Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-12-31

with. ana that the greatest poet VINO
ever iived-MiltOn-wa blind, that one
CT the grandest musicians of all the
ages 3EeethOven-WaS deaf and that
Stewart, in some respects the greatest
merchant that America ever saw. be-
gan IN his small store. dining on bread
ard cheese behind the counter in q
Snatched interregnum between custom
erS. be opening the store and closing it,
sweeping it out with his own broom
and being his own errand boy. Show
them that within ten minutes walk
there are stores. shops and factories
and homes where as brave deeds have
been done as those of LeOnidas at
Thermopyloe. as that Of Horatius at the
bridge. as that of Colin Campbell at
Balaklava. Tell them what Napoleon
said to his staff officer when that Off
Ger declared a certain military attempt
to be impossible. ''ImpCssible!' said
the great commander. impossible is
the adjective of fools!'
Show them also that what is true in
worldly directions is more true in spir-
itual directions. Call the roll Of proph-
cts. apostles and martyrs and private
Christians from the time the world be-
gan and ask them to mention one man
or woman greatly good OF useful who
was not deprecated and failed and
made q laughing stock. Racks and
prisons and whips and shipwrecks and
axes of beheadment did their worst.
vet the heroes were more than conquer
orS. With such things you will illus
trate that word courage" and they
vii! go out from your presence to start
anew and right. challenging all earth
and hell to the combat.
Help the Fallen.
That word courage" fifty spoken
with compressed lips and stout grip of
the hand and an intelligent flash of the
eye-well, the finest apples that ever
thumped on the ground in an autumnal
orchard and were placed in the most
beautiful basket of silver network be-
fore keen appetites could not be more
attractive
Furthermore. Il comforting word fifty
spoken is I beautiful thing. No one
but God could give the inventory of
sick beds and bereft homes and broken
hearts. We ought not to let day pass
without q visit. or letter, or u mes
sage, or prayer consolatory. You
could call five minutes on your way to
the factory; you could leave a half
hour earlier in the afternoon and fill a
mission of solace; you could brighten
a sickroom with one chrysanthemum;
you could put Il postscript to a letter
that would bring the joys of heaven to
a soul; you could send your carriage
and give an afternoon airing to an in
valid On q neighboring street; you could
loan q book with some chapters most
adapted to some particular misfortune.
Go home today and make out list of
things you can do that will show sym
pathetic thuughtfulneSS for the hardly
beStead. How many dark places you
might illumine. How many tears you
could stop or if already started, you
could wipe away! How much like Je-
sus Christ YOU might get to be. SO
sympathetic was he with DeGgary. SO
helpful was he for the fallen and so
stirred was he at the sight of dropsy,
epilepsy. paralysis and ophthalmia
that whether he saw it by the road
side. Or ut the sea beach. or at the min
eral baths Of Bethesda. be offered re-
lief Cultivate genuine sympathy,
~
cesSfully dramatic it. False sympa-
thy Alexander Pope sketches in two
lines:
Before her face her handkerchief she spread
To hide the food of tears she did not shed.
There are four or five words which
fifty spoken might sOothe and emanci-
pate and rescue. Go to those from
whose homes Christ has taken to him
self Il loved one and try the word re
union" not under wintry sky. but in
everlasting springtide; not land
where they can be struck with disease,
but whore the inhabitant never says.
Il am sick" not reunion that can be
followed by separation, but in Il place
from which they shall 90 no more out
forever" For emancipation and sigh
ing. immortal health. Reunion or if
you like the word better anticipation.
There is nothing left for them in this
world Try them with heaven. With
a chapter from the great book open
one of the - gates Give them one
note of seraphic harp. one flash from
the sea Of glass. one CHATTER of the
hoofs of the horses OH which victOrs
ride. That word reunion or anticipation
fifty spoken Well. no fruit heaped
up in silver baskets could equal it. OF
the 1900 kinds of apples that have
blessed the world not one is so mellow
or so rich or so aromatic. but we take
the suggestion of the text and COM
pare that word Of comfort fifty spoken
to apples of gold in baskets of silver.
Sound the Alarm.
also word of shin
may sail out Of harbor when the sea
has not so much as ripple, but what
q foOlhardy ship company would they