Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-10-15

the rose, your souls would recOiI with
horror, and you would rise up and cry.
"Begone, thou dream of hellp'
Charles Lamb, who made all the
world laugh at his humor and then aft
erward made all the world weep at his
| fate, who outwitted everybody and
was at last outwitted Of his own appe-
tites, wrote thus: 1.-THE waters have
gone over me, but out of the depths
could I be heard l would cry out to all
! those who have set a foot in the peril
Gus flood. Could the youth to whom
the flavor of the first wine is delicious
as the opening scenes of his life or the
] entering upon some newly discovered
paradise-could he look into my desc
lation and be made to understand what
a dreary thing it is when a man shall
! feel himself going down a precipice
| with open eyes and a passive will; to
! see his destruction and have no power
j to stop it, yet feel it all the way ema-
mating from himself; to see all godli-
ness empty out Of him and yet not able
to forget the time when it was other
wise; to bear about the piteous specta-
Gle of his own ruin-could he see my
drinking and feverishly looking for to-
nights repetition Of that folly; could
he but feel the body Of the death out
Of which I cry hourly with feeble out
cry to be delivered, it were enough to
make him dash the sparkling beverage
to the earth in all the pride of it's man
Ting temptation"
Are you fond of pictures? Here is
one drawn by Solomon: 'Who hath
woe? Who hath sorrow? Who hath
contentious? Who hath babbling? Who
hath wounds without cause? They that
tarry long at the wine, they that go to
seek mixed wine. Look not thou upon
the wine when it is red, when it NOV
eth itself Alright in the cup At the last
it biteth like a serpent and stingeth
like an adder
"Do you know what you are doing"
said a mother who had broken into
restaurant, the door locked against her.
her son inside. She came up to the
counter and saw the man Of the restau-
rant mingling the intoxicating cup for
her own son. She said to the man be-
hind the counter, "Do you know what
you are doing?" NO." said he; 81
don't" Says she, ''You are fattening
graveyards."
PerfIs of Strong Drink.
I was told at Des Moines of a train
of cars going through a very stormy
night over one of the western prairies.
The young man who was present told
US the story. In the night there was a
little child in the sleeping car, fretfui
hour. A man on the opposite side of
the car lost his patience and said, Ell
Their make that child shut up or take it
to it's mother!" Then another man on
the opposite side of the sleeping car, a
man with a broken heart, pushed back
the curtain and looked out and said,
young man, that chi1d's mother is
dead in the baggage car, and the little
thing is wailing for her." Then the
man who had committed the affront
rose and offered his services for the
night and took care Of the child until
the morning, and all the passengers in
the car were broken down with emo
ton. oh, if the cry of one child could
arouse so many sympathies whato ought
to be the effect of the ten thousand
voiced shrek of orphanage and widow
hood from the inebriate's grave! God
save this country from the perils of
strong drink.
My subject also impresses me with
the beauty of youthful character re-
naming incorrupt away from home. IL
Daniel had plunged into every wicked
ness of the city of Babylon, the old
folks at home would never have heard
of it. If he had gone through all the
rounds of iniquity, it would have cast
no shadow on his early home. There
were no telegraphs, there were no rail-
roads. But Daniel knew that Gods
eye was on him. That was enough.
There are young men not so good away
from home as at home. Frederick
tending his fathers sheep among the
hills or thrashing rye in the barn is
different perhaps from Frederick on
the Stock Exchange. Instead of the
retiring disposition there is bold effron-
terry. Instead Of an obliging spirit
there is perhaps oppressive selfishness.
Instead of open handed charity there is
tight listed stinginess. Instead of rea-
sonable hours there is midnight revel.
speak to many young men on this
matter-you who may have left your
fathers house and others who, though
still under the parental roof, are look
ing forward to the time when you will
go forth to conflict, alone in this world,
with it's temptations and it's sorrows,
and when you will build up your own
character. Oh, that the God Of Daniel |
might be with you in Babylon!
Beware of Temptation.
1 think the most thrilling passage of |
a young mans life is when he leaves
home to make his fortune. The novel |
ty and the romance of the thing may