Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-12-31


make you what you are, with all the
lessons of experience and I will dare
say you are a faulty being at best.
Above all, don't expect judgment in
a child, or patience under trials.
Sympathize in their mistakes and
troubles don't ridieule them.
Remember not to measure child's
trials by your standard. 'sAs one
whom his mother comforteth," said
the inspired writer, and beautifully
does he convey to US the deep, faith
full love that ought to be found in
every woman's heart, the unfailing
sympathy with all her children's
griefs. When / see children going
to their father for comfort / am sure
there IS something wrong with their
mother.
Let the memories of their child
hood be as bright as you can make
them. Grant them every innocent
pleasure in your power. We have
often felt our temper rise to see how
carelessly their plans were thwarted
by older persons, when little troub-
lie on their part would have given the
child pleasure, the memory of which
would last lifetime.
Lastly, don't think child hopeless
because it betrays some very bad
habits. We have known children
that seemed to have been born thieves
and liars, so early did they display
these undeniable traits; yet we have
lived to see those same children be-
come noble men and women and
ornaments to society. We must con-
fess they had wise. affectionate par
ents. And, whatever else you may
be compelled to deny your child by
circumstances in life. give it what it
most values-plenty of love.
AMERICAS WIDESPREAD INFLU-
ENcE.-The Rev. Joseph Cook, in his
last lecture in Boston, said: Gamer
lean influence is pouring into Austria
liza, and we are highly regarded by
people of that vast island. Hermit
though Australia may be, she prefers
American institutions to those Of the
British empire. She will have no
union between church and state, and
is to-day discussing the American
constitution as plan of confedera-
ton. Canada has already followed
our lead, and free institutions are
being established in all quarters of
the globe. Let US look well to our
work, Americans, for we are looked
up to and initiated by nations and
peoples. 1t is beyond all controversy
that our example is powerful agent
in the promotion of repression of re-
form in other lands. India is striv-
ing to initiate us, and young Hindoos
who can read know much of our his
tory and of our institutions. Though
India is probably for one or two CEN
turies bound to union with the British
empire, that great nation is one of
mighty agencies to which the world
will ere long look for great results.
Hindoostan, with her immense popu-
lation of twenty nationalities, speak
ing fourteen languages, and more
than 100 dialects, is a whole world
in herself. The themes which | found
to be of the greatest interest in Hin
doostan were precisely those which
were most keenly appreciated by
Boston audiences The same thread
of thought spanned the world, and
stirred Christian and pagan alike! p
A consciousness of integrity gives
mortal strength; an erect man can
carry a heavier load than one who
stoops, and an upright man has
strength which those who have
bowed down to false gods know
nothing of. A hallow heart makes
feeble hand. Whenever we try to
persuade ourselves that worng is
right, that duty is unimportant,
that the thing we wish to do we may
do, even though it it may be forbid
den of God, we may bewilder our
conscience, and blind our eyes, and
drift away from the path of Gods
providence and Our own duty but we
are laying up sorrow for ourselves.
And when the day shall come that
will demand all our courage fortitude
and faith, we shall find that we have
cut the sinews of our own strength,
and done ourselves an injury which
we are powerless to repair.
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MEANNEss AND RICHEs.-Nothing
is so easy as to become rich. 1t is
only necessary to trust nobody, to
befriend none, to get all you can,
and save all you get, to stint your
self, and everybody belonging to
you, to be the friend of no man, and
to have no person for your friend, to
heap interest upon interest, cent upon
cent, to be mean, miserable and de-
spised for some twenty or thirty
years, and riches will come as surely
as disease and disappointment. And
when pretty nearly enough wealth is
collected by disregard of all chari-
ties and improvements, death comes
to finish the work. The body is bur-
led in the grave, heirs dance over it,
and the spirit goes-where?
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