Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-12-21

an author, dying under the benediction
of the sick of Edinburgh, myself re-
Numbering him as he sat in his study
in Edinburgh talking to me about
Christ and his hope of heaven, and
score of Christian family physicians in
Washington just as good as they were.
Lawyers who carried their religion
into their profession: Lord Cairns, the
queens adviser for many years, the
highest legal authority in Great Brit
ain-Lord Cairns, every summer in his
vacation preaching as an evangelist
among the poor of his country John
Mclean, judge of the supreme court of
the United States and president of the
American Sunday School union, feeling
more satisfaction in the latter Office
than in the former, and scores of Chris
tian lawyers as eminent in the church
of God as they are eminent at the bar.
A Case In Point.
Merchants who took their religion
into everyday life: Arthur Tappan, de.
rided in his day because he established
that system by which we come to find
out the commercial stf@ ding of business
men, starting that entire system, de-
rided for it then, himself, as 1 knew
him well, in moral character Al. Mon
day mornings inviting to a room in the
top of his storehouse the clerks of his
establishment, asking them about their
worldly interests and their spiritual in
terests, then giving out hymn leading
in prayer, giving them few words of
good advice; asking chem what church
they attended on the Sabbath, what the
text was, whether they had any espe-
cial troubles of their own. Arthur Tap
pan. / never heard his eulogy pro-
nounced. pronounce it now And 9TH
er merchants just as good. William e.
Dodge in the iron business, Moses Fl.
Grinnell in the shipping business, Pc
ter Cooper in the glue business. Scores
of men just as good as they were.
Farmers who take their religion into
their occupation: Why, this minute
their horses and wagons stand around
all the meeting houses in America
They began this day by prayer to God,
and when they get home at noon, after
they have put their horses up, will offer
a prayer to God at the table, seeking a
blessing, and next summer there will
be in their fields not one dishonest head
of rye, not one dishonest ear of corn,
not one dishonest apple Worshiping
God today away up among the Berk-
shire hills, or away down amid the la
goons of Florida, or away out amid the
mines of Colorado, or along the banks
of the Potomac and the Raritan, where
I knew them better because went to
school with them.
bn inin n
to their occupations: James Brindley,
the famous millwright; Nathaniel Bow
ditch, the famous ship chandler; Elihu
Burritt, the famous blacksmith, and
hundreds and thousands of strong arms
which have made the hammer, and the
saw, and the adj, and the drill, and
the ak sound in the grand march of our
national industries.
Good Works.
Give your heart to God and then fill |
your life with good works. Consecrate |
to him your store, your shop, your bank
ing house, your factory and your home.
They say no one will hear it. God will |
hear it. That is enough. You hardly |
know of any one else than Wellington |
as connected with the victory at Water
loo, but he did not do the hard fighting. !
The hard fighting was done by the
Somerset cavalry, and the Ryland regi-
nents, and Kemp's infantry, and the
Scotch grays, and the Life guards. Who
cares, if only the day was won?
In the latter part of the last century
. girl in England became a kitchen
maid in a farmhouse. She had many
styles of work and much hard work
Time rolled on, and she married the
ION of weaver of Halifax. They were
Industrious; they saved money enough
after awhile to build them home. On
he morning of the day when they were
10 enter that home the young wife arose
It O'Clock, entered the front dooryard,
melt down, consecrated the place to
God, and there made this solemn vow ::
90 Lord, if thou wilt bless me in
his place, the poor shall have share
# it, Time rolled on and fortune
'olled in. Children grew up around
hem, and they all became aff1uent. One,
member of parliament, in a public
,1ace declared that his success came
rom that prayer of his mother in the
ooryard All of them were aff1uent.
Four thousand hands in the factories.
hey built dwelling houses for laborers
It cheap rents, and where they were in
aid and could not pay they had the
ouses for nothing. One of these sons
anne to this country, admired our
arks, went back, bought land, opened
great public park and made it pres |
Mt to the city of Halifax, England. !
hey endowed an orphanage; they en-
owed two almshouses. All England
as heard of the generosity and the good ,
FORKS of the Crossleys. Moral: Conse-
rate to God your small means and your
umble SURF oundings, and you will
ave larger means and grander surround {
ngs Goodness is profitable unto all j
nings. having promise of the life that I