Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-03-16
may think your domestic life doe.

the babies and cooking meals and pet
ting the little ones when they are hurt
and reading the Bible to the children
before they 90 to bed. But | want to
tell you that in the light of this his
tory of Naasson you have a mighty, a
tremendous work upon your hands.
You may be the mother or the grand
mother of boy who will yet proclaim
the gospel of Jesus to the furthermost
parts of the world. You may be rock
ing in your daughters cradle q future
Frances Z. Willard. a Florence Night
ingale or Frances Ridley Havergal
Am l going beyond my right in too
much emphasizing the infinite influence
Of a humble home? Were not nearly
all our great men born in a cottage in
stead of a palace? Have not nearly
| all our great men laid at their humble
mothers feet the credit for all their
! success? What said Thomas II. Ben
! ton, the great Missouri senator, when
! he was delivering speech in New
| York city? MY mother asked me new
| er to use tobacco, and | have never
touched it from that day to this. She
asked me never to gamble, and never
learned to gamble. When | was seven
years of age, she asked me never to
drink. | made resolution of total alb
stinence. That resolution have never
broken. And now, whatever honor l
may have gained, / owe it all to my
mother" What says John Adams?
"All that l am l owe to my mother"
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nothing, but his actions speak louder
than words. We see that his first act
after having taken the oath of office as
president of the United States was to
lean over and with smiling lips, under
loving eyes, kiss the withered lips of
his old mother. When Carrot A Ho-
bart was about to take the oath of Of
fee as president elect in the senate
chamber, l saw President McKinley's
eyes wander up to the gallery wherein
sat the one who gave him birth, and
he bowed his reverence and love to his
old mother.
The Mothers Heart.
Henry Ward Beecher once said that
'the mothers heart is the child's school
room" 1t is more than that; it is the
very heart of the child's mental, moral
and spiritual existence. All, woman,
called mother; ah, man, called father,
do not say that your humble life in a
humble home amounts to naught.
When you rock the cradle, you are
rocking the centuries. Your boys, your
girls, may yet become mighty men and
women for God and for the betterment
Of the world, because you are now
starting them right. They may be
preaching and living the love of Christ
among the earth's sinful men long aft
er your earthly work is done and you
have gone to your heavenly reward.
Again, Naasson's life impresses me
with the fact that the greatest of earth
~ works are accomplished by ordinary
people. Here and there in tie long list
of genealogical names which are re
corded in the first chapter of Matthew
there is a prominent man, but four
flfths of them-aye, nine-tenths of them
are names as humble as that of Mas
sons. THUS we find that everywhere
the vast bulk of the worlds work is
done by the ordinaries and not by the
extraordinaries. Why? Because there
are but few extraordinaries and thou
sands upon thousands and millions up
on millions ordinaries. When you stand
by the grave of Christopher Wren In
st. Paurs cathedral Of London, yoJ
read his epitaph thus: eff you wish tt
see my monument, look about you
. But when look about ST. Pauls cathe
: dral 1 see in the stones of every wal
and the dovetailing of every crevict
the work of hundreds and thousands Of
hands horny with toll as well as in the
. complete building the white, soft fin
gers of the great architect who there
lies buried. l see the humble laborer!
? digging the foundations; see the hum
BILE masons rearing the walls; | see tn,
;. humble carpenters lifting the scaffold
ings; l see the crowd collect about tn,
poor, bruised, mangled body of tn
= workman whose foot misstepped ant
: whose brains were dashed out upon tn
ground beneath when he fell from tina
high scaffolding. Aye, 1 see Naassons
= humble Naassons, everywhere in life
= They have builded the pyramids; the.
:, have lifted the dome Of ST. Peters ant
the Tai Mahal; they have worked o.
the farms and swept out the stores an
y died in the soldiers trench. 1t is tn
accumulation of the work of the OF
scure individuals In this world whic
u has made this old earth what it is
therefore, my brother, do not say tina
y your life's work is useless because it
= inconspicuous.
The Humble Workers.
Well did the manager of the celebrs
:. ton which took place in New Yor
city some years ago to commemorate
:. the Inauguration of George Washin.
!. ton as president of the United State
appreciate the value of the humb
- workers in the humble walks of peac
full avocations. The first day, for