Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-04-15

leaving the Ia wis on the second floor,
you go to the parlor to give fC. NAL sal
L.tation to the host and the hostess and
thCn move around, spending the whole
evening in Tie discussion of the wealth
CF and in apology for treading on long
trains ard III effort to keep the corners
Of the mouth up to the sign of pleas
IRE and g1ing around with an idiOtic
be-he about nothing until the collation.
is served and then. after the collation.
is served. going back again into the
ErariOr TO resume the weather and then
at tie close going at a very late hour
TO the host and hostess and aSSurin
them that you have had a most delight
full evening and then passing down off
the front steps. the slam of the door
the only satisfaction IF the evening.
o young man come from the cOun-
try TO spend your days in city life.
where are o going to spend your
evenings Let me tell you, while
there are many places of innocent
worldly amusement. it is most wise for
you TO throw your body, mind and soul
into Christian society. Come to me at
the close OF five years and tell me what
has been the result of this advice.
Bring With you the young man who re-
fused to take the advice, and who
went into sinful amusement. He will
come dissipated. shabby in apparel, in
disposed TO look any one in the eyes,
moral character So per cent off. You
will come with principle settled,
tenance frank. habits good. soul saved,
and all the inhabitants of heaven, from
the lowest angel up to the archangel
and clear past him to the Lord God
Almighty. yOur c~oadjutors.
joys of Christian Life.
This is not the advice of a mis-
a%nthrOpe. There is no man in the
house to whom the world is brighter
than it is to me. 1t is not the advice
of Il dyspeptic-my digestion is per
feet: it is not the advice of a man who
cannot understand a joke or who pre-
feRs q funeral; it is not the advice Of
a WORKOUT man, but the advice of a
ma who can see this world in all it's
brightness. and considering myself
competent in judging what is good
cheer | tell the multitudes Of young
men that there is nothing in worldly
associations SO grand and SO beautiful
and 50 exhilarQnt as in Christian So
ciety.
know there is a great deal of talk
about the self deniais of the Christian.
I have TO tell you that where the
Christian has one self denial the man
of the world has a thousand self de-
malls. The Christian is not COM
manded to surrender anything that is
worth keeping. But what does a nan
deny himself who denies himself the
religion of Christ! He denies himself
pardon for sin: he denies himself peace
of conscience: he denies himself the
joy of the Holy Ghost; he denies him
self a comfortable death pillow; he
denies himself the glories of heaven.
Do not talk to me about the self de-
malls of the Christian life. Where
there is one in the Christian life there
are q thousand in the life of the world.
Her ways are ways of ~pleasantness."
Again, | find a great deal Of religious
sunshine in Christian and divine eX-
PLANTATION. To a great many people life
is an ineXplicable tangle. Things turn
out differently from what was uppOs-
ed. There is a useless woman in per-
feet health. There is an Industrious
and cOnsecrated wOman Il complete in
valid. Explain that. There is a bad
man with 100000 of income. There is
a good man with $500 of income. Why
is that? There is a foe of society who
lives on, doing all the damage he can,
to 10 years of age, and here is a Chris
tian father, faithful in every depart
ment of life, at 80 years of age taken
away by death, his family left helpless.
Explain that. Oh, there is no sentence
that oftener drops from your lips than
this: Il cannot understand it; l cannot
understand it."
Grand Consultations.
Well. now religion comes in just at
that point with its Illumination and its
explanation. There is a business man
who has lost his entire fortune. The
week before he lost his fortune there
were 20 carriages that stopped at the
door of his mansion. The week after
he lost his fortune all the carriages
you could count on one finger. The
week before financial trouble began
people all took off their hats to him as
he passed down the street. The week
his financial prospects were under dis
cussion people just touched their hats
without anywise bending the rim. The
week that he was pronounced insolvent
people just jolted their heads as they
passed. not tipping their hats at all.
and the week the sheriff solo him out
all his friends were looking in the store
windows as they went down past him.
Now. while the world goes away from
q man while he is in financial distress,
the religion of Christ comes to him and
says: "You are sick. Inc our sickness
is to be moral publication. You are be-
reaved. God wanted in some way to
take your family to heaven, and he
nI1St honin SnnaWhara and so he took