Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-06-24

ing to hear something that would help
her to decide the domestic question
which was to her a sOlicitUde. 4 good,
strong sermon under the divine bless
ing would have led her into the king
dom of God and afterward her whole
family. The children, whether they be-
came farmers or mechanics or mer-
chants or artists or men of learned pro-
fesson or women at the head of house
holds, would have done their work in a
Christian way and after lives of useful
ness on earth would have taken thrones
in heaven. 1t would have been a whole
family saved for time and saved for
eternity. But the pastor had adjourn
ed the strong and effective discourse to
a clear Sunday. The mother went home
chilled in body, mind and soul and con-
Guided not to trouble herself or her
household about the future and to let
tomorrow take care of itself and keep
on doing as they had been doing. No
God in that home. No religious con-
ISOLATION in time of bereavement. No
formation of thorough Christian char
acter in the lives of those growing up
boys and girls. They Will go out into
the world to meet its vicissitudes with
out any sublime reinforcement of the
gospel. What a pity it was that he did
not put down the manuscript of his
we'll prepared sermon on the Bible if
he preached from notes or pour it out
of his soul if he had lodged it there
through careful preparation! No. He
allowed that opportunity, which could
never return, to pass into eternity IN
improved. He observed by the way
the rain dashed against the windows
of the parsonage and the windows of
the church that the wind was from the
east or the northeast, and he did not
SOW or sowed that which was not
worth sowing.
Hfndered by Public Opinion.
In all departments of life there are
those hindered by the wind of public
opinion. 1t has become an aphOriSm in
politics and in all great movements,
HE is waiting to see which way the
wind blows" And it is no easy thing
to defy public opinion, to be run upon
by newspapers, to be Overhauled in So
cial circles, to be mathematical by
those who heretofore were your friends
and admirers. 1t requires a heroism
which few possess. Yet no great re-
fOrmatOry or elevating movement has
ever been accomplished until some one
was willing to defy what the world
should think or say or do. But there
have been men and women of that
kind. They stand all up and down the
corridors of history, examples for us to
follow. Charles Sumner in the United
States senate. Alexander H. Stephens
in Georgia convention. SavOnarOla
stalking his life in time of persecution.
Martin Luther fighting the battle for
religious freedom against the mightiest
anathemas that were ever hurled. Will
liam Carey leading the missionary
movement to save a heather world
while churches denounced him as a
fanatic and with attempting an impOS-
sibility. Jenner, the hero of medicine,
caricatured for his attempt by vac
cinatiOn to beat back the worst dis
ease that smOte the nations. They who
watch the wind of public opinion will
not SOW 1t is an uncertain Indication
and is apt to blow the wrong way.
LET us have war with England, if
needs be-" said the most of the people
Of our northern states in 1861, when
Mason and Slidell, the distinguished
southerners, had been taken by our
navy from the British steamer Trent
and the English government resented
the act of our government in stopping
one of their ships. Give up those
prisoners" said Great Britain. NO"
said the almost unanimous opinion of &.
the north. do not give them up. Let
ho DCrIo I,o,
surrender them" Then William H
Seward, secretary of state, faced one
Of the fiercest storms of public opinion
ever seen in this or any other country.
Seeing that the retention of these two
men was of no Importance to our cOun-
try and that their retention would put
Great Britain and the United States in
to immediate conflict, said, 1--WE give
them up They were given up, and
through the resistance of popular clam
or by that one man worldwide ca
lamity was averted.
Some of US remember as boys huZza-
ing when KOsSuth, the great Hun
garian, rode up Broadway, New York.
Most Americans were in favor of TAX
ing some decided steps for Hungary.
The only result of such interference
would have been the sacrifice of all
good precedent and war with European
nations. Then Daniel Webster, in his
immortal ''Hulsemann letter. braved
whirlwind of popular opinion and
saved this nation from useless foreign
ENHANCEMENT. Webster did not OBJ
serve the wind when he wrote that let
ter. SO in state and church there have
always been men at the right time
ready to face q nation full-yea, a
world full-of opposition.
Watching the Weather Vane.
How many there are who give too