Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-11-12


! detractors and the envious and Jealous
are not happy. They hurt themselves
more than they hurt you. Better be
the pursued than the pursuer. Better
/ be the infant Christ than Herod the
! robber of the Bethlehem cradles. You
want to be a better man. You want to
be a better woman. Then scale this
! height of triumphant prayer, and you
! will be ten times more of Christian
! than you ever have been. It will pro-
! long your life as it prolonged Jobs
| life You will feel a glorious reaction
i that will last through all time and all
eternity. 1t will steady your nerves, it
will reduce your spleen, it will regu-
late the pulsation of your heart.
Keep Your Temper.
Nothing is so unhealthy as to get
mad. 1t is shock to the whole phys
zeal organization as we'll as to your
mental and moral condition. 1t is no
! unusual thing for people to drop down
dead in a fit of anger. You people
who weigh over 200 pounds avoirdu-
pois had better never lose your tenn
I per, for at such times apOplexy is not
far off. Get the eQuipoise Of Job in
the text, and it will help you in bust
ness directions. Praying for all Of
tenders, you will have more nerve for
large undertakings; you will have a
better balanced judgment; you will
waste no valuable time in trying to get
even with your enemies. Try this
height of prayer for your antagonist
today, and if you fail try it tomorrow.
Keep on until you accomplish it, and
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the moral and religious strength it
gives you, it should add hundred
per cent to your worldly prosperity.
Job xiii, 10, "The Lord gave Job twice
as much as he had before"
What we all need is to get out Of
ourselves and go to helping others,
whether friends or foes. AS beautiful
an instance Of how this can be done
I found last summer in London in
the person of Florence Nightingale,
the heroine Of hospitals and Of battle
fields when there were no hospitals.
The lounge on which she lies pros
trate is a throne of power, and, though
she has passed into the eighties, she
trains nurses for sickbeds, and her
influence is now felt among the wound
ed in South Africa, while her memory
is full of the story of Balaklava, Sc
vastopol and Inkerman, where Eng
land and France and Russia grappled.
She told me that she had not been
happy until she undertook to alleviate
suffering and that since she began
that work she had never seen an I'M
happy day. To that work she cOnse-
Grated her life, her classic attachments,
her social position, her brilliant per-
sonality Her whole life for others,
and her face shows it. l think so
much of heaven is to be found in no
other human countenance. Tennyson's
Charge of the Light Brigade" is not
more thrilling to me than the womanly
bravery and sacrifice that took care of
those who were shot from the saddles
Of the Immortal six hundred
The Emblem of Immortality.
My text enthrones prayer and gives
it scepter to wave over our temporal
and eternal life. Under God it cured
Job and fixed up his finances and re-
stored his home and made him so ro-
bust of health that he lived IA decades.
E'But" some one says, 81 do not believe
in prayer for friends and foes, because
I do not think that God is going to
change the laws of nature because we
ask him so to do" Neither do l think
that God will change the law of nature
at our request, but l am sure that he
answers prayer through natural law.
Not a physician of any skill, allOpathic,
or homeopathic, or hydropathlc, or
eclectic, but has some time been sur
prised that what was thought to be a
fatal disease suddenly relaXes its grasp
of the patient, and he RECEIVERS. Not
one law of nature has been fractured.
Prayer may have given the sudden
turn to that illness. A business man
may be in difficulty acknowledgements
cages against him foreclosing, goods to
be sold for some reason become unsal-
able, new invention in machinery max
ing the old machinery of his factory
worthless, all kinds of commercial
troubles bouncing upon him at once.
Most business men have at least once
in their lives been put in such agoniz-
ing crisis. but the harried merchant or
manufacturer gets out Of it. Creditors
become lenient, the wheels that were
made useless for making one kind of
fabric turn out to be good for making
another style of fabric, the stock of
goods that could not be sold comes into
unexpected demand, and whereas all
things were against him all things are
now for him. No law of nature is
broken and no law of trade. Prayer
may have given that extrication. God,
by making a law, does not tie his own
hands with it. If you are free to do |
what you are asked to do, is not God |
just as free, or are you mightier than
your Maker?
Prayers Answered.
What scene it was when that whal- |