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

death or about your funeral Here is
manly religion, one that will extirpate
from your nature all that ought to be
extirpated and irradiate it with every
virtue and make it glow with every an
! ticipation
Neither would have you adopt that
other absurd preachment, that the things
of this world are of little importance as
| compared with the next world. On the
contrary, you cannot sufficiently appre-
ciate the Importance of this world, for
| it decides your next world. You might
as we'll despise schoolhouse because it
is not university. In the schoolhouse
we prepare for the university. If this
world is Of such little importance, 1 do
not think the first born and the last born
of heaven would have spent 33 years
down here to redeem it.
Do not postpone to the fifties or even
the forties of your life that which you
can be and do in the twenties or thir-
ties If you do not amount to much be-
fore 40 years of age, you will never
amount to much. Jefferson wrote the
Declaration of American Independence
at 33 years of age. William Pitt was
prime minister of England at "a. Ra-
phael's great paintings were all finished
before he was 81 years of age. Cortes
was 81 when he overcame Mexico. Gro
thus was attorney general at "a. Gus
tavus Adolphus expired at SO. AT 81
Calvin published his immortal "Insti-
tutes." Alexander the Great died at 81,
and lesser men get armed for the chief
good or evil of their lives before they
reach their midlife
Young man, start right, and the only
way to start right is to put yourself
into companionship with the best friend
young man ever had-Christ the Lord.
He will give you equipoise amid the
rocking of life's uncertainties. He will
support you in day of loss. He will di-
rect you when you come to the forks of
the road and know not which road to
take. He will guide you in your home
life, if you are wise enough to have a
home of your own. If you live on to
great prosperity, he will show you how
to manage fortune. If your earthly
projects fail, and you are put in finan-
cial straits, he will see to it that that is
the best condition for your soul, and
the discipline and the hardship will
make you more and more of a man. If
you live ON to old age, he will make the
evening twilight as bright as and per-
haps brighter than was the morning
twilight, and when your work on earth
is done the gates Of a better world will
open on expansions and enthronements
and felicities which st. John describes,
sometimes as orchards, sometimes as
shaded streets and sometimes as a orys-
talline river and sometimes as an or
chestra with mighty instruments, blown
on by lips cherubic or thrummed by
fingers seraphio and inhabitants always
fearless and songful and resplendent, SO
that the mightiest calamity of the uni
verse is the portion Of that one who fails
to enter it.
Sin Is Expensive.
Young man, seek only elevating and
improving companionship. Do not let
the last scion of a noble family, fell
low with big name, but bad habits,
for he drinks and swears and is disso-
lutte, take your arm to walk down the
street or spend an evening with you,
either at your room or his room. Re-
member that sin is the most expensive |
thing in Gods universe. 1 have read |
that Sir Brasil, the knight, tired out |
with the chase, had a falcon on his |
wrist, as they did in days of falconry, |
when with hawks or falcons they went |
forth to bring down cartridges or grouse
or pigeons, and being very thirsty came
to a stream struggling from rock,
and, releasing the falcon from his wrist,
he took the bugle which he carried,
and, stopping the mouthpiece of his
bugle with tuft of moss, he put this
extemporized cup under the water
which came down drop by drop from the
rock until the cup was full, and then
lifted it to drink, when the falcon he
had released with sudden swoop dashed
the cup from his hand. BY the same
process he filled the cup again and was
about to drink when the falcon by an
other swoop dashed down the cup. En-
ragged at this insolence and violence of
the bird, he cried, 81 will wiring thy
neck if thou doest that again. But,
having filled the cup third time and
trying to drink third time, the falcon
dashed it down. Then Sir Brasil with
his fist struck the bird, which f1uttered
and looked lovingly and reproachfully
at him and dropped dead. Then Sir
Brasil, looking up to the top of the rock
" AOSo NA'PPSN VIC water, saw great
green serpent coiledsfold above fold, the
venom from his mouth dropping into
that from which Sir Brasil had filled
his cup. Then exclaimed the knight,
What kind thing it was for the fall
con to dash down that poisoned cup,
and what a sad thing that L killed him,
and what narrow escape l had ~ So
now there are no more certainly waters
that refresh than waters that poison.
This moment there are thousands Of
young men, unwittingly and not know
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