Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-02-08

.Or proper consideration to deed away
property. You have drawn the
Iced. The seal is affixed opposite
where you are to write your name.
The commissioner of deeds is present
70 witness. You have your pen in
hand. There is ink in the pen.
There is only one thing for you to
do, and that is to sign your name.
Suppose you stop now without sign
ing your name, what does it all
amount to? Nothing.
So you have resolved to give your
self up to God You propose to sign
DIFF to him your body, your mind,
your SOUL You have all things nee
essary for the transfer. The angels
of God are here to witness the eternal
transfer Why do you not now with
your will complete the work? Halt
where you are and all goes for moth
ing. Sign your name to this spirit
ual transfer.
Professor Arago, the mathemati-
clan, got woefully discouraged in his
work and was about to give up, when
he saw some words on the paper
which had been used to stiffen the
cover of his book, and the words be-
ing indistinct he dampened the cover
until he could take it off and see
the words plainly, and he found they
were words Of advice given by
D'Alembert to a student, and the
words were, go on, sir; go onr
0 we who are convicted, go on"
You must take one more step or all
the steps you have taken will amount
to nothing. Go on!
BLINDED ARROGANCE LEADS TO STUN
BLING.
Learn also from my subject that
pride is the precursor of overthrow.
Pride is a commander well plumed
and caparisoned, but it leads forth a
dark and frowning host. pride
goeth before destruction, and a
naughty spirit before a fall" The
arrows from the Almighty's culver
are apt to strike man when on the
wing. Goliath shakes his great spear
in defiance, but the smooth stones
from the brook make him stagger
and fall like an OK under butchers
bludgeon He who is down cannot
fall. Vessels scudding under bare
poles do not feel the force of the
storm
What are those three sleds that
have just gone into the yard of a
miserable hotel in Warsaw, Poland,
on the cold night of December the
tenth, 1912? Who are they, who
from these sleds have entered, and
the servant is trying to build for
them fire with some green wood?
Napoleon, with six attendants, on re-
treat from Moscow. The fire amid
the green wood has gone out and the
emperor is walking the floor to keep
from freezing.
Then bounding into his sled, the
thermometer twenty-siX degrees be-
low zero, he disappears in the dark
ness He who little before had an
army under his command, together
with troops offered by other nations,
through that December night with
three sleds, and those of his army
not dead under the snow, reduced
for food to a handful of rye dough,
seasoned with gunpowder for lack of
salt, and a mouthful of horsefiesh
From what a height to what a depth
Nebuchadnezzar in the palace; Ne
buchadnezzar fOrSaken in the fields.
Again learn from the misfortune
Of the king Of Babylon what a ter
rible thing is the loss of reason.
There is no calamity that can possibly
befall us in this world SO great as the
arrangement of intellect-to have
the body of man and yet to fall
even below the instinct of a brute. In
this world of sad sights the saddest is
the idiots stare In this world of
awful sounds the most awful is the
maniac's laugh. A vessel on the
rocks, when hundreds go down never
to rise, and other hundreds drag their
mangled and shivering bodies up
the wintry beach, is nothing COM
pared to the laundering Of intellects
full Of vast hopes and attainments
and capacities. Christ's heart went
out to those who were epileptic, fall
ing into the fire, or naniacs cutting
themselves among the tombs
We are accustomed to be more
grateful for physical health than for
the proper working Of our mind.
We are apt to take it for granted
that the intellect which has served
us SO well will always be faithful
We forget that an engine with such
tremendous power, when the wheels
have such vastnesS Of circle and such
swiftness of motion and the least i'm
pediment might put it out Of gear,
could only be kept in proper balance
by divine hand. No human power
could engineer this train of i1nmor
tai faculties