Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-02-20

but he is only on the limits, and the
satanic police have their eyes upon him
to bring him in at any moment The
hot curse of God is on that crime. and
because of it there are men whose heav-
en- was blctted out ten years ago. There
is no danger that they be lost; they are
lost now. look through their glaring
eyeballs down into the lowest cav
ern of hell o destroyed spirit, why
contest thou in here today? Dost think
l have the power to break open the
barred gateway of the penitentiary of
the damned? There is a passage in
Proverbs l somewhat hesitate to read,
but / do not hesitate long: eat the
window of my house / looked through
my easement and beheld among the
simple ones, 1 discerned among the
youths, young man, void of under
standing, passing through the street
near her corner, and he went the way
to her house in the twilight, in the
evening, in the black and dark night
He goeth after her straightway, as an
OK goeth to the slaughter or as a fool TO
the correction of the stocks, till dart
strikes through his liver"
How to Spend Evenings.
But now the question is still open
Where will you spend your EVENING" o
commercial travellers, how much will
you give me to put you on the right
track? Without charging you a far
thing 1 will prescribe for you a plan
which will save you for this world and
the next, if you will take it. Go. before
you leave home, to the Young Mems
Christian association of the city where
you live. Get from them letters of in
PRODUCTION. Carry them out to the towns
and cities where you go. If there be no
such association in the place you visit,
then present them at the door of Chris
tian churches, and hand them over to
the pastors. Be not slow to arise in the
devotional meeting and say: 81 am
commercial traveller. / am far away
from home, and come in here tonight
to seek Christian society" The best
houses and the highest style of amuse-
ment will open before you, and instead
of your being dependent upon the lep-
rous crew who hang around the hotels,
wanting to show you all the slums Of
the city, on the one condition that you
will pay their expenses, you will get the
benediction of God in every town you
visit. Remember this, that whatever
place you visit bad influences will seek
you out Good influences you must seek
out.
While I stand here I bethink my
self of a commercial traveller who was
a member of my church in Philadel-
phia. He was a splendid young man,
the pride of his widowed mother
and of his sisters 1t was his Joy to
support them, and for that purpose he
postponed his own marriage day. He
thrived in business, and after awhile
set up his own household. Leaving that
city for another city, had no oppor-
tunity for three or four years of making
inquiry in regard to him. When made
such inquiry, was told that he was
dead. The story was, he was largely
generous and kind hearted and genial
and social, and he got into the habit of
creating" customers and of showing
them all the sights of the town, and he
began rapidly to go down, and he lost
his position in the church of which
he was member, and he lost his posi-
ton in the commercial house of which
he was the best agent, and his beauti-
full young wife and his sick old mother
and his sisters went into restitution,
and he, as a result of his dissipation,
died in Kirkbride Insane asylum.
o commercial travellers, 1 pray for
you the all sustaining grace of God.
There are two kinds of days when you
are especially in need of divine grace.
The one, the day when you have no
success-when you fail to make sale
and you are very much disappointed,
and you go back to your hotel discom-
flied. That night you will be tempted
to go to strong drink and rush into bad
surroundings. The other day, when you
will especially need divine grace, will
be when you have had day of great
success and the devil tells you you must
go and celebrate that success. Then you
will want the grace of God to restrain
you from rollicking indulgences. Yes,
there will be third day when you will
need to be Christians, and that will be
the last day of your life. / do not know
where you will spend it. Perhaps in
your house, more probably in a rail car,
or a steamer, or the strange hotel l see
you ON your last commercial Grand
You have hidden goodby to the family
at home for the last time. The train of
your earthly existence is. nearing the
depot of the grave. The brakes are fall
ing The bell rings at the terminus
The train stops. All out for eternity
Show your ticket now for getting into
the gate of the shining city-the red
ticket washed in the blood of the Lamb
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