Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-03-24
You'll take your death

cold this way"
death cold?''
And this place we are arranging for
you" continued Stuart, Twill be Il COM
Portable berth for you the rest of your
life. You're getting too old. doctor, to
expose yourself through another win
ter
I'm not such an old fool as to be
look after the men outside if l stay
here all the time?" the doctor asked
stubbOrnly.
"Why, we can get a man all right
There are plenty of young doctors who
are eager to begin practice here"
Yes" burst out the doctor, young
upstairs who have lot of newfangled
surgical Instruments and are eager to
try every one of 'em on every case they
get-anything from rheumatism to liver
complaint! l was talking with one Of
'em last WINTER and he wanted me to
swallow his latest cOntraptiOn for OPP
Grating on the throat with an electric
searchlight and battery combined, and
l don't know what all. What'll become
of my people if these fellows are turn
ed loose on EN- with their inventions?
No, sir; | don't intend to turn 'em over
to any such risks. Mines and prOvi
dence are dangerous enough, but new
doctor with q lot of brand new inStru
mGntS is TOO much even for Champion
men"
but you are all the time grumbling
about the hard work. and when we ar
range good. easy place for you you
won't take it." said Stuart, firing a
parting shot as the doctor started to-
ward the hall.
Good. easy place. Stuart. you know
I'd rather die from tumbling. Ajax and
all, into an old shaft on my way to set
Lew Trethven's leg the nineteenth time
than petrify dead in the best hospital
on earth!' retOrted the doctor.
1t is possible he will die that way
some time for under no persuaSions
would he consent to abandon his out
door work on the ranges. After all,
was it not out there that the doctor felt
the love of humanity and its hunger for
love? And nothing could ever satisfy
him except that. The thought of turn
ing over the people of his ''parish." as
he sometimes called it. to strangers,
was a thought he could not endure. He
had cared for them too long. and please
God, he said to himself often as he
tumbIed through drifts and waded
/ OH eli al i'm
the privilege of calling them names
and loving them.
SO the short summer went swiftly
/ by, and Stuarl's plans matured 50 far
as the building was concerned. but he
confronted some new problem every
/ day 1t required all his growing steadi-
ness of purpose. together with all of
Rhena'S great love for him. to keep
him calm and hopeful. 1t was not such
an easy matter to use Gods money for
the good of the people who were NEST
in need of It. He had talked over a
plan of profit sharing with Eric and
some of the other miners and it was
one of many plans he determined to
try in the near future. He was being
E
he had come to call his stewardship
by the very men he was most eager to
help Many of the miners would not
consent to any Improvement in their
cabins. and did not take kindly to
! Stuart's attempt at drainage. Added
! to all the rest was the ever present fac
tor of the saloon. which never paused
in of nd
a constant force to tear down any and
every good work.
But as the fall came on and the great
building began to take form and the
possibilities of the future for Cham
pion grew upon him Stuart settled one
fact very firmly and without vague
ness. Whatever his plans might be
and however much he might stumble
and make mistakes in the days to come
he knew that his use of money O
brains or property or whatever be pcs
seSsed was a use the account Of which
he owed to God. He was fully persuad
ed that his stewardship as a sacred
thing and very vital i'art of his Chris
tian faith, and he finally lad feelin;
victiOn that he had dedicated all pos
sessions to uns9lfish purposes for tn
good of humanity as far as God CAV
him strength and wisdom to work GU
the details. The special ways AM
means by which he was to dispens
Gods money was a matter which mus
be left to experiment and trial. TIL
way in which the money should be use
was not an important thing in CON
parisOn with his entire willingness t
use it as his brothers keeper. He al
gued, and rightfully, that if men O
capital once acknowledged that the
were Gods stewards and once wer
willing and eager to use money an
talents to the glory of Gods kingdo1
in the earth it would not be Difficult
thing to find how best to do it. If
man wants to do Gods will, the way t
/ do it will very soon be found TIL