Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-10-24

COACHES attached TO his engines ten
der. II your true arm fails, then other
lives besides your own must suffer OF
account of your weakness" When
Christian sympathy speaks thus an av-
erage man will suddenly stop and say
to himself: What! Does any one care
FOR me? Is my life an IMPORTANT factor
r other l.vesf If this be true, l must
ue careful where my feet go, how
laugh, how | cry and what ] do. Ny
life Is not an independent entity. My
spilled blood will stain other garments
besides my own"
The dependence Of other lives upon
our lives-is not this realization a
mighty safeguard against man run
ming into needless physical dangers as
well as spiritual? The other day
sailor rowed you out into the ofing or
bay TO take you fishing. There was
strong breeze blowing beyond the point
Of jutting rocks which protected the
bay, but the fish were jumping every
where, and the temptation to go was
very great. But no sooner did you OBJ
serve the "crankiness" of the sailboat
toward which you were rowing and in
which you were to sail than you turned
to your companion and said: IL am
not going out today. That boat is not
safe II is leaking now" Why were
you not willing to go? Are you any
more of a coward now than you were
ten or fifteen years ago, when you
int
without fear? Oh, no, not that. No
one could charge you with being
coward. Personally you would just
as lief run the risk now as you did
fifteen years ago, but now you have
wife and children, which was not so
fifteen years ago. Now you have 9TH
ers dependent upon you. Now you
cannot afford for their sakes to need
lessly risk your life
why They Were Reckless.
recklessP was one day asked Lord
Kitchener, the British general of the
Boer war. Without any hesitation he
answered: Bachelor soldiers. Not that
they are at heart drawer, but when
man has a wife and children depend
his life more carefully on their &C
count and does not run into any useless
dangers" Now, my friends, when a
true father is careful not to run into
physical dangers, fearing he may de-
prive his wife and children Of their
oil ic hu
law Of reasoning the more unwilling to
run into spiritual dangers and tempta-
tons If he realizes that the joys Of 9th
ers, In q spiritual sense, are wrapped
up In his own joys and that sorrows
in other lives will be caused by his
sins? Lord Bacon, In one of his match
less essays, once said, After a man
marries he surrenders into the hands
of success his wife and children as
hostages" By that Lord Bacon meant,
Every man who is married is handi-
capped in the race of life" He meant
that a man becomes timid when he has
a wife and children. In the crises of
life, when success is won by the man
who casts everything into the scale,
the married man hesitates because he
is afraid to risk the future of his wife
and children. But he overlooked the
fact that his love for his family will
keep him from running foolish risks.
So when a man enlarges his circle and
makes the welfare Of others his con-
Germ he has an inspiration to a better,
truer, nobler life He shrinks from
wrongdoing because he knows that he
will injure others by his example. The
ascetic has only himself to consider
but the man who has entered into 9th
er mems joys and sorrows knows that
his fall or his good life may affect the
lives of others.
What the Scripture Means.
But how is Christian sympathy to
enter truly into the existence of an
others life? First, my text SAYS. Re
| Joice with them that do rejoice" Do
you know what that means? Why. the
Interpretation is simple enough to IN
derstand. 1t means when you see an
old school friend getting ahead in life,
when you see a brother succeeding at
the law or in medicine or in the pulpit,
when you see sister living in a finer
house than yours or driving in q car
riage while you walk, or when you
know that your brother-in-law is able
to take his family and children to the
country to get back the flush of health
to their pale cheeks, while you cannot
| afford to go, that you must not be jeal-
Gus of their successes. If you are a
minister and you hear of another
church holding a great revival and
gathering in new converts by the
scores, you are to go to the minister of
that church with warm, loving Cos
pei handshake and say: Brother, l
congratulate you. We are praying for
you and the great good you are doing.
May God bless your new members and
make them mighty agents for Christi!
1t means that If you are a candidate
for some Office and another is elected
| to the presidency of that society in
your stead then you are to pitch in and
work just as hard for the successful
| outcome of your successful rivals ad-