Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-01-05

night and day for the manufacturing
or scalping knives and swords and dag
gers and iron tipped clubs or for great
kilns. where brickbats can be hardened
out OF dirty clay to throw at our broth
ers. The great need of the world is not
for a few microscopes and y ray lenses
for magnifying and exposing our
brothers faults and reminding him Of
his own imperfections. But the great
est need of the world is for at least
5OO.OO0.0O0 homes to be turned
irto Christlike pharmaceutic establish
ments. In those homes every father
and mother, brother and sister, ought
TO be busy all the time trying to COM
pound old fashioned, invigorating allO-
pathic doses of gospel encouragement.
They should be quick to recognize and
praise one another's good points as
we'll as their faults. They should en-
courage each other with words of in
spring good cheer as well as caution
them with words of trenchant warning
against the quicksands and the hidden
snares of life.
The Giving of Praise.
If a mans friends do not give him
the announcements he needs for lfe's
struggle, surely his enemies never will.
God knows. an average man gets
enough knocks from his enemies
enough blows upon his head and heart
| to make it absolutely necessary for
at least some one to say something
| pleasant. You do not want your loved
| ones to start out in life with a de-
| pressed idea of their own abilities and
| capacity for future work, as my ia
| ther had when he started, which youth
full depression he was never able to en-
tirely overcome. My grandfather and
| grandmother were old fashioned folks,
who brought up their children in the
old fashioned way, never telling them
anything cheering about themselves.
The nearest to q parental compliment
my father eyer received was when his
mother read his graduating speech in
the little village paper of Somerville.
After she had finished reading it she
| turned to my grandfather and said,
David, that speech of De Wits must
have sounded quite we'll when he spoke
it."
Then came the depressing influences
| of his college and seminary life. With
but one exception all his professors
tried to instill into my fathers brain
the idea that he could never preach.
He was SO discouraged that he deter
mined to go to a foreign field and be a
missionary. He thought that perhaps
the heather Chinee'' or the Fiji island
ers might be persuaded to listen to his
preaching if he were only able to get
into u region where no white man had
ever been before. The most surprised
being in the seminary-and nearly all
the students were dumfounded-was
| young De Witt Talmage when he re-
ceived a call to the church and parsOn-
age at Belleville, n. j. The solemn ad-
vice which the New Brunswick profess
or gave, You will have to change your
style, Mr.. Talmage; you will have to
change your STYLE" found its echo in
the advice of old Dr. Thomas De Witt
of the Collegiate church of New York
city. After my father had been a short
time in the ministry this great and
good man, DR.. De Witt after whom
my father was named, sent this mes
sage to him: Tell my namesake never
to allow his sermons to be published
He may be able to preach, but he GER
tainly does not know how to write y
The effect of all this depressing and
depreciating advice was such that my
father was never able to fully shake
off the discouragements of his youth
My mother had to urge him on and or
or without doubt in those first years Of
struggle he would have given up the
fight and gone into the law. So, my
friends, / urge you never to discourage
a young man. You may be mistaken il
anticipating his failure. Rather chez
him with commentator whenever it il
possible. Who can tell whether at tn
end Of his career his Divine Maste
may not pronounce upon his service tn
"well done" with which he rewards hi
faithful stewards?
encouragement Wanted.
Some years ago by an explosion Q
fredamp four miners were entombed /
a coal mine near Scranton, Pa. Thei
friends worked a whole night and
day trying to liberate the imprisone
2 men. At last the rescuers were abou
to give up in despair. Just then tn
youngest member of the firm rapid
drove up in a buggy. AS he leaped OF
;. he cried: Boys, you have done wei
=: 1t is only little work more! Come OF
8 boys, and in a short time we will e.
: those Door fellows freew He threw O
: his coat and grabbed pick and bega
: to strike the rock. At the sound of h
+ reassuring voice and example the otht
: men went to work with renewed enc
t gy. The entombed men were soon sal
in the arms of their wives and childrel
: Today the vast majority of our rel;
S tives do not need words of depreciation
& Like those miners, digging for the
: entombed companions, they wal
a monde Of oncOr1ra vvOrdS 0f OOc