Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-02-13

| noyances and the vexations of the earth
" home. In that land they never hun
ger, and consequently there will be no
nuisance of catering for appetite. In
that land of the white robes they have
no mending to do, and the air of that
hilly country makes them all well. No
rent to pay there. Every man owns his
own house, and mansion at that. 1t
will not be SO great change to step
into the chariot of the skies if on earth
you rode. It will not be SO great a
change if on earth you had all luxuries
and satisfactions. It will not be so
great change for you to sit down on
the banks of the river of life if on earth
you had country seat.
But, oh, the joy for the weary feet
when they step into the celestial equi-
page, and, oh, the joy of those to whom
home was martyrdom on earth when
they go into that home where they will
never have to do anything they do not
want to dol What change from the
time she put down the rolling pin to
the time she took up the scepterl If
| Chatsworth Park and the Vanderbilt
mansion were lifted into the celestial
city, they would be looked at as unin-
/ habita BILE rookeries, and Lazarus him
self would be ashamed to be seen going
in or out of them, SO great are the pal
aces awaiting all Gods dear children,
| and SO much grander the heavenly ar
chitecture than the earthly. 1t is often
not only the toll of the housekeeping,
| but it is the sickness and the sorrow
| that go along. It is a simple fact that
| One-haf of the women of the land are
invaljds. The mountain lass who has
| never had an ache or a pain may con-
slider household work of no very great
WEAKNESS and at the eventide may
! skip out to the fields and drive the cat
tie home, and until 10 o'clock at night
may fill the cabin with laughing racket;
bit, oh, to do the hard work of the
household with shattered constitu
tion-after six weeks whooping cough
has ragged in the household making the
nights as sleepless as the days-then it
is not so easyl And then this work of
the house has often to be undertaken
when the nerves are shattered with
some bereavement that has put desola-
ton in every room Of the house and
sent the crib into the garrett because its
occupant has been hushed into a slum-
Der that needs no mothers lullaby. Oh,
it was great deal easier for her to brood
the whole flock than to brood part of
them now that the rest have gonel You
may tell her that her departed children
are in the bosom of loving God, but,
motherlike, she will brood both focks,
putting one wing of care over the flock
in the house. putting the other wing of
care over the flock in the grave. Moth
ing but the old fashioned religion of
Jesus Christ can take a woman happily
through homo trials. All these modern
religions amount to nothing. They do
not help They do not comfort when
there is a dead babe in the house. Away
with them and give us the old fashioned
religion of Jesus Christ, that has COM
forted so many in the days of sorrow
and troubled
Romance VIII Not Suffice.
Romance and novelty may for lit
tie while seem to be substitute The
marriage day has only gone by, just
gone by, and all household cares are
atoned for by the joy of being together
and by the fact that when it is late at
night it is not necessary to discuss
whether it is time to go. All the mis-
haps of the newly married couple in
the way of household affairs are not
matters of anxiety or apprehension, but
merriment. The loaf of bread turned
into geological specimen, the slushy
custards and jaundiced and measly bis
cults. Oh, it is a very bright sunlight
that falls upon the cutlery and mantel
ornaments of a new home Romance
and novelty will do for a little while,
but after awhile the romance is all
gone and there is a loaf to be made,
loaf that cannot be sweetened by any
earthly condiments and cannot be fla
vored with any earthly favors and can
not be baked in any ordinary oven. It
is the loaf of domestic happiness All
the ingredients from heaven. Fruit
from the tree of life and sweetened with
the new wine of the kingdom and baked
in the oven of home trial. God only
can make that loaf. You can cut it,
but it takes God to make it.
Solomon wrote out of his own miser-
able experience-he had a wretched
home; no man can be happy with two
wives, much less with 700, and out of his
wretched experience he wrote-''Bet-
ter is dinner of herbs where love Is
than a stalled OK and hatred there
with. :" Oh, the responsibilities of house
keepers Kings by their indigestion
have lost empires and generals through
indigestion have lost battles. One of
the great statisticians says that out of
1000 unmarried men 80 were crimi-
mails. and out of 1000 married men only
IS were criminals, showing the power
Of home. And, oh. the responsibility
resting upon housekeepers! By the food
they provide. by the couch they spread.