Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-08-13

Lords day. He said to the head man
Of the firm: Il can't possibly do that.
1 an willing to sell medicines on the
Lords day, for l think that is right
and necessary; but I can't sell this
patent backing" He was discharged
from the place. A Christian man hear
ing Of it took him into his employ, and
he went on from one success to an
other until he was known all over the
land for his faith in God and his good
works as for his worldly success.
When a man has sacrificed any tenn
p0ral, financial good for the sake of
his spiritual interests the Lord is on
his side, and one with God is a ma
jority.
But if you have been much among
the cities you have also noticed that
they are full of temptations of a politi-
cal character It is not so more in one
city than in all the cities. Hundreds of
men going down in our cities every
year through the pressure of politics.
Once in awhile a man will come out in
sort Of missionary spirit and say, 81
am going into politics now to reform
them, and [ am going to reform the
ballot box, and l am going to reform
all the people I come in contact with"
That man in the fear and love of God
goes into politics with that idea and
with the resolution that he will come
out uncontaminated and as good as
when he went in, but generally the
case is, when q man steps into politics,
many Of the newspapers try to blacken
Il &c, ahor mr. 10 fcto oil 1T ocA
history, and after a little while has
gone by, instead of considering himself
an honorable citizen, he is lost in con-
temptation and in admiration of the
fact that he has so long been kept out
of Jail! If a man should go into poll
tics to reform politics and with the
right spirit, he will come out with the
right spirit and unhurt. That was
Theodore Frelinghuysen Of New Jer-
sey. That was George Briggs of Mas
sachusetts. That was Judge Mclean
of Ohio.
Then look around and see the allure
ments to dissipated life. Bad books,
unknown to father and mother, vile as
the reptiles of Egypt, crawling into
some of the best of families of the
community, and boys read them while
the teacher is looking the other way or
at recess or on the corner of the street
when the groups are gathered. These
books are read late at night. Satan
finds them a smooth plank on which he
can slide down into perdition some Of
your sons and daughters. Reading bad
books, one never gets over it. The
books may be burned, but there is not
enough power in all the apothecary's
preparations to wash out the stain
from the soul Fathers hands, moth
ers' hands, sisters hands will not wash
it out. None but the hand of the Lord
can wash it out.
God Does Not Excuse Sin.
And what is more perilous in regard
to some of these temptations we may
not mention them. While God in his
Bible from chapter to chapter thunder
ed his denunciations against these
crimes, people expect the pulpit and
the printing press to be silent on the
subject, and just in proportion as peo-
pie are impure are they fastidious on
this theme. They are so full of decay
and death they do not want their sep
ulchers opened. God will turn into
destruction all the unclean, and no
splendOrs of surrounding can make
decent that which he has Smitten. God
will not excuse sin merely because it
has costly array and beautiful tapestry
and palatial residence any more than
he will excuse that which crawls, a
blOtch of sores, through the lowest Gel
lar. Ever and anon, through some law
suit, there flashes upon the people of
our great cities what is transpiring in
seemingly respectable circles. You call
it high life" you call it 'faSt liv-
ing" you call it peoples eccentric
ity," and while we kick off the side
walk the poor wretch who has not the
means to garnish his iniquity, these
lords and LADIES', wrapped in purple
and in linen, go unwhipped of public
justice. All, the most dreadful part Of
the whole thing is, that there are per-
sons abroad whose whole business it
is to despoil the young. What an eter-
nifty such a man will have! AS the
door opens to receive him thousands
of voices will cry out, "See here what
you have DONE" and the wretch will
wrap himself with fiercer flame and
leap into deeper darkness, and the
multitude he has destroyed will pursue
him and hurl at him the long, bitter,
relentless, everlasting curse of their
own anguish. If there be one cup of
eternal darkness more bitter than an
other, they will have to drink it to the
dregs. If in all the ocean Of the lost
world that comes billowing up there be
one wave more fierce than another, it
will dash over them. But there is hope |
for all who will turn.
I stood one day at Niagara falls,
and I saw what you may have seen |