Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-12-03

make it over again now that it has been
ruined. The Architect has promised
to reconstruct it, and the plans are ali
made, and at just the right time it will
be so complete that it will be fit for
heaven to move in, if, according to the
belief of some Of my friends, this world
is to be made the eternal abode of the
righteous The wall Of that temple is
going up, and my only anxiety is to
have the one brick that l am trying to
make for that wall turn out to be of
the right shape and smooth on all sides,
so that the Master Mason will not re
ject it or have much work with the
troWel to get it into place. [ am re-
sponsible for only that one brick,
though you may be responsible for a
panel of the door or carved pillar or
a glittering dome. So we are Gods
Workmen, and all we have to do is to
manage our own hammer or ak or
trOWel until the night comes in which
no man can work, and when the work
is all completed we will have a right to
say rejoicingly: "Thank God, [ was
privileged to help in the rearing of that
temple! l had part in the work of
the worlds redemption"
Be Patient Under Wrong.
Again, we have need Of patience IN
der wrong inflicted, and who escapes it
in some form? 1t comes to all people
in professional life in the shape of be-
ing misunderstood. Because of this,
how many people fly to newspapers for
an explanation. You see their card
signed by their own name declaring
they did not say this or did not do that.
They 1uster and worry, not realizing
that every man comes to be taken for
what he is worth, and you cannot, by
any newspaper puff, be taken for more
than you are worth nor by any news
paper depreciation be put down. There
is a spirit of fairness abroad in the
world, and if you are public man you
are classified among the friends or
foes of society. If you are friend of
society, you will find plenty of adher-
ents, and if you are the foe of society
you cannot escape apprehension. Paul,
you were right when you said, not
more to the Hebrews than to us, "Ye
have need of patience" | adopted a
rule years ago which has been of great
service to me, and it may be of some
service to you: Cheerfully consent to
be misunderstood. God knows wheth-
er we are right or wrong, whether we
are trying to serve him or damage his
cause. When you can cheerfully con-
sent to be misunderstood, many of the
quit your heart, and you will come in
ed on. The most misunderstood being
that ever trOd the earth was the glOri-
Gus Christ. The world misunderstood
bis cradle and concluded that one so
poorly born could never be of much i'm
pOrtance. They charged him with in
ebriety and called him a winebibber.
The sanhedrin misunderstood him, and
when it was put to the vote whether
be was guilty or not Of treason he got
out one vote, while all the others voted
Aye, aye" They misunderstood his
cross and concluded that if he had di-
vine power he would effect his own res
cue. They misunderstood his grave
and declared that his body had been
stolen by infamous resurrectiOniSts.
lie so fully consented to be msunder-
stood that harried and slapped and
with scOrn, he answered not
| word. You cannot come up to that,
out you can initiate in some small de-
gree the patience of Christ.
Need of Grace.
Again. this grace is needed to help in
-.n1e of physical ailments. What vast
nultitudes are in perpetual pain while
others are subject to occasional parOX-
7sm. Almost every one has some dis
ected. 1t is rheumatism or neuralgia
IL sick headache or indigestion. a
lraft from an open window or hasty
nastication or overwork brings on that
I'D spell, and you think you would
'ather have almost anything else, but
hat is because you have not tried the
,ther. Asthma would like to trade off !
or erysipelas and erysipelas for aSth-
ma. Almost every one has something
which he wishes he had not. There are
cores of diseases ever ready to attack
he human frame. They have been in |
pursuit of our race ever since Adam
md Eve resigned their innocence as
veil as the worlds health. 1t is amaz-
ne how persistent and methOdic those /
disorders are in their attack on the |
world and how regular is the harvest |
which with the sharp scythe of pain
hey NOW down for the grave. No
UGH disciplined and courageous army !!
yer marched as the army of physical
They do their work in the
rider 1 name, and you may depend |
lpon their keeping on in that same
rider for good while yet. First of all
next organic heart dis
ase. next pneumonia, next in number
f it's victims is apoplexy, next Bright's
disease. next cancer, next typhoid fe-
err next paralysis. Those eight dis