Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-09-13

GymaO, ana the senator, ana the mer-
! chant, and the two daughters stand by
the casket Of the dead mother taking
the last look, or lifting their little chill
dren to see once more the face of dear
old grandma, want to ask that group
around the casket one question, ''Do
You really think her life was worth liv-
/ ing? A life for God, life for others,
life of unselfshness, useful life, a
Christian life, is always worth living.
Right Living.
| would not find it hard to persuade
you that the poor lad, Peter Cooper,
making glue for living, and then
amassing great fortune until he could
build philanthropy which has had its
echo IN 10, 900 anthropies all over
the country-I would not find it hard
to persuade you that his life was worth
living. Neither would find it hard to
persuade you that the life of Susannah
Wesley was worth living. She sent out
one son to organize Methodism and the
other son to ring his anthems all
through the ages. | would not find it
hard work to persuade you that the life
OF Frances Leere was worth living as
she established in England school fer
the scientific nursing of the sick, and
then when the war broke out between
France and Germany went to the front
and with her own hands scraped the
mud off the bodies of the soldiers dying
in the trenches and with her weak arm
standing one night in the hospital
pushing back a German soldier to his
couch, as, all frenzied with his wounds,
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me go, let me go to my liebe mutter, "
major generals standing back to let
pass this angel of mercy.
Neither would I have hard work to
persuade you that Grace Darling lived
a life worth living-the heroine of the
lifeboat. You are not wondering that
the Duchess of Northum berland came
to see her and that people of all lands
asked for her lighthouse and that the
proprietor of the Adelphi theater in
London offersd her 500 night just to
sit in the lifeboat while some shipwreck
scene was being enacted.
But know the thought in the minds
of hundreds of you today. You say,
"While / know all these lived lives
worth living, | don't think my life
amounts to much. 4" All, my friends,
whether you live life conspicuous or
inconspicuol S, it is worth living, if
you live ar. ht And [ want my next
sentence to go down into the depths of
all your souls. You are to be rewarded
not according to the greatness of your
work, but according to the holy indus
tries with which you employed the tai
ents you really possessed. The majority
of the crowns of heaven will not be
given to people with ten talents, for
most of them were tempted only to
serve themselves. The vast majority of
the crowns of heaven will be given to
people who had one talent, but gave it
all to God. And remember that our life
here is Introductory to another. 1t is
the vestibule to a palace, but who de-
spises the door Of Madeleine because
there are grander glories within? Your
life, if rightly lived, is the first bar of
an eternal Oratorio, and who despises
the first note of Haydn's symphonies?
And the life you live now is all the
more worth living because it opens into
a life that shall never end, and the last
letter Of the word ''time" is the first
letter of the word 'eternity''
To Change a Current For Climates Sake.
A Tokyo journal is responsible for the
following: "Vladivostok, being the
terminus of the Siberian railway, is q
most important port in Russia. Not
withstanding this fact over four
months during the cold season the port
is blocked with ice and spring traffic is
entirely impossible, and therefore the
railway loses much of its advantages.
The Russian authorities have endeavor-
ed for many years to conquer nature,
and some years ago ice breaking ships
were introduced to break open the ice,
but it has been found that the operation
is useless.
"A certain engineer has hit upon the
rather wonderful idea Of retaining the
narrowest part of the Tartar strait, be-
tween Saghalien and the Russian main
land. He is of opinion, if this is done,
the cold current that enters the Japa-
nese sea from the arctic via Bering
strait will be checked and the passage
of the warmer tide, coming from the
south through the Suyshima strait,
will make the water on the coasts OF
Japan as we'll as at Vladivostok warm
er, and the latter will be warmer all
tho year around. This scheme was pre-
sented to the Russian government for
approval, and it is now engaged in its
Investigations. There is probability
Of this piece of smart engineering being
entered upon after the completion Of
the Siberian railway. Portland Ore
gonian.
The Hitchcocks.
The grandfather of Ethan Allen
Hitchcock, the new minister to Russia,
was Judge Samuel Hitchcock, one of