Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-05-26

stopping at one of the hotels. He was
sent for to come to the rescue. The
next day he came into the courtroom
and made one of the clearest interpre
tations of the most abstruse facts of
the law ever delivered before q judge.
He won his case, and was paid a fee
amounting to thousands of dollars.
When the friends crowded around to
congratulate, declaring that he hed per-
formed a legal miracle, Mr. Webster
answered: my effort was no miracle.
did not prepare that address in few
hours. 1t took me months and months
to master these facts of the law. The
history of my plea is this: Many years
ago, when young man, was engaged
to defend poor farmer. His case
financially represented only few dol
lars. Think fifty dollar bill was my fee.
1t wasa small case, but the points of the
law involved then were exactly the same
as the legal points which presented to-
day. l went to Boston and bought
many books. They cost me hundreds of
dollars. spent four exhaustive months
I'm work upon that case. am receiving
today the reward of the mental labor
which l expended for my country
friend" Mr.. Webster was a twain
mile lawyer. He was willing to do
more than he was asked or paid to do.
The same facts which have been stated
in reference to the clerk and the law
yer are true when applied to the sue
cessful physician, the minister or in
no cd To ho
temporal success of all men in every
department Of life.
Now, God in the same way is testing
the spiritual availability and the future
usefulness of his servants. He tests
them by their willingness to travel the
twain mile, to do more than they are
asked to do. He tests them by the way
they go and hunt up the poor invalids
in the back alleys. He tests them by
the way they are willing to assist in
some mission work. He tests them by
the way they are ready to teach in the
Sunday school and by the way they
take part in the Christian Endeavor
prayer meetings. He tests them by the
way the mistresses try to uplift the
spiritual welfare of the kitchen and by
the conversations the merchant has
with the young clerk in reference to
the salvation of the boys soul.
My friend, you think your spiritual
position in life is very humble, but you
have a twain mile to travel. That
twain mile, whether it starts from the
nursery. the factory, the mechanics
bench, the laborer's ditch or the farm
er's plow, heads straight up to the
throne of grace. God is spiritually
judging you today by what you are
spiritually willing of your own accord
to do for him.
The Angel of the Twain Mile.
The twain mile has for a guide the
angel of inspiring hope. The man who
lives without ambition or without the
hope of making something better out
of his life is practically dead. He is
like the branch of tree in midwinter
All its latent buds are frozen. Then
the sap of life is unable to flow, but
when the spring comes then the snow
flakes melt away. Then the air is redo
lent with incense. Then the tree takes
on new life. Later on, if the tree is
an apple tree, it's branches are laden
with the golden fruits.
The pathway of the twain mile is al
ways warmed by the life developing
sunshine of hope. The young man says
to himself: Il am ready to work years
and years if necessary in an inconspic
uous position. l am ready to work
hard and do more than l am asked t
do because | know that at last my
employer will reward me with higher
position" The young college student
says, 81 am ready to bury myself il
my books and work hard because
know that at last there will come {
time when my industry will be recon
pensed as well as recognized"
The young man is led along the twail
mile of sacrifice the more willingly be
cause as he walks hand in hand witt
the sweet angel of inspiring hope h.
reads the lives of the great men of tn
past. He finds that the position from
; which some Of them started to climl
: the mountain of fame and usefulness
was often more humble than tina
which he is filling. He sees a poor
ignorant colored boy standing befor
the billboard poster trying to learn hov
), to spell. Then he sees the ignorant col
/, ored boy grow into the great orator
until Frederick Douglass name be
comes known over the civilized world
. He sees q young man as Sunda
: school teacher gather his own class O
: rough boys by going into one of tn
poorest and most depraved sections Q
Chicago. Then he hears of that youn
y man, d. L. Moody. who was the great
est evangelist of the last century. II
sees DR.. Bernardo called to his grel
: work by being led by the hand of
= street urchin to where fifteen littl
!. boys were spending a winter night i
:. a coal bin. There the great huma
= savior of the London street arab SAL
:. fifteen hungry urchins who were o