Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-05-23

| often necessary TO tear down and clear
| away the walls Of an old family home
| stead Pvt no man has a right to tear
down or destroy anything unless ne
| can erect q better in its place The
| most nhschievOus of all social reform
| ers is the destructive iconoclast who
| has nothing to offer us in the place of
| the institutions he would tear down
| We know our social system is imper-
! feet, but we would not have it men.ed
by an anarchist, who. like the leaders
| of the French revolution of 1893. would
| commence by demolishing the good
and the evil together. 1t is easy
| enough to be a censorious critic 1t is
| not so easy a matter to furnish a bet
| ter for that which you deride. l re-
member mdny years ago. as an imag-
| NATIVE boy. | read that strange, weird.
| horrible story called Caesars Col
umn." In fascination l followed its
| author step by step as he deftly tore
| the beautiful patterns of modern So
| ciety into shreds. In horror | read on
| as he denounced the social status. not
! as the generation of Noah was de-
| strOyed by this old earth as a water
| logged craft, shipping tidal wave after
| tidal wave, but as a huge column of
| piled up corpses. But as the years
| have passed by and boyish magma
ton has given place to sober thought
the flames and the smoke arising from
the funeral pyre of Caesars column,
embeIlished with dead bodies, have
| grown less and less. The great air
| ships which circled about in the heav-
ems as great fiocks of destroying birds
| have collapsed. Why? Because l see
as man that, though Ignatius Don
| nelly might advocate the destruction
of society by finding fault with it, yet
with his brain he could not construct
| for us a better Utopia Lake Paul.
never ridicule man. never probe for
| his faults, unless at the same time you
| can show him how to correct those
| faults. Never refer to mans malady
| or defOrmity unless you can tell him of
| a doctor who can apply a remedy for it.
Religion That Helps.
Why were the crew and the passen-
| gers of the AleXandrian corn ship of
| good cheer? Because Paul was a man
| Of Christian common sense as well as
| of supernatural visions. He knew that
| the only religion that could really help
man must be a religion that could
help him in the present life as we'll as
| fit him for a life beyond the grave. 1t
was not only the promise of safety in
| the future that he gave those people,
| but the sound common sense counsel
of preparation, by keeping up their
strength for insuring that safety.
what are you driving at anyway"
says some one. SIS Paul a mere by
gienic lecturer?" He is more than
that, but he does not think it beneath
| his dignity. after seeing the vision of
| God, to tell the crew and the passen-
gers of the Alexandrian corn ship to
| look after their physical necessities.
| He does not think it irreligious to gath
| er the men and the women of the
doomed ship together and say: Men,
you are going to be saved. but God
will never do his part unless we are
| ready to do ours. Now, tomorrow we
are going to ali get safely to land, but
there is to be a big drain upon our
| physical resources. Some of US are
| now completely tagged out. We have
| not had a good meal for nearly two
| weeks. Let the cooks go and prepare
| the most nOurishing dinner they can;
then let US by turns gather in the cab
| ms. old and young alike, and eat a
| good. hearty repast. We need faith
| +1,o ole e.
body. Some people think the most
dramatic episode of Paups life was
when he stood upon Mars hill and ar
gued with the Greek philosophers; 9TH
ers when he pleaded for his life before
Agrippa. l think the most impressive
II dramatic incident was when he was
standing upon the rocking. heaving
deck Of a vessel whose hull was grad
ually filling with water and telling the
passengers and the crew to eat and
look after their bodies. as God would
surely save them on the morrow.
Care of the Body.
1t Is surprising how little some peo-
pie care for the body in times of sick
ness. heard my mother say some
years ago: Il was just down to see
Elder Nichols. He was morbid and
depressed. / said to him, What have
you eaten today. Mr.. NichollsY oh
he answered, i have taken nothing but
little tea and a cracker. cannot
eat Ny l said, this will not dol
You must eat or you will never get
strong" So l went and cooked him an
egg and made him some good toast
and procured for him little fruit. and
before / left he was as bright and
cheerful as man could be. 1t does
seem to me that half Of our lack of
faith in God comes from physical de-
pietion and not from spiritual weak
ness" Yes, my mother was right.
The same law that applied to Elder
Nichols of the Brooklyn tabernacle
applied to the passengers and crew of
the Mediterranean corn ship. When
they saw Paups faith they believed.
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