Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-03-13
has not glorious specimens Of conse-
Grated wealth.

due. YOU make him wait for them be-
cause he cannot help himself Suppose
that, because his family is sick and he
has had extra expenses, he should po-
litely ask you to raise his wages for this
year, and you roughly tell him if he
wants better place to go and get it.
Suppose, by your manner, you act as
though he were nothing and you were
everything Suppose you are selfish and
overbearing and arrogant. Your first
name ought to be Attila and your last
name Attila, because you are the star
Norwood and you have imbittered
one-third, if not three thirds of the wa
tiers that roll past your employees and
operatives and dependents and associ-
ates, and the long line of carriages
which the undertaken orders for your
funeral in order to make the occasion
respectable will be filled with twice as
many dry, fearless eyes, as there are
persons occupying them. You will be
in this world but few minutes. AS
compared with eternity, the stay of the
longest life on earth is not more than
minute. What are we doing with that
minute? Are we imbittering the dOmes
tic or social Oh political fountains, or
are we like Moses, who, when the Israel
ties in the wilderness complained that
the waters of Lake Marah were bitter,
and they could not drink them, their
leader cut eff the branch of a certain
tree and threw that branch into the
water, and it became sweet and slaked
the thirst of the suffering host? Are we
with branch of the tree of life sweet
ening all the brackish fountains that we
can touch?
Dear Lord, send us all out on this
mission. All around us imbittered lives
-imbittered by persecution, imbitter-
ed by hypercriticism, imbittered by pow
erty, imbittered by pain, imbittered by
injustice, imbittered by sin. Why not
90 forth and sweeten them by smiles, by
inspiring words, by benefactions, by
hearty counsel, by prayer, by gospelized
behavior? Let US remember that if we
are wormwood to others we are worm
word to ourselves, and our life will be
bitter and our eternity bitterer. The
gospel of Jesus Christ is the only sweet
ening power that is sufficient It sweet
ems the disposition, it sweetens the man
ners, it sweetens life, it sweetens mys-
terious providences, it sweetens affiic-
tions, it sweetens death, it sweetens ev-
erything have heard people asked in
social company, eff you could have
three wishes gratifed, what would your
three wishes be?'' If / could have three
wishes met, tell you what they would
be- First, more of the grace of God;
second, more of the grace of God; third,
more of the grace of God.
The observation-disclosures Tree
In the dooryard of my brother John,
once missionary in Annoy, China, there
was tree called the emperor tree, the
two characteristics of which are that it
always grows higher than its surround
ings, and it's leaves take the form of a
crown. If this emperor tree be planted
beside rosebush, it grows a little
higher than the bush and spreads out
above it crown. If it be planted by
the side of another tree, it grows lit
tie higher than that tree and spreads
above it a crown. Would God that this
religion Of Christ, a more wonderful
emperor tree, might overshadow all
your livesl Are you lowly in ambition
or circumstance, putting over you its
crown; are you high in talent and posi-
ton, putting over you its crown? Oh,
for more of the saccharin in our lives
and less of the wormwoodl
What is true of individuals is true of
nations God sets them up to revolve
as stars, but they may fall wormwood.
Tyre-the atmosphere of the desert,
fragrant with spices coming in cara
vans to her fairs; all seas cleft into
foam by the keels of her laden merchant
men; her markets rich with horses and
camels from Togarmah; the bazaar
filled with upholstery from Dedan, with
emerald and coral and agate from Syria,
with mines from Helbon, with embroid
cred work from Ashur and Chilmad.
Where now the CLEAN of her towers
where the roar of her chariots where
the masts of her ships? Let the fisher
men who dry their nets where once she
stood, let the sea that rushes upon the
barrenness where once she challenged
the admiration Of all nations, let the
barbarians who set their rude tents
where once her palaces glittered, an
swer the questions She was star, but
by her own sin turned to NORWOOD
and has fallen.
Hundred gated Thebes-for all time
| to be the study of antiquarian and
hieroglyphist. Her stupendous ruins
spread over 81 miles, her sculptures
presenting in figure of warrior and
chariot the victories with which the
now forgotten kings of Egypt shook the
nations her obelisks and columns; Kar-
! max and Luxor, the stupendous temples
of her pridel Who can imagine the
greatness of Thebes in those days, when
the hippodrome rang with her sports
| and foreign royalty bowed at her
shrines, and her avenues roared with
| tho wheels of Drocossions in the NO la of