Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-08-03

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does not affect your life? Why are you
not man enough TO go and work in his
vineyardi Your slothful, lazy habits,
in a spiritual sense. ought TO make you
despise yourself and have utter con-
tempt for your past actions in reference
to err church. You know il is ingBain-
ed In every manly man TO despise a
shirk. If party of us should go hunt
ing next summer we would naturally
expect every member of that party to
do his full share Of work. If one of the
men refused to do it we would never
take him out upon another camping
trip. We would say to one another:
THAT man is no good. He is mean and
contemplate. He is a lazy, despicable
shirk" | have had business men come
TO me and ask: What shall l do?
ship with such and such man. But
he is a lazy, indolent, useless dead
weight He will not think Of work.
And yet he expects me TO divide the
profits with him. He is a shirk, use
less shirk. And IL there is anything /
despise II Is a shirk, draining and sap
ping my energies. as the vampires In
NEUROLOGICAL times used to suck out the
life's blood of their human victims"
The shirk In Religion.
Now, If you despise a shirk in pleas
ure and despise a shirk in business,
how is II that you are willing to be
yourself shirk in religion? You, my
brother, believing in Jesus Christ and
hoping some day to be eternally saved
by his blood, ought in common hon.
esty to fully realize that your actions
toward the church are just as despica
BILE and contemplate as the Sinking
characteristics which you despise in
others. You are practically saying to
yourself: II want to some day reach
heaven; but in the meantime l want
my wife, my mother, my sister, my
daughter. to do all my praying and
working in the church. When am in
my last sickness l want their minister
to come and fix things all up for me
in a spiritual sense. And when l am
dead | want their minister to state
over my casket that l have repented
at the eleventh hour and have been
saved all right. In other words. want
to win every joy and hope Of the re-
ligious faith without lifting a hand
for Christ. without doing one stroke of
work in the Masters service" Oh, my
brother, such a statement as that is so
mean and despicable l do not believe
you have ever fully realized what your
gospel Sinking has signified. Come,
man. and be a true man in the spiritu-
al as we'll as in the temporal way.
Come and take off your coat in holy
enthusiasm. Do not compel the wom-
en- folks of your families to longer
bear the brunt of the gospel struggle.
At II in the name of the Lord Jesus!
At it now. At it all the time! Hear
the plea of the manifest Christian man
who ever lived. This plea he made to
men: Help those women! Help
those women Help them now.
A strong, robust, manly man compels
the admiration of other men. There is
popular theory abroad that manly
man can never fascinate the mascu
line world as beautiful woman can
But l do not think that that theory Is
true. l know it is not in my own case
l also know it is not true with many
of my gentlemen friends. Often. wher
walking through the crowded thor
oughfares of Chicago. l have had 6
member of my family say, did yor
ever see a more beautiful face thar
that?" who? Where? l would ask
"Why. that beautiful woman who was
walking there with that man." "Oh,
l would answer, II did not see tn,
woman, but did see the man. wa
watching him very closely. My! H
was a strong man. There was a some
thing in the look Of his eye, in the Sc
of his mouth. in the strength of hi
shoulders and in his well poised, sci
confident walk that proved to me b
was q leader among men. did not Sc
the woman, but what a fine specime
of q man he wasT I believe that tn
fascination which a strong man ha
upon me is the same fascination whic
he has upon all men except those meI
. tai weakliEgs and masculine Moment
/ ties who think that the chief purpos
for which a man was created was
eat and sleep, to dress and undress-
. If a manly man is to have such
I great influence upon other men. VIII
I will be able to do your Christian wor
!. unless you are willing to do it? Their
are persons and spheres which you. an
: only you, can reach. The women VIII
n have labored with Paul in the gosp,
a cannot do It Your mother, wife, {
o sister. or daughter cannot do 1t. 70
n know that there are today down
q your store some clerks whom no huma
. being can touch for Christ as yo1
n their employer. can touch, If you will.
A Would you not be a Christian me
!. chant like William E. Dodge. or
y Christian statesman like GovernC
/, George n. Briggs. or a Christian soldi,
q like General o. o. Howard or A '
n Reilly. or a Christian physician lii
n Charles Jewett, or a Christian Ia