Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-04-17


on 10 cent piece and the Ten Com
mandments on 10 cent piece. Chill
dren are taught to reduce morals and
religion, time and eternity, to vulgar
fractions. 1t seems to be their chief at
tainment that 10 cents make a dime
and 10 dimes make a dollar. How to
get money is only equaled by the other
art-how to keep it. Tell me- We who
know, what chance there is for those
who start out in life with such per-
verted sentimentsl The money market
resounds again and again with the
downfall of such people. If 1 had
drop of blood on the tip of a pen, l
would tell you by what awful tragedy
many of the youth of this country are
ruined.
Further on, thousands and tens of
thousands of the daughters of America
are sacrificed to worldliness. They are
taught to be in sympathy with all the
artificialties Of society. They are in
Quoted into all the hollowness of what
is called fashionable life. They are
taught to believe that history is dry,
but that so cent stories of adventurous
love are delicious. With capacity that
might have rivaled Florence Night
ingale in heavenly ministries or made
the fathers house glad with filial and
sisterly demeanor, their life is a waste,
their beauty curse, their eternity a
demolition.
Sacrifice at Marriage Altar.
In the siege of Charleston, during
our civil war, a lieutenant of the army
stood on the floor beside the daughter
of the ex-governor of the state of South
Carolina. They were taking the VOWS
of marriage. A bombshell struck the
roof, dropped into the group, and nine
were wounded and slain, among the
wounded to death the bride While the
bridegroom knelt on the carpet trying
to stanch the wounds the bride de-
manded that the ceremony be complet-
ed, that she might take the VOWS before
her departure, and when the minister
said, ''Wilt thou be faithful unto
death - with her dying lips she said,
81 will, - and in two hours she had de-
parted. That was the slaughter and the
sacrifice of the body, but at thousands
of marriage affairs there are daughters
slain for time and slain for eternity.
1t is not marriage. It is a massacre
Afianced to some one who is only
waiting until his father dies so he can
get the property; then a little while
they swing around in the circles, bril-
liant circles; then the property is gone,
and, having no power to earn a liveli-
hood, the twain sink into some corner
of society, the husband an idler and a
sot, the wife a drudge, a slave and q
sacrifice. All, spare your denunciations
from Jephthah's head and expend them
all on this wholesale modern martyr
dom
[ lift up my voice against the sacri-
fee of children. l look out of my win
dow on a Sabbath, and see a group of |
children unwashed, uncombed, I'M
Christianized. Who cares for them? |
Who prays for them? Who utters to
them one kind world When the city |
missionary, passing along the park in
New York, saw ragged lad and heard |
him swearing, he said to him: ''My |
son, stop SWEARING You ought to go to
the house of God today. You ought to |
be good. You ought to be Christian.
The lad looked in his face and said:
"Ahl 1t is easy for you to talk, we'll |
clothed as you are and we'll fed. But |
VIC SAoP hd1h U SOU hO SAdACC' w III 1
lifts them to the altar for baptism? |
Who goes forth to snatch them up from
crime and death and woe? Who today
will go forth and bring them into
schools and churches? No; heap them
up, great plies of rags and wrecthedness
and filth. Put underneath them the
fires of sacrifice, stir up the blaze, put
on more fagots, and, while we sit in
the churches with folded arms and in
difference, crime and disease and death
will go on with the agonizing sacrifice.
Mightier Generation Coming.
During the early French revolution
at BOurges there was a company of
boys who used to train every day as
young soldiers, and they carried a flag,
and they had on the flag this inscrip-
ton: ''Tremble, tyrants, tremblel We
are growing up" Nightly suggestivel
This generation is passing off, and a
mightier generation is coming on. Will
they be the foes of tyranny, the foes of
sin and the foes of death, or will they
be the foes of God? They are coming
upl I congratulate all parents who are
doing their best to keep their children
away from the altar of sacrifice. Your
are going to be answered. Your
children may wander away from God,
but they will come back again. A voice
comes from the throne today, encourag
ing you-"I will be a God to thee and
to thy seed after thee And, though
when you lay your head in death there
may be some wanderer of the family far
away from God, and you may be 90
years in heaven before salvation shall
come to his heart, he will be brought
into the kingdom, and before the throne
Of God you will rejoice that you were