Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-01-09

ney to the village grocery traveller on
railroad bridge, hoping that he could
get to the end Of the bridge before the
train reaches it. You have no right to
put your life in peril unless by such
exposure something is to be gained for
others. What imbecility in thousands
of Americans during our recent Ameri-
co-Spanish war, disappointed because
the surrender came SO soon and they
could not have the advantage of being
shot at San Juan hill or brought down
with the yellow fever and carried on
litter to transport steamers already so
many floating lazarettOs instead of
thanking God that they got no nearer to
the slaughter than Tampa or Chatta-
nooga or the encampment at their own
state capital; mad at the government,
mad at God, because they could not get
to the front in time to join the 1900
corpses that are now being transported
from the tropics to the national ceme-
teries of the United States. Exposure
and daring are admirable when duty
calls, but keep out of peril when moth
ing practical and useful is to be gained
for your family or your country or your
God. [ admire the David of my text as
he suppresses himself and enters the
gate of his castle as much as l admire
him when with his four fingers and
thumb cIutcbed into the grisly locks OF
Goliath's head, which he had decapi-
tated, and Saul admiringly asks,
"Whose son art thou, young MANI"
and David, blushing with genuine
modesty, responds, 81 am the son Of thy
servant Jesse, the Bethlehemite.
Help Others.
Now, here is another important point.
AS there are so many people IN the
world who amount to little or nothing
you ought to augment yourself, and if
not able, like David, to be worth 10, 600
times more than others, you can COM
mand Gods reinforcing grace to make
yourself four times or three times or
twice as much as some others. Pray
twice as much, read twice as much,
give twice as much, 60 to church twice
as much. Instead of spending your time
finding fault with others, substitute
your superior fidelity for their derelic-
ton and default. In any church there
are ten members worth all the other
thousand. In every great business firm
there is one man worth the other three
partners In every legislative hall, state
or national, there are five men worth
all the other 30 or 100. Take the sug
gestion of my text and augment your
self. Make your one talent do the work
of two, or your five talents do the work
of ten, or your ten talents do the work
Of 90. Multiply your words of encour-
agement. Multiply the number of boosts
you can give to those who are trying to
climb. Instead of being one man in a
battalion by your faith in God and new
conservation be whole. regiment. I
like the question of general of small
army, when some one was counting the
number of officers and soldiers of the
opposing forces and the small number
of their own army, and the general
cried out in indignation, "How many
do you take me to be?;' David was TO-
900 men. You ought to be at least two
men in this battle for God and right
eousness.
The daily papers say that my old
friend jeremiah @. Lanphier of New
York is dead at 90 years of age. But
they are mistaken. That man can never
die He will live as long as heaven
lives. He was the father of vitalized,
vivified and arousing prayer meetings.
He established the monday Fulton
street prayer meeting, famous through
out Christendom and more honored of
God than any devotional meeting since
the world began. He introduced the lit
tie bell on the prayer meeting table
which always tapped when prayers
were too prolix or exhortations too long
winded. Finding that many business
men are from II noon to ! o'clock at
comparative leisure, he widely announc-
ed that at 10 o'clock of 23d of Septem-
Der, 1857, there would begin a prayer
meeting of one hour in the small upper
room of the Reformed church, on Full
ton street, New York. Lanphier went
to that room at 10 o'clock and sat alone.
At half past IL man entered, and 9TH
ers came until there were six Worship
ers present. The meeting on the follow
ing MONDAY mum bered 20, and the next
day 40. Then the meeting became too
large for the room, and it was taken
into the main auditorium, and for Al
years that service has been the religious
center of Christendom. Requests for
prayer IrOm all parts OI the earGn nave
come there, and the prayers offered been
answered sometimes with resound
that was heard throughout Christen-
dom. Hundreds of thousands of souls
have stepped into that Bethesda and
been healed. That meeting started the
great revival of 1853, in which it is es-
timated 500, 900 souls were converted.
When Monday morning, Dec. 26, his
soul assembled, I think he was met at
the gate of heaven by a welcoming
throng as mighty as that which has
greeted any admitted soul for five CEN
turtles Humble and without any pre-
tension and without ANYTHING brilliant