Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-12-14

! than cost" they are making twenty pei
! cent He says, 'EThere is nothing like
/ them in all the city, there are fifty
/ shops that want to sell the same thing.
| He says, Nov, that is durable
article, it will wash" yes, 1t will wash
out
The sale is made, the goods are wrap
ped up, the country merchant goes off
feeling that he has an equivalent for his
money, and the sharp clerk goes into
the private room of the counting house,
and he says, We'll, | got rid of those
goods at last; | really thought we never
would sell them; | told him we were
selling them less than cost, and he
thought he was getting a good bargain
got rid of them at last" And the head
of the firm says, That's well done
splendidly done!'
Meanwhile God had recorded eight
lies-four lies against the young man,
four lies against his employer, for | un-
dnrtake to say that the employer is re
sponsible for all the iniquities of his
clerks, and all the iniquities of those
who are clerks of these clerks down to
the tenth generation, if those employ
ers incuIcated iniquitous and danning
principles.
| stand before young men this morn
ing who are under this pressure. | say,
come out Of it. ''Ohr' you say, Il
can't; | have my widowed mother to
support, and if q man loses q situation
now he can't get another one" | say,
come out of it. Go home to your
mother and say to her, Mother, can't
stay in that shop and be upright; what
shall do?" and if she is worthy of you
she will say, Come out of it, my son
we will just throw ourselves on him
who hath promised to be the God of
the widow and the fatherless; he will
take care of US. - And | tell you no
young man ever permanently suffered
by such "a course of conduct.
In Philadelphia in a drug shop a
young man said to his employer, Il
want to please you, really, and [ am
willing to sell medicines on Sunday;
but | can't sell this patent shoe black
ing on Sunday" Well said the head
man, you will have to do it or else
you will have to go away The young
man said: II can't do it. am willing
TO sell medicines but not shoe black
ing" ''Well, then, go! Go now"
The young man went away. The Lord
looked after him. The hundreds of
thousands of dollars he won in this
world were the smallest part of his for
tune God honored him. By the
course he took he saved his soul as
we'll as his fortunes in the future.
A man said to his employer, Il can't
wash the wagon on Sunday morning; |
am willing to wash it on Saturday after
noon; but, sir, you will please excuse
me, I can't wash the wagon on Sunday
morning" His employer said, You
must wash it; my carriage comes in
every Saturday night, and you have
got to wash it on Sunday morning"
81 can't do it," the man said They
parted. The Lord looked after him,
grandly looked after him He is worth
today a hundred fold more than his
employer ever was or ever will be, and
he saved his soul.
Young men, it is safe to do right.
There are young men in this house to-
day who under this storm of tempta-
ton, are striking deeper and deeper
their roots and spreading out broader
their branches. They are Daniels in
Babylon, they are Josephs in the Egyp-
tian court, they are Pauls amid the
wild beasts of Ephesus. | preach to
encourage them. Lay hold of God and
be faithful.
THE PERILS OF SELF RIGHTEOUSNESS.
There is a mistake we make about
classes-the one class is moral the
other is diss0lute The moral are safe
The dissolute cannot be reclaimed. l
deny both propositions. The moral
are not safe unless they have laid hold
of Sod, and the dissolute may be re
claimed. | suppose there are self
righteous men in this house who feelno
need of God, and will not seek after
him, and they will go out in the
world and they will be tempted, and
they will be flung down by misfor-
tune, and they will go down, down,
down, until some night you will see
them going home hooting, raving,
shouting blasphemy-gOing home to
their mother, going home to their sis
ter, going home to the young compan-
ion to whom only little while ago, in
the presence of brilliant assemblage,
flashing lights and orange blossoms,
and censers swinging in the air, they
promised fidelity and purity and kind
ness perpetual
As that man reaches the door she
will open it, not with an cutlery, but
she will stagger back from the door as
he comes in, and in her look there will
be the prophecy of woes that are com
ing, want that will Shiver in need of
fire, hunger that will cry in vain for
bread. cruelties that will not leave the |
heart when they have crushed it, but |
pinch it again, and stab it again, until |
some night she will open the door of |
the place where her companion was |
ruined, and she will fling out her |
arm from under her ragged shawl |
and say with almost Omnipotent elo- |
quence: "Give me back my husband! |
Give me back my protector! Give me |
back my all Him of the kind heart |
and gentle words and the manly brow |
give him back to me!' And then |
the wretches, obese and filthy, will |
push back their matted locks, and they |
will say: put her out! Put her outr'
Oh, self righteous man, without God
you are in peril! Seek after him to-
day. Amid the ten thousand tempta-
lions of life there is no safety for man
without God.
But may be addressing some who
have gone astray, and SO [ assault that
other proposition that the dissolute
cannot be reclaimed. Perhaps you
nave only gone a little astray. While
speak are you troubled? Is there a
voice within you saying, what did
you do that for? Why did you go
7here2 What did you mean by that?"
Is there a memory in your soul that
makes you tremble? God only knows
Ill our hearts. Yea, if you have gone
20 far as to commit iniquities, and have
gone through the whole catalogue, 1
invite you back this hour. The Lord