Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1905-08-07

/ bility. y 0t countenanc9 but on it
If you can readthe story of vicissitude
and struggle, chapter after chapter
OF adversely and defeat, of ad-
versity and victory. There is no
complete immunity here from care
and fear and solicitude Business
contributes its share, Family life con-
tributes its share, Sin contributes it's |
share, until every shoulder is heavy,
with its load. How completely isola-
ting care and worry and trouble some
times are. We are alone on a rocky /,
island in an unfriendiy sea. exiled
from peace and joy. But these ex-
periences are probationary. The dav
comes when the burden falls, when
care lifts when anxieties cease. when J
emancipation is complete. AS
scanned the faces of those van
! in the Holy City, tb"- who dweI1
re were no seams
rurrows and crows feet. There
eve 20 '..aggard brows and pallid
o,eaksY a-d;i livid lips "There was no
~.ora curse", and the bitten waters
of the sea of care f"""A01 - 80
/ not Wv
boundaries of that Happy Land. Bles-
sed lifting of life's burdens! Holy rec
, onooense of Heaven! But it cannot
he yours, it cannot be nine, unless
, we learn, in the very midst of earth's
r vicissitudes, the lifting power OF living
D faith. 81 Let not your heart be trou-
: bled: neither let 1t be afraid J" peace
: today give unto YOU"
: No sea of death. The wide ocean
r across which the angels beaI the spir-
g its of our loved ones is the greatest
d sanarator of all. No sea- locked island
II ia 40 dismal as the Patmos of our iso-
lation when bereavement has con-
: signed US thither. "No tidings come
,r to rs from across that sea. By night
r, we send up deep, strong thoughts in
r. to the spirit land, but there returns no
~ answer and our signs die away among
le the silence and the stars. Not one
i dear word has passed between US since
1t the trembling spirit breathed her
i'd last. long goodbye and looked her
st last Overlook from eyes that wer
g. clouding and closing. The hand
n. grew still. The pulse faltered and
g stopped. The spirit left us that
I'd spirit that was woven into our life
ID the meshes of garment. Now not
I'd one lisp out of the sky, not one Whis-
e per out of the night! Mystic orph-
h. anage of spirits that are filial! Mys-
ed tic divorce Of spirits that are wedded!'
r. 'sNot word or a message from the
ty spirit land, did l say? Aye, the loved
er one gone speaks not, but the voice OF
il God in the soul is heard and the voice
On of God in Revelation, saying convin'
S. cingingly, "All is we'll" "All is WE'LL
RS! 81 The vanished one worships there
ar we worship here broken choru;
ny rendering one psalm. They with eyes
in from which all tears have been teQ
derly wiped and couutenances beau
Mt. tiful from looking on the face of God
ing we with eyes all ear-bedimmed
IN stumbling over the roug aness OF life
rch wondering, hoping, waiting until gu
red exile is repealed and our little islah
ces of loneliness is made contiguous wit
our the continent of the redeemed"
our Yves Love will dream and truth will trust
not (Since he who knows our need Is just)
u That some where, somehow, meet we must
LIZ Alas for i'm who never sees
eQ. The stars shine through the cypress trees,
an Who, hopeless lays his dead away
tho Nor looks to see the breaking day
Across the mournful marbles play
WV Who ath not learned IN hours OF faith,
'an The truth to ash and sense unknown,
ato- That Life is ever lord of Death
bo And Love can never lose its own"
Blessed assurance! There shall
49, be no more DEATH" Happy revel
ton! "There is no more sea-" II
49,. separating waves are fed away al
- loved ones meet and take up aga
w. the broken threads of sweet discours
so Death, where is thy sting? Q GRAY
~ where is thy victory? Thanks be U
- 70 God who giveth US the victo
through our Lord Jesus Christ"
80 Enhancing picture of the New Ci
of God. We are loath to let it pa
)usly, o,Ihorna v,;s;o, T ,t
sing Ironi o1- ;. -. y;
,ubt- Keep 0no e ~
When a mans interests lie behi
- ~ him, that mans life has lost it's Wig
made anu '"i"o' =,
avor- all no o"n 81 1
3 and mas o",o'
But lie aro ' 90
, say nope VI ono: go
ght." reai anu - -, o-a 49,
fleet. feeo0 ~
49, burdens and temper all our life
% the an w" -oA az 0'Fe "