Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-12-19

the universe. Promptness Up to time |
Today! Nowi You will get only what
you win. There are accidents, like the
printers mistake, which caused Louis
Napoleon to be called Napoleon III. !"
a Partisan editor at the time that Louis
Napoleon by base strategy turned the
republic into monarchy wrote in de-
rision the word Napoleon, +" followed
by three exclamation points. These ex-
clamation points the printer mistook for
the letter "I' three times written, and
hence be was called Napoleon III But
promotions by accident are not to be de-
pended on. Depend on getting nothing
except that which under God by your
own industry and good sense you
achieve.
That was a good maxim of olden
time, 'Get thy spindle and distaff
ready, and God will send thee flax"
Especially do our young men need to
get ready, as within the past few
months the world has unfolded before
them opportunities such as we never
dreamed would come so soon. Putting
aside the political question as to what
ought to be done with Cuba, Porto Rico
and the Philippines, the whole world,
for the first time, is open, and the ques-
tion now is, what our young men will
do with the world. China, the richest
Of all lands for metals and. with $780,,
900, 600 of people, is made our neigh
Dor, and the commerce of the United
States is to be quadrupled in the life of
the present generation, and what advan-
tages commerce advantages mechanism
and art and literature and the profess
sions. The American pillow, the Ameri-
can hammer, the American pen, the
American printing press, the American
bargain counter, are soon to have their
opportunity in every island of the sea
and every continent. Young men You
need to be wiser, drawer, better men
than we have ever been to meet the
crisis.
Live According to the Word.
Again, if you would be master of the
situation, and I name it last, because it
is the most important, for you know
that which is last mentioned is apt to
be best remem bered, charge you get
into your heart and life, your converse
tion and your manners, your body, mind
and soul, the near 6, O00-year-o reli-
gion of the Bible. Why so? Because the
large majority of people quit this life
before % years of age, and the possibil-
ity is that if you do not take possession
of this religion and religion does not
take possession of You while you are
young, you will never come into ALI
ance. Mrs. Mckinley, the mother of
our president, said to me at the White
House, II am living on borrowed time,
for I am over so years of age" My re-
ply to her was the reply I make to you,
"All those who are over 25 years of age
are living on borrowed time, since the
majority Of people go out of the world
before 25 years of age.
Heraclitus, according to Plato, said
that no man bathes twice in the same
river. But suppose you live to be octo-
genarians, do you not see that postpone
ment is an awful waste of nerve and
muscle and brain. What is the use of
your pulling heavy load all your life
when you can have two of the white
horses that st. John saw in heaven har-
messed to your load? Suppose you have
q great mill wheel to turn. You can
put that mill wheel where it will be
turned by mill race of water one foot |
deep, poured by small brook, or you
can put it along the deep and swift st. |
Lawrence, which will roll through the |
mill race tons Of water every second of |
time. Are you going to run your life |
by the shallow drippings of earthly in
fuence or by the rolling rivers Of omnip- |
otent power? Are you going to under
take the work of life with nothing but |
your own brain or arm, or with your
own brain and arm backed up by all the
and all the celestial forces of |
the Almighty? make as great an offer !
as was ever made by man. / offer you
God. He tells me to make that point
blank proposition. If you want them,
you can have them on your side for the
earnest asking-omniscien omnipres-
ence, omnipotence Can you imagine
greater contrast than a young man I'M
dertaking life alone-life, with all its
of temptation and OBJ
a young man undertaking
life with every wing of angel and every
thunderbolt of heaven pledged for his
defense and advancement-the differ
ence between a young man alone and
q young man befriended by the Maker
and Upholder of the universe. The bat
tie of life is SO severe that no young
man can afford to decline any help, and
the mightiest help is God. One night in
the year 1741 Count Lessock went to
escort the Princess Elizabeth of Russia
to throne which was then unoccupied
She halted, she hesitated, she wondered
she had better go to the palace
and mount the throne of all the Russias.
Then Count Lessock drew upon paper
two sketches, the one of herself and the
count in disgrace and on the scaffold
and the other of herself ON a throne
amid huzzaing subjects When she
saw plainly that she must make a