Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-03-18

! man running into wild speculation, and
/ with as much ink as you can put on
/ the pen at one time you may save him
from the Niagara rapids Of a ruined
+ life. On the next street there is a
young man started in business who
! through lack of patronage or mistake
| in PURCHASE Of goods or want of adap-
! tatiOn is on the brink of collapse. One
| line of ink from your pen will save him
| from being an underling all his life
| and start him on career that will win
! him a fortune which will enable him to
become an endower of libraries, an
! opener of art galleries and builder of
! churches.
| The most largely successful and use
full men of our time once wore an old
coat because they could not afford a
new one and got wages less than that
which they pay their cook or butler.
1t will be a mighty thing if out of your
inkstand you can dip a mans earthly
and everlasting fortune. Dip out of
that inkstand not one word of diSheart-
eminent. People have enough burdens
to carry without your adding one
ounce to the heft. From your inkstand
put not one blot on an honest ambition.
Keep all the wheels of your factory
spinning rays of sunshine. If you are
Christian man, put into your bust
ness letters an adrOit, moral, religious
suggestion that will keep the receiver
thinking after he has left the counting
room for his home and far on into the
night when he lies upon Wakeful pill
low Tomorrow morning at II o'clock,
70 Iof4O
you will have on the nib of your pen
enough ink to save a soul from death
and hide multitude of sins.
Responsibilities of Authors.
Furthermore, great are the RESPONSE
bilities of the authors inkhOrn. All
the people, or nearly all the people,
read, and that which they read decides
their morals or minerals, their pros
perity or failure, their faith or their
unbelief, their purity or corruption,
their heaven or hell. Show me any
mans library, great or small, and after
examining the books, finding those
with leaves uncut, but displayed for
sake OF the binding, and those worn
with frequent perusal, and without
ever seeing the man or knowing his
y
dislikes, his morals, good or bad or in
different, his qualifications for bust
ness or artistic or professional or me-
chanical life. The best index to any
mans character is the book he prefers
above all others. Oh, the power OF a
book for good or evil!
Abraham Lincoln in early life read
Paine's age of Reason" and it so in
1uenced him that he wrote an essay
against Christianity. But afterWard
some Christian books came into his
hands and gloriously changed his mind
and made him a most ardent friend of
the Bible and a man of prayer. A let
ter in Mr.. LincOln's own handwriting
is in my house, the letter in response to
some resolutions passed by a Methodist
conference, saying: in response to
your address allow me to attest the
accuracy of it's historical statements,
indorse the sentiments it expresses and
thank you in the nations name for the
sure promise it gives. NObly sustained
as the government has been by all the
churches, l would utter nothing which
might in the least appear invidiOus
against any. Yet without this it may
fairly be said that the Methodist Epis-
copal church, not less devoted than the
best, is by it's great numbers the most
important of all 1t is no fault in 9th
ers that the Methodist church sends
more soldiers to the field, more nurses
to the hospital and more prayers to
heaven than any. God bless the Meth |
odist church, bless all the churches, |
and blessed be God, who in this, our
great trial, giveth us the churches"
What a great thing it was that the !
Christian books which Mr.. Lincoln read
obliterated from his mind the infidel |
literature! William Carey became a
missionary by reading 1.-THE Voyages |
of Captain Cook" John Wesley's life |
was shaped by reading Jeremy Taylor's |
''Holy Living and Dying" There are |
books in your library or lying on your |
parlor table or secreted in some place |
by your child that will decide for two |
worlds, this and the next, the character |
of it's reader.
When a bad book is printed, you do |
we'll to blame the publisher, but most |
of all blame the author. The malaria |
rose from his inkstand; the poison that
caused the moral or spiritual death |
dropped in the fluid from the tip of his {
pen. The manufacturer of that ink |
could tell you that it is made of tan
min and salt OF iron and nut gals and
green vitriol, but many an author has
dipped from his inkstand hypercriti- |
cism and malevolence and SANDER and |
salaciousness, as from fountain OF |
death But blessed be God for the au-
thor's inkstand in 10000 studies which |
are dedicated to pure intelligence, high |
est inspiration and grandest purpose. |
They are the inkstands out of which /
will be dipped the redemption of the |