Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-01-19

nrst lessons Of magnanimity from you!
When Jour time comes to go, would
you no. rather that your sons and
daughters should weep about your dy-
Ing bed and feel that they have lost
dear, helpful friend than that they |
shall be glad that you are dying, be- |
cause you are holding with selfish |
grip to I'LL that you have? My aged |
friend, you should not only be willing
to live, but you should also be willing
to let live. Every old merchant should
try to help the young merchant. Ev-
cry old physician should be ready TO
lend his medical books to the young
physician and speak good word for
him In the neighborhood. Every old
lawyer should be willing to give his
advice to the young lawyer, and every
old minister to encourage the young
minister Ye older men, you should
not only be proud Of the fact that you
have made a success, but you should
also be proud of the fact that you have
helped some younger man to climb the
difficult heights from which you are
now able calmly to look down upon the
thousands struggling in ascent far be-
meath.
Sin Is the Chief Cause.
But maddening jealousy has a direct
personal cause. ALI insanities are the
result of some organic or functional
disorder. Sometimes insanity may be
caused by fall or blow. Part of the
skull may be crushed in, and piece of
the bone will be found, by postmortem
examination, to be pressing on the
brain. Such a splintered bone was the
cause Of a brilliant Chicago lawyers
mental downfall. Frank Collyer was
one dark night struck by a footpad's
| club, and part of his skull was driven
into the brain, and he never talked ra-
tionally again. Sometimes insanity Is
! the result of overtaxed nerves; some
| times the disease Is inherited from an
cestral causes; SO maddening jealousy
has q direct cause. That spiritual dag
nosis can be spelled in the one fearful
word Of three letters. Its only cause is
'sin." The same kind of sin which to-
day fills our jails and reformatory in
situations and lifts the hangman's
moose Is the fiendish, maddening evil
against which, in his day, King Solo,
mon lifted his voice In protest.
Now, my brother, as the insanity of
jealousy is caused by sin, will you not
come to that Christ who is willing and
able to take this sin out of your lifei
In the Bible we read that Christ was
and is able to make the evil passions
come out of a man. So great was anL
! is Christ's divine power in this re
spect that Luke tells us there was 6
man afflicted not only with one, bu
with a legion or four thousand, devils
This man was so goaded by this de
moniac possession that, though he wa
bound in letters Of chains, he woul'
snap them as easily as a lion Nigh
brush aside spiders web. He was s.
distracted that in his frenzy he woul'
tear off all his clothes. But when Jesu
spoke the word of deliverance the MAJ
who was once insane Immediately be
came clothed and in his right mind. l
Christ could do all that for the insan
man of old, will you not let Jesus cur
g you also of the awful insanity Of jea
: ousy? Oh, my sinful friend, you hav
). hated men and despised men and foun
: fault with men long enough! Will 70
not, here and now, by Christ's hell
u learn to love men and try to help me
y instead of trying to destroy them?
By the noble example Of Christ's lii
t today may we be led to exterminat
y the awful sin of jealousy. Some yeal
r ago a New York public school teache
: whose scholars were mostly draw
e from the slums, carried into her elias
= room a beautiful white lily. One
J her pupils was a poor waif OF Il
u street. Her clothes were soiled al
n torn. Her hands and face were dirt
Is The teacher thought she would plea
Is this poor child by giving to her tt
9 beautiful flower, but instead Of taki1
IL it the young girl turned and ran out
u the room. A little later she came ba'
IS with her face and hands washed al
y then said: Teacher, am clean no
III Give me the beautiful flower" So t
~ sense Of moral pollution often max
e. men shrink from accepting the gift G.
et is offering in the person of his Son; b
u it is because of that very pollution til
'h he presses his gift upon us. We ca
e not cleanse ourselves, but we can pr
NJ that he will cleanse us and make us
NC to receive him who is 'the Lily OF t
'e, Valley, the One altogether lovely"
Id copyright, 1903. by Louis Klopsch.1
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