Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-06-06
w. c. T. u. COLUMN.
to: "God and Home and Native Land.
OUR RESPONSIBILITIES.

/ the books are opened. It is with this
thought before you, that | wish you
| to follow these few lines, else I fear
! you will receive no benefit from them.
! We learn that responsibility in
wolves accountability for trust com
mitted, or for a debt. Parents do
you think of this, when God trusts
you with Immortality to train for
Him?
partnership with God is motherhood;
What strength, what purity, what self
control,
What love what wisdom should belong to her
Who helps God fashion immortal soul.
But does the responsibility rest only
upon the mother? A little boy was
making the greatest efforu to follow
his father in dangerous path; the
father was alarmed for his safety, but
the little fellow answered cheerily 'I
can step in your steps, Papa" Fa-
theirs whittier are your steps tending?
Are they always in safe, pure places?
Are your words always such as you
wish your little son to speak because
ssPapa says SOP" Remember that the
little bright eyes are watching you in
YOUR business transactions, to see
what "sharp bargain" means; and
if they have discovered defect in
your character the temptation to be
dishonest in after years, will come to
him with almost irresistible force be-
cause of your example. Do you use
tobacco or take a social glass occa-
sionally and place at the gaming ia
BILE? The probabilities are that your
boy will follow in your steps. And
what to you, may seem harmless in
diligence, may prove his ruin. Do
not carelessly overlook habits in your
son, which you would think almost
objectionable in your daughter. God
has given but one code of morals for
both sexes, however much blind hu-
manity may have changed it; and the
best place to teach sssocial purity" is
in the home. We believe no parent,
or teacher, is excusable who neglects
to inform themselves on this very i'm
portant subject in the education of
the young. "Even child is known
by his doings, whether his work be
pure and whether it be right" But
just here, perhaps some young man
is saying, "But I've never had such a
home or such teaching, consequently
I am not responsible for what I am.
I am the victim of circumstances"
God help and pity you, if you can not
look back to happy childhood, spent
in loving, God-fearing home; but
do not despair. The infinite Jehovah
is interested for you. Think what He
did for your redemption. Hear what
He says to you through His word,
s'Wherewithal shall a young man
cleanse his way? by taking heed
thereto according to Thy word" List
en- again: 'tTake fast hold of instruc-
ton; let her not go; keep her, for
path of the wicked, and go not in the
way of evil men, The loving, Heav
emily Father has never put you in
place where He will not help you to |
be pure and true to Him. Remem
Der that you were created in the |
image of God. Dare you then, defile
that temple with those things, that |
entirely efface the image of Divinity.
Upon you rests the responsibility; for
all Heaven and the good of earth
are pledged to help you, if you will
with Gods help resolve to become
what He intended you to be, His no
blest work.
But what about the girls with their
care free faces full of the gladness of
life; do you know that your influence
is wonderful? and your responsibility,
of course, measured by it. When [
see a young lady walking the street
by quite a fair looking cigar
holder, 1 think, she has forgotten her
she is selling her birth
right. 1 wish that our young ladies
in all our towns would organize them
selves into "Anti tobacco and Whis
key Leagues" What! you say, do
our young ladies use tobacco and
Yes, second hand. Pledge
yourselves HOG TO accept the aCCon-
lions OF any young man who uses
or tobacco. I would have
more confidence in an organization of
this kind composed of pure conscien
tious young ladies, for the saving OF
young men, than in any other human
means. But if you can not form such
a society, you can organize yourself
into society of one, and abide by it's
rules, for "The woman who marries
a man to reform him, will never lack