Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-07-13

worth. The following day dispatches
from Wellington announced that Ma /
poleons army was annihilated- Sc !
curities at once jumped upward. Ma |
than Rothschild pocketed his millions /
of profit But, though Nathan Roths- |
child was the wealthiest fnancier in |
all Europe, he was one o. the most !
unhappy o. men. When a friend Wis |
tied him one day and said, You ought |
TO be a happy man with all this
wealth." Nathan turned and, with a
look of scorn, answered: Happy!
Happy! l happy. Bosh! Let us
change the subject
If wealth does not in itself produce
happiness neither does worldly fame
nor honor. Men strive for place and
! power as if with them they were sure of
happiness. They plot and conspire and
murder that they may mount the steps
| of a throne. and when they succeed
| they find that they have gained moth
| ing but anxiety and worry. When the
! Servian king and queen. Alexander
and Draga, were assassinated Pope
Leo NH. was heard to exclaim in the
Vatican, "Oh. when will the people learn
| that thrones stained with blood are not
worth having:' And yet for financial
wealth and worldly honor thousands of
men will surrender their ali. They will
follow these will O. the wisps, though
the shining lights may lead them over
miasmic swamps and quaking boys
! and into the fatal Quicksand. They
will seek and struggle and continue to
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| priceless treasures, because they be-
lieve that in them the great heart of
happiness, rich blooded and life giving,
can be found Then when they have
been defeated in the struggles of life
they sometimes drive the destroying
dagger into their own arteries as a
tantalized serpent buries his poison
Gus fangs in his own flesh.
Joy of Helping Others.
Moral application: Do not try to
build the temple of happiness out of
yellow bricks. Think not that the
broad highway which leads to the
throne room Of joy is always lined with
applauding and vociferating multi
tudes. The ground mole may tunnel
his way into q gold mine, but he still
remains ground mole. The bat, fly
ing about in the darkness, may be able
to push his claws into trembling mems
pockets, but he is still nothing but
hateful bat.
Envy and covetousness also lead to
suicide. The unwillingness to love our
neighbors as ourselves is one Of the
indirect causes of this dreadful sim
Of SC old
the one is through the green glasses
Of envy, the result unhappiness; the
other way is through the sanctified
! crystals of tender. a holy love, the
result gospel joy. The one way is to
bitterly bemoan because some people
are supposed to be better off than we
are. The other way is to try to find
out how many people are worse off
than we are and then with Christian
desire try to help them as we would
like to be helped if we were in their
places. Through what kind of lenses
have you been scrutiniZing the human
race? Through the green glasses of
envy, which make all the world look
dark or through the clear transparent
crystals of gospel love. which always
make all the world look bright? No hap
by man ever wanted to commit suicide.
No man can be truly unhappy who is
trying to help his fellow man. When
he finds that he is making others hap
py. their joys become part of his joys.
The suicidal knife is blunted upon
the milestone of kindness and love
and self sacrifice for another reason:
. When a Christian earnestly consecrates
, his life to helping his fellow men he is
amazed how many troubles are piled
at his neighbours door and, instead Of
, repining at his lot. thanks God for the
mercies he enjoys. He becomes more
contented to carry his own burdens be-
r cause as his brothers sorrows grow
, larger and larger in his eyes his own
= necessarily by comparison shrink and
| dwindle and become less and less.
: Beautifully illustrated is this thought
4 by an old Latin classic: The gods, hear
] ing the continual grumblings of the
r human race. decreed that all men
e should be able to choose their own bur-
4 dens. but they must choose some. They
e decreed that every man. woman and
e child should bring their load of trouble
8 in a pack and throw it in one place.
. Then all the different troubles of the
: world were piled in heap. The rich
= man came feom his palace: the poor
r man came from his hut. The old man
q came tottering upon his staff; the
: young man came leaping as a roe upon
e the mountain side. The father came,
h followed by his swarm of children; the
: ! single man came alone The bride
d groom came, leading his bride; the wild
s over came after his wife had been
snatched from his side. All came wit.
their troubles. All threw their pack
q in the one pile. Now" said the gods
e to the assembled people. 'let each in
b dividual select any one pack of trouble
a that he would" Of course the multi.
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