Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-05-19

wrecked your lie. are you ready TO
sacrifice all that you hold dear for such
friends?
One day some gentlemen were talk
ing to my uncle, and one said, rs it
not strange how willing the world is
to kick man when he is DOWN."
NO" answered my uncle. 81 do not
think the world kicks a man so much
when he is down as when he is trying
to stand up" 'My son, if sinners en-
tice thee, consent thou not"
King SoIomon's Warming.
King Solomon warns the young peo-
pie not to consent to sin because after
we have once yielded we will never be
the same again. 1t would be pleasant
if we could go on SHINING and then aft
er awhile say, Il guess l will stop and
start over again." But we cannot say
or do that. Whatsoever a man soweth,
that shall he also reap. If a man make
a bed of roses, he sleeps in a cloud of
incense. If he gather only the thorns,
he must be lacerated by the thorns.
After you have once robbed the firm
will never fully trust you. After you
have once wrecked your health you
can never be anything but a suffering
invalid. After you have once led an
immortal soul astray and that soul has
departed from earth to meet its judg-
ment at the bar of God you can never
change its eternal destiny. Many
man today would willingly cut off his
right arm if he could only change the
c@ To T.
dead unless that past can be changed
| in a heavenly sense through the mercy
| and the pardon Of God. Make not the
| mistake which so many older men
| have made of having a bad record dur
ing the period of youth and then hav-
| ing that record curse all the midnoon
and the twilight of your existence and
curse you down to the grave.
| During the persecution of the Hugue-
nots in France father and mother had
to flee from the city for their lives.
They had to leave behind an only girl
Fearing lest he should not recognize
his child again, the father took sharp
knife and cut the arm of the child
almost to the bone. Time passed on
The war was ended, and the father and
mother returned to the French capital
They went everywhere looking for
their long lost daughter When the
father thought he saw his child he
would examine the arm just above the
wrist. At last he found his child He
found her by the proof of a red scar.
So Satan puts the fatal mark of sin
upon every one of his disciples. Though
we may repent of our past, though we
may agoniZe before the mercy seat
and ask God to forgive us our sins,
though we may receive heavenly par
don, we cannot in an earthly sense OBJ
literate the telltale signs of the past.
We cannot destroy the earthly effects
Of youths follies any more than a
Lady Macbeth could cleanse the blood
off her fingers by plunging them into
an ocean of tears, or Jean Vatican es-
cape Javert, the merciless sleuthhound,
or fleeing Cain wipe away the black
mark written upon his accused brow.
The Young Mans Best Friend.
But the greatest lesson of this text
is yet to be spoken. Solomon tells us
not to let evil companions entice us
away. But man is social being. He
longs for friends. He must have friends
who will associate with him when he
weeps as we'll as laughs, when he is
dying as we'll as when he is strong and
well. AS Solomon bids you to beware
of evil companions, / will introduce to
you one who will be the best Friend a
young man ever had. Young man, you
cannot afford to face the temptations of
great city alone. Perhaps you know
about this loving Friend to whom
want to introduce you. He was with
your sister when she died. Well, you
remember how she smiled up into his
face. He was with your mother dur.
ing all her troubles in life. The last
words your father spoke on earth was
his name. That name-shall speak it
Jesus! Jesus! Jesus! That is the
Friend who will see you all the way
through if you will only trust him
You must now make choice-a choice
between this dear Friend and evil com
panions. This is a very anxious mo
ment for many of us. 1t is an anxious
moment for Christ as we'll as for you.
One dark night a Waterman fel
asleep at his post and failed to sigma
the lightning express. Leaping to his
feet when the flying engine, as a shrek
ing monster, shot by, he saw the trair
disappear and realized that the draw
bridge was open and all the passenger:
were lost 1t was too much for human
brain. The man went stark mad
Friends found him shivering and COW
ering in the corner of his room ravins
maniac, muttering to himself, ooh, i
only had; if only had" Here comes
laundering along the limited express
full of gospel invitation. The train il
flying with the speed Of the lightning
What are you going to do in reference
to Christ before it is too late? Owe
the dark abyss of sin will you throw
, the strong straight beam of the cross