Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-05-17
Welcome to w. B. Dukeshire by A. B.
Blake

We welcome you home our dear Brother,
SO glad you can be with US here
1t was well you returned, not another,
For our union grows closer each year.
Your presence and cheer at our meeting
Is something inspiring and grand,
30 cordial your grasp and your greeting,
Your heart we can feel In your hand.
Ubiquitous your mtnistratiOns,
80 gentle, unselfisn and kind;
Impressed with our own obligations.
What words to express can we find?
To show your loves recipI ocation
This pleasing reception we give;
May it fill your heart with citation
You'll remem Der as long as you live.
In the homes that are draped with sadness,
To the hearts that are sick and sore
Your presence brings sunshine and glad
ness
Sweet peace, troubled hearts to restore
Like sunshine the mountain tops gliding
w hen Phoebus retires for the night,
So temple of love you are building
That will glow with effulgent light.
You stand twixt the dying and living
And point to the "City of Light"
The best OF your service giving,
The pathway OF others to make bright.
fhe Durdeneo, heart broken, afflicted
You comfort and cheer on their way.
To the lives that are narrow, restricted
You open the portals of day.
Ears are happy that hear your preaching,
Hearts are happy tibet feel your love,
Truths are glorious, this gospel teachin,
In the spirit of Christ, above
In vestments of sa bic enshrouded,
Friends most precious in silence lay,
When our eyes with tears were beclouded,
You helped us drive those sad tears away.
w hen embracing your sacred calling
All the doors OF riches were closed;
Your prospects seemed somewhat appalling
So far as eartb's policy goes.
But wealth with Its lure and attraction
Could in no way your purpose swerve
For both in your thong bit and your action
You chose the dear Master to serve.
You red Zig ht the places of danger,
You pilot our way by Coos chart.
You give to your friends and the stranger
spacious, warm place in your heart.
The doctrine you preach of conversion,
repentance. contrit1on for sin.
You do not Insist on immersion
But purity, plead for within.
The Bible you preach as You read it
Nor g loss it to pslliate sin.
The sinner must search IL and heed it
Would he future happiness win.
You insist that the path is narrow,
And the gateway of life Is "strait"
'rwere better mems feelings to harrow
Then awaken lost sinners too late.
We gladly your helpmeeJ remem Der,
And the Juveniles unoer her care;
Our hearGiest thanks oulo we render
For her faithfuInes5 everywhere.
Gods jewels-bow precious the treasure
She mothers eacn precious child,
Loves service she gives without measure,
On Ter work the Master has smiled.
1 he exsted of God we revere
For they work with their heart and their
soul.
Were our vision acute, would appear
Round her brow bright aureole.
The children, we are glad they are with US,
Wed be sorry with them to part;
M ay the Master truly forgive US
When boys have no place in our heart.
Our regards to the aged mother, j..
W 40 is watching the sun go down.
Who'll change this world for another,
Whose forehead will soon wear CROWD.
Thrice welcome, once more our dear
Brother
BY the aged, the children, the youth
Our fellowship, one with another
Will grow sweeter, each day, of truth.