Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-05-13

was about taking possession of society
and the church and the world, but after
one hour of climbing and lifting and
pulling f. It like fastening home SO as
to be there when the millennium set in.
Take a good stout run every day I find
in that habit, which [ have kept ND
since at 18 years I read the aforesaid
Todd's Manual, more reSIperation than
in anything else. Those six men of Ohio
will need all possible nerve and all DOS
sible eyesight and all possible muscular
development before they get through the
terrific struggle of this life.
Word the next: Take care of your in
tellect Here comes the flood of novel
cites, 90 out of 100 belittling to every
one that opens them. Here come de-
PRAYED newspapers, submerging good
and elevated American journalism Here
comes a whole perdition Of printed
abomination, dumped on the breakfast
table and tea table and parlor table
Take at least one good newspaper with
able editorial and reporters columns
mostly occupied with helpful inteli-
gence, announcing marriages and deaths
and reformatory and religious assem-
blages, and charities bestowed, and the
doings of good people, and giving but
little place to nasty divorce cases, and
stories of crime, which, like cobras,
sting those that touch them. Oh, for
more newspapers that put virtue in
what is called great primer type and
vice in nonpareil or agate!
You have all seen the photographers
negative. He took picture from it ten
cI~ L. 20.
picture from that same negative. He
opens the great chest containing the
black negatives of 1885 or 1875, and he
reproduces the picture. Young men,
your memory is made up of the mega
tives Of an immortal photography. All
that you see or hear goes into your soul
to make pictures for the future. You
will have with you till the Judgment
day the negatives of all the bad pictures
you have ever looked at, and of all the
debauched scenes you have read about.
Show me the newspapers you take and
the books you read, and [ will tell you
what are your prospects for we'll being
in this life, and what will be your resi-
dence a million years after the star on
which we now live shall have dropped
on Sunday unless it be case of neces-
sity or mercy. But last autumn [ was
in India in q city plague struck. By the
hundreds the people were down with
fearful illness. We went to the apothe-
cary's to get some preventive of the fe-
yer, and the place was crowded with in
valids, and we had no confidence in the
preventive we purchased from the Hin
docs. The mail train was to start Sab
bath evening. I said, Crank, I think
the Lord will excuse us if we get out of
this place with the first train, " and we
took it, not feeling quite comfortable
till we were hundreds of miles away. 1
felt we were right in flying from the
plague. Well, the air in many of our
cities is struck through with worse
plague-the plague of corrupt and dam
nable literature. Get away from it as
soon as possible. It has already ruined
the bodies, minds and souls of multi
tude which, if stood in solid column,
would reach from New York Battery to
Golden Horn. The plagued The plague!
Word the next Never go to any place
where you would be ashamed to die.
Adopt that plan, and you will never go
to any evil amusement, nor be found in
compromising surroundings. How many
startling cases within the past few years
Of men called suddenly out of this
world, and the newspapers surprised Us
when they mentioned the locality and
the companionship. To put it on the
least important ground, you ought not
to go to any such forbidden place, be-
cause if you depart this life in such cir
cumstances you put officiating ministers
in great embarrassment. You know that
some of the ministers believe that all
who leave this life go straight to heav-
en-, however they have acted in this
world, Or whatever they have believed
To get you through from such surround
ings is an appalling theological under
taking One of the most arduous and
besweating efforts of that kind that I
ever knew of was at the obsequies of a
man who was found dead in a snow
bank with his rum jug close beside him.
But the minister did the work of happy
transference as well as possible, although
it did seem a little inappropriate when
he read: blessed are the dead who die
in the Lord. They rest from their Ia
bors, and their works do follow them -
If you have no mercy upon yourself have
mercy upon the minister who may be
called to officiate after your demise Die
at home, or in some place of honest
business, or where the laughter is clean,
or amid comprehensive pure and elevat-
ing. Remember that any place we go
to may become our starting point for
the next world. When we enter the har-
Dor of heaven, and the officer of light
comes aboard, let us be able to show
that our clearing papers were dated at
the right port.
Word the next: AS soon as you can,
by industry and economy, have home
of your own. What do / mean by