Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-03-02

Life when their own granaries are fun
Of winter supplies and their thrashing
floors c-owded with the thrashers beat
Ing and bruising the grain.
Rich man. would like to speak a
few plain. blunt words TO you. There
are certain blessings that money can
not buy. First, IL cannot buy health.
Money may enable the consumptive to
live among the flowers, and IL may
prolong an invalid's earthly life, but, in
the broad sense, money cannot buy
health. III money could buy health,
William Mckinley would never have
died. III money could buy health, the
late Cornelius Vanderbilt would never
have struggled on as a helpless Invalid
and been carried out to the tomb when
yet a young man. If money was all
powerful, that Broadway merchant
would have recovered his sight when,
a few years ago, he offered $1,000 900
TO any surgeon whose knife would cut
his curtain of the night i'm twain.
Love Cannot BE Bought.
Neither will money buy love. Money
may buy sycophancy. 1t may make
servants and so called friends bow and
cringe before us, but the songstress Of
love is not a hireling who sings her
seraphic strains to the jingling accom-
| paniment of golden coins. True love
is won by the heart, not by the purse.
True love is found smiling as winsome-
| ~ in cottage as in a palace. Neither,
o rich man, can you with money buy
your way into heaven. If you have no
time to seek God in his house on earth,
you will not be able to find Christ in
mansions in the skies. If you do not
honor your Saviour before men, nei-
Their will Christ honor you before the
angels. who are now assembled about
the great white throne of the celestial
city. How much did he leaveY asked
gentleman in reference to certain
deceased rich man. HE left every
thing" was the answer. His shroud
had no pocket, so far as | could see."
So, rich man. you will take before the
judgment seat of Christ not what you
now hold in your hand, but what you
have in your heart. Therefore, it is
very important that you do not with
fatal self complacency as to your
wealth and social prestige and your
ownership of mortgages and bonds and
land titles blind your eyes to the i'm
portancc of going to the gospel ban
quet.
But another knock is heard at the
front door Of the good mans house. A
second letter of regret is handed in.
This letter goes something like this:
my dear friend, l know you have
made great preparations for me to-
night, but l cannot come. l am a
small farmer and have just bought a
yoke of oxen to do my spring blowing,
and must go and do it" Or the letter
will read as follows: MY dear friend,
cannot come tonight. l have just
bought five yoke of oxen, and intend
to hire myself out to the different
farmers to help them do their spring
blowing. We must make money while
| we can. And even if l could get
through my work in time to come
would be so tired that l could not en-
| Joy your good things. pray thee have
me excused" In other words, that
stock purchaser was going around as
| the modern owners Of some baling ma.
| chimes go from farm to farm to pack
the hay, or as the owners of some OF
the modern thrashing machines in the
rural districts cut down their neigh
bors' grain upon a percentage basis.
Whom in modern life does this stock
J owner represent? He symbolizes the
, practicing doctor or lawyer or small
merchant or manufacturer or mechan
ic or salaried employee engaged in ;
, daily struggle for a livelihood. III,
, represents. as Matthew Henry wei
wrote, the man with 1.-The inordinat,
care and concern about this world
which keep him from Christ and hi
, grace" He represents the father ant
husband who on Saturday night says
"Well. l have worked hard all TIL
week. / am too tired to go to churcl
tomorrow and do Gods work. 1t i
all well enough to think about religion
. but the simple fact is, in this strenuOu
: earthly life must look after my busi
: ness and keep looking after it all tn
time" He represents the bushes
: man who at first does not intend to d
: wrong, but, little by little, he allow
his business to crowd out his duties t
;, Christ. First. he gives up prayer meet
= ing on account of business; then hi
: daily reading Of the Bible; then hi
= Sunday services. Little by little b
= allows himself to drift away from Go
=. until at last the invitation to the 60:
pei banquet falls upon unheeding ear.
Theinordinate desire for accumulatin
. wealth has destroyed many and man
an immortal soul. A few score year
=, ago a steamer crowded with passel
gers was pushing its way over the W,
- tiers of the Mississippi river. Upon til
deck were "a great number of Califo
y MIA miners returning from the gol,
fields of the west. Suddenly tn;
steamer struck a sunken wreck an
le Immediately began to sink. The won