Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-04-25

find men groaning under burdens, as IN
| the east the camels stagger under their
loads between Aleppo and Damascus.
Life Is crushed out every day at counters
and Workbenches and anvili. But there
are other multitJ7des who die from mere
inertia. Indul8ences every day are con-
tracing diseases beyond the catholicon
Of allopathy and homeopathy and by
dropathy and eclecticisln. Rather than
work they rush upon lancets and seal
nels. Nature has provided for those who
violate her laws by inactivity-what
rheum for the eyes, and what govt for
the feet, and what curvature for the
spine, and what structures for the chest,
and what tubercleS for the lungs, and
what rheumatisIns for the muscles, and
what neuralgias for the nerves. Nature
in time arraigns every such culprit at
her bar and presents against him an
Indictment of one hundred counts, and
conyicts him on each one of them.
The laws Of nature will not stop their
action because men may be ignorant OF
them. Disease, when it comes to do it's
work, does not ask whether you under
stand hygiene or pathology or materia
medlcG. Ii there were not SO many lies
written on tombstones and in obituaries
you would see what multitudes of the
worlds inhabitants are slain in their at
tempts to escape the necessity of toll.
Men cross oceans and continents, and
climb the Alps, and sit under the sky Of
Italy or the shadow Of Egyptian pyra-
mid, and go down into ancient ruins,
and battle at Baden Baden, and come
home with the same shOrtness of breath,
and the same poor digestion, and the
same twitching of the nerves, when at
home with their own spade they might
have dug health out of the ground or
with their own ak hewn health out of
log, or with their own scythe garnered
health from the grain field.
FOOLISH PRIDE ABOUT WORK.
There are many who estimate the
responsibility of an occupation by the
little exertion it demands, and would
not have their children enter any en-
ployment where their hands may be
soiled forgetting that laborer's over
ais are Just as honorable as q priests
robes and an anvil is just as respectable
as a pulpit. Health flies from the bed
of down and says, Il cannot sleep here;"
and from the table spread with ptar-
migan and epicurean viands, saying, 81
cannot eat here" and from the vehicle
OF soft cushions and easy springs, say
ing, = cannot ride here;" and from
houses luxuriously warmed and uphol-
stored, saying, Il cannot live here;" and
some day you meet Health, who declined
all these luxuriant places, walking Ill
the plow's furrow, or sweltering beside
the kissing forge, or spinning among the
looms, or driving a dray or timing a roof
or carrying hods of brick up the ladder
Of wall.
Furthermore, notice that Incidence
endangers the soul Satan makes his
chief conquests over men who either
have nothing to do, or, if they have, re-
fuse to do it. There is legend that st.
Thomas, years after Christ's resurrec-
ton, began again to doubt. and he
went to the apostles and told them
about his doubts. Each apostle looked
at him with surprise and then said he
must be excused for he had not time to
listen any longer. Then st. Thomas
went to the devout women of his time and
expressed his doubts. They said they
were sorry but that they had no time to
listen. Then St. Thomas concluded
that it was because they were so busy
that the apostles and the devout women
had no doubts.
Idleness not only leads man into
associations which harm his morals, but
often thrusts upon him the worst kind
OF skepticism. Loafe1s arc almost al
ways infidcls. or fast getting to be.
Consummate idlcrs never read the Bible,
and if they appear in church can be
distinguished in an audience of q thou
sand by their listlessness, for they are
too lazy TO lear. 1t is not so much
among occupied merchants, Industrious
mechanics and professional men always
busy that you hear the religion of Jesus
as in public lounging places,
given up to profanity and dis-oluteness.
They have no sympathy with the Book
that says, Let him that stole steal no
more; but rather let him labor, working
with his hands the thing which is good,
that he may have to give to him that
needeth.'
L never knew man given up to thor
ough idleness that was converted. ST.
IlO1I dilu AHNi1CW WeIc CoHNcI uSo Willie
fishing and Lydia while selling purple.
and the shepherds of Bethlehem watch
ing their focks heard the voice of angels,
and Gideon was thrashing on the thrash
ing floor, but no one was ever converted
with his hands in his pockets. Let me
tell the idler that there is no hope for
him either in this world or the world
which is to come. If the Son of God,
who owned the whole universe, worked
in the carpenter shop of Joseph, surely
we, who own SO little yet want SO much,
ought to be busy The redeemed in
heaven are never idle. What exciting
songs they sing!
On what messages of love they fly