Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-07-21

same kind of rest which Christ gave
to his disciples when he led them off
into desert place.
Go Into the Desert.
beg of you, Woodworking Christian
men and women, to rest awhile be-
cause a summer vacation ought not to
cost you financially very much. Christ
did not tell his disciples to spend weeks
and months in order to get up an eX-
pensive wardrobe so they could go to a
fashionable hotel. He did not want
them to go to a great watering place
where they could drink and carouse
and turn night into day and day into
night He did not desire that they
should go to place where they would
| have to be dressed up all the time.
To some people the idea of taking a
summer vacation is not to find rest, but
dissipation. From the time they arrive
at the fashionable summer resort they
defy every physical law of health.
And if after a few weeks of carousal
they return to the city with the fatal
germs of disease or invalidism planted
in their vitals they have no one to
| blame but themselves. They will be
| Just as much to blame for their on
coming sicknesseS as my dissipated
classmate was blamed by the profess
or. He asked for a sick leave The
professor looked at him a moment and
said: mo, sir, | will not excuse you.
You are young and strong You have
been disobeying the laws of nature.
You have no business to be sick" So
these summer dissipatorS will find,
much to their sorrow, that no man or
woman ever found physical rest in
fashionable hotel by dancing until l
or in the morning. No man ever
! found health at the summer gaming
table or in the hotel barrooms.
The fashionable watering places are
very expensive places in which to live.
But when Jesus babe his disciples to
go into a desert place and rest awhile
he commanded them to go into the
quietude of the country. One can live
very cheaply in the rural districts. 1t
does not cost very much to go into the
suburbs of the city and live for q little
while next to natures heart, to dwell
in some quiet farmhouse far away
from the great, busy world 1t does
not cost very much to associate for
little while with the cows and the
Sheep to carry the lambs and feed the
chickens, to toss the hay and to hunt
the eggs. 1t does not cost very much
to study Gods thoughts in the leaves,
to study Gods thoughts in the flowers,
to hear Gods voice in the music of the
winds. No somnambulance can so rest
the tired brain as the quietude of the
woods. That is where God wants us
to rest. In the desert place means
near to the great, throbbing heart of
Mother Nature.
To prove that it will not cost very
much to go out for few days into the
Quietude of the country and rest
awhile | would like to ask you a per-
tinent question. You have not had q
vacation-that is. the kind of vacation
Christ wants you to take-for a long
while. How much did you spend in
doctors bills last year? well" you
answer, last winter was q hard win
ter for me. l seemed to be taking cold
all the time. My throat was very
weak, and each draft would affect it.
One week | was in bed threatened
with pneumonia; another time | had
bronchitis. | was away from the store
about ten days. My doctors bills
were very high. l have not paid them
all up yet" | would like to ask you
another pertinent question. What did
II I,t1
ter? "Oh," you answer. Il was buying
medicines all the time-medicines for
my digestion, medicines for my cough
medicines for headaches, tablets for
this and that and the other thing
The Economy of a Vacation.
Now, my friends, you are ready. l
think, to listen to rational advice You
know that one of the great medical
tenetS states that it is far better to
prevent disease rather than cure the
disease after it has come. Old DIR
Samuel D. Gross, the greatest surgical
authority of his day, used to say tC
his students, Gentlemen, any stupid
butcher with meat ak can chop off g
leg, but it often takes a very great sur
medicine after he is sick. but it takes 6
wise man to look far enough ahead tt
keep his body in such physical trim
: that he will not get sick. And, my
friends, would it not be far better fol-
you as Christian workers to look ahead
and spend the money which you nigh
give to the doctors and the druggist:
In taking a summer vacation? Would
: 1t not be far more economical for you
to spend some money in toning up you
physical system by taking a rest? Their
you can resist the ordinary diseases
then you will not have to be placed
upon an invalid's bed until God say
that your work is done; then you will
] save money by resting as well as tn
precious time which you can i'll affort
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