The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-06-21

large congregation was present, both
the main floor and the balconies being
filed. The front of the pulpit plat
form presented handsome appear
ance, being banked solidly with noun
tain laurel
The faculty and senior class marched
in from the street entrance, down the
center aisle, the faculty taking pews
on the north side and the students be,
ling seated on the south side. Instru-
mental music was furnished by an or
ehestra of 10 pieces, and Miss Mary
Bane sang soprano sdIo. Rev Thorn
| as w. Owens of the Methodist church
conducted responsive reading, Rev.
| ID. E. Trout of the Universalist church
offered prayer and Rev. Mr. Lamb read
| the scripture lesson from the eighth
/ chapter OF Zechariah.
/ The sermon was based on the scrip
iture passage, Zechariah 2:1-5, which
was the story of the man with a
measuring line, whose purpose was to
measure Jerusalem. From this text
Rev. Mr.. Lamb drew the lesson that
Jerusalem could have been measured
lby different standard than feet and
Iinches, that the commonest of persons
vice and that the person whose stand
lard of life leaves out Jesus and is
governed wholly by the measuring line
lis not success. 1t was remarkably
iWeH constructed sermon and abounded
in richness of thought. Rev Mr.. Lamb
said in part:
F The idea expressed here is that al
thing are at once measurable and i'm
measurable. Zechariah sees in hi.
vision man going forth to measure
Jerusalem. That is very easily done
we may say. So many yards, so many
mlles, so many streets, etc. But car
such careful classification give an,
true idea of the glory and the guilt
the marvel and the majesty, the ener
gy and the sublime effort as well n
5 the beauty of the city?
J. The man with the measuring lin
makes things look small and mean, b
r has no sense of the boundless; he new
O er gets beyond the outside of things
e and when God sees us listening t
r such an one he sends his angel, saving
Speak to that young man and tie
a him that life and truth and the worl
II are far vaster than he supposes, the
are unreasonable.
e See how this truth applies to MAJ
h. Science comes with her measurin
line, takes account of sinew, bon
!, muscle, arteries, etc, and then han6
= in her report. But is that all tn;
? can be said? Virtue, faith, love an
: pity, tenderness, these are the invi
:. ible constituents of human natur
= These are the soul and that is immea
urable.
7 There is also q foot-rule way
e. q
10 be measured, but in even the COZ
ou monest life there are things so beaut
= full that no measurement can do the
justice-the patience that watches |
ne the sick bed, the love that surviv
~ slight and cruelty, and the faithf,
81 ness that endures temptation. Jes
IT did not find human nature entire
ne evil, He found faith in the publica
It, penitence in the thief and love in t
harlot.
re- There is also small way of me;
at uring the soul and great way. !.
ny sus made short work of the man wi
mt the foot-rule when he said that all t
er, laws came to this: Glove the Lo
Or. thy God, and thy neighbor as IL
self -
ft, The same thing is true in regard
I'D our thought of God. Men have me
to- ured Gods plan with an inch tai
W. they have cubed it and squared it, a
nd then say they know exactly its mat,
I'm NAUTICAL proportions.
The lessons of the whole theme
these: First take large views of |
ces and truth. Measure life by its out
dv.l rather than by its income. Let rad