The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-02-22
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BUILD AN ENDURING MONUMENT
AND BUILD 1T WHILE YOU
LIVE

BUILD AN ENDURING MONUMENT
AND BUILD 1T WHILE YOU
LIVE.
That monument is best and most perma-
nently builded that is self-builded and builded
in good deeds. Besides, there is an mex
pressibly blessed satisfaction in seeing ones
own monument steadily rising without in
tention or hands, crowned with the undying
wreathes of thousands of human hearts that
have (by our own modest endeavors) been
lifted up from the environments of squalor
and vice, to hope and comfort and purity
Such q monument Mrs. j. j. Aston, of New
York, is now unconsciously building to her
self. This noble, philanthropic woman has
sent 1868 homeless children to the south and
west in the last few years at an expense of
nearly $16 600 co. "The reports show (ac-
cording to the New York Trs6une) that in an
immense majority of the cases the transfer
of the children to new surroundings has re-
suited in great good to them and to the salts
faction of the families to which they were
sent" This is monument more enduring
than brass, and far more beautiful than Ital-
ian marble; yes, and far more valuable to its
possessor than the most chastely wrought
pillars of gold. For all these will corrode and
in time crumble, but this monument of good
deeds is heart-engrayen, and will grow and
brighten as these hearts grow, these lives
Saved by her infuence) unfold and run on,
through the generations to come. And yet
bright and beautiful and enduring as this
monument is, others as bright, as beautiful
and as enduring may be erected, and that pos
sibly, by some readers of the GAZETTE. Yes,
we repeat, it is possible to some readers of the
GAZETTE to erect monument not equal, but in
every sense better, than this steadily rising
and beautiful one of Mrs. ]. ]. Aston Do you
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only of work blessed it is true) of rescue
from peril, Uice and oreck, while yours may
tell of those saoed before iaperilled, before
stained, before weakened, before wrecked. In
fact, your monument may be as much better
than hers as prevention is better than cure"
g How can this be done?" Why, by sending
into these homes of the poor, and ignorant,
and lowly and vice-encompassed, a stream of
pure, wholesome temperance literature, and
by this MEANS crowding back the tide of
death that now pours into them through the
Shiny, ichorous sluice-ways of vicious and
lustful and soul-damning press. For bear it
IN mind, that three-fourths of these children
| (rescued from worse than actual physical
death by Mrs. Aston would need no rescuing
if as much money was spent in protecting
them from these ulcerous sheets published
by human devils. in ink of hell) by the sub
stlt1on of those devoted to purity, to health, to
temperance and religion. For these vile, filth
dripping, lust-inhaming soul-consuming pa
pers go hand in hand with the burning, blister
ing, cancerous plague of m-and rum strikes
to kill Now, don't think we are writing
Numerically. Never have we been more
thoughtful or practical. We mean what we
say and know what we say is true. There
are thousands of families in every city, some
in every village, that can be saved in this
Tbair 6orly h al bx-&b o
electric light of temperance. Their filthiness
can be cleansed by turning on the hose of
total abstinence. Their sin and encouragement
lifted to purity and hope, by the weekly
visits of earnest, religious and temperance
journals. And what is still worse to contem-
plate, if these are not thus saved in the near
future, those who now withhold the money to
save them, will have to pay it over and over
again for their support for as they now live,
if let alone, they will naturally drift, and that
swiftly, to the brothels, the almshouse, the
asylums and the prisons of our midst And
they will cost far more there Ito say nothing
of the influence of their sin, the wreck of
their own immortal natures) than it now re-
quires to save them. Who then will build
such monument? who devote $500 or
$1,000 or $4,000 of his or her income to send
some white-winged bird of the temperance
press, into these homes of the poor, the
tempted, the imperilled perhaps the already
straying) to sing such song Of hope, and
love and heaven as has never been heard, or
even dreamed of in these heretofore cheerless
sinful, songless places? This will be a
monument that shall stand all clad in every
Frightening beauty through the ages. A
monument that Gods smile viii delight to
kiss, over which angels shall love to hover,
and which the destroying fingers of time Gin
stead of crumbling) viii give brighter
polish and still more enduring form. Then,
build an enduring monument and build it
sohile you hge. CRITIC.
National P7'ohi5ttio1sist, Last week we
advised the laboring men to keep an account
of the money thrown away for beer and
whiskey. One of them has sent in the fol-
lowing statement for the week ending Jan.
9Th, 1884:
Monday morning. whiskey ......-.....-.S Is
Monday noon, glasses beer. 10
Monday evening glasses beer - Is
Monday evening, treats for two.-........ 80
Tuesday (holiday), for self and friends Is
glasses beer. ...--...-..... 10
Tuesday, 8 glasses whiskey. rs
Wednesday, same as Monday. ............ 40
Thursday whiskeys beers. ............ As
Friday beers 30
Saturday evening, drunk ..........-..... $50
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