Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-04-29

OF the 0r ana the CaIklnS OF the pine
for the roof or wall of their tiny abode,
and others go out as hunters looking
for food, while others in domestic du-
ties stay at home. Twenty specks of
the food they are moving toward their
granary, put upon a balance, would
hardly make the scales culver. All of
it work on a small scale. There is no
use in our refusing a mission because
it is insignificant. Anything that God
in his providence puts before US to do
is important. The needle has it's office
as certainly as the telescope and the
spade as parliamentarian scroll. You
know what became Of the man in the
parable of the talents, who buried the
one talent instead of putting it to prac
teal and accumulative use. His apol-
ogy was of no avail.
There is no need of our wasting time
and energy in longing for some other
sphere. There are plenty of people to
do the big and resounding work of the
church and the world. No lack of
brigadier generals or master builders
or engineers for bridging Niagaras or
tunneling Rocky mountains. For every
big enterprise of the world a dozen
candidates. What we want is private
soldiers in the common ranks, masons
not ashamed to WELD a trowel, candi-
dates for ordinary work to be done in
ordinary ways in ordinary places. Right
where we are there is something that
God would have us do. Let us do it,
though it may seem to be as unimpor-
tant as the rolling of a grain of corn
into an ant hill.
Furthermore, go to the ant and con-
slider it's indefatigableness. If by the
accidental stroke of your foot or the
removal Of a timber the cities of the
insectile world are destroyed, instantly
they go to rebuilding. They do not sit
around moping. At it again in a Sec
ond. Their fright Immediately gives
way to their industry. And If our
schemes of usefulness and our plans of
work fail why sit down in discourage
ment? AS large ant hills as have ever
been constructed will be constructed
again. Put your trust in God and do
your duty, and your best days are yet
to come. You have never heard such
songs as you will yet hear, nor have
you ever lived in such grand abode as
you will yet occupy, and all the world
ly treasures you have lost are nothing
compared with the opulence that you
will yet own. If you love and trust
the Lord, Paul looks you in the face
and then waves his hand toward a
heaven full of palaces and thrones,
crying, "All are yoursw So that what
you fail to get in this present life you
will get in the coming life. Go to
work right away and rebuild as we'll
as you can, knowing that what the
troWels of earthly industry fail to rear
the scepters of heavenly reward will
more than make up. Persistence is the
lesson of every ant hill. Waste not a
moment in useless regrets or unhealthy
repining. Men fret themselves down,
but no man ever yet fretted himself
up. Make the obstacles in your way
your coadjutors, as all those have who
have accomplished anything worth ac
complishment.
Put Your Trust In God.
John Philpot Curran, master Of the
rolls in Ireland, at his first attempt
in court stammered and sat down in
confusion and for that stammering
was derisively called 'Stuttering Jack
Curran" and because of his failure in
speech was sneered at as "Orator
Num-" But he went to work and con-
quered himself and then conquered
courtrooms and great assemblageS,
whom he thrilled with his eloquence.
So, instead of running against OBJ
stacleS as against a stone wall, he
placed them aslant like steps on which
to mount. Put your trust in God, and
nothing can stand before you. Ritten-
house, the astronomer, at the start was
so poor that he figured out eclipses on
a pillow handle.
Furthermore, go to the ant and con-
slider that if God honors an insect by
making it our instructor in important
lessons we ought not to abuse the low
er orders of creation. 1t has been
found by scientists that insects trans
fixed in the case of a museum have
been alive and in torture for years
How much the insect and the fowl and
the brute may be rightly called to suf-
fer for the advancement of human
knowledge and the betterment of the
condition of the human race l do not
now stop to discuss, but he who use
lessly harms any of Gods living crea-
ton insults the Creator. Alas, for the
horrors of vivisection! l have no con-
fidence in the morality of a man or
woman who would harm a horse or a
dog or a cat or pigeon. Such men
and women, under affront, if they dar-
ed, would take the life of a human be-
ing. You cannot make me believe that
God looks down indifferentIy upon the
CALLED neck of the OK, or the cruelty
curbed bit of the horse, or the unshel-
tered cattle in the snowstorm, or the
cockpit, or the bear batting.
Go to the ant, thou miscreant, and
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