Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-07-24

achieve all you expect-and that the
vision L mention is not up to the reali-
ty, because the fountains will be
brighter, the house grander and the
scenery more pictNresque-the mistake
is none the less fatal.
What charm will there be in rural
quiet for a man who has for 80 or 10
years been conforming his entire ma
ture to the excitements Of business?
VIII focks and herds with their bleat
and moan be able to silence the in
satiab1e spirit Of acquisitiveness which
has for years had full swing in the
soul? Will the hum of the breeze
soothe the man who now can find his
only enjoyment in the stock market?
Will leaf and cloud and fountain
charm the eye that has for three
fourths of lifetime found its chief
beauty in hogsheads and bills of sale?
Will parents be competent to rear their
children for high and holy purpose II
their infancy and boyhood and girl
hood were neglected when they are
almost ready to enter upon the world
and have all their habits fixed and
their principles stereotyped? No, no;
the time to serve your Creator. Now
is the time to be a Christian. Are you
too busy? l have known men as busy
as you are who had a place in the
store loft, where they went to pray.
Some one asked a Christian sailor
where he found any place to pray in.
He said, 81 can always find a quiet
place at masthead" And in the busiest
day of the season, If your heart is
right, you can find a place to pray.
Busy thoroughfares are good places to
pray in as you go to meet your various
engagements. Go home little earlier
and get introduced to your children.
Be not a galley slave by day and night,
dashed fast to the oar Of business. Let
every day have it's hour for worship
and intellectual culture and recreation.
Show yourself greater than your bust
ness.
Spiritual DefaIcatiOn.
Again, business men are often tempt
ed to let their calling interfere with
the interests of the soul. God sends
men into the business world to get ed
ucated, just as boys are sent to school
and college. Purchase and sale, loss
and gain, disappointment, prosperity,
the dishonesty of others, panic and
bank suspension, are but different les
sons In the school. The more bust
ness, the more means of grace. Many
have gone through widest panic I'M
hurt. care you not afraid you will
break" said some one to a merchant
in time Of great commercial excite
ment. He replied, AYE, shall break
when the fiftieth Psalm breaks in the
fifteenth verse, Call upon me in the
day of trouble, and l will deliver
thee" The store and the counting
house have developed some of the most
stalwart characters. Perhaps origi-
nally they had but little sprightliness
and force, but two or three hard bust
moss thumps woke them up from their
lethargy, and there came a thorough
development IL the;r hearts Oc all that
vas good and holy and energetic and
tremendous, and they have become the
front men in Christ's army, as we'll as
lighthouses in the great world of traf
fic. But business has been perpetual
depletion to many man. 1t first pull
ed out Of him all benevolence, next all
amiability, next all religious aspira
lions, next all conscience, and, though
he entered his vocation with large
heart and noble character, he goes out
of it a skeleton, enough to scare n
ghost.
Men appreciate the Importance OF
having a good business stand, a store
on the right side of the street or in
the right block. Yet every place of
business is a good stand for spiritual
culture. Gods angels hover over the
world Of traffic to sustain and build up
those who are trying to do their duty.
Tomorrow if in your place of worldly
engagement you will listen for it you
may hear a sound louder than the rat
tie of drays and the shuttle Of feet and
the chink Of dollars stealing into your
soul, saying, Seek We first the king
dom of God and his righteousness, and
all other things shall be added unto
you"
Yet some OF those sharpest at a bar
gain are cheated out OF their immortal
by stratagems more palpa- |
BILE than any drop game" of the |
street. They make investments in
things everlastingly below par. They |
put tACAA tdAuhOkCS III a ShAC hOb AZ
proof. They give full credit to infiu-
ences that will not be able to pay one |
cent on the dollar. They plunge into a !
labyrinth from which no bankrupt law !
or "two-thirds enactment" will ever |
extricate them. They take into their |
the world, the flesh and |
the devil, and the enemy Of all right
eousness will boast through eternal
ages that the man who in all his busi-
ness life could not be outwitted, at
last tumbled into spiritual defalcation
and was swindled out Of heaven.