Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1905-09-25

angler wading up and down the trout
streams. But, as | see the sportsman
and the man of health hunting or fish
ing or climbing in the mountains. 1
also see the poor invalid crawling there
or being carried there or lying back
lst!essly in an armchair. His eyes
have an unnatural luster; his cheeks
are flushed; he coughs much; he has
the awful pain in his chest. Then see
him under the powerful tonic Of the
ozone of the Adirondacks or the Alps,
growing stronger and. stronger. The
cough grows less and less and finally
dies away. The tottering gait is chang
ed for the healthful stride. The in
valid who was carried to the woods
goes forth well and physically renovat-
ed. oh. why cannot the God of the
hills be today the God of health? Can
not he, will not he cure that old chronic
disease of sin which has been cursing
do this, if we only climb up to him on
the Mount of TRANSPORTATION and
throw ourselves at his feet as we cry,
Jesus, my Saviour, my Lord"
But l must not stop here, even if
would The love of God is found in the
strength of the hills, but Gods limit of
forgiveness and pardon are found there
also. Though God is ready to receive
US if we come to him now, the figure
of my text distinctly proves that there
xT-1n hn will
Not unto all who call Lord, Lord,
unto me will 1 open unto them, for
unto many in that day l will say, l
know you not" The future destruc-
ton of the hills symbolizes it.
There is limit to Gods patience
Did you ever stop to think that as hills
have a time in which they were created
they shall also have a time in which
they shall die? Indeed, many of the
hills Of the past have died already
Once, says the legend, a continent
ridged with the highest of mountain
chains stretched itself between the old
world and the new. The Azores and
the Canary islands are claimed to have
been the tops of these very mountains.
The Mayas, the original inhabitants of
YUcatan at the time of the conquest Of
Peru by PiZarrO, were supposed to
have been related to the ancient in
habitants of this sunken continent,
which was called Atlantis. Among
the Mayas the historian finds almost
the same kind of worship which was
practiced among the inhabitants of the
Nile. Yucatan architecture is very
similar to the Egyptian architecture.
Every student knows how characteris-
tic Egyptian architecture was and is
today Some of the ancient writer's
make mention of this strange island
continent Sir Thomas More founded
his Utopia there. Yet the student of
deep sea soundings finds that the leg
endary continent of Atlantis, with all
it's mighty hills, was at last sunk in
the mighty deep.
Opportunity May Be Lost.
In Java, few years ago, the great
Krakatoa volcano, after erupting for a
few days, suddenly exploded. The is
| land of Java was literally split i'll
twain. Sixty thousand corpses foated
upon the surface of the sea. A great
tidal wave forty feet high arose and
| swept on and lifted a German man-of-
war and carried it twenty miles inland
| and there left it stranded. Java is
| today over 200 miles from India. There
are many reasons to believe that this
| island was once connected with the
mainland The inhabitants of India
| and Java have the same customs. They
| speak almost the same language. They
worship the same gods. In their for
ests they hunt the same kinds of wild
beasts as are found in India. Ye1
| all of that connecting belt of 2O(
miles of land with it's mountains has
entirely disappeared. AS the God Of
the hills is some day going to destroy
his mountains, some day he is goins
to destroy our rejected opportunitie:
for salvation. Thus, my friends, as We
look off unto the hills, as did tn,
| psalmist, from whence cometh oul
strength, do you not find in the future
| destruction of these hills the foreshad
owed rejection of souls that have re
fused year after year to come and bow
at the foot of the cross which was once
planted upon the top of a small noun
| tain called Calvary?
How many people are hugging tt
their hearts the false hope that the
mountains Of Gods pardon will re
main firm for them to climb, even from
the weakness and helplessness of g
deathbed! Do not procrastinate
have read of travellers lost on the des
ert. Without a drop of water, will
swollen lips and thick tongues, they
staggered on until they dropped. Sud
denly off in the distance they saw g
| beautiful mountain. There the streams
were flowing and the rustling leaves
and the singing brooks were calling
them to come and drink and live. The
dying men were aroused. They rushed
on toward this beautiful mountain IN
til, in a moment, it disappeared. II
was nothing but mountain Of optica
illusions, mountain Of mists. a noun