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

0lOSSOIuS III Tue spring goes 10 SoeO Dc~
fore the fall. 1t takes years and years
to develop a cedar of Lebanon. 1t
takes centuries upon centuries to bury
a coal mine. 1t takes at least onescore
years to make man, and the more OBJ
stacles you can overcome the more of
a giant you will be. Only the gods
can reach the stars. Man can become
like unto god if God is with him and
he keeps on stretching.
There is a beautiful story told of a
missionary who became very much dis
couraged. No conversions resulted
from his work. He determined to leave
his field. That night as he slept he
had strange dream. He dreamed that
an angel had given him a hammer and
placed him before a huge rock and
said to him, Pound, and keep on
pounding" He pounded on, but could
not break the rock. Because he was
unsuccessful he sat down and wept
But while he wept the angel again ap-
peared and said, "Why dost thou
weep?" Because 1 cannot break the
rock" "Then," said the angel, thou
hast nothing to do with the results.
Pound and pound, and keep on pound
ing, whether thou breakfast the rock or
no." The dreamer arose, picked up
the hammer and smote the rock with
mighty blow. Lo, the rock broke!
Solomon bids me give to you the ham,
mer of persistence. He tells me to
point you to the rock of adversely, say
I'll ,friI he
heaven flash! Strike for your life!
And keep on striking"
King Solomon warns the young folks
against sin because evil companions
are always the first to extend the right
hand Of welcome. The good young man
says: 81 cannot afford to associate with
( every one 1 cannot go with every
stray acquaintance whom 1 meet upon
the street. l should live in the city as
I live at home. l ought not to consort
with any companion whom | would be
ashamed to introduce to my mother or
sisters" When you enter the store as
a fellow clerk, he watches you. By
conversation he finds out whether or no
you are church member. He is too
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and so it will take some time for him
and you to become fast friends. After
awhile he will invite you to attend a
night school or go to some lecture or
meeting. He asks you what books you
read and then offers to lend you one of
the classics. By and by you arrange
to take your vacations together. Then
the good young man gives to you the
highest compliment Of his life-he asks
you to come home with him and visit
his mother. That dear old lady well
comes you as only his mother can. She
knows your own home is so far away
that it is impossible for you to go there
and get back to the store when the two
holidays are over.
Some False Friends.
But the bad young man is never hard
to become acquainted with. He will
slap you upon the back as soon as you
enter the store. He offers you a Gig
arctic or invites you later to take a
drink. He stops you in the hall and
wants to have a long talk. He is al
ways loafing when the head of the de-
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he begins to make fun Of your Bible.
He ridicules you as stingy because you
send most of your money home to sup
port q widowed mother and five ia
therless children. and then, if you have
money to spend, he and his evil COM
panions will gather around you to help
spend it if you will let them, as field
of clover tops will empty all the bee
hives from far and near. But after
your money is gone and position gone
and health gone and honor gone they
will care no more for you than for a
dead cur in the street The night you
die the saloons will be as crowded, the
glasses will click just as merrily as
ever. At that bar which you now fire.
Quent there will not be tear shed over
you. The day your body is buried the
very friends who are now enticing you
away will gamble just as recklessly
and laugh just as loud with others as
they now do with you, and if necessary
and they could find no other place they
would be willing to gamble at youl
grave.
Some years ago in Glasgow a team
of horses took fright and ran away
The coachman was hurled from hi:
box. The carriage was tossed abou
from side to side With snort an(
lathered TANKS the mad creatures raj
, on Inside of the vehicle was seel
the pale face of a woman, whose arms
: clasped to her bosom a little child
! You might as well have tried to stop ;
| thunderbolt as to stop that runaway
| Down the street they came faster AM
faster. The carriage grazed this pos
and that wheel. The people cleared
| the track. Suddenly from out of tn
crowd man sprang. He was dresse'
[ in the common clothes of laborer
/ With almost superhuman strength b
caught the bits Of the wild animals
Though they trampled him underfoo
and were beating out his life, he hun
or, until thou xyoro ha Tod Tho nv