The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1904-10-07

that he too, will be able to grasp the
wealth which it pours forth on the
needy and the suffering, but he will
be disappointed The economy which
refuses to give help to those who need
proves canker to prosperity, and
those who withhold their charity come
to poverty. The command is that he
who loves God loves his brother also,
and the converse is true that he who
does not love his brother proves that
he does not love his God.
The Golden Rule with our ancestors
was a practically and not mere the
DRY. "Where are you going tonight,
mother?" the father often asked. you
look tired. You ought not to be going
out tonight" 81 know it," she would
say, 'but l must go. Our neighbor is
very sick. l am afraid she will not get
well. They have sent for me to come
and spend the night with her. l have
fixed everything for breakfast. If l
do not get back in time in the morning,
you can get along somehow"
The daintiest delicacies ever cooked
in the mothers stove were not for the
growing boys, with healthy, vigorous
appetites. They were for the poor CON
sumptive young girl who used to sit
day after day upon the neighbours We
randa in the noon sun, smiling at us
as we trudged away to school. My,
how we cast longing eyes at those jel-
lies! We then at times almost wished
we could be SICK at least for a little
while, to get a taste of them. And
how warm and comfortable the nit
tens looked which mother knitted for
the poor children living over the hill!
And when the farmer who lived down
in the valley was Frustrated with ty-
phoid fever and lay for month, hover
ing between life and death, don't you
remember how your father and the
neighbors took turns blowing his fields
and sowing his grain and getting in
his harvests? 4hey say that that sick
man was once a strong athlete How
ever that may be- when upon his sick
bed he heard what his neighbors had
done and how they had kept the wolf
of hunger from his door he cried like
a little child. He became just such
sick man as Ralph Conner depicted in
one of his backwoods tales.
Then the funerals of our fathers and
forefathers. They never allowed neigh
Dor to be buried like a dog or a friend
less pauper, as sometimes we do. No.
They literally practiced the gospel rule:
1T is better to go to the house of
than to the house of feast
ing" When their neighbors wept, they
wept. When their neighbors were
lowered into their open graves, they
themselves held the ropes that gently
let down the collins. Was not their
way better than our way? We live
and breathe only for self. Was not
the Christian helping hand our fore
fathers extended to the troubled ones
In their midst better than the icy
stare with which we regard our neigh
cause we have to wait for two min
utes while a funeral procession, wend-
ing its way to the cemetery, is holding
us at a crossing. The Golden Rule
which our forefathers practiced should
never be allowed to slip out of our
lives. The sick man who lives next
1oor to us should be just as carefully
cared for and nursed by us as if he
vas our own son.
Clubhouse Versus Home.
| deDlore also the icOnoclasm which
s robbing this country of the sanctity
lands are ruthlessly laid upon our an
,estors Sabbath observance and our
orefathers' doctrine of do to others
is you would have them do unto you"
They go further than this Those same
,rofane hands are also snatching away
'ur ancestral home enjOyments as well.
They are saying to modern man: Man,
10 not be an old fashioned granny. Do
lot think because your grandfathers
ound most of their enjoyment in the
ociety of your grandmOthers and your
lncles and aunts that you have to find
most of your enjoyment in the society
# your wives and children. Do not
brewer be stay at home Come; let
is build for you clubhouses, where you
an find nightly fellowship with strong
md brilliant men. Come out of that
title hencoop of yours. If you want
o give reception to your friends, do
lot give 1t in your home. 1t is too
mall. Hire big hall in the center of
he town. where you can receive in bet
err style There, instead of having a
ew cakes baked by your own hands
nd some Ice cream which you made in
our own freezers, you can have a fine
aterer furnish an elaborate supper; in
tead of having your own daughter
ing a simple song or your little boy
ecite a piece you can have the finest
# orchestras furnish the music. If
ou want speaking, you can hire pro-
essional elocutionist to recite. This
) an age of progress. The clubhouse,
be public reception halls, the large din
ants, just as certainly mark the evo-
ltion Of the human race in pleasure as
locomotive train is an improvement
yer the old prairie schooner or the tel
graph communication by electric wire
J an improvement over the cowboys
xpress' that forty years ago used to
AIRY the mail from New York to San
francisco before the great Union Pa
ific railroad was built"
Do you, my brother, think for one in
tant that the advent of the modern
clubhouse and public reception hall
nd Delmonico banquets is a moral i'm
rovement for modern men over the
Id fashioned quilting parties and mer-
ymaking frolics which once made the
alters of the old farmhouse creak
Ike the beams of a ship at sea and