Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1905-12-11
BY Rev.
nix De Witt Talmace, d. d.

SIS material blessings peculiar
- progressive age. as well as for
umny spiritual blessings of our day.
pfeacher In this sermon gives ex-
SION to the nations thankfulness.
text Is Ecclesiastes vii, %, They
ought out many inventions"
new star has arisen in the artistic
aNment. Meteorlike a new star has
I'D its light over the western hori-
A new star has come to lead us
> to the manger of Bethlehem of
tea. What General Lew Wallace
done with the noveIist's pen young
m Shaw is doing with the painters
SID. The Indiana author and the
* English artist, the latter born
fadras and educated in European
los, have both been bold, strong,
erful and independent interpreters
Feligious themes. Lew Wallace's
a-Hur," 1.-THE Prince of India" and,t
Boyhood of Christ teach lessons
liar to those of Byam Shaw's The
nforter," THE Outcast'' and "Nei-
n Hath He Power In the Dag of
th." With the touch of true mas
the inspired novelist and the in
red artist both teach that the only
h comforter in times of earthly trou-
Is that Saviour whom we lovingly
n Jesus, the Prince of PeaceH
but, though Byam Shaw hasepainted
ANY pictures, there is one, based upon
Ae book of Ecclesiastes, which has
becially impressed me- 1t is one IL
stratIng the theme of my text. The
bung artist in his original way seems
open for us one of the rooms of the
ritish museum. In the foreground of
picture he places a Londoner, a
ritish aristocrat, dressed in the height
fashion of the time of Disraeli
EN- he seems to surround this man,
thed in kid gloves, six hat and i'm
Aculate linen, with the mighty Brit
library of over 100000 volumes,
which are recorded the scientific and
,iaI triumphs of past ages. As you
be on that picture, in Imagination,
d seem to heaf the whistle of fac
ry, the click offrowel, the signal of
e railroad engine, and the hoarse
bice of the aleaE Nunarder's fog horn
ehsing her arning calf among the
] Is of II 8nndland, and the ring
In9 of thu alone bell, and we seem
! t. Zee 81 of the electric spark.
men, Ibis powerful picture with
up &fe Bible application, the
ohnd Iiah artist has written the
lord Hill text, $50 this only have
ohr God hath made men up
ikh they have songht out many
nt ns." Never did these Solomon
y 8 burn themselves into my mind
Hrt more deeply than when saw
|n the brilliant colors of Byam
5 strange and yet powerful and
Ing picture.
Modern Inventions.
lit when studying that picture l
Ia myself these questions: do all
aern inventions truly make men
stched and miserable, as King Solo
h implies? Did King Solomon him
mean that all modern inventions
Re bad? OF course the greater OPP
rtunities of life, which come through
revolving wheels of machinery and
concentration of capital, do nat
ally offer greater opportunities for
rked men to do evil, but are all
bat inventions agents of eyilP' mo"
answered. LAS greater opportunities
life offer greater evils for wicked
b. so greater opportunities of ma
merry and inventions afford greater
portunities of good for good men,
us on this Sabbath preceding oul
J. tional Thanksgiving day l will cata
que some of the blessings which, IL
good sense, come to good men from
E sewing machine, the railroad, The
ctory, the telephone, the typewriter
printing press and from all the
her inventions that have made the
st century the most Femarkable, in {
entife sense, of all the ages.
Most blessed of Inventions, in thu
st place. those that deal with health
honR which we class the sewerage
PES 13y which great city is KEEP
re and clean, and the great aque
bets through which it is supplied witt
\ lie giving water to drink. What Vip
knius Agrippa tried to do when he
tnilt the famous aqueduct of Mines
fhich brought the water Of the Foun
lin D'Eure, twenty miles away, to the
hths Of Diana; what the Emperor
aaudlus did when he carried the water
rom the Alban hills down to the cap
al Of the Caesars, which aqueduct
Till bears his name; what King Solo
lon did when he built his three ia
pous pools, from which. reservoirs he
arried the water by subterranean pas
ages TO the city of jerusalem; what
arquinius Priscus did GOO years be
ore Christ when he built the famous
anal Cloaca Maxima, the oldest and
be most famous drainage canal in the
orld and which is still used to carry
be refuse out of the city of Rome t
be Tiber, the great engineers on al
nlarged scale are doing for our owl
hties. These engineers may not hav
IL title M. D." affixed to their names
they are the greatest Of all prevent
OF disease. Truly they have don