Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-12-29

Purifier of Love.
After the dark clouds of a nativity
have for some time lowered over a
home and at last parted to let lit
tie human sunbeam drop into the era
die. the words husband and wife"
ought to have for at least two human
hearts a deeper, wider, holier mean
ing. These words ought to have the
saiae kind of holy Interpretation as
sf,e of them had few years ago for
the warden of the Pittsburg Jail. His
wire liberated the two Biddle brothers,
who were about to be executed for
murder, and ran away with them, and
remained with them until they were
shot. When the reporters came to this
warden and asked what he wanted
to say in reference to his wife, the
recollection of the relation she sus-
tanned to the family, deeply as she had
dishonored it, seems to have surged
over his soul, and he said: Il have
nothing to say against my former wife.
Furthermore, l will not allow any one
In my presence to speak disrespectful-
ly of her. Remember, gentlemen, she
Is TIE LuOlueT VI CAllulCu
Now, my sorrowing friends, If a liv-
ing child can have such a restraining
influence upon the parental heart how
much more should an empty cradle
purify the love which the twain
| pledged each other at the marriage
altar! We have often heard how old
soldiers who had slept under the same
e;I 10 hx1c do 1trn
the civil war cling to each other all
| through life on account Of their past
sufferings. If this be true, is not your
marital love purer and sweeter and tru-
er because you have washed and
cleansed it in the empty cradle, which
has been filled to the highest edge with
your mutual tears? After your little
girl died you hunted up all her old
playmates and took them to your heart
because they loved Hattie or Nellie or
! Mabel If that be true, tell me, .
broken hearted parents, did you not
love each other with a deeper, wider
and holier affection after you together
nursed the little sufferer through that
last long painful sickness? Do you not
| y
together have arranged the little white
flowers upon the little white casket
Do you not today love each other the
more because when those sad anniver.
saries of your baby's death come you
never mention her name but give tC
each other a holy kiss, while your eyes
and cheeks are wet with falling tears
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distinct mission. She lived long enough
to make the twain one flesh. From hel
casket today she reaches out one arm
and puts it about her fathers neck
She reaches out the other arm and puts
it about the mothers neck. And nov
her dead lips part as she gives you Thu
holy benediction, Papa, mamma, b.
true to each other and love each othe
for your dead baby's sake"
Heavenly Magnet.
An empty cradle is potent magne
for q true. consecrated, spiritual, pa
rental life. 1t makes a great deal o
difference how an average father an
| mother feel toward heaven, whether o
no they have little one in the spiri
land. "Where your treasure is, Their
is your heart also can be interprete
in more ways than one. You have
} | boy who has started out to earn hi
: own living. He has become the owne
of little shoestore in one of the ou
lying districts of some large city. Whe
you visit him and his young bride, doe
he take you the first day to see any 9
Il ~, dow afNxx n
tricts? Does he want you as soon q
you arrive to visit the noted art ga
: leries or the libraries or the famOr
: auditorium, where the mightiest or;
+ tors of the world have spoken and IL
most beautiful voices of Europe an
e America have sung? oh, no. The fir
0 place the boy takes you to is his ow
t little store. Why, his face beams wit
n pride as he says: Mother, just look
Il these show windows! Are they n
e splendid? Those windows cost n
Il $500, but they are worth it. The
q mother, / intend as soon as the bu:
ness increases enough to warrant it
q build an addition on the back of Il
Il store. Then perhaps l may be able
| lulS COIUcI StOIc dIlu hhOSh "
lie the intervening walls. Then l sh'
run line of furnishing goods as W.
'r as shoestore. Don't you think tt
y is a fine situation? And, mother,
81 made all this myself practically out
IN nothing-out of the $50 you gave I
lie when l left home" Why does 70
e boy go on like that? Easy enough
10 understand. His treasure is in til
ne store There his heart is also.
al What is true in reference to the bu
ey ness life is true in reference to t
or home. You may travel all around
RS world. You may stand in Louvre
Ell Luxembourg. You may wan(
Irt through a Windsor castle or Waite;
ar You may even travel for a time amo
or the poetic beauties of India or Ceyl
ne but when the evening hour comes W
nd thoughts will leap over continents a
on swim over seas. They will travel p