Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-12-05

VI TX - 2httn NlGiOTld- she
gave S509O0 TO Americas poor when
she Travelled through our states. AS
Jenny Lind sang to her fellow men and
women a helpful song so should we
make our new song of the holiday sea
son a helpful song.
A story of P~a@anfni.
Your new holiday song-how is it
to be made helpful to your fellow men?
Is il TO be made so in a temporal sense?
One day Paganini. the greatest violin
list of the ages. was walking through
the streets of Vienna. He was then at
the height of his fame. He had kings
and queens and nations bending under
the scepter of his bow. A celebrated
musical composer who was accompany
ing him suddenly turned and pointed
to a little ragged urchin ~scraping away
on an old squeaky violin. There. Pa
ganini." said he, lis one of your coun-
trymen." With that Paganini crossed
the street and began to talk with the
little beggar. On hearing his tale Of
sorrow the great Italian master snatch
ed the squeaky fiddle from the boys
hand and began to play. Never did a
public thorOughfare of Vienna hear
such sublime music. After the piece
was ended Paganini passed his hat
around the crowd and then emptied
into the boys pocket the gold and the
silver he had collected, saying. There.
my lad, take that home to yOur sick
V,D+1,op and INV GOv tIo ,oo1;z;vo ,l,O
needs" During the coming Christmas
holidays will our new song be a help
full one. in a temporal sense. as Paga-
minis was a blessing to the Vienna
street arab! When you buy presents
for your father and mother, wife or
husband and child, brother and sister
and friend. will your new song inspire
you also to buy bread for the hungry
and clothing for the naked and medl-
cine for the sick?
When we sing our new song shall we
bring spiritual blessings to others also?
The great hosts which shall enter
heaven may be augmented if we sing
our new song as we ought to sing it.
Charles H. SpurgeOn, the famous Lon
don preacher, once had a wonderful
dream. He saw a great throng pass
ing through the gates of the new Jeru-
salem. who are these, and whence
came they % he asked. These" said
his guide. ARE the apostles and mar
tyrs. These are they who have laid
down their lives for Christ" But"
answered Sturgeon, Il never was an
apostle or a martyr. l cannot walk
with that thrOng." Soon. however, he
saw another multitude, greater than
the first, crowding through the same
celestial gates. who are these. and
whence came they?' he again asked.
These are the sinners. These are the
Zacchaeuses and the Mary Magdalenes
and the women of Samaria, who came
from the lowest depths of sim "Ah.'
said Mr.. Sturgeon, IF those are the
great sinners, then I can go in among
them" AS you and l begin to join
the redeemed multitudes are we going
with our friends? Shall not our new
song of gospel love first be sung by
some invalid's bed to bring that sick
man to Christ? Shall it not be sung
among the spiritual outcasts who
never have bowed the knee at the
cross? Yes. my friends, u new song
should be a cheerful song on account of
our salvation. 1t should also be a
helpful song. which will lead people to
surrender their lives to the work of the
Divine Master.
Song 0f CanfiVifV,
Well" says one. "hOw can l sing a
song of cheerfulness and Of gospel hope
for myself or for others when every
thing seems to be going wrong in my
own life? l feel just as did the writer
Of the One Hundred and Thirty-sev-
enth Psalm. Then all was sadness and
gloom to him. He seems to see the
Jews huddled together in captivity
There he seems to gather them tOgeth.
er, as the Jews today are gathered al
the foot of Mount Moriah, at the wall
ing place" under the walls of the ole
temple. Their captOrs come to then
and cry: Sing, sing! Sing as You uset
to sing in jerusalem But they an
swer. How shall we sing the Lords
song in a strange land?' Then you say
to me: This coming Christmas will
md me in q strange land. Why yor
say everything in my life is so differ
eht from what it used to be. So many
OF my loved ones are gone. NV daugh
ter was here last Christmas. she !.
gone now forever. Is it a mothers va
cant chair, or a fathers or a wife's n,
a husbands: Yes, l nave been q goof
giver to the grave. and that grave ha.
taken the best l have. 1t is not tn.
time for me to sing; it is the time fo,
sobs. Then | cannot give financially q,
l used to give. / have had many fnan
cial reverses during the past few
months. Then l cannot do as | used +,
do for others. My Owl health is grad
ually breaking. How can l sing a new
songt l am like Rubini and Borden
and CuzzOni and Pasta and Malibran
After their voices once went they wer,
gone forever" All. my friends, you car
sing the new song of hope and saliva
ton if you will. The great trouble OF
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