Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-04-30


Now, my friends, if you move into a
| larger house thank God for more room
for more room to hang your pictures,
for more room in which to gather your
friends, for more room in which to let
| your children rOmp and play, for more
room for great bookcases filed with
good reading or wealth Of bric-a-brac.
Have as large and as fine a house as
you can afford to have, but do not sac
rifice your humility and your common
sense; do not lose your balance; do not
be spoiled by POUR successes.
Trust In God.
Years ago we were the guests in an
English manor. The statuary, the fern
cries, the botanical and horticultural
genius of the place had done all they
could do to make the place attractive.
For generations there has been an
! amassing of plate and costly surround
ings At half past 8 o'clock in the
morning the proprietor of the estate
mad the bell rung, and some 20 or 80
manservants and maidseryants came
in to prayers. The proprietor of the es-
tate read the Scriptures, gave out the
hymn, his daughter at the organ start
ed the music, and then, the music over,
the proprietor Of the estate kneeled
down and commended all his guests,
all his family, all his employees, to the
Lord Almighty. God can trust such a
man as that with a large estate. He
knows how to abound. He trusted
God, and God trusted him. And 1
could call off the roll of so merchant
princes as mighty for God as they are
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friends, do not be puffed up by any of
the successes of this life; do not be
spoiled by the number of liveried
coachmen that may stop at your door
or the sweep Of the long trail across
the imported tapestry! Many Of those
who come to your house are faWning
parasites. They are not so much in
love with you as they are in love with
your house and your successes. You
move down next year to 800 Low Wa
ter Mark street and see how many of
their carriages will halt at your door!
Timon Of Athens was q wealthy lord,
and all the mighty men and women of
the land came and sat at his banquet,
proud to sit there, and they drank deep
to his health. They sent him costly
presents. He sent costlier presents
back again, and there was no man in
all the land so admired as Timon of
Athens, the wealthy lord. But after
awhile, through lavish hospitality or
through betrayal, he lost everything
Then he sent for help to those lords
whom he had banQueted and to whom
he had given large sums of money.
Lucullus, Lucius, SemprOnfuS and Ven
tidias-did those lords send any help to
him? Oh, no! Lucullus said, when he
was applied to: "Well, 1 thought that
Timon would come down. He was too
lavish. Let him suffer for his reckless
ness" LuciuS said, II would be very
glad to help Timon, but l have made
large purchases, and my means are all
absorbed" And one lord sent one ex-
cuse, and another lord sent another eX-
cuSe. But, to the establishment of ev-
erybody, after awhile Timon proclaim
ed another feast. Those lords said to
themselves, "Why, either Timon has
had good turn of fortune or he has
been deceiving us, testing our love-"
And so they all f1ocked to the banquet
apologize for seeming lukewarmness.
The guests were all seated at the ia
BILE, and Timon ordered the covers lift
GU. AC WV ClS ilItCO, lAC1C w do HULL
ing under them but smoking hot water.
Then Timon said to his guests, dogs,
lap, lap, dogsv And under the terrific
irony they fed the room, while Timon
pursued them with his anathema, call
ing them fools of fortune, destroyers Of |
happiness under a mask, hurting at the
same time the pitchers and the chalices /
after them. Oh, my friends, l would !
not want to make you OverSuSpiciOuS !
in the day of your success, but [ want |
you to understand right we'll there is a
vast difference between the popularity
of Timon the prosperous and Timon
the unfortunate; l want you to know
there is a vast difference in the number /
of people who admire a man when he |
is going up and the number of people |
who admire him when he is going
down.
Sad Changes.
But I must have a word with those
who in this Mayday time move out of /
larger residences into smaller. Some
times the pathetic reason is that the
family has dwindled in size, and so
much room is not required; so they
move out into small apartments. I
know there are such cases. Marriage
has taken some of the members of the
family, death has taken other mem
bers of the family, and after awhile
father and mother wake up to find
their family just the size it was when
they started, and they would be lone
some and lost in a large house; hence
they move out of it. Moving day is
great sadness to such if they have the
law of association dominant There
are the rooms named after the differ
ent members of the family. I suppose