Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-11-23


God will. I desire that this day be his
with all its honors. - Young man, fight
your own battle all through, and you
shall have tie victory. Oh, it is a battle
worth fighting! Two monarchs of old
fought g duel, Charles Y and Francis,
and the stakes were kingdoms, Milan
and Burgundy. You fight with sin, and
Che stake is heaven or hell.
Capacity For Work.
Do not get the fatal idea that you ara
q genius, ard that, therefore, there IL
no need Of close application. It IS here
where InuItiFudes fail. The curse Of this
age is the commissioner with enormous
self conceit and egotisln, and nothing
else had rather be an OK than an eagle
plain and plodding and useful, rather
than high flying and good for nothing
but to pix out the eyes Of carcasses. Ex-
traordinaTy capacity without work is ex
traordinary failure. There is no hope
for that person who begins life resolved
10 live by his wits, FOR the probability
is that he has not any. 1t was not safe
for Adam, even IN his unfallen state, to
have nothing to dc, and therefore God
commanded him to be g farmer and hor-
ticuIturist. He was to dress the garden
and keep it, and had he and his wife
obeyed the divine injunction and been
at work, they would not nave been
sauntering under the irees and banker
ing after chat fruit which destroyed
them and their posterity, q proof posi-
tive for all ages to come that those who
do rot attend to their business are sure
to get into mischief.
do not know that the prodigal in
Scripture would ever have been re-
claimed had be not given up his idle
habits and gene to feeding swine for q
living. The devil does not so often at
tack the man who is busy with the pen,
and the book, and the trowel, and the
saw, and the hammer. He is afraid Of
those weapons. But wee to the man
whom this roaring lion meets with his
hands IN his pocketsl
Do not demand that your toll always
be elegant and clearly and refined.
There is certain amount of drudgery
through which we must all pass, what
ever be our occupation. You know how
men are sentenced a certain number Of
years to prison, and after they have suf-
fered and worked out the time, then
they are allowed to go free. So it is
with all Of Us. God passed or Us the
sentence, s'By the sweat of thy brow
shalt thou eat bread" We must endure
our time Of drudgery, and then, after
awhile, we Will be allowed to go into
comparative liberty. We must be will
ing to endure the sentence. We all
know what drudgery is connected with
no of tror1
but this does not continue all our lives,
if it be the students, or the merchants,
or the mechanics life. I know you have
at the beginning many q hard time,
but after awhile those things will be-
come easy. You will be your own mas
ter. Gods sentence Will be satisfied.
You will be discharged from prison.
Bless God that you have brain to
think and hands to work and feet to
walk with, for in your constant activi-
ty, O young man, is one Of your strong
est defenses. Put your trust in God and
do your best That child had it right
when the horses ran away with the load
Of wood, and he sat Oh it. When asked
if he was frightened, be said, ''No; I
prayed TO God and hung On like
beaver"
Respect Fer the Sabbath.
Respect for the Sabbath will be to the
young man another preservativo against
evil. God has thrust into the toll and
fatigue CT life a recreative day, when
the soul is especially to be fed. It is no
new tangled notion of wild Drained
reformer, but an institution established
at the beginning. God has made natu-
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the body as well as the souI demands
this institution. Our bodies are seven
day clocks, that must be wound up rs
often as that CT they will run down.
Failure must come sooner or later to the
man who breaks the Sabbath. Inspira-
ton has called it the Lords day, and
he who devoteS it to the world is guilty
Of robbery. God will rot let the sin go
UNPUBLISHED, either in this world or the
world to come.
This is the statement Of 9 man who
has broken this divine enactment: 81
was engaged i'll manufacturing on the
Lehigh river. On the Sabbath I used to
rest, but never regarded God in it. One
beautiful Sabbath, when the noise was
all hushed and the day was all that
loneliness could make it, 1 sat down on
ny piazza and went to Wcrk inventing
q new shuttle. l neither stopped to eat
nor drink till the sun went down By
that time lad the invention complet-
ed. The next morning I exhibited it and
boasted Of my days work and was ap-
plauded. The shuttle was tried and
worked well. hut that Sabbath days
work cost ne $50. We branched
out and enlarged, and the curse Of
heaven was upon me from that day or
ward -
While the divine frown must rest
upon him who tramples upon this stat
ute, Gods special favor will be upon
that young man who scrupulously OBJ