Of the
Hudson river pilot in an atmosphere
dark. impenetrably awfully 0nd eter-
nally dark?
When King Philip III. Of France,
called "the Hardy returned from his
war against the Moors and his CON
quest over the hey Of Tunis, it is said
that he brought back in his train five
collins. He came back to Paris, bring
ing the dead bodies of his father, his
wife. his sol. bis lrother-in-aw and his
brother. Car il, he. O God, that after
Dur gospel 'cannhgn in thy name we
must give to thee dead. the eternally
lead, spirits; tie souls dead to all Cos
pei light. OF any Of these thy dear ones
God forbid Open YOUR eyes and your
: hearts to him wLp is the light of the
world" To-Day become children Of light,
messengers of ligh, and conquerors in
and through the Light. "Ye are the
light Of the world
ICopyricht 1905 h. Louis Klopsch.l