Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1905-01-16
tecting guards about them in a legal
sunbeams Cure Disease.

sense.
sunbeams Cure Disease.
The sunbeams can cure physical dis
eose The gospel light, if Christian
neonle will only perform their Chris
tian duties at the ballot box. will cure
Governmental disease The late DIR
TeiIs Finsen by scientific investigation
fo1nd that certain microbes would die
rnder certain colored lights. We know
that all governmental injustices and So
ciaI crimes and city temptations will
disappear under the bright rays which
may be flashed from the gospel light
Tbns If is every Christians duty to see
tn il that as far as he may be able he
shall have a Christian supervisor and
q Christian common council and a
Christian mayor and a Christian gov
ernOr and a Christian congressman and
a christian senator and a Christian
nresident of the United States. If
christian church members will stand
shoulder to shoulder at the ballot box
the injustices and crimes and evil
temptations which run rampant through
orr great cities will no longer exist.
But | bethink myself as 1 come to
the close of this sermon on ''Tran-
scendent Light" that l have two duties.
The one is to the servant of Jesus
Christ: the second is to the man and
the woman who have not yet been
willing to accept the Saviour's love-
The one is to the disciple of the Chris
tan light: the second is to the child of
Satan, who is living in the darkness
of sin. These are the two classes of
nv audience There is no third group,
for ''he that is not with me is against
me, and he that gathereth not with me
scattereth abroad" AS | come to this
closing part of my sermon l tremble
ought to know, the tremendous results
of your decision. Why do | tremble?
Because your father, your mother, your
wife, your child or the preacher of this
morning cannot make you become a
"child of light if you are not willing
to do so of your own accord.
The gospel light, like that of the
suns light. with all of it's creating,
saving power, is the easiest of all great
influences to be resisted The light
nings strike everywhere. They cut to
the right and to the left. With one
blow they can split rocks and wreck
homes and dismantle trees. The suns
heat cannot be ignored, even if one
would. When the hot summer months
come, all who can do so flee from the
cities and HE themselves away to the
woods or the seashOre. Closed doors
and windows make the sitting air only
the more oppressive The poor little
children moan and cry. The sick, if
they are not taken away to the sea-
shore or the high mountains, often die.
The city parks are crowded with suf-
fering humanity.
Cannot Escape Thunder.
You cannot escape if you would the
sounds of the cannonading Of the ele-
ments when the thunderstorm begins
to growl and to crash. The frightened
girl may run to her bedroom and close
the windows and draw the shades and
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booming discharges Of the heavenly
artilleries 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 eyelids and tie
a bandage over the face, and as a blind
man he will have to grope his way
along the darkness. All one has to dc
is to plant the flowers under the shad-
ows of a wall, and you can see them
pale and droop and wither and die
Light may have a creating, develop
ing, a protecting, saving influence
but light will never force it's way
through a blocked vestibule or through
a thick obstruction which has been
erected to keep it out. Thus the Cos
pei light will never enter your heart
unless you wish it to come. Christ
said, 81 am the light" What is your
answer? Will 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 eterni-
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. 1t was
q moonlight night. No boat was near
The ship was In midstream, so the en-
yineer could not tell what the signal
meant. He went at once to the pilot
house. There he found the old pilot dy.
ne. AS he lifted up the PROSTATE man
he pilot murmured: 'It is dark. A
mist has settled upon the river, and
cannot see. Tell the captain it is dark
md | can't see." Oh, my friends, is
| your Iife's close to be shrouded in dark
nists? Is your river of death" to be
in a spiritual sense like that of the
Hudson river pilot-in an atmosphere
dark. impenetrably, awfully and eter
naHy dark?
When King Philip III. of France
called 1.-The Hardy" returned from his
war against the Moors- and his con
nuest over the hey of Tunis, it is said
| that he Brought back in his train five
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