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

1rpFnnt Ut6s 1uSAS 10 -
~ one Of rs in the splendid co.. -,
Grid except as we attain TO heavenly Fl
.Sai;tiaa IN this world. Diseord muo' i
49,, leas here. Sin and hate nins' % Il
CONQUERED here. The barriers - sol a
blindness and dislike and ol'Uel IT, IT, G
inc must be broken down ner0
lus separating seas of coidness anu ~
TSrsvmnathy and unloveliness mus. o ~
u Is;. - over here or else evaporateo
in the warmth of the sun " ~ {
oonsness. Heaven hereafter 70 y
the eternal climax of heavenly C adj
TONS realized today and to be feadzed
tomorrow upon the earth
when John looked upon the en-
| trancing panorama OF new thipgs De-
fore him, he saw no sea of ndt'onol1y'
/ National distinctions have dlsap-
peared in che new Jerusalem. All
i men are brothers there, not IN name
but in truth. Today nations are sep
arated from each other, some by sea,
some by mountain, some by language
SOME by customs, some by clvlliza'loh'
90 me by the color of their skim Inc
oman rolls between Europe ana
America. between America and Asla'
| Australia and the rest of the world.
The Alps stand between Italy ana
/ the Pvrenees between France ana
Spain. Language separates Germany
7 from Russia, the United States from
8 Mexico. The peculiar customs ana
}. ultra conservatism of the Chlnese pun
d them bv themselves. The low state
g of their civilization isolates the EUhl-
: oman and the Hottentot. boundaries
8 ore fxed 70 all nations of the eartn'
n There are we'll marked dltferences VI
IS nationality. There is no posslolilCy
/, inst now of the complete disappear
le anee of these dividing lines. we can
d not move the ocean or the mountains
I'd We cannot secure absolute uniformly
g in custom. law and speech. An IN
g. oanions Austrian some years ago, dlo
ne invant an international language anc
On called il "Volapuk," but it has mol
a. and will not be adopted. AS clVliiz@
ul tion advances and the Gospel spread
at nations do come closer together anf
KS mingle more congen'ally, but perfec
on homogeneity is yet far from reallza
ca ton. But when John looks upon III
n new heaven and the new earth,
ed sees a different state OF Things
ng Mountains are Ievelled. Barriers ar
obliterated. Seas are no more. II
u5 bebolds the citizens Of the new Jeru
Le- salem coming from the East and frof
ST. the West and from the North and ffol
he the South and taking their places VIII
les Abraham and Isaac and jacob IN u
ose kingdom of God! Africa sendsup h'
at duskv sons and daughters and EuroE
ion and America their fair haired chlldre
ma The Hindoo, the Madagascar, the Ii
dian, the Esquimo, the Patagonlan,
the meet as brothers and sisters IN the
Ella common Fathers house. There a
a OF no race wars in heaven. There
pic no conventional barriers to celest
2, in congeniality. All speak one languaE
n
ard redemption. Individual character
'ola- tics remain, but national distinctio
sat, disappear. AS in Adam all are OIL
otto so in Christ all are one. Heav
ising makes all mankind, black and VIII
ging and red and yellow and brown, fello
sun citizens and brethren. And when
Sud- pray s'Thy kingdom come on earth
aven il ia in heaven" we ask that these G.
'read ditions begin to be realized among
sea now.
were No sea of creed, one man says b
8 be- "I am of Calvin" another, II am
hand Wesley" another, 81 am of Luth'
pc of One SAYS 81 have been immerse
dings another says 81 have been sprinkl
new One says, ~ believe in a mar
W the Christianity" another says II bel
'aven in a broad Christianity" With
estial our boasted fraternity, and it is gr
dorm err than ever BEFORE there are
chad thousands who would rather fight
and their peculiar creed than save
arkle Presbyterian and Methodist 81
ruby hands with each other and chat &C
endor ally, but one heart says, "Don't
radi- touch my Calvinism" and the o
luful! heart says Don't you touch my
" the menianismn
eople, Rantist and Episcopalian walk
= life, in arm. but one thinks of the othe
'ir en- do not see how you can cling so t
ahght. ciously to that Pigment of Apos
re was Succession and the other think
John the one, II do not see how you
oarch- cling so tenaciously to that figme
", lest Immersion Protestant and Cat
nd he mass each other on the street anc
night change greetings, but each bell
more the other ought to be extermln
more But in his vision John saw no sec