Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1905-08-28
Calnage
Sermon
BY Rev.
Frank De Witt Talmaee, d. d.


church ever means TO win the world
for Christ il must be true to its pro-
fessions collectively and individually.
The text is Solomon's Song vi, 10,
Terrible as an army with banners"
Difficult is it ito keep sweet and keep
moving" as a poet once wrote-diffi-
cult not to look upon the dark side of
life and be impressed by the mean
nesses and the contemptibleness of
men rather than by mans good quail
ties and by his nobilities. Almost all
people every day Of their lives have
some inJustices or selfshnesses prac-
ticed upon them. Unless very careful
we are prone to become pessimistic
and to entertain disparaging views of
our fellow men. 1t may be that the
conduct of some with whom we come
in contact leads us to think them as
worthless as that man whose life Paul
Boyton saved a few years ago. Mr..
Boyton was spending a few weeks in
Atlantic City, on the New Jersey coast
One day the cry of Help was raised.
A bather who was q very wealthy
man had been swimming far out be-
yond the life lines. Caught in the cur
rents, he was being swept out to sea.
Mr.. Boyton at once jumped into the
water and at the peril of his own life
brought this millionaire to shore in an
unconscious condition. Next day the
rescued man hunted up Paul Boyton.
After thanking him for what he had
done he took out of his pocket a big
roll of bills. He turned them over and
over. Then he put the bills back into
his pocket. Not one was small enough
for his fancy Then he took out a
fifty cent piece and handed 1t to the
rescuer. What is that for" asked the
great swimmer. why, for saving my
life" "Oh!" said Boyton. Then the
swimmer took out his own pocketbook
and counted out 40 cents and handed
them back to the millionaire. Here
is your change" said he. For what?"
why" said Boyton, you have over
paid me. Any millionaire like you
who would offer a man 80 cents for
saving his life has a soul so mean and
small that it is not worth more than
penny, il it is worth even that" 1t
was the reproof Of a justly incensed
man. But we have to beware lest IN
der prbyocations similarly cOntempd-
BILE wa come to entertain too low an
estimate of human character as a
- Whole
Pessfmistic Views.
The pessimistic way in which some
of us regard men Is very similar to the
estimate some Of us place upon the
sui7ituaE movements of the day, espe-
eeiAlly those, which find expression in
he work of the church of the Lord
Jesus, Christ. We try to honestly and
iintelligently read the signs of the
time" There we find much to dis
courage us. We do not see the chill
dren of this generation loving the
word of God and the house Of God as
did the fathers and mothers of the past
generation. We find our Sabbaths look
ed upon as holidays instead of holy
DAYS. We find the golden calf' the
shrine at which the human race is
: anxious to worship and that the saloon
is being intrenched everywhere. We
find the Bible being driven out of our
public schools and that many of our
state colleges have men in their pro-
fessorial and presidential chairs who
never darken the doors Of the church
and whose whole influence, direct and
indirect, is to lead their students into
the paths of free thought and not
into the paths converging at the fee
of the Lord Jesus Christ. YES" some
of you say, 1T is all we'll enough t.
talk about a coming millennium, bu
where are the signs of its coming
The world is growing darker ant
darker. This is not a spiritual land o
the midnight sun, but one of midda,
blackness. Everything spiritually seem
to be going askew." Is it, my brother
/ would not have you take such a de
messed view of things. | am toda.
going to take my stand upon the proph
ecy of my text. l am not only goin
TO show you a vision of a conquerin
church in the years to come, but a con
quering church in the years that ar
now at hand
Because Paul Boyton saved the hf
of a millionaire who offered him ;
fifty cent piece for his service it doe
not follow that all men are misers an(
ungrateful. Because the morning SUI
for some of US seems TO be obscureC
by the fog banks of mist, that does no
prove that these nnists shall never b,
cleared away. Listen to the prophecy
''WhO is she that looketh forth as tn
morning, fair as the moon, clear a
the sun and terrible as an army wit
bannersY' exclaims the sacred writer
This is the church, comes tn
answer. ''This the conquering churc
Of the Lord Jesus Christ, which sha
usher in the millennial morn of
Eaviour's earthly enthronement"
The future of the conquering churc
in the first place. is not to be estimate
by the myriad numbers of her soldier
nor the costliness of her barracks, NJ
the lofty altitude Of her watchtower
nor tho iuaxbauSf{hlo GOLD of her frpa