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


ed that stage yourself. Now you need
! something that you have not. But l
know of Il reinforcement that you CO n
! have if you will accept it. Yonder
comes up the road or the sidewalk a
! tending. She has no wings, for she is
not an angel, but there is something in
her cOuntenance that implies rescue
| and defiverance. She comes up the
steps that once were populous with
| the aff1uent and into the hallway where
! the tapestry is getting faded and fray
| ed the place now all empty of worldly
admirers. | will tell you her name if
you would like to know it. Paul bap-
tized her and gave her the right name.
She is not brilliant, but strong. There
is a deep QuiethOOd in her manner and
a firmness in her tread, and in her hand
is a scroll revealing her mission. She
comes from heaven. She was born in
the throneroom of the king. This is
Patience. ''Ye have need of patience"
Pity Faults of Others.
First, patience with the faults of 9th
ers. No one keeps the Ten Command
ments equally we'll. Ones tempera-
ment decides which commandments he
shall come nearest to keeping. If we
break some of the commandments our
selves, why be so hard on those who
break others of the ten? If you and
run against one verse of the twentieth
chapter of Exodus, why should we so
severely eXcoriate those who run
against another verse of the same
chapter? Until we are perfect our
selves we ought to be lenient with our
neighbours imperfectiOns. Yet it is of
ten the case that the man most vulner
able is the most hypercritical. Per
haps he is profane and yet has no toll
erance. for theft, when profanity is
worse than theft. for, while the latter
is robbery Of a man, the former is rob-
berry of God Perhaps he is given to
defamation and detraction and yet
feels himself better than some one who
is guilty of manslaughter, not realizing
that the assassination of character is
the worst kind of assassination. The
laver for washing in the ancient taber-
nacle was at its side FURNISHED like a
looking glass, SO that those that APP
preached that laver might see their
need of washing, and if by the gospel
looking glass we discovered our own
need of moral cleansing we would be
more economic of denunciation. The
most of those who go wrong are the
victims Of circumstances, and if you
and | had been rocked in the same in
iquitOus cradle and been all our lives
surrounded by the same baleful int1u
ences we would probably have done
lust as badly, perhaps worse
Here is a man down in the ditch Of /
misdoing. A self righteous soul comes
along and looks down at him and says: !
"There is a man down in the ditch. He
had no business to fall into it. He is
suffering the consequences of his own
wrongdoing. No one but himself is to !
blame" And the hard hearted man F.!
passes on But here comes warm
hearted. sympathetic Christian man. /
He says: There is a man down in the i
ditch. | must get him out. God help /
me to get him out" And, standing !
there on the edge of the ditch, the good .
man sOlilOquiZes and says to himself, !
eff | had had as bad father and moth /
er as he had and all the surroundings /
of my life had been as depraving as /
those that have cursed him. | myself +
would probably have been down in the |
ditch. and if that man had been blessed /
with as good a father and mother as l /
have, and he had been surrounded by .
the kindly influences which have en-
comprised all my days, he would prob
ably have been standing here looking /
down at me in the ditch" Then the
good man puts his knee to the side of /
the ditch and bends over and says to
the fallen one. Brother, give me your
hand" and with one stout grip lifts
him up to God and heaven. There are
wounds of the world that need the
probe and the sharp knife and severe
surgery. but the most of the wounds
want an application of ointment or
salve, and we ought to have three or
four boxes of that gospel medicament
in our pocket as we go out into the
world. We all need to carry more of
the balm of Gilead" and less caustic,
more benedictiOn and less anathema.
When l find Il professed Christian man
harsh and merciless in his estimate of
others. | silently wonder if he has not
been misusing trust funds or beating
his wife. There is something awful
the matter with him.
Help Rear the Temple.
We also have need of patience with
slow results of Christian work. We
want to see our attempts to do good
successful. The world is
but improving at SO DELHI
crate q rate; why not more rapidity
and momentum? Other wheels turn
SO swiftly; why not the gospel chariot
take speed electric? l do not know. l
only knew that it is Gods way. We
whose cradle and grave are SO near to-