Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-05-12

country and know of what l speak.
There is loathsome drunkenness in a
crossroad tavern as we'll as in a corner
saloon. Many young country girl
has disgraced the family. Farmers
boys and girls do not all attend the
country revivals in order to hear the
preaching. The far country of sin can
be located in the city. Sin is not pro-
portionally more prevalent in the city
than in the village, but it is better
able to conceal it's tracks in wilder
ness of rock than in a country town.
Many a letter have I received which
went thus: 81 am a farmers wife. i
have a boy in the great, wicked city
of Chicago. l fear he is not doing
right. You may be able to save him.
He has written me that he has attend
ed your church. Will you pray for
him" The far country of sin is some
times found among the evils of politi-
cal life, in the legislative halls of the
state and the national capital. Some
times sin is intrenched in a pulpit of
the land where a minister has become
an apostate and, Judaslike, has sold
his Christ for thirty pieces of silver.
Wherever the far country of sin may
be there it is the place where the
nobler and purer and better parts Of a
mans life are being strangled.
Once a sailing vessel was sighted
floating among the icebergs of the arc
tics. The captain of the approaching
vessel put the trumpet to his lips and
shouted: ''Ship ahoy! Whittier bound?
Whittier bounds? No answer. Again
the trumpet called, but the only sound
heard by the captain was the echo of
his own voice. A small boat was low
cred. When the derelict was boarded.
it was found to be the ship of death.
That floating ship carried a dead crew.
The wheelman had been frozen dead in
the pilothouse. the captain frozen to
death in his cabin, the sailors frozen to
death in their hunks. The derelict had
been drifting around for thirteen long
years, with it's crew unable to raise a
hand, utter a sound or furl a sail.
The far country is the land Of sin,
where the inhabitants are dead to God
They are dead in their desire to make
out of themselves what Christ would
have made them. They are dead to
spiritual love. They are so dead that
they will not hear the Divine Fathers
voice calling them back to the heavenly
homestead.
A Word to Young Men.
Though the far country of sin may be
anywhere, yet it is always a great dis
lance away from the freside of Chris
tan home. AS soon as the younger son
determined to revel in sin he wanted to
get away from the presence of his aged
Christian father. He practically said:
Father, give me the share of money
which will come to me when you are
dead, and will leave home and live in
dependently. | do not want to see your
loving eye and feel the kiss of holy eff
lection upon my lips. l want to go
with evil companions and not associate
with you, even though you are my ia
ther." The Christian home ought to be
the happiest place on earth to a child.
1t is happy place if the child wishes
and tries to do right But the Christian
home is repulsive place to live when
the boy wants to do those things which
should be left undone. When a boy or
girl does not wish to stay at home at
night with the rest of the family or
finds other companionship more desira-
BILE than that of mother or father, look
| out-beware!
"Where are you going, Charlie?" said
| a tn
on his coat and hat, preparing to leave
the house. "Oh," answered the young
man, 1.-THE firm wants me to collect a
! few bills. l will be home early, moth
err. Do not be anxious or sit up for me
if I am detained" The young man
passed down the street. He sounded a
low whistle. A couple of other young
men met him at the corner. Boys" he
said, mother is becoming suspicious.
She did not want me to leave home. |
must be more careful Come. let's have
some fun" That night in a place of
evil resort this group of young men
gambled and smoked and sang their
lewd songs. 1t was great sport! They
did not cease their carOusal until the
I
Waterman that his work was done and
it was time for him to go to bed.
A few years later in an eastern city
in noted murder case the jury brought
I'm the verdict of murder in the first de.
gree. When the judge asked the de-
PENDANT why sentence should not be
passed upon him, a young man arose
He turned a pale face toward the
judge. AS he began to speak we see he
was the same young man of whom
have just spoken. "Your honor" said
he, II am not afraid to die. If / com
mitted murder in that drunken row g
few months ago, l should be put tt
death. But. sir. before sentence is
passed upon me l should like to speaE
a word to the young men crowding thi:
courtroom. l would like to tell then
that / started on the road which will
lead me to the gallows when | used t.