Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-09-22


in that field and his life was saved
through the chirping of grasshopper,
which attracted a boy to the place
where the child was lying. But that is
the only instance in all history which
we remember where a life was saved
by grasshopper AS a rule, the To-
Gusts travel in such swarms that their
mission seems to be to destroy life and
not to save it.
So1omon's Advice.
1t is the accumulation of little insect
annoyances in the home that wrecks
the nervous systems and mental happi-
ness Of our wives and mothers and sis
tiers, not the individual annoyances
which may only come once in a week,
a month or in year. Many woman
could bravely meet great trouble in
life. Many a woman could contem-
plate her execution as calmly and self
possessed as did Nathan Hale, the Rev.
dictionary martyr, who, under the scat
fold, with the moose about his neck,
said, 1.-THE only regret have is that
have but one life to give to the service
OF my country" Yet the woman who
could calmly meet great trouble
would have her patience and her nerv-
Gus system sorely tried and her happi-
ness wrecked by the sewing machine
breaking a needle, by the dough re-
fusing to bake in the oven and by the
children tearing their clothes.
Wives and mothers and sisters, what
you need today is the advice Solomon
gave to the young men of his time.
You need the grace Of God in your
hearts to be able to overcome the bur-
den of the grasshoppers. AS Jesus
Christ turned to the angry and quick
tempered housekeeper when she rushed
into his presence crying, Lord, dost
thou not care that my sister hath left
me to serve alone?" and gently said,
Martha, Martha, thou art careful and
troubled about many things, but one
thing is needful," so Christ says to
every living housekeeper today, You
need the grace in your heart to over
come the little annoyances as well as
| your great trials" 0 woman, how
| different life would be if you would
ask Jesus to stand by your side at the
/ kitchen stove! How different if you
would only ask his help when you are
mending baby's frock! How different
| If you would only ask ChriSt'S help
when you hunt for the missing silver
spoon-if you would only ask him to
help you to bear the burden of the
grasshopper!
| One day a minister was visiting an
invalid who was noted for her great
Christian piety and her exalted happi-
ness, even though she had been bed
ridden for some years. He asked her,
''Betty, how is it that you can lie here
in bed and be so happy when once you
were so full of physical life and ener-
gy?" "Well pastor" answered the
Christian woman, 'it is only because /
am leaning hard upon the omnipotent
and sustaining arm of God. When
was strong and physically well, l used
to have lot to do. | had large fam
lily, you know, sir, of little children.
Then 1 used to hear God keep saying
to me. Betty, you do this: Betty. you
do that; Betty, you do the other thing!'
And so, of course, | did what God
wanted me to do. But now, sir, as
am lying in bed hear Gods voice just
the same-the same sweet voice of the
divine love. l hear it saying to me- ev.
cry day, Betty. you just lie here And
so here stay because it is Gods will
and / am happy, very happy" Yes,
the divine grace is sufficient to help
every tired wife and mother triumph
n.14l e.
well as the great. 1t is sufficient to
help a woman to bear the painful
stitches in her side as well as to helI
her in her domestic duties. 1t is suf
ficient even to enable her to bear the
nagging and tantalizing and continu
Gus burden of a great swarm of buzz
ing locusts.
Divine Reinforcement.
If it is important for wives ant
mothers to have the grace of God il
order to overcome the infinitesimal bur
dens of the multitudinous locust, it il
also important for husbands and ia
theirs and brothers to have the sam,
kind of divine reinforcement to NEE
the burdensome insectile annoyance
| ludI dDllCl lucul Ill tuII. II is 1Ot III
droughts and the freshets and tn
mortgage upon the land that wear on
the patiesce of the farmer. 1t is tn
annoyance of the neighbors borrowing
his tools and not returning them. 1t |
the annoyance of the farm hand gettin
drunk in the midst of the harvest /
is the stupidity of the same farm ham
in giving the best horse cold water t
drink when overheated, SO that the ar
imal becomes foundered.
l once heard of a prominent Ney
York merchant who was sneered at b
his business associates and called et
centric because every morning before
yard of cloth was taken down fro1
. any of the shelves or the front door c
the store was opened to admit the Gu:
, toners he used to call into one ROOF
!. all of his employees. He summone
, them together. the highest as we'll a
the lowest, the heads of department