Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-05-02

are OlS0O0eSL eau De ulSuOuesl 100.
That is the way Mr.. So-and-so was
supposed to have had his financial
start in life. But, of course. as he is
so rich and generous with his money
the church and the world are ready to
overlook this sin of his YOUTH A
great temporal success is held by some
to atone for the sinful means by which
that success is won.
Emptiness of Temporal Success.
Think not this illustration purely i'm
Sginary. l am speaking about one Of
whom Dame Rumor is telling this
story at this moment And yet my
brother, as l relate this incident, /
want you to answer this question,
Does God ever allow US to make any
successes true in his sight, at the ex-
pense of our Christian integrity? Will
he forgive us our past sins because we
bring to him our gold and silver and
| precious jewels that have been stolen
| from the Golfers of another's treasure
vaults? What is worth having is worth
| paying for; but we always pay too high
| for our temporal successes when we
| pay for them with the coin of deceit
and dishonesty and theft and with
| gold smelted by unlawful and immoral
| fires. "A good name is rather to be
chosen than great riches" That means.
| though you pile upon one side of your
| scales all the gold buried under thou
| sand hills, and all the securities that
make the money markets fawn at your
| oil I,n
| Gc-conda mine, and yet put upon the
| other side of that moral scale one dis
| honest act by which those riches were
| won, in the sight Of God and Christian
men you have paid for your wealth at
too high a price. You have paid for
| them at the expense of your Christian
| integrity.
But there is still another very foolish
| sacrifice many men and women make
for temporal successes of life. That is
! the respect and love which all good
men and women should feel toward
| their fellow men. 1t is one thing to be
| careful about our, Christian integrity.
| that others may think we'll of us. But
! it is another and a more important
thing that we do not foolishly sacrifice
our Christian integrity, lest we lose
our respect and love for our neigh
| bors
| A Thought Illustrated
What do l mean by this statements
Let me illustrate my thought MY
| father, in an address on the Bright
Side Of Things" began in this wise:
'"This world always appears to man
in exactly the same colOrs as are the
cOlored glasses through which he looks.
| If he uses green glasses, it is a stupid
world; if red glasses, a martial world:
if yellow glasses, a jaundiced world;
| but if crystal glasses, the same bright
| glorious world in which the birds sing
| and the brooks gurgle, and the young
people and the old people love; the
same bright glorious world as God
| made it." What, again." you ask. lis
the meaning of this?' Why, simply
that if you are dishonest in your &C.
lions, you will think all other people
are dishonest; if you are mean, you
will think others are mean. II you
are deceitful, you will be looking only
for bad motives in others. But if you
are pure and good. and true and low
ing, you will intuitively begin to seek
only what is good and true and loving
in others. Therefore, my brother, when
| the dishonest man seeks temporal
success at the expense of Christian in
tegrity he is always doing it at the
expense of his respect for his neigh
bors. AS a bad man. he always feels
as though he was surrounded by bad
| men; while. on the other hand, if a
true man absolutely refuses to win
temporal success, unless he himself
remains good and true and pure. he is
always rich in his earthly associates
Why? Because good man always
feels that he is surrounded by good
neighbours
The Price Too High
1t must be an awful sensation for a
man who has sacrificed his Christian
integrity to feel that he always has to
live in the city of Dishonesty" upon
the boulevard Of Deceit" 1t must be
an awful thing to feel that every per-
son who comes in touch with you is
prompted to seek your friendship with
| L
heartrending scene. During the bonn
bardment of Charleston. S. c.. young
girl in one of the principal mansions
Of that fair city of the south was stand
ing with her soldier lover before the
marriage altar. Just as the chaplain
was about to pronounce the twain one,
there sounded a ringing Of she'll 1t
burst into the room, and the young
bride dropped dead at the feet of her
lover Oh. that death was horrible,
terrific. That was a tragedy. But the
scene of horror which met the young
bridegroOm's eyes that night is not so
horrible TO me as must be the taunting-
ly agoniZing feelings of bad man who
thinks that every marriage altar is
built upon the hard rock Of selfshneSs,
that all friendly greetings are merely
the fawning words uttered by hypoc-
risy. that every one with whom we