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

Two feet, and they mean IOcOmOt1O1l-
Two eyes, and they mean capacity to
pick out my own way. Two ears, and
they are telephones of communication
with all the outside world, and they
mean capacity to catch sweetest music
and the voices of friendship-the very
best music A tongue, with almost in
fnity of articulation. Yes, hands with
which to welcome or resist or lift or
snite or wave or bless-hands to help
myself and help others.
''Rere is world which after 5000
years of battling with tempest and acct
dent is still grander than any architect,
human or angelic, could have drafted.
I have two lamps to light me-a golden
lamp and silver Tampa golden lamp
set on the sapphire mantel Of the day, a
silver lamp set on the jet mantel of the
night. Yea, have that at 20 years Of
age which defies all inventory of valua-
bles-a soul with capacity to choose or
reject, to rejoice or to suffer. to love or
to hate Plato says it is immortal Sen
eca says it is immortal. Confucius says
it is immortal. An old book among the
family relics, book with leathern Gov
er almost worn out and pages almost
obliterated by oft perusal, joi. the other
books in saying I am immortal. have
80 years for lifetime, so years yet to
live [ may not live an hour, but then
I must lay out my plans intelligently
and for long life. Sixty years added
to the 30 I have already lived-that will
bring me to 80. I must remember that
these 80 years are only brief preface to
the five hundred thousand millions Of
quintillions of years which will be my
chief residence and existence Now |
understand my opportunities and my re-
sponsibilities
Failing and Rising.
eff there is any being in the universe
all wise and all beneficent who can help
a man in such juncture, I want him.
The old book found among the family
relics tells me there is God, and that
for the sake of his Son, one Jesus, he
will give help to q man. To him APP
peal. God help mel Here / have yet go
years to do for myself and to do for 9th
ers. I must develop this body by all in
dustries by all gymnastics, by all sun
shine, by all fresh air, by all good hah-
it's And this soul | must have swept
and gdlnished and illumined and glori-
fed by all that [ can do for it and all
that [ can get God to do for it. 1t shall
be Luxembourg OF fine pictures. It
shall be an orchestra Of grand harmo-
MES. It shall be a palace for God and
righteousness to reign in. | wonder
how many kind words I can utter in the
next go years. will try. Iwonder how
many good deeds I can do in the next /
so years? [ will try. God help mel"
That young man enters life. He is
buffeted; he is tried; he is perplexed. a
grave opens on this side, and grave I
opens on that side. He falls but he /
rises again. He gets into hard BATTLE |
but he gets the victory. The main course |
of his life is in the right direction. He |
blesses everybody he comes in contact
with. God forgives his mistakes and |
makes everlasting record of his holy !
endeavors. and at the close Of it God /
says to him, ''Well done, good and |
faithful servant; enter into the joys CT t
thy Lord. - My brother, my sister, l !
do not care whether that man dies at /
30, 40, so, 60, 70 or so years Of age.
You can chisel right under his name on
the tombstone these words: His life
was worth living"
Amid the hills Of New Hampshire III
olden times there sits q mother. There
are six children in the household-four
boys and two girls Small farm Very
rough; hard work TO coax "a living out
of it. Mighty tug TO make the two ends
OF the year meet. The boys go to school
in winter and work the farm i'll SUM
mer. Mother is the chief presiding
spirit. With her hands she knits all the
for the little feet, and she is
the mantua maker for the boys, and she
is the milliner for the girls. There is
only one musical instrument in the
spinning wheel. The food is
very plain, but it is always well provid
ed The winters are very cold but are
kept out by the blankets she quilted. On
Sunday, when she appears in the village
church. her children around her, the
looks down and is reminded of
the Bible description of good house
wife: Her children arise up and call
ner blessed. Her husband also, and he
oraiseth her. -
Mothers Blessed Life.
Some years go by, and the two eldest
boys want q collegiate education, and
3he household economies are severer, and
he calculations are closer, and until
hose two boys get their education there
S hard battle for bread. One of these
Boys enters the university, stands in
pulpit widely influential and breaches
righteousness, Judgment and temper
tnce, and thousands during his ministry
ire blessed. The other lad who got the
collegiate education goes into the law,
md thence into legislative halls, and
lfter awhile he commands listening
enates as he makes plea for the down
rodden and the outcast. One of the
7ounger boys becomes merchant, start