Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-08-08

nro very often 1nSulCoQ QooQ TO uuuef-
stand that there is something in their
carriage to invite insult. There are men
at Albany, and at Harrisburg, and at
Washington who would no more be ap-
preached by bride than a pirate boat
with few cutlasses would dare to at
tack a British man-of-war with two
banks of guns on each side loaded to the
touchhole. They are incorruptible men,
and they are the few men who are to
save the city and save the land.
Meanwhile my advice is keep out Of
politics unless you are lnvulnerable to
this style of temptation. Indeed if even
you are naturally strong, you need re-
ligious buttressing. Nothing but the
grace of God can sustain our public
men and make them what we wish. I
wish that there might come an old fash
toned revival of religion, that it might
break out in congress and the legisla-
lures and bring many Of the leading
Republicans and Democrats down on
the anxious seat of repentance. That
day will come, or something better, for
the Bible declares thatkings and queens
shall become nursing fathers and moth
ers to the church, and if the greater in
authority then certainly the less.
My charge also to parents is remem-
Der that this evil of bribery often be-
gins in the home circle, and in the
nursery. Do not bride your children.
Teach them to do that which is right,
and not because of the 10 cents or the
orange which you will give them.
There is great difference between re-
warding virtue and making the profits
thereof the impelling motive. That
man who is honest merely because
"honesty is the best policy is already
a moral bankrupt.
My charge is to you, in all depart
ments of life, steer clear of bribery, all
of you. Every man and woman at some
time will be tempted to do wrong for
compensation. The bride may not be
offered in money. 1t may be offered in
social position. Let us remember that
there is day coming when the most
secret transaction Of private life and of
public life will come up for public rep
rehension.
Cannot BE Bribed.
We cannot bride death, we cannot
bride sickness, we cannot bride the
grave, we cannot bride the judgments
of that God who thunders against this
sin. "Fie,'' said Cardinal Beaufort,
s'fie! Can't death be bribed? Is money
nothing? Must I die, and SO rich? If
the owning Of the whole realm would
save me, could get it by policy or by
purchase-by money No death would
not be bribed then. He will not be
bribed now Men of the world often re-
greet that they have to leave their money
here when they go away from the
world. You can tell from what they
say in their last hours that one of their
chief sorrows is that they have to leave
their money. I break that delusion. I
tell that bride taker that he will take
his money with him. God will wrap
it up in your shroud or put it in the
palm Of your hand in resurrection, and
there it will lie, not the cool, bright,
shining gold as it was on the day when
you sold you, vote and your moral prin-
ciple but there it will lie, hot metal,
burning and consuming your hand for
ever Or if there be. enough of it for a
chain then it will fall over the wrist,
clanking the letters of an eternal cap
tivity The bride is an everlasting pos
session. You take it for time you take
it for eternity. Some day III the next
world, when you are longing for SYM
pathy, you will feel on your cheek a
kiss Looking up, you will find it to be
Judas, who took 80 pieces Of silver as
bride and finished the bargain by put
ting an Infamous kiss on the pure cheek
of his Divine Master.
Another wrong use of money is seen
in the abuse Of trust funds Nearly
every man during the course Of his life,
on a larger or smaller scale, has the
property Of others committed to his
keeping. He is SO far safety deposit
He is an administrator and holds III his
hand the interest Of the family of de-
ceased friend, or he is an attorney, and
through his custody goes the payment
from debtor to CREDITOR or he is the
collector for q business house, which
compensates him for the responsibility,
or he is treasurer for charitable insti-
tuition, and he holds aims contributed
for the suffering or he is an official of
the city or the state or the nation, and
taxes and subsidies and salaries and
supplies are in his keeping.
1t is as solemn a trust as God can
make it. It is concentered and multi
piled condolences. On that man depends
the support Of bereft household or the
morals of dependents or the right move
ment Of a thousand wheels of social
mechanism. A man may do what he
will with his own, but he who abuses
trust funds in that one act commits
theft, falsehood, perjury, and becomes,
in all the intensity Of the word, mis-
creant. How many widows and orphans
there are with nothing between them
and starvation but sewing machine or
held up out of the vortex Of destruction
simply by the thread of a needle, red
with their own hearts blood, who lit