Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-04-10
G. T. u. COLUMN.
A LOST OPPORTUNITY.
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was a little town of perhaps not
! than three or four thousand IN
tants, but it was a live town and
hergetic town, and withal, pious
1t had a half dozen pretty
ches, and a Y. NJ. @. A. building,
d gymnasium and school-house
very few blocks.
course with all these advantages
S a temperance town. Scarce a
pa dare show itself, or if it did, 1t
I'm some obscure corner, and any
ectable young man would have
he'd for a week if caught in the
lily. Altogether, it was just such
" Immunity as anxious fathers and
&ers, seeking healthy, moral at
bhere in which to rear their boys
girls, gravitate toward as surely
e needle to the pole.
time went on the largest church
he town outgrew, or thought it
Few, the building which had shell
it for years, and by mighty eff
new one was erected, handsome
observation-disclosures too good for
Eorship of the Lord-no building
he that but a little too eXpen-
for the worshipers, and so man
q debt overshadowed it, which
led beyond the new roof and
tapped the caves and tucked I'M
The cornice. The original plan
een to retain the old building as
sion chapel, but under the new
of things it seemed inevitable
It should be sold.
grief of the membership was
the aged remembered the joys
he sorrows which had culminat-
thin these sacred walls and wept
Re them up; while the young and
aggressive, who glorified in deal
ard blows at Satan's bulwarks,
hat this was a step backwards.
hat dreadful debt remained and
purchaser could be found, here
IN easy way out of the embar-
ent.
citizens generally regretted the
sed sale. 1t was such frienly
unity that what hurt one hurt
rest, and so by way of compro-
NJ an effort was made to raise the
" ase money and dedicate the
ing to the young people for
bg room and lecture hall, the
to be under the supervision of
mittee drawn from the various
hes. For days the scheme was
" canvassed and then reluctant
endoned. So much money had
into the new church that no
eould be done at present.
although it was given up in the
proposed, one man caught an
btion from the failure. He was
porter of wines and liquors in
ty, who spent his summers in
Flightful suburb, and now saw
bortunity to do stroke of bust
his own peculiar line. When
terest in the first proposition
mewhat cooled, he went quietly
the business men, expressed
mpathy with the debt of the
!, and proposed that they should
it by purchasing the old build
a club house-an institution
progressive a town could no
do without. The idea was pop
rom the start, and the money
y raised, not only for the pur-
but for the necessary improve
w months later the club was
with all that beauty, fashion,
bit lights, and choice music
Pestow. A few joined from To-
de, some from the glamour that
nded the fedgling, and others
he love of sociability, but the
was the same in all cases. 1t
1T the little entering wedge.
oung men who had once
OCULAR attendants at church and
meeting no longer came with
sacred doors; wine drinking
t stronger drinks into good
saloons began to flourish on
liable corners and Sabbath driv-
d racing were no longer ex-
hal. The whole tone of the place
Hanged and mothers who had
with pride on growing sons
bmbled for their future.
church had missed her oppor-
Ind Satan fastened to occupy
ptage ground.-Union Signal.
no for years have been suffering with
sing affection of the back or kidneys
kn immediately relieved and per-
cured by the judicious use of Saliva
the great pain-cure. Apply accord