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


or the chisel. The architect plans out
the entire structure before he orders the
workmen to begin, and, though there
may for long while seem to be nothing
but laundering and rudeness, he has in
his mind every Corinthian wreath and
Gothic arch and Byzantine capital
The Doet arranges the entire plot before
he begins to chime the first canto of
tineling rhythms. And yet, strange to
say. there are men who attempt to build
their character without knowing wheth-
er in the end it shall be a rude Tartars
tent or a ST. Marks of Veaice-men
who begin to write the intricate poem
of their lives without knowing whether
ii shall be a Homer's Odyssey" or a
rhymester's botch.
Nine hundred and ninety-nine men
out OF a thousand are living without
any great life plot. Booted and spurred
and plumed and urging their swift
courser in the hottest haste, [ ask:
"Hello, man; whittier away?" His re-
Spouse is, Nowhere. !" Rush into the
busy shop Or store Of many one, and,
taking the plane out Of the mans hand
or laying down the yardstick, say,
"What, man, is all this about-so much
stir ard sweat?'' The reply will stumble
and break down between teeth and lips.
Every days duty ought only TO be the
filing up Of the main plan Of existence.
Let men be consistent. It they prefer
misdeeds to correct courses Of action,
then let them draw out the design of
knavery and cruelty and plumber. Let
every days falsehood and wrongdoing
be added rs coloring to the picture Let
bloody deeds red stripe the picture, and
the clouds of a wrathful God hang down
heavily over the canvas ready to break
out in clamorous tempest Let the wa
tiers be chafed and froth tangled and
green with immeasurable depths. Then
take torch Of burning pitch and scorch
into the frame the right name for it
the SOULS suicide. If one entering upon
sinful directions would only, in his
mind or on paper, draw out in awful
reality this dreadful future, he would
recoil from it and say, cam I Dante,
that by my own life should write an
other 'Inferno? " But if you are re-
solved to live life such as God and
good men Will approve, do not let it be
vague dream, an indefinite determine
tion, but III your mind or upon paper
sketch it in all its minuta. You cannot
know the changes to which you may be
subject, but you may know what always
will be right and always will be wrong.
Let gentleress and charity ard veracity
and faith stand in the heart of the
sketch.
On some still brooks bank make a
lamb and lion lie down together. Draw
two Or three of the trees of life, not
frost stricken, nor ice glazed, nor wind
stripped, but with thick verdure waving
like the palms of heaven. On the dark
est cloud place the rainbow, that pillow
of the dying storm. You need not print
the title Oh the frame. The dullest will
catch the design at a glance and say,
''That is the road to heaven" Alb, mel
On this sea of life what innumerable
ships, heavily laden and we'll rugged,
yet seem bound for no porti Swept ey
cry whittier Of wind and wave, they 90
up by the mountains, they go down by
the valleys and are at their wits end.
They sail By 70 chart, they watch no
star, they Ic2g for 10 hGTbOr. ] beg ey
cry young man today to draw out a
sketch of what, by the grace Of God, he
means to be. Think no excellence SO
high that you cannot reach it. He who
starts ont in life with high ideal Of
character and faith in its attainment
will find himself incased from thou
sand temptations. There are magnifi-
cent posi- bilities before each of you
young men Of the stout heart, and the
buoyant step, and the bounding spirit.
Z
ment God now provides for you the
field, and the armor, and the fortifca~
tons WHO is on the Lord IS side? A
captain in ancient times, to encourage
his men against the immense odds on
the side Of their enemies, said: Come,
my men, 1Gok these fellows IN the face.
They are 0,000; you are 500. Surely
the match is even" That speech gave
them the victory. Be not, my hearers,
disnayed at any time by what seems al
immense odds against you. Is fortune,
is want of education, are men, are dty
lis, against you, though the multitudes
of earth and hell confront you, stand up
to the charge. With 1000, 600 against
you the match is just even. Nay, you
have decided advantagei IL God be for
US, who car be against US? Thus pro-
tected, you need not spend much time
in answering your assailants.
Many years ago word came to me that
two ilnpostcrs, as temperance lecturers,
had been speaking in Ohio in various
places and giving their experience, and
they told their audience that they had
long been intimate with me and had
become d1ankards by dining at my ta-
bic, where 7 always had liquors Of all
sorts. Indignant to the last degree.
went down to Patrick Campbell, chief
of Brooklyn police. saying that WAS
going to start that night for Ohio to
havethose villains arrested, and want
ed him to tell me how to make the ar
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