Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1906-10-15

Moses with the children Of Israel, you
can look off upon their promised land.
You can picture their future lives.
You can see them living in Christian
homes. rearing Christian children and
perhaps preaching in Christian pulpits.
You can today be truly thankful that
YOUR children are all safe in Christ's
love and pardon.
Success Comes.
Then in reference to our other lines
of work-oh, we can have wonderful
visions in reference to them! For
years some Of us have been working
in the temperance cause and in the
purity cause and in the church cause.
We have been nightly discouraged
at tines Sin seemed to be. intrenched
in Gibraltar fortresses. 1t seemed to
be able to mock US and laugh at us as
the enemies of God We're able to laugh
at the blinded Samson. We kept say.
ing to ourselves, Does it pay?" But
as you grow older and look into the
past you find that progress has been
| made. The tides of blessing each day,
| each month, each year, are little high
er. Each makes the world a little bet
! ter than its predecessor Then you
began to see what is going to be done
| for Christ within the next two CEN
turtles. MY Lord and my God" you
| cry, II thank thee for this Pisgah vi
sion. l thank thee that 1 am standing
upon Pisgah's heights today. 1 thank
| thee that can again descend into the
valleys and work a little longer in thy
| harvest fields for the contamination of
thy earthly glory"
T No man ever Travelled through for
| eign lands as disciple of Jesus Christ
without realizing how God is blessing
| the work of his children in those lands,
After the awful Boxer uprising in Chi
ma some of the American people began
to doubt the efficacy of foreign mission
| work, but the Christian men and wo-
men upon the field never doubted it.
| Minister Conger, the late representa-
| tive of the United States government to
| Picking, gave this as his testimony at
! that time: For seven years past
| have been intimately associated with
American missionaries in China. They
are veritable heroes. They are the fore
runners of civilization. 1t was they
! who first planted the banner of the
Prince of Peace in every place where
now floats the flag of commerce and
trade. The dim pathways which they
! traced, sometimes marking them with
their lifeblood, are rapidly becoming
the highways Of travel and trade. lined
with schoolhouses and railway stations
During the memorable siege of Picking,
when the legation walls were being bat
tered down by cannon shot and mortar
bombs, it was the encouraging words
of prayerful missionaries that gave us
constant courage and sustaining hope.
| There was but one man among us who
| broke down helpless and despairing,
and he was an avowed atheist He
had mo faith in God and consequently
no strength in himself" AS Minister
! Conger saw the results of Christian
i missionary work in China we. standing
upon our Pisgah heights, can see the
results of Christian work everywhere
around u.s. Though certain days may
seem to be dark, yet as we look into
i thb.far past we can see that, year by
ven and decade by decade, the world
is continuing to grow better through
Christian work. Therefore the mighty
inspiration comes to US to have a part
in that work and have a part in that
ultimate glorious triumph.
But there is always one. awful reali-
zation which comes to us when ave
stand upon Pisgahs heights, and that
is the realization that from an earthly
standpoint we can never overcome the
evil results of the past. Methinlzs
can see Moses as he looks off upon
that land flowing with milk and honey.
He raises his eyes to God and says,
Lord, wilt thou not let me pass over
with my people for a little while?"
NAY" says God; may. Dost thou not
remember down in Kadesh when thou
didst sin against me? Dost thou not re-
ter thou didst make water gush from
the rock Of Horeb and then take all the
credit unto myself, saying, Hear now,
We rebels; must we fetch you water
out of this rock? Thou didst not give
me the glory Then / said unto thee
thou couldst not enter into the prom
ised land. Because of that sin thou
art excluded from the land that thou
art permitted to see." Is it possible
that such a sentence may be pro
nounced against any of us? Have we
always given God the honor that be-
longed to him? Are there sins in our
past that God has graciously forgiven,
but that are still against US in ma
lures book Of account? You may wish
that you had acted differently during
your early manhood or womanhood;
but. though you may change the flu
ture, you can never change the past.
beware, o man, O woman, that you
90 not neglect to honor God! Do not
dsshonor him as Moses dishonored him
down at Kadesh before Horebs rock
Beware. if you have not vet s1lrren-