Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-12-15

Split an arln1ui OF WOOD Oh your way
ont. so that we can build the fires for
breakfast. Put your bare feet on the
cold oilcloth and break the ice in your
pitcher before you can wash. Yes, it
has been showing and drifting again
last night, and we viii have to break
the roads" The boys educational adj
vantages, a long oak plank without
any back to it in country school house,
and stove throwing out more smoke
than heat. Pressing on from one hard
ship to another.
After a while position on salary or
wages small enough to keep life, but
keep it at it's lowest ebb. Starting in
occupation or business with prosperous
men trying to fight you back at every
step. But after good while fairly on
your feet, and your opportunities wild
ening. and then by some sudden turn
YOU are triumphant. You are master
OF the situation and defiant of all
earth and hell A Lebanon cedarl
John Milton on bis way up to the
throne of the worlds sacred poesy must
sell his copyright of Paradise Lost"
for seventy-two dollars in three pay
ments. And William Shakespeare, on
his way up to be acknowledged the
greatest dralnatist of all ages, must
hold horses at the door of the London
theatre for a sixpence, and Homer
NUT struggle through total blind
ness to immortality, and John Bun
van must cheer himself on the way
up by making a flute out of his
prison stool, and Canova, the sculptor,
must toll on through orphanage, mod
cling a lion in butter before he could
cut his statues in marble. And the
great Stephenson must watch COWS III
| the field for a few pennies and then be-
| come a stoker, and afterward mend
clocks before he puts the locomotive on
its track, and calls forth plaudits from
parliaments and medals from kings
Abel Stevens is picked up neglected
child of the street, and rises through
his consecrated genius to be one OF the
most illustrious clergymen and hsto-
rians of the century. And Bishop James
of the same church in boyhood worked
his passage from Ireland to America
and up to usefulness, where, IN the
bishopric, he was second to no one who
| ever adorned it.
While in Punishment XenophOn wrote
his 'Anabasis'' and Thucydides his
History OF the Peioponnesian War, F"
| 'andVictOr Hugo must be exiled for many
wears to the island of Guernsey before
| he can come to that height in the affec-
| tions of his countrynen that crowds
the Champs Elysees, and the adjoining
! boulevards with one million mourners,
as his hearse rolls down to the Church
of the Madeleine Oh, it is a tough
old world, and it will keep you back
and keep you down and keep you I'M
der as long as it can? Hail, sons and
| daughters of the fire
| Stand as the anvil when the stroke of stalwart
| men falls fierce and fast;
| Storms but more deeply root the oak whose
| brawny arms embrace the blast;
| Stand like an anvil; noise and heat are born of
earth and die with time.
The soul, like God, it's source and seat Is solemn
| still, serene, sublime
Thirty years from now the foremost
men in all occupations and professions
will be those who are this hour in awful
struggle of early life, many of them
without five dollars to their name. So
in spiritual life it takes a course of be-
reavements, prosecutions, sicknesses,
and losses to develop stalwart Chris
tan character. [ got letter a few
days ago saying: Il have hardly seen
a well day since was born, and l could
not write my own name until was 80
years of age, and am very poor; but
am, by the grace of God, the happiest
man in Chicago"
The Bible speaks of the SHOWS of
Lebanon, and at this season of the year
| the SHOWS there must be tremendous.
The deepest snow ever seen in America
would be insignificant compared with
the mildest winter of SHOWS on those
Lebanon mountains The cedars catch
that skyfulI Of crystals on their brow
and on their long arms. Piled up in
great heaps are those SHOWS, enough to
crush other treeO to the ground, split
ting the branches from the trunk and
leaving them rent and torn, never tC
rise. But what do the cedars care foI
these SHOWS on Lebanon2 They look
up to the winter skies and say: Snow
ont Empty the white heavens upon
us and when this storm is passed
let other professions of tempest try
to bury us in their fury. We have
for five hundred winters been ac
customed to this, and for the next
five hundred winters we will cheerfully
take all you have to send; for that is
the way we develop our strength, and
that is the way we serve God and teach
all ages how to endure and conquer.
So | say: Good cheer to all people
who are showed underl Put your faith
in God and you will come out glorious
Iy. Others may be stunted growths
or weak jumpers on the lower levels
of spirituality, but you are going to be
Lebanon cedars. At last it will be said
of such as you: ''These are they who
came out of great tribulation and ha6
their robes washed and made white in
the blood of the Lamb.
But while crossing over these mount
aims of Lebanon l bethink myself o.
what an exciting scene it must be when
one of the cedars does fall 1t does not
go down like other trees, with a slight
| CIdCh1S tIISlI OAAO NOONS
man look up, or a hawk f1utter from &
neighboring bough. When a cedar fall
it is the great event in the calendar O
the mountains The axmen fly. The
wild beasts stink to their dens. The
cartridges swoop to the valley for es
cape. The neighboring trees go down
under the awful weight of the descend
ing monarch. The rocks are moved
out of their places, and the earth trem
bles ds from miles around all ravines
send back their sympathetic echoes
Crash crashi crash! So when the
great cedars of worldly or Christian in
huence fall it is something terrific
Within the past few years how many
mighty and overlapping men have gone
down.
There seems now to be an epidemic
of moral disaster The moral world
the religious world, the political world
the commercial world are quaking
with the fall of Lebanon cedars. /
10 awful We are cOmDeIIed to crv