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

pines we make a declination that will
be disastrous to cur nation, and other
nations Will take control Of those ar
chipelagoes end rule them, and perhaps
TO cur humiliation and destruction. The
other theory IN that if we take posses
sion of, thosa once Spanish colonies we
invite foreign interference and enter
upon a career that will finally be the
demolition Of this government Both
positions are immeasurab mistakes.
God has seq apart this continent for
free government and the triumphs of
Christianity, and we may take either
the first Or the second course without
ruin. We may say to those islands:
eve do noe want you, but we have set
you free. 1Eow stay free, while we see
that the Spanish panther never again
puts it's pslag On your neck" Or we
may invite (Pff9 annexation Of Cuba and
Porto Rice fafd say to the Philippines,
"Get ready by education and good NOR
ais for f(a9 government, and at the
right TIM you shall be one of our terri
tories Oh the way to be one Of our
states
And there is no power in Europe.
Asia Or Africa, or all combined, that
could harm this nation in it's world
wide endeavor. God is on the side Of
the right, and by earnest imploration
for divine guidance on the part of this
nation we will be led to do the right.
We are on the brink of nothing. There
is no frightful crisis. This train of Re
publican and Democratic institutions is
q through train, and all we want is to
have the engineer and the brakemen
and the conductor attend to their bust
ness and the passengers keep their
places. We want men in this. nation
with faith enough for all. We want
here and there David worth 10, 900
men.
Confidence Lacking.
A vast majority of men have no sur
plus of confidence for others and hardly
enough confidence for themselves. They
go through life saying depressing things
and doing depressing things. They chill
prayer meetings, discourage charitable
institutions, injure commerce and kill
churches. They blow out lights when
they ought to be kindling them. They
hover around a dull fire on their own
hearth and take up SO much room that
no one can catch the least caloric, in
stead of stirring the hearth into blaze,
the crackle of whose backlog would in
vite the whole neighborhood to come in
to feel the Astounding warmth and see
the TRANSPORTATION of the faces. AS we
all have to guess great deal about the
future, let us guess something good,
for it will be more encouraging, and
the guess will be just as apt to come
true. What lot Of ingrates the Lord
has at his tablet People who have had
three meals day for so years and yet
fear that they will soon have to rattle
their knife and fork on an empty dinner
plate. How many have had-winter
and spring and summer and fall-cloth-
ing for go years, but expect an empty
wardrobe shortly! How many have
lived under free institutions all their
days, but fear that the United States
may be telescoped in some foreign col
iision Oh, but the taxes have gone upl
Yes, but thank God, it is easier with
money to pay the taxes now that they
are up than it was without money to
pay the taxes when they were down.
We want few men who have faith in
God and that mighty future which
holds several things, among them a
millennium. Columbanus said to his
friend, "Deicolus, why are you always
smiling?' The reply was, because no
one can take my God from mep We
want more men to feel that they have a
mission to cheer others and to draw up
the corners of peoples mouths which
have a long while been drawn down,
more Davids who can shepherd whole
focks of bright hopes, and can play
harp of encouragement, and strike down
a Goliath of despair, and of whom we
can say, "Thou art worth 10, 900 of u.s. "
admit that this thought of my text
fully carried out would change many
of the worlds statistics. Suppose a viii
lage is said to have 1000 inhabitants
and that one.half of them-namely,
50O-have for years been becoming less
in body, and through niggardliness and
grumbling less in soul. Each one of
these is only one-half of what he once
was or one-half of what she once was
That original 500 have been reduced
one-half in moral quality and are really
only $50. Suppose that the other 500
have maintained their original status
and are neither better nor worse. Then
the entire population of that village is
$50. But suppose another village of
1000, and 500 of them, as the years go
by, through mental and spiritual Gull
ture, augment themselves until they
are really twice the men and women
they originally were, and the other 500
remain unchanged and are neither better
nor worse, then the population Of that
village is 1900. Meanness is subtrac-
ton and nobility is addition. Accord
ing as you rise in the scale of holiness
and generosity and conservation, You
are worth Or 10 or 80 or 100 or /, 900
or 10 900 others