Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-12-19
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WAsHgsGJ9S, BAG fS.-This arous-
Ing and practaeak sermon Ey Dr. Tai
mage WIZ ne9ch many hearts and be an
especial inspiration to those who are
now staining in life His text is Zecha-
riah ii, - '-Rnn. speak to this young
man -
There aS NO snow on the beard of
the prophet ef my text and no crows
feet hisfE eit tleir mark near his eyes.
Zechariaia was a. Young man, and in
day dream he saw and heard two angels
talking about the rebuilding Of the city
of Jerusalsm. One of these angels de-
sires TINT young, Lecharlah should be
we'll informed about the rebuilding of
that city, SIS circumference and the
height eff its walls, and ne says to the
other angel, "Run, speak to this young
man." Do ret walk, hut run, for the
message Is grgenh and imminent. So
every young Rnan needs. to have imme-
date advice about the dimensions, the
height and tie circumference of that
which, under God. be rs to build
namely. his OWN character and destiny.
No slow or hggasd pace VIII do. A lit
tie farther ON. and COUNSEL will be of no
advantage Swift footed must be the
practical and important Suggestions, or
they might as we'll never be made at
all. Run at the pace Of Eve miles the
ND an Ahzk
Run, before this year of 1898 is ended
Run, before this century is closed. Run,
before his character Is inexorahly de-
cided for two worlds, this world and
the next How many of MS have found
out by long and bitter experience things
that we ought to have been told before
we were ss5 years of age. Now propose
TO tell you some things which, if you
will seriously and prayerfully observe,
will make you master of the situation
in which you are now placed and mas
ter Of every situation III which you ever
will be placed. And in order that my
subject may be climacteric, begin on
the outside edge of that advice, which
will be more and more important "a the
subject unfolds.
Master of the Situation.
Now. if you would be master Of the
situation. do not expend money before
yon get It, How many young men ire
trievahTy mortgage their future because
of resaurces that are quite sure to be
theirs. Have the money either in your
hand, err IN a safety deposit. or in
bank, or In a United States bond before
you. mako purchases, or go into expen-
siye enterprises, or hitch n spanking
team to glittering turnout, or con.
tract for the building of a mansion on
the. Potomac or the Hudson. Do not de-
pend on an inheritance from your father
or uncle. The cid man may live ON a
good deal longer than you expect, and
the day Of your enforced payment may
come before the day of his decease You
cannot depend upon rheumatism or
heart failure or senility to do its work
Longevity is so wonderfully improved
that you cannot depend upon people dy-
ing when you think they ought to. They
live. to be septuagenarians. or octo-
genarians. OF nonagenarians, or even
centenarians, and meanwhile their heirs
go into bankruptcy, or, tempted to
forgery, or misappropriation OF trust
funds, Or watering of railroad or min
ing stock. 60 into the penitentiary.
Neither had you better spread yourself
out because Of the l 8 or 90 per cent you
expect from an investment. Most of the
is or 20 per cent Investments are apt to
pay nothing save the privilege Of being
assessed to meet the obligations of the
company in the affairs of which you get
involved Better get 81 per cent from
a government bond than he promised Is
per cent from a dividend which will
never be declared, or paid only once or
twice, So as. to tempt you deeper in be-
fore the grand smash up. and you re-
ceive, instead OF payment of dividends,
q letter from the president and secre-
tary of the company saying they are very
sorry.
If you have to wait a year or FIVE
years, or ten years, or most of your life
time, then yoa had better wait rather
than spend money you expect to get.
Then after you get it do not spend it
all Never spend a dollar until you
have so cents that You do not spend. In
the government service In this city how
many splendid women who are the
daughters of men who spent all they
got and then sneaked out of life to leave
their daughters penniless, to be looked
after by some kind senator or other
friend who might solicit for them po-
sition on small salary. but enough to
keep them from starvation and the
poorhouse. Such men do not die; they
abscond. j cannot understand how such
spendthrift and reckless and improvi-
dent men dare, at their decease, appear
at the door of heaven seeking admission
when they have left their families in
the tophet of want and mendicancy.
Such men do not deserve throne and
a harp and mansion, but an everlast-