Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-11-25

But there are those here 9ho have their
second dwelling place 1t is your adopt
ed home That also is sacred forever.
There you established the first family
altar. There your children were born.
In that room tapped the wing of the
death angel Under that roof, when
your work is done, you expect to lie
down and die. There is only one word
in all the language that can convey
your idea of that place, and that word
is ''home''
Now. let me say that I never knew a
man who was faithful to his early and
adopted home who was given over at
the same time to any gross form of wick
edness. If you find more enjoyment in
the clubroom, i'll the literary society,
in the art salon, than you do in these
unpretending home pleasures, you are
on the road to ruin. Though you may
be cut off from your early associates,
and though you may be separated from
all your kindred, young man, is there
not room somewhere that you can call
your own? Though it be the fourth
story Of a third class boarding house,
into that room gather books, pictures
and harp. Hang your mothers por-
trait over the mantel. Bid unholy mirth
stand back from that threshold. Conse-
crate some spot in that room with the
knee of prayer. By the memory of 9TH
er days, a fathers counsel, a mothers
| love and a sisters confidence, call it
! home.
Rotten Beam In the Palace.
Another safeguard for these young
men is Industrious habits. There are
great many people trying to make their
| way through the world with their wits
instead Of by honest toll. There is
young man who comes from the country
to the city. He fails twice before he is
as old as his father was when he first
saw the spires of the great town. He is
seated in his room at rent Of 50, 900 a
year, waiting for the banks to declare
their dividends and the stocks to run
up. After awhile he gets impatient. He
tries to improve his penmanship by
making copy plates of other merchants
signatures. Never mind-all is right in
business. After awhile he has his es-
tate. Now is the time for him to retire
to the country, amid the focks and the
herds, to culture the domestic virtues.
Now the young men who were his
schoolmates in boyhood will come, and
with their OK teams draw him logs, and
with their hard hands will help to
! heave up the castle. That is no fancy
sketch; it is everyday life. / should
not wonder if there were a rotten beam
in that palace I should not wonder if
God should smite him with dire sick
nesses and pour into his cup a bitter
draft that will thrill him with I'M
bearable agony. I should not wonder if
that man children grew up to be to
him a disgrace and to make his life q
shame. should not wonder if that man
died dishonorable death and were
tumbled into dishonorable grave and
then went into the crashing of teeth.
The way of the ungodIy shall perish.
o young man, you must have in
dustry Of head or hand or foot, or perish.
Do not have the idea that you can get
along in the world by genius. The curse
of this country today is geniuses-men
with large self conceit and nothing
else. The man who proposes to make
his living by his wits probably has net
any Ishould rather be an OK, plain and
plodding and useful, than to be an
eagle, high flying and good for nothing
but TO pick out the eyes of carcasses. |
safe for Adam to be idle, so God made |
him a horticulturist, and if the mar
ried pair had kept busy dressing the
vines they would not have been saun
tering under the trees, laundering after
fruit that ruined them and their pos
terity! Proof positive of the fact that
when people do not attend to their bust
ness they get into mischief. go to the
ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways
and be wise, which, having no overseer
Or guide, provideth her food in the
summer and gathereth her meat in the
harvest. Satan is roaring lion, and
you can never destroy him by gun or
pistol Or sword The weapons with
which you are to beat him back are pen
and type and hammer and adj and saw |
and pickaX and yardstick and the weapon |
of honest toll. Work, work, or die
Aim High.
Another safeguard that I want to pre-
sent to young men is high ideal of !
life. Sometimes soldiers going into bat
tie shoot into the ground instead of into
the hearts of their enemies. They are
apt to take aim too low, and it is very
often that the captain, going into con-
fict with his men, will cry out, CHOW,
men, aim hight! The fact is that in
life a great many men take no aim at
all. The artist plans out his entire
thought before he puts it upon canvas,
before he takes up the crayon Or the
chisel An architect thinks out the en-
tire building before the workmen begin.
Although everything may seem to be
unorganized, that architect has in his
mind every Corinthian column, every
Gothic arch, every Byzantine capital.
A poet thinks out the entire plot of his
poem before he begins to chime the
cantos of tinkling rhythms And yet