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

Will get out IN the snow Dank ana nave
to walk three or four miles until you
get to the railroad station, and you
will want all these comforts and con-
veniences. But will you excuse me if I
make a suggestion or two about this
valise? You say, "Certainly as we are
having a plain, frank talk / will not be
offended at any honorable suggestion. =
Put in among your baggage some
carefully selected, wholesome reading.
Let it be in history, or a poem, or
book of pure fiction, or some volume
that will give you information in regard
to your line of business. Then add to
that a Bible in round, beautiful type.
Small type is bad for the eyes any
where, but peculiarly killing in the jolt
of rail train. Put your railroad guide
and your Bible side by side-the one to
show you the route through this world
and the other to show you the route to
the next world s'Oh,'' you say, "that
is superfuous, for now in all the hotels
in the parlor you will find a Bible, and
in nearly all the rooms of the guests
you will find one" But, my brother,
that is not your Bible.
Should Garry a Bible.
You want your own hat, your own
coat, your own blanket, your own Bible.
''But,' you say, 81 am not a Chris
tian, and you ought not to expect me
to carry a Bible My brother, great
many people are not Christians who
carry Bible Besides that, before you
get home you might become Chris
tian, and you would feel awkward
without a copy. Besides that, you
might get bad news from home. see
you with trem bling hand opening the
telegram, saying, George is dying,
or ''Fannie is dead; come homel' Oh,
as you sit in the train, stunned with
the calamity, going home you will have
no taste for fine scenery or for converse
tion, and yet you must keep your
thoughts employed or you will go stark
mad. Then you will want a Bible,
whether you read it or not. It will be
comfort to have it near you-that
book full of promises which have COM
forted other people in like calamity.
Whether you study the promises or not
you will want that book near you. Am
I not wise when I say put in the Biblef
Now, you are all ready to start. You
have your valise in the right hand, and
you have your blanket and shawl strap
in the left hand. Goodbyl May you
have prosperous journey, large sales
great percentages. Oh, there is one
thing forgot to ask you about What
train are you going to take? ''Well, .
you say, 81 will take the 5 o'clock Sun
day afternoon train Why? sob, +"
you say, ''I shall save day by that,
and on Monday morning I will be in
the distant city, in the commercial es-
Enlistment. by the time the merchants
come down." My brother, you are start
ing wrong. If you clip off something
from the Lords day, the Lord will clip
off something from your lifetime sue
cesses. Sabbath breaking pays no better
for this world than it pays for the next.
There was large establishment in New
York that said to a young man: eve
want you to start tomorrow afternoon
Sunday afternoon-at 5 o'clock, for
Pittsburg'' ''Oh, replied the young
man, 81 never travel on Sunday"
"Well" said the head man of the firm,
''you must go. We have got to make
time, and you must go tomorrow after
noon at 5 o'clock. The young man
said: 81 can't CO. it is against my con-
science. I can't CO." ''Well, said the
head man of the firm, ''then you will
have to lose your situation. There are
plenty of men who would like to go.
The temptation was too great for the
young man, and he succumbed to it.
He obeyed orders. He left on the 8
o'clock train Sunday afternoon for
Pittsburg. Do you want the sequel in
very short meter? That young man has
gone down into life of dissipation.
What has become of the business firm 4?
Bankrupt-one of the firm confirmed
gambler. Out of every week, get "A
hours for yourself. Your employer,
young man, has no right to swindle you
out of that rest. The bitter curse of AL
mighty God will rest upon that COM
mercial establishment which expects its
employees to break the Sabbath. What
right has Christian merchant to sit
down in church on the Sabbath when
his clerks are travelling abroad through
the land on that day? Get up, professed
Christian merchant, SO acting. You
have no business here. Go out and call
that boy back. There was merchant
in 1887 who wrote: ST should have
been dead man had it not been for the
Sabbath. Obliged to work from morn
ing until night through the whole week,
felt on Saturday, especially on Satur-
day afternoon. that I must have rest.
It was like going into dense fog. Ev
erything looked dark and gloomy as if
nothing could be saved. I dismissed all
and kept the Sabbath in the old way.
On Monday it was all sunshine, but had
it not been for the Sabbath, have no
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Now, say, if the Sabbath is good for
the employer, it is good for the en-
ployee. Young man, the dollar that you
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