Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-04-14

ture planned out. They have in mag
nation built about twenty years ahead
a house in the country not difficult OF
access from the great town, for they
will often have business, or old ac-
counts to settle. and investments to
look after. The house is large enough
to accommodate all their friends. The
halls are wide, and hung with pictures
of hunting scenes and a branch of ant
lers. and are comfortable with chairs
that can be rolled out on the veranda
when the weather is inviting, or set
out under some of the oaks that stand
sentinel about the house, and rustling
in the cool breeze, and songful with
the robins.
There is just land enough to keep
them interested, and its crops of al
most fabulous richness springing up
under application Of the best theories
to be found in the agricultural jour
nails. The farm is well stocked with
cattle and horses, and sheep that know
the voice and have a kindly bleat when
one goes forth to look at them. In this
blissful abode their children will be
instructed in art and science and re-
ligion. This shall be the old home
stead to which the boys at college will
direct their letters, and the hill on
which the house stands will be called
lakewood or Ivy Hill or Pleasant Re
treat or Eagle Eyrie May the future
have for every business man here all
that and more beside! But are you
postponing your happiness to that
time? Are you adjourning your joys
to that cOnsummatIOn?
YOU MAY NOT ENJOY IT THEN.
Suppose that you achieve all you ex-
pect-and the vision mention IS not
up to the reality, because the fountains
will be brighter, the house grander
md the scenery more picturesque
the mistake is none the less fatal:
What charm will there be in rural
quiet for a man who has thirty or forty
Years been conforming his entire ma
lure to the excitements OF BUSINESS
Will focks and herds with their bleat
and moan be able to silence the !nsa-
table spirit of acquisltlveness Whlch
has for years had full swing III the
soul? Will the hum of the breeze
soOthe the man who now can lind MS
only enjoyment in the stock markets
Will leaf and cloud and fountain
charm the eye that has for three.
fourths of a lifetime found its chief
beauty in hogsheads and bills OF
sale? VIII parents be competent to
rear their children for high and holy
purpose, if their infancy and boyhood
and girlhood were neglected. when
they are almost ready to enter upon
the world and have all their habits
fixed and their principles stereotypedF
No, no; now is the time to be happy.
Now is the time to serve your Creator.
Il to No {
Are you too busy? Ihave known men
as busy as you are who had place IN
the store loft where they went to pray.
Some one asked a Christian sailor
where he found any place to pray IN,
He said: Il can always lind quiet
place at masthead. " And in the bust
est dav of the season, if your heart
is right, you can find place TO pray.
Broadway and Fulton street are good
places to pray in as you go to meet
your various engagements. Go home
a little earlier and get introduced to
your children. Be not a galley slave
by day and night, lashed fast to the
oar of business. Let every day have
its hour for worship and intellectual
culture and recreation. Show your
self greater than your business. Act
y
enter upon an eternity of railroad
| stocks and cOffees and ribbons. Roast
not your manhood before the per-
petual fires of anxiety. With every
| yard of cloth you sell throw not IN
your soul to boot. Use firkln and
counting room desk and hardware
crate as the step to glorious usefulness
| and highest Christian character. De
eide once and forever who shall be
master in your store, you or your bust
| ness.
DON'T BE a SLAVE TO BUSINESS.
Again, business men are often tempt
ed to let their calling interfere with
the interests of the soul. God sends
| men into the business world to get ed
ucated, just as boys are sent to school
and college Purchase and sale, loss
| and gain, disappointment and raSplng
| prosperity. the dishonesty of others
panic and bank suspensions are bu1
| different lessons in the school. The
more business, the more means o.
grace Many have gone through wild
est panic unhurt. Are you not afralC
YOU will break?" said some one to ;
merchant in time of great commercial
excitement. He replied: aye, shall
break when the fiftieth Psalm breaks
in the fifteenth verse, Call upon mt
in the day of trouble and [ will de
liver thee.
The stOreandthecOuntinghOuse hay
developed some of the most stalwar
characters. Perhaps originally the,
had but little sprightliness and force
but two or three hard business thump
woke them up from their lethargy
and there came q thorough develop
ment in their hearts of all that wa
good and holy and energetic and tire
mendous, and they have become tn
front men in Christ'S great army, a
well as lighthouses in the great worl'
of traffic. But business has been pei
petual depletion to many man. !
first pulled out of him all benevolence
next all amiability, next all religion
aspiration, next all conscience, an
though he entered his vocation wit
large heart and noble character h
goes out of it a skeleton, enough t
scare a ghost.
Men appreciate the Importance c
having a good business stand, stor
on the right side of the street or tn
right block Now, every place {
business is a good stand for spirituf
culture. Gods angels hover over tn
world of traffic to sustain and build II
those who are trying to do their duty
Tomorrow, if in your place of world
engagement you will listen for it, 20
may hear a sound louder than the ia
tie of drays and the shuttle of feet an
the chink of dollars stealing into you
soul, saying, Seek ye first the kins
dom of God and his righteousness, an
all other things shall be added uni
you"
Yet some of those sharpest at ba
gain are cheated out of their immOrt;
blessedness by stratagems more palp
BILE than any drop game of the stree
They make investments in thing
everlastingly below par. They pr
their valuables in a safe not fire proc
They give full credit to influences tn
will not be able to pay one cent on
dollar. They plunge into labyrint
: from which no bankrupt law Or ''tw
l thirds enactment will ever extrica
J them. They take into their partne
l ship the world, the flesh and the dew
;. and the enemy of all righteousne
: will boast through eternal ages tn
:. the man who in all his business Ii
e could not be outwitted or overreacht
i at last tumbled into spiritual defalc
I ton and was swindled out of HEAVIER