Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-11-06

lifel For many years l nave,
off and on, Travelled around the country
as lecturer. l have had to suffer all
these trials, and have met and talked
with the knights of the grip In many a
lonely station in the midnight hour
while waiting for belated railroad
You Must Pay the Price.
But, even under the very brightest
of conditions and even though mans
backbone may seem to be made of
steel, nature will assert itself. A COM
mercial traveller must always pay the
price and have his physical frame re-
bel at the hardships which 1t has been
made to suffer, and 30 during those
times Of physical exhaustion COM
mercial traveller, on account Of the
physical becloudment Of his mind, is
often apt to take depressed view Of
life. He is apt to often lose his faith
In God and in his fellow men and to
feel that his own life is not worth the
living and that he ls but Of little use
TO his fellow man. My brother, l want
you, If you are a commercial traveller
and stranger who have just by
chance dropped into this church, to
know and feel that your life is worth
living. God does love you. Your dear
ones are dependent upon you. 1t Is OF
infinite Importance whether you do
right or wrong You must not let
your belief in God falter when you
need a physician and dose Of medi-
cine and good rest; you must not let
the hand oS Satan touch you and lead
you into the paths of sin when your
head aches and your digestive organs
refuse to do their proper work. One
Of the greatest generals Of the ages
was defeated In battle and driven into
exile because the night before the bat
tie opened he was writing in physical
torture produced by a sudden and vio-
lent attack Of dyspepsia. Many a
commercial traveller has been defeated
in life's spiritual battle beca,Hse his
health has become undermined and un.
dcrtoned Oh We knights of the giip.
be very careful! Of your physical health,
for your spiritual happiness and faith.
physical debilities.
Dangers threaten a modern CONNER
cial traveller also unless he rigidly full
fills his religious duties and spiritually
employs himself on the Lords day. 1t
is very easy when Sabbath morning
comes, in a little town where the com
mercial traveller has to spend his Sun
T.;
l guess l will not so to church today.
l will stay in my room and read the
Anorning newspaper or write some let
ters." 1t Is very seductive after hard
weeks work for the commercial trav-
eler to go to bed Saturday night with
the intention of staying there until
half past 10 o'clock the next morning
and then in order to save time, to
break the Lords day and take the Sun
day train for the next town. Or, II a
commercial traveller Is spending Sun
day in large city, it is very easy for
him to go and hear the different popu-
lar preachers in the same way that,
out of curiosity he might go to see
the great tragedians act the part of a
Hamlet" or an "Othello," "Riche-
lieu" or a DIR. Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde"
The TUE Worship.
Though all those attractions may be
very fascinating, yet. my friend, you
must remember that the true worship
Of God does not consist in the mere sat
isfying of our intellectual curiosity or
in lying In bed on the Sabbath day, but
in work, hard, conscientious work, for
the Master. The old adagc tells us that
Satan has to hunt the busy man, but
the indolent man hunts the devil"
Therefore. my brother, the easiest way
to overcome the temptations which be-
set the commercial traveller during the
long, lonely hours Of the Sabbath day
is to worship God while away from
home in the same way you would, or
rather ought to do, if you were at home.
Go to the little village meeting house
bright and early and offer your serv-
ices to the Sunday school superintend-
ent. and say that you will take class
for the day If any teacher is absent.
Go to the Young Peoples meeting at
night and offer there your most earnest
prayer, and give them the most practi-
cal. helpful talk you can. After the
morning or evening sermon go to the
pulpit and take the country or the city
minister by the hand and tell him that
you intend to pray for him and his
work during the whole week. II you
will do all this regularly and systemat-
ically every Sabbath day, you will
find, oh, commercial traveller, that you
have not only been a messenger to
help others, but that you have deep
ened your own spiritual life. BY such
an eyangelistic mission as this you will
not only by divine grace overcome the
sins peculias to the Sabbath but also
the besetting sins which every week
day Turk along the wayside Of every
commercial travellers journey.
The worst dangers Of a modern CON-
morclal travellers life generally assail
him when he is comparatively young
! man. Once In awhile you may find
an old man who still travels upon the
'oad, but as rule the commercial
travellers are comparatively young men.
The life is so hard an older mo can
rarely stand the physical strain. Tn.
less protected and restrained by the
grace Of God these young men are APT
to fall into the traps of sin impulsively
They are apt to say to themselves
"Well l know l ought not to sin, but |