Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-05-25


name on two Of your notes. Tell him
that you have changed your mind about
such things, and that you never indorse.
After awhile his matters come to a dead
halt. and an assignment or suspension
or sheriff's sale takes place. You say ::
ssHe ought to have stopped sooner. Just
as expected. He made too big a splash
in the world. Glad the balloon has
! burst. Ha. hail. Applause when he
went up, sibilant derision when he came
down. 'sMen shall clap their hands at
him and hiss him out of his place. So,
high up amid the crags, the eagle f1ut-
tiers dust into the eyes of the roebuck,
which then, with eyes blinded, goes
tumbling over the precipice, the great
antlers crashing on the rocks
Consecrated to God.
Now, compare some of these goings
out of life with the departure of men
and women who in the drama of life
take the part that God assigned them
and then went away honored of men
and applauded of the Lord Almighty.
It is about so years ago that in a COM
parative1y small apartment Of the city
newly married pair set up home.
The first guest invited to that residence
was the Lord Jesus Christ, and the BIZ
BILE given the bride on the day of her
espousal was the guide of that house
hold. Days Of sunshine were followed
by days of shadow. Did you ever know
home that for 80 years had no vicis-
situde? The young woman who left her
fathers house for her young husbands
home started out with parental bene-
diction and good advice she will never
forget. Her mother said to her the day
before the marriage: ''Now, my child,
you are going away from US. OF course,
as long as your father and I live you
will feel that you can come to us at any
time But your home will be elsewhere.
From long experience I find it is best to
serve God. 1t is very bright with you
now, my child, and you may think you
can get along without religion, but the
day will come when you will want
God, and my advice is. establish fam
lily altar and, if need be, conduct the
worship yourself. +" The counsel was
taken, and that young wife consecrated
every room in the house TO God.
Years passed On and there were in
that home hilarities. but they were good
and healthful, and sorrows, but they
were comforted. Marriages as bright as
orange blossoms could make them, and
burials in which all hearts were riven.
They have q family lot in the cemetery.
but all the place is Illuminated with
stories of resurrection and reunion The
children of the household that lived
have grown up, and they are all Chris
tians, the father and mother leading the
way and the children following. What
care the mother took of wardrobe and
education, character and mannersl How
hard she sometimes worked! When the
head of the household was unfortunate
in business, she sewed until her fingers
were numb and bleeding at the tips.
And what close calculation of economies
and what ingenuity in refitting the gar
ments of the elder children for the
younger, and only God kept account of
that mothers sideaches and headaches
and heartaches and the tremulous pray
ers by the side of the sick child's cradle
and by the couch of this one fully
grown. The neighbors often noticed
how tired she looked, and old acquaint-
ances hardly knew her in the street But
ed and endured and accomplished all
these years. The children are out i'll the
world-an honor to themselves and their
parents After awhile the mothers last
sickness comes. Children and grandchil-
dren, summoned from afar, come softly
into the room one by one, for she is too
weak to see more than one at time.
She runs her dying fingers lovingly
through their hair and tells them not to
cry, and that she is going now, but they
will meet again in little while in q
better world, and then kisses them
goodby and says to each, "God bless
and keep you, my dear child. " The day
of the obsequies comes, and the officiat-
ing clergyman tells the story of wifely
and mOtherly endurance, and many
hearts on earth and in heaven echo the
sentiment, and as she is carried off the
stage of this mortal life there are cries
of Faithful unto death,'' 'sShe hath
done what she could. . while overpow-
ering all the voices of earth and heaven
is the plaudit of the God who watched
her from first to last, saying, "Well |
done, good and faithful servant; thou |
hast been faithful over few things,
will make thee ruler over many things;
enter thou into the joy of thy Lord!' -
The Choice.
But what became Of the father of that |
household? He started as young man
in business and had a small income and |
having got little ahead sickness in
the family swept it all away He went
through all the business panics of 40
years, met many losses, and suffered
many betrayals, but kept right on trust
ing in God, whether business was good
or poor, setting his children good ex-
ample, and giving them the best CT
counsel, and never a prayer did he offer
for all those years but they were men
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