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


OF Usefulness is Open 10 AII-VaIue
OF Sympathy.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3O.-In this dis
course Dr.. Talmage shows an open
door for any one who desires to be use
full and illustrates how a little thing
may decide ones destiny. The text is
Proverbs ky. II revised versi0n), "a
word fifty spoken is like apples CT gold
in baskets of silver
y fIigree basket loaded with fruit is
put before us in the text. What is Or
dinacily translated pictures" ought to
be baskets" Here is Il silver network
basket containing ripe and golden ap-
pies. pippins or rennets- You know
how such apples glow through the
openings Of basket Of silver network
You have seen such . basket Of fruit
on many table. 1t whetS the appe-
tite as well as regaleS the vision. Sol
omen was evidently fond of apples be-
cause he so often speaks Of them.
While he writes in glowing terms Of
porlegranates and figs and grapes and
we'll as Iusciousness in apples. calling
out for 4 supply of them when he says
III another place. Comfort me with APP
pies" Now you see the meaning of
my text. "A word fifty spoken is like
apples of gold in baskets of silver"
You see. the wise man eulogizes just
one word. Plenty Of recognition has
there been for great Orations-CicerO's
Arrangement of Catiline the philippics
of Dem0sthenes. the five days argu-
ment of Edmund Burke against War
rem Hastings. Edward Irving's dis
courses on the Bible and libraries full
of prolonged utterance-Dut my text eX-
tolls the power of one word when it re-
fers to "a word fifty spoken"
This may mean single word or a
small collection of wOrds-sOmething
you can utter in one breath. something
that you can compact into one sen
tence "a word fifty spoken"-an en-
couraginG word. kind word. a timely
word. Il sympathetic word, an apprO
pirate word. can pass right down
the aisle of any church and find be-
tween pulpit and front door men whose
temporal and eternal destinieS have
been decided by word.
a Word Of sympathy.
tell you what is y great crisis in ev-
cry mans history 1t is the time when
he is entering an occupation or profess
sion. He is opposed by men in middle
life because they do not want any more
rivals and by some of the aged because
they fear being crowded off and their
places being taken by Younger men
Hear the often severe and unfair eX-
aminations of young lawyers by old
lawyers. of young doctors by old doc
tors. of young ministers by old minis
tiers. Hear some of the old merchants
talk about the young merchants. TrOw-
els and hammers and scales often are
jealous of new trOwels and new ham
merS and new scales. Then it is so diff
ficult TO get introduced. II0w long a
time has many physican had his
sign out before be got II call for his
services and the attorney before he got
4 case. Who wants to risk the life Of
his family TO Il young physician who
got his diploma only last spring and
who may not know measles from scar
latina. or to risk the obtaining of 4 YER
dict for $4,000 to an attorney who
only three years ago read the first page
Of Blackstone:
How is the young merchant TO COM
pete with his next door bargain maker.
who can afford to undprSell some
things because he can more than make
it up by the profit on other things or
has failed three times and had more
money after each failure? How is that
mechanic to make Il livelihood when
there are twice as many men in that
trade as can in hard times find occupa-
ton: There are this very moment
thousands of men who are just start
ing life for themselves. and they need
encoura Gement-nO long haran"ue. not
quotation from profound book, not
page not paragraph. hut a word one
word, fifty spoken
Why does not that old merchant. who
has been 40 years in business. go into
that young merchants store and say.
Courage He needs only that one
word although. of course you will IL
IUstrate it by telling your own expert
ence and how long you waited for Gus
toners and how the first two years
you lost money. and how the next year
though you did better. illness in your
household Swamped the surplus with
doctors bills. Why does not that old
lawyer 90 into that young lawyers of
fee just after he has broken down in
making his first plea before a jury and
say tat word with only two syllables.
Courage He needs only that one
word. although. of course. you will IL
Iustrate it by telling him how you
broke down in one of your first cases
and got laughed ut by court and bar
and jury. and how Disraeli broke down
NJ the start and how hundreds of the