Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-08-24

But good men and good women are
not u that kind Of business. Alas for
that poor thing Nothing but the
thread OF that sewing girls needle held
her. and the thread broke.
wU>tAN A GIFT FROM GOD.
l have heard meA tell in public dis
course what a man is; but what is a
woman? Until some one shall give a
better definition | viii tell you what
woman is Direct from God, a sacred
and delicate gift, with affections 50
great that no measuring line short OF
that of the infinite God can tell their
bound Fashioned to refine and soothe,
and lift and irradiate home and society
and the world of such value that no
one can appreciate it. unless his mother
lived long enough to let him under
stand it, or who in some great crisis
of life; when all else failed hin, had
wife to REINFORCE him with a faith in
God that nothing could disturb
Speak out, We cradles, and tell of the
feet that rocked you and the anxious
faces that lowered over you! Speak
out. We nurseries OF all Christendom,
and We homes, whether dcsolate or still
in full bloom with the faces of wife,
mother and daughter and help me to
define what woman is. But as geogra-
pliers tells Us that the depths of the sea
correspond with the heights of the
mountains have TO tell you that a
good womanhood IS not higher up than
bad wonanhood is deep down. The
grander the palace the more awful the
confagration that destroys it. The
grander the steamer Oregon the more
terrible her going down just off the
coast.
Now | should not wonder if you
trembled a little with a sense of re
sponsibility when | say that there is
hardly person in this house but may
have an opportunity to save a woman.
1t may in your case be done by good
advice, or by financial help, or by try
ing to bring to bear some one OF a
thousand Christian influences. If, for
instance you find a woman in financial
distress and breaking down in health
and spirits trying to support her chill
dren, now that her husband is dead or
an invalid, doing that very important
and honorable workout which is lit
tie ppreciated-keeping a boarding
house, where all the guests, according
as they pay small board or propose,
without paying any board at all, to de-
camp, are critical of everything and
hard to please, busy yourselves in try
ing to get her more patrons and tell
her of divine sympathy.
Yea, if you see a woman favored of
fortune and with all kindly surround
ings, finding in the hollow batteries of
the world her chief regalement, living
for herself and for time as if there
were no eternity, strive to bring her
into the kingdom of God, as did the
other day Sabbath school teacher,
who was the means of the conversion
of the daughter of a man of immense
wealth, and the daughter resolved to
join the church, and she went home
and said, Father, | am going to join
the church and l want you to come"
ooh, no." he said, 4 never go to
church. Well, said the daughter,
''if I were going to be married, would
you not go to see me narriedT And
lie SdIu, OII, yes. w eli, size SttItl,
this is of more Importance than that"
So he went and has gone ever since,
and loves to go do not know but
that faithful Sabbath school teacher
not only saved a woman, but saved a
man. There may be in this audience
gathered from all parts of the world
there may be a man whose behavior to-
ward womanhood has been perfidious
Repent! Stand up, thou masterpiece
of sin and DEATH that | may charge
you As far as possible make repara-
ton Do not boast that you have her
in your power, and tn. she cannot
help herself When that fine collar
and cravat and that elegant suit of
clothes comes off and your uncovered
soul stands before God, you win be bet
ter OFF if you save that woman
SUFFER LITTLE CHILDREN"
There is another exploit you can do,
and that is to- save child \ child
does not seem to amount to much 1t
is nearly year old before it can walk
at all. For the first year and half it
cannot speak word For the first ten
years it would starve if it had to earn
its own food For the first fifteen
years it. opinion on amy subject is alb
solutely valueless. And then there are
so many of them. My what lots of
children! And some people have CON
tempt for children. They are good for
nothing but TO wear out the carpets
and break things and keep you awake
nights crying
Well, your estimate of child is quite
different from that mothers estimate
who lost her child this summer. They
took it to the salt air of the seashore
and to the tonic air of the mountains.
but no help came, and the brief para
graph of its life is ended. Suppose that
life could be restored by purchase how
much would that bereaved mother
give! She would take all the jewels
from her fingers and neck and bureau
and put them down.
And if told that that was not enough,
she would take her house and make
over the deed for it. and if that were
not enough she would call in all her in
vestments and put down all her |
mortgages and bonds, and if told that
were not enough she would say: Il
have made over all my property, and
if | can have that child back / will
now pledge that will toll with my own
hands and carry with my own Shout
ders in any kind of hard work, and live |
in a cellar and die in a garnet. Only
give me back that lost darlingl"
| am glad that there are those who |
know something of the value of a child. |
Its possibilities are tremendous What |
will those hands yet do? Where will |
those feet yet walk? Toward what
destiny will that never dying soul be-
take itself? Shall those lips be the |
throne of blasphemy or benediction? |
Come, chronOlogists and calculate the
decades on decades, the centuries on
centuries, of its lifetime. Oh, to save
child Am l not right in putting
that among the great exploits?
But what are you going to do with |
those children who are worse off than |
if their father and mother had died the |
dav thew were born There are TENS of |