Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-06-15

feet from the winter frost. You can
build a church You can put mission
arv of Christ on that foreign shore You
can helm ransom a world. A rich man
with his heart right-can you tell me
how much good James Lenox or a
George Peabody or a. Peter Cooper or a
William E. Dodge did while living, or
is doing now that he is dead? There is
not a city, town Or neighborhood that
has cot glorious specimens of consecrated
wealth.
But suppose you grind the face of the
poor. Suppose when a man. wages are
due YOU make him wait for them be-
cause he cannot help himself Suppose
that, because his family is sick and he
has had extra expenses, he should po-
litely ask you to raise his wages for this
year and you roughly tell him if he
wants a better place to go and get it.
Suppose by your manner you act as
though he were nothing and you were
everything. Suppose you are selfish and
overbearing and arrogant. Your first
name ought to be Attila and your last
pame Attila, because you are the star
Wormwood, and you have imbittered
one-third if not three-t thirds of the
waters that roll past your employees and
operatives and dependents and associ-
ates, and the long line Of carriages
which the undertaken orders for your
funeral, in order to make the occasion
respectable, will be filled with twice as
many dry, fearless eyes as there are per-
sons occupying them.
There is an erroneous idea abroad
that there are only a few geniuses.
There are millions Of them-that is, men
and women who have especial adapta-
ton and quickness for some one thing.
1t may be great; it may be small. The
circle may be like the circumference Of
the earth or no larger than a thimble.
There are thousands of geniuses, and in
some one thing you are a star What
kind of star are you? You will be in
this world but few minutes. AS COM
pared with eternity the stay Of the
longest life on earth is not more than a
minute. What are we doing with that
minute? Are we imbittering the domes-
tic or social or political fountains, or arc
we like Moses, who, when the Israelites
in the wilderness complained that the
waters of Lake Marah were bitter and
they could not drink them, cut off tho
branch of certain tree and threw that
branch into the water, and it became
sweet and slaked the thirst of the suffer
ing host? Are we with a branch of tho
Tree of Life sweetening all the brackish
fountains that we can touch?
Three Wishes.
Dear Lord, send us all out on thai
mission. All around us imbittered lives
-imbittered by persecution, imbittered
by hypercriticism, imbittered by pow
erty, imblttered by pain, imbittered by
injustice, imbittered by sin. Why not
go forth and sweeten them by smile, by
inspiring words, by benefactions, By
hearty counsel, by prayer, by gospel
lied behavior? Let US remember that il
we are wormwood to others we are
wormwood to ourselves, and our lifo
will be bitter and our eternity bitterer.
The gospel of Jesus Christ is the only
sweetaning power that is sufficient. 1t
sweetens the disposition. 1t sweetens
the manners 1t sweetens life. 1t sweet
ems mysterious providences. 1t sweetens
Affections. 1t sweetens death. 1t sweet
ems erything. I have heard people
asked in social company, IF you could
have three wishes gratified, what would
your three wishes be?' IF [ could have
three wishes met this morning, I tell
you what they would be: 1. More of
the grace of God. 2. More of the grace
of God. 8. More of the grace of God.
In the dooryard of my brother John,
missionary in Annoy, China, there was
tree called the emperor tree, the two
characteristics of which are that it al
ways grows higher than its surround
ings, and it's leaves take the form Of a
crown. If this emperor tree be planted
by a rosebush, it grows a little higher
than the bush and spreads out above 1T
a crown. If it be planted by the side of
another tree, it grows little higher
than that tree and spreads above it a
crown. Would God that this religion
of Christ, a more wonderful emperor
tree, might overshadow all your livesl
Are yoa lowly in ambition or circun,-
stance. putting over you its crown? Arc
you high in talent and position, putting
over you its crown? Oh, for more of tho
saccharine in our lives and less of tho
wormwoodl
What is true of individuals is true of
nations. God sets them up to revolve
as stars, but they may fall NORWOOD.
Tyre, the atmosphere Of the desert,
fragrant with spices, coming in cara
vans to her fairs, all seas cleft into
foam by the keels of her laden mer-
chantmen, her markets rich with horses
and camels from Togarmah, her bazaars
filed with upholstery from Dedan, with
emerald and coral and agate from Syria,
with wines from Helbon, with embroid-
cred work from Ashur and Chilmad.
Where now the CLEAN of her towers,
where the roar of her chariots, where
the masts of her ships? Let the fisher
men who dry their nets where once she
stood, let the sea that rushes upon the
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