Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-07-23

TO start they receive another telegram,
saying, "Come; mother is dead - The
old neighbors gather in the old farm
house to do the last offices of respect.
But as that farming son, and the cler-
gyman, and the senator, and the mer-
chant, and the two daughters stand by
the casket of the dead mother, taking
the last look or lifting their little chill
dren to see once more the face of dear
old grandma, 1 want to ask that group
around the casket one question, ''Do
you really think her life was worth
iving?' A life for God, a life for 9th
ers, a life of unselfishness, a useful life,
p Christian life, is always worth living
Examples of Success.
would not find it hard to persuade
you that the poor lad, Peter Cooper,
making glue for living and then amass-
ing a great fortune until he could build
philanthropy which has had it's echo
i'll 10, 900 philanthropies all over the
country-I would not find it hard to
persuade you that his life was worth
living. Neither would find it hard to
persuade you that the life of Susannah
Wesley was worth living. She sent out
one son to organize Methodism and the
other son to ring his anthems all through
the ages. | would not find it hard to
persuade you that the life of Frances
Leere was worth living, as she establish
ed in England school for the scientific
nursing of the sick, and then when the
war broke out between France and Ger
many went to the front, and with her
own hands scraped the mud off the bod
les of the soldiers dying in the trenches
with her weak arm, standing one night
i'll the hospital, pushing back a German
soldier to his couch as, all frenzied with
his wounds, he rushed toward the door
and said: LET me go! Let me go to my
liebe mutter. - Major generals stand
ing back to let pass this angel of mercy.
Neither would / have hard work to
persuade you that Grace Darling lived
a life worth living-the heroine of the
hfeboat. You are not wondering that
the Duchess of Northumberland came
to see her, and that people of all lands
asked for her lighthouse, and that the
proprietor of the Adelphi theater i'll Lon
don offered her 800 a night just to sit
in the lifeboat while some shipwrecked
SCeu0 WAS DelUS enacted.
Reward of Effort.
But [ know the thought il the minds
Of hundreds who read this. You say,
"While [ know all these lived lives
worth living, | don't think my life
amounts to much. All, my friends,
whether you live life conspicuous or
inconspicuous, it is worth living, if you
live Alright. And want my next SEN
tence to go down into the depths of all
your souls. You are to be rewarded not
according to the greatness of your work,
but according to the holy industries
with which you employed the talents
you really possessed. The majority of the
crowns of heaven will not be given to
people with 10 talents for most of them
We're tempted only to serve themselves.
The vast majority of the crowns of heav-
en- will be given to people who had one
talent, but gave it all to God. And re-
that our life here is INTRODUCED
ry to another. It is the vestibule to
palace, but who despises the door of
the Madeleine because there are grandcr
glories within? Your life if rightly liv-
ed is the first bar Of AN eternal oratorio,
and who despises the first note of
Haydn S symphonies? And the life you
live now is all the more worth living be-
cause it opens into a life that shall never
end, and the last letter of the word
time is the first letter of the word
''eternityr'