Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-03-16

Side by side with the blues rode or
gray brothers now. with no rivalries
save with the rivalries of trying to
Guido each other in kindness and broth
erly courtesy.
The Strength of the Nation.
But the third day of the celebration
was the greatest to me of all. That
was the time of the industrial parade.
What is the navy for? Merely to pro-
tect our merchants and artisans at
the seaboard. What is the army for?
Merely to protect the homes of our
mechanics and the factories and the
little stores. The strength of our ma
ton is not in her mailed hand of war,
but in her horny hand of toll. Yes, on
that day we. saw Naassons everywhere.
We heard the hammer upon the anvil.
We saw the baker cooking at the
stove. We saw the farmers plow and
the woodlands AK and the typewriter's
machine and the printing press. We
heard in the fiotillas which moved up
Broadway and Fifth avenue the ma
tional song of a prosperous home in
dustry. And these fotillas were not
manned by the royal trappings of for
eign ambassadors. They were filed
with the artisans and the laborers and
the mechanics and employees of foun-
dries and factories in the common, ev-
eryday working clothes Of men and
women living upon small salaries. All,
my brother, do not complain because
you are a humble Naasson. The pros
perity of this country rests upon the
workingman's cottage far more thar
upon the capitalists mansion or the
presidents White House.
But coming near to the earthly end
of Naasson's life l find by this genoa
logical account that God was keeping
Just as much account of his life as he
did that of Abraham or Jacob or BoaA
or David. Naasson in his humble ca
pacity and doing his lifes work well
was just as dear to his Divine Master
as if he had occupied a Solomon's
throne or had built a Noah's ark. In
deed, | sometimes think If God has
any favorites they are to be found
among the humble workers. Abraham
Lincoln thought so. He once said,
"God must love the common people
better than the aristocrats because he
made so many of them" And Christ's
actions when upon earth seemed to
prove this theory. We find that he as
ISOLATED for the most part with the
| poor and the humble. The greatest
| earthly joy Jesus seemed to have had
| in a human sense after days preach
| ing in Jerusalem was to be able to
| leave the capital and climb up the hill
upon which is situated the little village
| of Bethany and there lodge with his
| few friends in the home Of Mary and
| Martha and Lazarus. Thus, my broth
er, in your humble capacity, in your
| obscure home, remember that Christ
| is with you. Remember that he is
| watching you. Also remember that if
you do your work with his help to the
best of your ability he will speak to
you the same words which Sir Walter
Scott chiseled upon tie tombstone OF
a domestic who had served him long
and was buried in his family plot
"Well done, good and faithful serv.
anti
If God rewarded NaassOn, he reward
ed him not for being willing to serve
him in a place for which he was moi
fitted, but for faithfully doing the work
which was given him to do in an incon
spicuous position. A short time age
President Roosevelt nominated an of
ficer to the position of brigadier gen
eral not because he had CALAMITY led {
charge in Cuba during the Spanish
American war, but because he wa!
willing when asked to do so to stay a
home and faithfully do the organizing
work of the day. 1t is not always thu
man who receives the applause of mel
who will ultimately receive the ap
plause of heaven; therefore let us d.
the humble work of life faithfully ant
earnestly which God has given to u
to do. Do it even though we may be
Naasson; do it even though men ma.
Judge that work to be useless. TIL
man of one talent may receive just a
large a heavenly reward as the man o
ten.
Copyright, 1903, by Louis Klopsch.l