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

graves Now, my friend, dare you as
an intelligent man have run any such /
risks? Dare you in any circumstances
drink or dissipate, no matter how in
tense may be your disappointments or
how eXultant your joy?
Dangers threaten a modern CONNER
cial travellers life because his mind is
often beclouded on account of physical
debilitation. To be really successful
commercial traveller a young man
ought to have a physical constitution
of iron. He ought to have the same
kind of bone and muscle and sinew
which made the knights of old famous.
He ought to be able to digest any kind
of food, sleep in hard Or soft beds,
sleep on hall lounge or on chair, or
| lying upon the bare wooden seat of the
caboose of freight train. He ought
| to be able to walk along dark country
road at midnight in midwinter to catch
| the 1 o'clock train for the next town.
| He ought to be able to assimilate ir-
regular meals, and have his nightly
rest broken up once or twice, and
sometimes even thrice, by the chang
ing of cars, and yet be cheerful and
happy and sell his goods just the same
during the day. Alas, 1 we'll know
what are the physical difficulties of a
travellers life! For many years 1 have,
off and on, Travelled around the country
as lecturer. l have had to suffer all
these trials, and have met and talked
with the knights of the grip in many a
lonely station in the midnight hour
while waiting for a belated railroad
connection.
You Must Pay the Price.
But, even under the very Brightest
of conditions and even though a mans
backbone may seem to be made of
STEEL nature will assert itself. A COM
mercial traveller must always pay the
price and have his physical frame re-
bel at the hardships which it has been
made to suffer, and so during those
times of physical exhaustion a COM
mercial traveller, on account of the
physical becloudment of his mind, is
often apt to take a depressed view of
life. He is apt to often lose his faith
in God and in his fellow men and to
feel that his own life is not worth the
living and that he is but of little use
to his fellow man. My brother want
you, If you are a commercial traveller
and a stranger who have just by
chance dropped into this church, to
know and feel that your life is worth
living. God does love you. Your dear
ones are dependent upon you. 1t is of
Infinite Importance whether you do
right or wrong. You must not let
your belief in God falter when you
need a physician and a dose Of medi-
cine and a good rest; you must not let
the hand of Satan touch you and lead
you into the paths of sin when your
head aches and your digestive organs
refuse to do their proper work. One
Of the greatest generals of the ages
was defeated in battle and driven into
exile because the night before the bat
tie opened he was writhing in physical
torture produced by a sudden and vio-
lent attack of dyspepsia. Many a
commercial traveller has been defeated
in life's spiritual battle because his
health has become undermined and I'M
dertoned. Oh, We knights of the grip,
be very careful of your physical health,
for your spiritual happiness and faith
fulness may be destroyed through your
, physical debilities.
Dangers threaten modern CONNER
cial traveller also unless he rigidly full
fills his religious duties and spiritually
employs himself on the Lords day. II
is very easy when Sabbath morning
comes, in little town where the com
mercial traveller has to spend his Sun.
, day, for him to say to himself: We'll
D l guess l will not go to church today
y I will stay in my room and read the
f morning newspaper or write some let
. ters." 1t is very seductive after a hard
+ weeks work for the commercial trav
q eler to go to bed Saturday night with
! the intention of staying there unit
half past 10 o'clock the next morning
. and then, in order to save time, tt
n break the Lords day and take the Sun
day train for the next town. Or, if 6
- commercial traveller is spending Sun
g day in large city, it is very easy fol
him to go and hear the different popu
- lar preachers in the same way that
= out of curiosity, he might go to SCI
the great tragedians act the part of :
= Hamlet" or an "Othello," a "Riche
leu or a CDR. Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde.
- The TUE Worship.
q Though all those attractions may b.
% very fascinating, yet, my friend, yo'
/ must remember that the true WORSHIP
Il of God does not consist in the mere sat
g isfying Of our Intellectual curiosity o
II in lying in bed ON the Sabbath day, bu
T in work, hard, conscientious work, TO
n the Master The old adage tells us tina
g Satan has to hunt the busy man, bu
20 the indolent man hunts the devil
m Therefore, my brother, the easiest wa,
= to overcome the temptations which be
- set the commercial traveller during tn
m long, lonely hours of the Sabbath da
10 is to worship God while away iron