Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-03-28

20 you; now it is deafening. You say,
boys, stop that racket" You turn
back from June to March, In the family
and in the neighborhood your populari-
ty is 50 per cent off. The world says
"What is the matter with that disa-
greeable man? What woebegone coun-
tenanoe! 1 can't bear the sight of him. -
You have got your pay at last-got your
pay. You feel just as the man felt, that
man for whom you had no mercy, and
my text corles in with marvellous ap-
positeness, with what measure ye
mete it shall be measured to you again. I"
Victims of circumstance.
In the sssaady of society have come to
Shis conclusion-that the most of the
people want to be good, but they do not
exactly know how to make it out. They
make enough good resolutions to lift
them into angelhood. The vast majority
of people who fall are the victims of
circumstances. They are captured by
ambuscade. If their temptations should
come out in regiment and fight them
in fair field, they would go out i'll the
strength ard the triumph Of David
against Goliath. But they do not see the
giants and they do not see he regiment
Temptation comes and says, "Take
these bitters, take this nervine, take
this aid to digestion, take this night
cap" The vast majority OF men and
women who are destroyed by opium and
by rum first take them as medicines. In
making up your dish of criticism in re-
gard to them, take from the caster and
the cruet of sweet oil and not the cruet
OF cayenne pepper.
Do you know how that physician,
that lawyer, that journalist became the
victim of dissipation? Why, the physi-
clan was kept up night by night on pro-
fessional duty. Life and death lowered
in the balance. His nervous system was
exhausted. There came time of cpl
demic and whole families were pros
trated and his nervous strength was
gone. He was all worn out in the serv-
ice of the public. Now he must brace
himself up. Now he stimulates. The
life of this mother, the life of this
child, the life of this father, the life of
this whole family must be saved and of
all these families must be saved, and he
stimulates and he does it again and
again. You may criticise his Judgment
but remember the process. It was not
selfish process by which he went down.
1t was magnificent generosity through
which he fell.
Do Not Be Hard.
That attorney at the bar for weeks
has been standing in a poorly ventilated
courtroom, listening to the testimony
and contesting in the dry technicalities
of the law, and now the time has come
for him to wind up, and he must plead
for the life of his client, and his nerv
Gus system is all gone. If he fails in
that speech, his client perishes. If he
have eloquence enough in that hour, his
client is saved. He stimulates.
That journalist has had exhausting
midnight work. He has had to report
speeches and orations that kept him up
till very late hour. He has gone with
much exposure working up some case of
crime in company with detective. He
sits down at midnight to write out his
notes from q memorandum scrawled ON
pad undeE unfavorable circumstances
His strength is gone. Fidelity to the
public intelligence, fidelity to his own
livelihood, demand that he keep up. He
must keep up. He stimulates. Again
and again he does that, and he goes
down. You may criticise his judgment
in the matter, but have mercy. Re-
member the process. Do not be hard.
Ny friends, this text will come to
fulfllment IN some cases in this world.
The huntsman in Farmsteen was shot
by some unknown person. Twenty years
after the son of the huntsman was in
the same forest, and he accidentally
shot a man, and the man in dying said,
"God is just; 1 shot your father just
here 90 years ago." A bishop said to
Louis XI of France "Make an iron cage
for all those who do not think as we do
an iron cage in which the captive can
neither lie down nor stand straight up. -
1t was fashioned-the awful instrument
of punishment. After awhile the bishop
offended Louis XI and for 1 4 years he
was in that same cage and could neither
lie down nor stand up. 1t is poor rule
that will not work both ways. "With
what measure We mete it shall be meas
ured to you again.
Oh, my friends, let us be resolved to
scold less and pray morel
What Roadway will we make in the
Judgment if ia this world we have been
bard on those who have gone astray!
What Roadway will you and 1 make in
the last great Judgment when we must
have mercy or perish? The Bible says,
"They shall have Judgment without
mercy that showed no mercy"
I see the scribes of heaven looking uE
into the face of such a man, saying:
"What, you plead for mercy, you
whom in all your life never had any
mercy ON your fellows? Don't you re-
member how hard you were in your
opinions of those who were astrayi
Don you remember when you ought tc
have given a helping hand you employ
ed a hard heel? Mercy YOu must mis-