The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-12-25

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We wish you every blessing;
May rich and poor together meet,
our common Lord eonfessine,
Each for another's happiness
some kindly hope repeating,
For 10 all men alike were sent
These words of heavenly greeting:
'sPcace on earth, good will 20 men.
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The Baptist Sunday school. this year,
decided to abolish their former custom of
distributing gifts TO the children. except
the usual gift Of confectionery to each
scholar. We think this Is a wise and
proper course Children are not apt to
view the unequal distribution of the good
things of this life with the same phlosoph-
zeal fortitude which we older folks can
assume. and many a little heart has been
filed with pam, if not with envy and I'M
charitablencss. at the sight of more fortH-
nate schooimatcs receiving presents of
value. while the child in whose bosom
the little heart is humping with hope
against hope that he, too, has been re-
mcmbcred by somebody. is turned away
empty handed, not because no one loves
him-God forbid that should be said Of
any of the little ones-but, because of the
financial inability of parents or friends to
manifest love in that way If there is any
one place where children should be allowed
to feel All equality, and where worldly dis
tinctions should be ignored, and the lesson
THE rich and the poor meet together and
the Lord is the maker of them all,
should be ineulcated, it is in the Sunday
school, and if there is any time more than
another when this should be done, it is the
happy Christmas time. OF course the
children ought not to feel cnvious, but
rather should rejoice iii the good fortune
of their more favored ncighbors, but then
it requires lots Of grace even for con-
verted grown up people. always TO do this,
and it is best not to risk too much Oh the
moral courage of the little ones. Make
Your people happy at home good people,
with gifts made precious by love. accord
ing as you are able, but at the Sunday
school festi> tiles let each have common
share-no more, 10 less.
'B. NJ b., by which we assume is meant
our good brother Braker, is carrying on a
war with our equally good brother Bing-
ham through the columns Of the estimable
Camden Courier, the point at issue being
third party prohibition, and makes the
following forciblc illustration in support of
his position that the third party i'll n. c.
To start a separate party for prohibition,
or any other single measure, is as alb
surd as it would be for Brother Bingham.
with pound package for New York to cs-
tabllsh dog cart express, when there are
two competing railroad anxious for the job
of taking it for him at far less than it
would cost him for his dog without the
cart. To refuse to use one or both of the
existing party machinery is to act as fool
ish as the man who had a bag of wheat in
his house but no cart to take it to the mill
to be made into flour, and had neither flour
nor bread while his children hungered \
neighbOr came along with a great strong
car loaded with yellow corn and. stopping
offered to take the wheat to mill in return
for grease for his aXles but the man rcflls-
ed, exclaiming. "'XLat! DO you think |
would put my wheat on your old yellow
corn cart? No, indeed; I'll make Il cart of
my own first and he begins the work
but there is need of an undertaken in that
house before there is need Of a cart
This little comparison strikes us as being
so apt, 50 happy and 50 pertinent that we
cannot f,rboar fnIlDx,iut, II ,n+ a., II, n 81 ,,,,,
line a little further. We knew that man
that had the big strong cart loaded with
yellow corn. He came by one morning
and the man that had the bag of wheat
hailed him and asked him would he please
carry that wheat down along to the mill
and bring him back the meal if it wasn't
too much trouble. ''Oh, yes, says the
other, ''but one ofmy axles is beginning to
squeak. | wish you would just bring me
out 4 little grease that may grease it
withaI. and the man who wanted his
wheat taken to mill, being Of All oblging
dispositions ran in and brought the grease
and put his shoulder to the wheel and
helped the other man grease his axle good,
in fact they CREASED the whole business.
Then he put the bag Of wheat on top of the
yellow corn and watched the wagon drive
off, and then went into the house and told
his wife and the children 'We'll have some
hot biscuit for supper tonight when the
flour comes home, and they all reioiccd,
for hot biscuit was scarce in that house.
By-and- by they heard the rumbling of the
big cart as it came back that way and the
man went out and says ''lIey, there, did
you bring me back my meal ~ "Well,
now, > the other fellow says 'I'l be dod-
rabbiied if didn't clean forget it, had
50 much corn to unload, and they were so
busy at the mill, aud so many other grists
10 get out and | was in such a hurry to
get home that couldn fetch it no how.
It's down there at the mill, though, and
reckon they Il grind it when they get time
and | am going down again next week and
] will fetch it then. I'll stop and let you
know when go by and get little more
of that axle grease. It's powerful good
stuff and I'm obliged to you for it and for
hclpin me put it ON. Good-day. Looks
little like rain, don't you think ?" And |
off he goes and the man that wanted the |
flour goes in and tells his wife and the chill |