Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-03-09
How We May BEST Repay.

heavy cargoes as when they left our
shores.
How We May Best Repay.
How. then. is America to cancel the
national debt in morSl and spiritual
sense which she owes TO the modern
Greeks and TO the barbarians? Well"
answers some one. Il suppose the best
way 10 repay the debt we owe to for
eign lands is to make our goods better
and cheaper than they can make them
and then 20 forward and capture their
markets for our home industries" All,
my brother. | am not here to fritter
away my time answering these selfish
propositions prompted by mere COM
mercialism; am here today to tell you
/ how, in the language and the spirit of
the apostle Paul, we are to cancel the
| national debt we owe to foreign lands;
! / am here today to tell you how best
/ we can pay the debt as individuals as
/ we'll as a nation. We can repay our
| national debt first by conveying to for
eign lands the sweet message of the
Calvary cross. When many years ago
five humble, cOnsecrated students met
behind a haystack in old Williamstown.
where | used to 90 to college, and
founded the first American foreign
missionary society, one Of the greatest
purposes of Americas future life was
given practical form. Those five young
men planned an evangelistic work
which had the same worldwide scope
that Paul's mission had for the Chris.
tan, religion. If the religion of Jesus
Christ is the benefcent thing that we
profess to believe it, are We justified in
keeping the knowledge of it to our
selves? Are we not bound as debtors
to the whole world to repay our obli-
cations by making it known far and
wide?
The medical profession sets us an
example in it's performance of this
duty. No sooner does a physician dis
cover a means of alternating physical
suffering than he places it at the dis
posal of his professional brethren the
world over. When Edward Jenner
demonstrated the marvellous immunity
of human being who was vaccinated
with cowpoX, did he keep his discovery
from the world? Did he refuse to adj
vocate it lest he might be prosecuted
by such medical authorities as DIR. In
genhousz and DIR. Pearson? Oh, no.
AS an intelligent man he deplOred the
awful destruction made by this terri
BILE scourge of smallpox. He knew that
whole countries had been almost depop-
ulated by the pest. Mexico was not
conquered so much by COrtes as it was
made helpless by the invasion of this
king of horrible plaques called small
pox. When the pilgrim fathers landed
upon the Massachusetts shores, they
found that the Indian tribe which the
year before had been inhabiting that
part of the country had been entirely
. obliterated, with the exception of one
man, by the fatal ravages of smallpox.
So, in the face of derision and persecu-
ton, Jenner proclaimed the gospel of
vaccination. Though he might. and to
a great extent did. destroy his private
| practice, he kept crying to suffering
humanity: Here is remedy for this
, dreadful and malignant disease. Take
it and live! Take it and live!'
, When James Y. Simpson perfected
, his Investigations in chloroform, did
, he keep them to himself? Did he pat
ent them and say, You come to me or
, suffer and die?" No. He freely gave
: the anaesthetic to the world. And to-
day thousands upon thousands of men
and women who have been compelled
to lie upon an operating table have
risen up to call him blessed. Is the
German physician, Robert Koch, work
ing in his laboratory for personal gain
: Oh, no. He is trying, purely on phil
: anthropic grounds, to cure consump-
ton, which causes at least one-fourth
:. of the total annual mortality among
! the human race. If he ever perfects 8
. germicide for the tuberculosis bacilli
he will at once tell all he knows He
;. is struggling and working and analyz
ing purely to save dying race.
; Make known the Revelation.
O What a lesson do these illustrious
n benefactors of the human race teacf
d us! How they study and investigate
J. and labor to alleviate suffering and in
If crease the longevity of mankind! AND
n when any of them discovers a remedy
\. for disease or means of removing de
p formity how eagerly he makes the dis
J. covery known that all the world ma,
If share in the benefit In our hands W,
have a revelation of infinitely create
n value. Their discoveries can at th,
e best prolong life only a few years
ia while the gospel of Jesus Christ is tn,
% gospel of eternal life and the remed,
s. for the universal malady of sin. Ye
N there are among us men calling them
| ;Cti -ho
II to publish the knowledge of that rem
@. edy. They say: IF the Chinese are no
n willing to receive our gospel missiona
8 ries, then let those missionaries sta,
re at home. Let the Chinese hOrdes grow
u ell and die! Let the human streams o
ls heather life become chOked with mora