Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-07-10

they mean. There are thousands of
boys employed as messengers in the
telegraph offices. 1t is no uncommon
thing to see them snowballing in win
ter and playing marbles in the sum-
mer, when they are supposed to be
making all haste to do an GRAND on
which great interests may be depend
ing. A plumper comes to do a job,
and after he is gone you find he has
made tube of plaster half an inch
long to supplement that length of
lead. He thought you would not
find it out, and he had no sense of
responsibility to God or to you. The
man who puts barrel of apples with
good ones at the ends and nubbins
in the middle, OF the man who puts
sand in bale of cotton, or stones
in load of hay, is scamp of the
same pattern. 1t is very much the
same in all trades and traffic of man
kind. Faithfulness is a rare quality.
1t is not wholly wanting. | have
seen Roman Catholic servant in a
Protestant family, doing her duty
with steady, unselish, generous fl
deity that counted neither health,
strength, time nor pleasure in untir-
ing, simple devotion to the work in
hand. She was faithful in a few
things, and will be found among
those whom the Lord promised to
make ruler over many things.
The crying and Astounding vice of
the community is want of personal
responsibility, an unreadiness to
stand square up to an obligation, and
do ones duty.
Men accept positions as directors
of religious or financial societies.
You go to meet them at the appoint
ed time. They come half an hour
afterwards, perhaps not at all. Bus
mess has been delayed for them and
now must be rushed through. They
have no time to be faithful in a few
things. Unfaithful clerks rob banks
governed by unfaithful directors.
Both classes are guilty of criminal
infidelity to their trusts. Men retire
from many boards of directors be-
cause they cannot afford to waste
time waiting for unpunctual men,
who cannot give time to be faithful
to the few things they have taken in
trust. Probably five out of ten OF
the directors of banks and other in
situations, religious and financial and
charitable, are in this sense unfaith-
full men. They do not know of theil
own knowledge the condition of theil
trust. Yet they direct Precious
directors they are Will the Lore
ever say to them, ''Faithful in a few
things, ruler over many?"
r Let me not be misunderstood. TX
be the head man of a bank or rail
road or a business firm is not thu
measure of success. Wealth is no
the measure. 1t is not even facto
in success. Success in life is to b,
i able to provide for self and family il
e some useful avocation. Try tina
$ definition. Anything short of tina
Il is failure. But that inclndes all Their
is to be had in this world. With tina
goes responsibility, usefulness, an
i. as much enjoyment as God sees t
be best. To that may be added hon
$. ors, fame, riches, pleasure, all Q
/ which wise, good man may dis
d pense with and not be loser. Nor
than half of the worlds people hav
" to be provided for by the rest. Bu
u u the grand reason why all men do nc
honestly provide for themselves an
tv families is that they are not faithful
a. use of opportunities and means. In
es providence is a sin. So is laziness
and pride that despises labor, an
tn fastidiousness that rejects a goo
ne chance to earn bread because it wan1
81 something better. No, the way
:, get ahead in the world is to seize IL
$ first opportunity to be useful; maxi
yourself absolutely indispensable
g. the business; the hand of the dill
es' gent maketh rich; and from one ste
oy to another you rise till the reward
At. yours. 1t is true in religion as
lal trade. That chapter-the 18th
S. Matthew's gospel-has an awful al
glorious sermon in it. It is not in co
eat flict with, but is a supplement of Il
y gospel that teaches salvation by Il
blood and love of Christ. The faithf
servant is to enter into the JOY of /
no Lord. The unfaithful is to be ca
''e into outer darkness. And when t
OF throne is set and the world stands
vs. the right hand and the left, what Y,
as have done to the least of the lit
er- ones will be counted as a witne
of of your faith and love. Ten thousal
srs. opportunities, duties, obligations
3d. God and your fellows, Sabbaths, !
bles, prayers, sermons, these g
ST. some of s'the few things but til
MS take hold on eternal life.-Rev. [
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