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


bloodhounds bury their white teeth
in bis limbs; l will let these blood
hounds leap upon him and try to tear
out his heart. All, l have made many
a good man on account of SANDER turn
and curse God! Perhaps 1 can destroy
this man in this way"
How Satan Kills by Overwork.
But after Satan has tried to destroy
this good man by both popular APP
plause and by the hounds of persecu-
ton and Islander and has failed Satan
has one way left. Satan says to him
self: 81 cannot make that man give up
his God, but can kill him with over
work. 1 can pile the Christian Oppor-
tunities of usefulness upon that bril-
liant, consecrated, young gospel min
lister; 1 will keep him working during
the day and during the night; will
keep him working during the winter
and during the summer; l will give
him a bigger church than he can at
tend to; | will have the editors write
him to send articles for their papers;
1 will have the summer camp meetings
steal away his vacation; will start a
revival in his church; will sap every
bit of physical strength he has; l will
kilFhin by overwork, as killed Kirke
White, by offering him a Cambridge
prize; / will kill him as l killed Will
liam Paley. at thirty-nine years Of age
the most brilliant Christian intellect of
his day; l will kill him, as 1 have
burned out the brain of many a gen
ius, by overwork before that brain
lived long enough to light an intellec-
tual torch which would have cast it's
rays all round the world"
When Satan sees a wife and mother
consecrating her life to the Masters
service, he says: 81 must stop her also.
l must kill her by overwork if l can
not do it in any other way" So Satan
tells that wife and mother that she
must do all the sewing. She must do
all the work in the kitchen. She must
look after her husbands interests in
every way. He may be able to smoke
| his cigars and have horse and go to
the club, but she must be a good wife
and keep every expense down. She
must never leave home and take va
cation herself, although her husband
can go off a-fishing every spring. The
result is that Satan drives that woman
on and on and on by overwork until he
drives her into the grave. Then Satan
laughs a mighty laugh of triumph. He
now has full swing in that motherless
and wifeless household. The sons and
daughters of that mother are easily led
off into sin. Why? At the critical
time of their lives the mothers hand is
not there to guide them. The husband
and the father having lost his wife's
ballast, becomes financially and spirit
ually wrecked. All those catastrophes
because she would not let up in her
work. She would not take a rest, a
complete rest, away from home, which
every Woodworking Christian woman
needs at least once year.
Give the Brain "a Rest.
l beg of you, Woodworking Christian
men and women, to take a summer va
cation because q rested brain can do
twice as much work in the same time
as a tired one. Some two or three
years after | entered the ministry my
father wrote me letter something like
this: Dear Frank l hear you intend
to stay in the city this summer and
take no vacation. You say that you
cannot afford the time. Great mistake
If you attempt to work all summer
you will have to pay a big price for
disobeying natures laws. Next winter
the sermons which you write will be
harder to produce and poorer because
you have tired brain. Get out of the
CITY by all means. You owe this rest
to your family, your church and youl
GCd. A sick or tired minister is of but
little use in his study. in the prayer
meeting OF in his pulpit. l always fine
that when my brain is rested it does
its quickest and best work" That is
the kind of letter which every sen
sible father viii write to his son wheI
he finds that the boy does not know the
well known axiom that Il rested brain
and Il rested body can do twice Il.
much work as tired physical organi
zation.
Every physician will tell you that i
Is an economy in time for tired mel
and women to go off and take a vaca
ton and rest. Yet it is a surprising
fact how many truly good Christian
people feel they cannot leave thei
home and church work even for a few
weeks in Il year. If they were rested
they could do much more work fo
Christ and do it much more easily
Indeed. the older l grow the more
believe that most good people need t.
take this advice. Most good peopl
look tired Go where you will, in tn
store or in the home. and the one grea
complaint that you hear every sprin;
and summer is: Il am so tired, awful
ly tired. l am as tired when l get u
in the morning as when | lie down t
sleep at night" Why, most people il
the springtime look as tired as tina
moor woman who came TO mo one da-