Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-05-26

open the barred gates of love to those |
enemies and lower the drawbridge of |
affection, we would capture nearly all
OF our foes by the power of love. The |
| twain mile may have its thistles and
! thorns and stony highways, but most
| of those thorns can be blanketed with
| the roses of Sharon. Most of those
| pebbled pathways can be covered over
with a soft quilt of grass which once
| grew at the foot of the tree out of
which was cut the beam of the cross.
What True Love Means.
The twain mile is the place where
| Jesus becomes to every Christian a
treasured, loving personality. Well
substantiated is the fact that love
| grows as much upon what we do for
| others as what others do for us, upon
| what we are ready to give as upon
| what we are ready to receive. In order
to have true love, we must be ready to
lose our lives before we can have those
lives come to their true development.
We must be ready to die if we want to
truly live as we ought to live.
Why is a mothers love the purest of
all earthly love? Because the baby di-
rectly does so much for the mother?
Oh, no. There never was bigger ty-
rant who ever welded scepter than
a little baby in the average home.
From the time the child is born until
grown it practically does nothing for
the mother. The mother is always do
| ing something for the child. From the
advent some one has to keep tending
the child. The mother feeds it, dresses
it, cares for it, For the first year, at
least, the mother has a Juggling silver
cord of affection, with one end attached
to the crib and the other end attached
to her heart. She practically lives by
the side of that child for weeks and
months. Then, when the baby is sick,
who nurses 1.-THE graduate from the
school for trained nurses? Oh, no. The
trained nurse may come in and help.
The person who for weeks never takes
off her clothes, the person who is al
ways by the side of the crib and sees
that the medicines are given regularly,
the person who is anxiously touching
the fevered cheek, is the mother, the
sacrificing mother
Why is love generally purer and
deeper and wider in the poor mans
home than in the rich mans palace?
Some people may declare that this
statement is untrue, but if you have
been around as q pastor as much as
some ministers you will find that such
a statement is true. The reason that
> love is generally sweeter and purer in
the poor mans home is not because the
poor man naturally has bigger heart
than the rich man, but the poor man
has to daily sacrifice for his wife and
children. When Christmas comes
around, in order to have Christmas
tree, perhaps the father himself has
to go without an Overcoat. When his
sons are to be sent to college, in all
probability the poor man will have to
run into debt. He has to work over
time. He has to live in q small house
upon a side street. His love feeds up
, on his sacrifices. So, my brother, if
, you and | want to love and truly love
. Christ, we must be willing to do some
: thing for Christ. We must give our
selves body, mind and soul to his serv-
ice. We must be ready to travel for
" him the twain mile. 1t is because some
. Of us are not ready to travel this twain
: mile that Christ's teachings seem harsh
, and narrow and perhaps unsympa-
thetic.
Companion Of the Twain Mile.
Some years ago, in the mountains OF
North Carolina, rich lady was riding
along in her carriage. Being overtaken
by thunderstorm, she found shelter
| in 70 or'c nj c
e very humble. AS in many poor homes
e there seemed to be healthy children
l. everywhere, but there was also one
o crippled child The rich lady said tc
g the mother, Can nothing be done fol
t that child?' NO." answered the moth
e err, nothing can be done. The village
s doctor said the great surgeons in New
o York might help him. Of course we
il have no money to send him there
e The rich lady pitied the child. She
p took him to New York. While there
z the surgeons Strengthened out the Grip
n pied limbs. But though the little child
= was at that time q cripple, yet on &C
count Of what the rich lady was doing
u for him he had strength enough t.
g crawl into the rich lady's heart. Their
If the rich lady went back and said to the
e mother: ''Since | have been caring fol
IS your boy | have learned to love him
+, Will you let me adopt him? l want tt
IS bring him up as my own child an(
II make him my heir" In after year.
h the boy used to crawl into the ricl
h lady's lap and say: Mamma, am gla(
sc / was once poor little cripple. If
lie had not been poor little cripple, yol
st would not have pitied and worked fo
d. me and learned to love me when yol
Of were saving my life" So when w
ee work for Christ, when we travel fc
lie him the twain mile, the Saviour creep
ell into our hearts as well as we creep in
IN to his.
And. my friend, I want you to fur