Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-02-04
IS generally supposed. That splendid

IS generally supposed. That splendid
nome is apt to have q taking off of
some kind. 1t may be an invalid wife,
or a defOrmed child, or an inherited
tending toward insanity. or dissolute
BOE, or despOiled reputation, or a
weakened heart that may halt under
the least excitement. Envy no man.
Envy no woman. ZEE content with
such things as ye have. Do not think,
in order to have it well with you,
according to my text, that therefore
you must have more than somebody
else, or even as much as somebody
else. The lord treats US all better than
we treat him, and if we would study
our blessings as much as we study our
disasters we would be more reasonable
and thankful. In Isaiah God says that
bread and water shall be sure, and
none of US has been put on SO low
a diet; but we often act as though God
had not kept him promise because we
want more 1uXurieS, fOrgetful of the
fact that he promised bread, not cake;
water, not sparkling cOrdialS.
The reason so many people are mis-
cradle is because they do not let well
enough alone. They are in one occu-
patton and see it's annoyances and so
change to another occupation and find
as many annoyances, if not more. They
live in one place and know it's uncom-
Portable environments and move in
to another place which has just as
many limitations. Their investments
yield them per cent, and they sell
out to make investments that will
yield 10 per cent and lose all. Better
settle down and stop fretting about
yourself and the world.
An officer in CromWelrS time was so
worried about public affairs that he
could not sleep. His servant, a Chris
tan man, said he would like the privi-
lege of asking the officer a question.
Leave being granted, the servant said,
'Do you not think that God governed
the world very we'll before you came
into it?' mo doubt Of it," was the re-
ply. "And do you not think he will
govern it quite as we'll when you are
gone out of it?' Certainly" '"Then-
pray, sir, excuse me-but do you not
think you may trust him to govern it
as long as you live in it?' The remark
was so sensible that sleeplessness de-
parted and tranquility came.
A particular Providence is as certain
as a general Providence. 1t did not
just happen so that Brunei noticed d
shipworm boring into the wood, SO sug
costing to the engineer the tunneling
of the Thames. 1t did not just happen
so that a spiders web strung from tree
to tree suggested the suspension bridge
tn re- irrir tOY 1ct
happened so in your life or mine. 1t is
not an autocrat at the head of the uni
verse, but a Father.
Leave thy low vauted past!
Let each temple, nobler than the last,
Shut thee from heaven with dome vast
Till thou at length art free,
Leaving thine outgrown shell by ife's unresting
sea!
Do any of us fully realize the fact
that God gives us three things in I'M
limited supply, although no formula of
prayer that [ ever heard recognizes
them-Water, air and sunlight? Water
by the riverful. Water by the lakeful.
Water by the oceanful. Some for alb
luton, some for shaking Of thirst, some
for baptiStery, some for fountains and
aquariums. L never appreciated what
a wonderful thing water is until last
summer [ stood by the fountains be-
fore and around the emperor's palace
at PeterhOf, Russia.
1 have been familiar with this won
derful element of nature from child
hood, having been born on the banks of
the beautiful Raritan and as a bare
footed boy dabbled in the brook near
my fathers house. But [ never real
lied until last summer what water
could do in play, or in strange caprice,
or Identification, or when climbing the
ladder of the light, or when skillful
WOrkmen took hold of it to toss it or
Whirl it, or shape it into crowns, or
hoist it into columns, or spring it into
arches, or lift it into stars, or turn it
into crescents, or build it into temples.
You forget you ever saw the less glori-
Gus waters at ChatsWorth, England, or
Versailles, France, as you stand in the
balcony of the palace overlooking the
Finland gulf, bewildered and trans
ported as you look at the one display
called the Golden Stairway fountain.
The water rolls down over "a steps 1
foot high and 20 feet long. All of these
"a steps are covered with sheets of
FURNISHED gold. Silver step of the wa
ter on stairs of gold! What a glee of
liquids! Rolling, dashing, foaming, en-
rapturing splendors! Chorus Of floods!
Poetry of waters! DoXology of tor
rents. But that which most impressed
me there and elsewhere is the abun-
dance of water, the fact that there are
SO many waters that the continents can
afford to throw them away into the
sea, Hudsons and Ohios, Oregons and
Amazons, Rhines and Danubes and
Volgas, end SO abundant that the earth
can afford to have its oceans evaporate
into the heavens, Mediterraneans and
and Pacifcs. How rich the
eth is I..ith tol:s:i Poet ho5.cI:acsa