Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-11-03


their own friends and neighboys. The
young Dutch Queen Wilhelmina illus
trated this common tendency of the
human race to be worse away from
home than they are by their own fire.
side in the quaint and pointed answer
which she gave to the Prince of Wales
when visiting Queen Victoria some
years ago. The then heir apparent to
the English throne asked her what she
was most impressed by in England.
ut is to find that the English people
are SO refined and gentle and kind and
religiously devout in their own homes"
she replied. Zone would never have
guessed it from the specimens l have
seen travelling in Holland"
SHINING Away From Home.
An average man can commit as rule
twenty sins away from home, when he
is travelling alone, in a railroad train, or
stopping alone in hotel, or living
alone with strangers, far more easily,
with less risk of injury to his position
and reputation, than one sin when he
is being watched by his employers
ship with q Christian mother, wife or
child. 1t makes an immense amount
of difference how a locomotive will act
when it is on the down grade whether
or no the engineer has perfect control
over its powerful Westinghouse brakes.
1t makes an immense amount of diff
ference with some of us when we are
heading toward the open drawbridges
| of sin whether or no we have our loved
ones near by, who are ready to reach
out their hands to help us close the
| throttles and apply the spiritual brakes,
so that we can halt before we have
! gone too far and it is too late to try
to stop.
But though the swift moving currents
of daily influences in a commercial
travellers life are apt to flow in the
wrong direction when he is away from
home, vet that is no valid excuse for
his yielding to temptation. In the first
place, God has distinctly declared that
he will never allow any temptation to
come nigh us which is greater than we
can bear, if we will. only throw our
selves upon his mercy and plead and
continue to plead for divine strength.
Mighty as are the temptations the COM
mercial traveller meets when he is away
from home, the divine power which is
at his disposal is infinitely stronger. 1t
can triumph over every opposing force.
But there is still another reason why
the commercial traveller should not
yield to the temptations which he
meets away from home. The modern
knight Of the grip is naturally a stron-
ger man, mentally, morally and physic-
ally, than the average man who Is
compelled to stay at home and work.
1t takes brains, and lots Of brains, to
be able to sell goods away from home.
The time is past when the great mer-
chants think that any drunken, gam
bling, disappearing employee is good
enough to go upon the road. The en-
ployers today demand that their COM
mercial travellers be men Of character,
of brain, men with the moral stamina
to say yes and no. And. young man.
the mere fact that you are a com
mercial traveller is proof positive that
you have character enough, by the
grace of God, to be able to resist any
temptation which you may meet in
your travels.
Temptations assail the commercial
traveller alike when he is buOyed VI
with great success and when he is
discouraged by great financial de
preston, when he is thrown off his
guard by exultation or disheart
ened by a long succession of bit
ter disappointments. Many CONNER
cial travellers do not receive a reg
ular guaranteed salary. They work OF
a system of commissions. The NOR,
. goods they sell the more money the!
} receive. The less goods they dispose O.
, the less income they have. The aver
age commercial travellers income is ap
, to ebb and flow like the tides. In on
, town the knight of the grip may sci
thousands of dollars worth of goods
, In every store he enters he finds
, large purchaser. In another town h
may not even meet expenses. Then
= when the average commercial travele
n has what he calls a run of luck, he i
, apt to be unduly elated, and that ella
ton is often the means Satan uses t
/. trip him up. The imminent dangers Q
, exultation and disappointment are til
!. Charybdis and the Scylla which ever
: commercial traveller has to face.
C Now, my friend, you who spend mos
a of your life selling goods upon tn
8 road, l want to warn you against tn
t dangers which come from either eXu
tation or discouragement. Henry War
e Beecher cured one of his parishione1
d Of the temptation Of entering into Wa
e street speculations by an experiment
+ The pastor of Plymouth church aske
g his friend not to gamble in stock
l. for at least three years. During thos
l. three years Mr.. Beecher wanted hi
t. to make a study of the stock marke
d Every time he thought stocks were G
n ing up he was to make memorandum
= of the same and decide how much