Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-05-21

enough of them, without your putting
any unnecessary temptations in their
way. Men in Wall street having 80
years of 'eputation for honesty have
dropped into Sing Sing and perdition,
and you must be careful how you try
lad of Is. And if he do wrong do not
pONnce on him like a hyena. If he
prove himself unworthy of your conf
dence, do not call in the police, but
take him home. Tell why you dismiss
ed him to those who will give him an
other chance. Many a young man has
done wrong once who will never do
wrong again. All, my friends, think
we can afford to give everybody anoth-
er chance when God knows we should
all have been in perdition if he had not
given us 10000 chances.
Then, if in moving around your fac
tory or mill or barn or store you are
ineXorable with young men, God will
remember it, Some day the wheel of
fortune will turn, and you will be a
pauper, and your daughter will go to
the workhouse, and your son will die
on the scaffold. If in moving among
your young men you see one with an
OminOus pallor of cheek or you hear
him coughing behind the counter, say
to him, 'Stay at home a day or two
and rest or go out and breathe the
breath of the hills If his mother die,
do not demand that on the day after
the funeral he be in the store. Give
him at least a week to get over that
which he will never get over.
Set 81 Good Example.
Employers, urge upon your employ
ees, above all, a religious life. SO far
from that, how is it, young men? In
stead Of being cheered on the road to
heaven some of you are caricatured,
and it is hard thing for you to keep
your Christian integrity in that store
or factory where there are so many
hostile to religion. Ziethen, a grave
general under Frederick the Great,
was a Christian Frederick the Great
was a skeptic. One day Ziethen, the
venerable white haired general, asked
to be excused from military duty that
he might attend the holy sacrament.
He was excused. A few days after
Ziethen was dining with the king and
with many nOtables of Prussia, when
Frederick the Great in a jocose way
said, "Well, Ziethen, how did that sac
rament Of last Friday digest? The
venerable old warrior arose and said:
"FOr your majesty L have risked my
life many time on the battlefield, and
for your majesty L would be willing
any time to die; but you do wrong
when you insult the Christian religion.
You will forgive me If /, your old mil
itary servant, cannot bear in silence
any insult to my Lord and my Saw
Jour-" Frederick the Great leaped to
his feet, and he put out his hand, and
he said: Happy Ziethen! Forgive me,
forgive me!'
Oh, there are many being scoffed at
for their religion, and I thank God
there are many men as brave as
Zietheni Go to heaven yourself, O en-
ployer! Take all your people with you.
Soon you will be through buying and
selling, and through with manufacture
ing and building, and God will ask
you: "Where are all those people over
whom you had so great influence? Are
they here? VIII they be here" o
shipowners, into what harbor will
your crew sail? Oh, you merchant
grocers, are those young men that I'M
der your care are providing food for
the bodies and families of men to go
starved forever? oh, you manufac-
turerS, with so many wheels flying and
SO many bands pulling and so many
new patterns turned out and so many
goods shipped, are the spinners, are
the carmen, are the draymen, are the
statesmen, are the watchers of your eS-
Establishments working out everything
but their own salvation? Can it be
that, having those people under your
care 5, 10, 20 years, you have made no
everlasting impression for good on
their immortal souls? God turn us all
back from such selfishness and teach
US to live for others and not for our
selves. Christ sets US the example of
sacrifice, and so do many of his dis
ciples.
The Right Spirit.
One summer in California gentle
man who had just removed from the
Sandwich Islands told me this Incl
dent You know that one of the Sand
witch Islands is devoted to lepers. Peo-
pie getting sick of the leprosy on the
other islands are sent to the isle of
lepers. They never come off. They
are in different stages of disease, but
all who die on that island die of lep-
rosy.
On one of the islands there was
physician who always wore his hand
gIoved, and it was often discussed why
he always had a glove on that hand
under all circumstances. One day he
came to the authorities, and he with
drew his glove, and he said to the Off
GERS of the law: "You see on that hand
a spot of the leprosy and that l am
doomed to die. I might hide this for a