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

Adams did Hancock and John Adams
and Otis and Joseph Warren and Quin
cy. But, for the most part, men work
best in any great cause when individ
ually they are working for themselves
1t is not natural for a young lady at
reception To be particularly pleased
when most of the young men are how
ering about her rivals chair as Q
swarm of bees might circle about q
beautiful flower. Neither is it natural
for any one TO truly rejoice in another's
success when that success in one sense
seems to undermine his own success"
Yes. my friend, you are right 1t is
not natural for a sinful man to IRE
joice with those that do rejoice" But
the gospel of Jesus Christ can make
what is unnatural for sinful man nat
ural for a redeemed man. THE hard
est act of life is to get any man to be
willing to completely sink his individ-
uality in a cause" once wrote General
Samuel Armstrong, the founder and
first principal of the Hampton inst
tute. 1T is comparatively easy to get
rich men to endow a scholarship or to
erect building or to do this or that
for which their names will be known
far and wide, yet 1t is almost impossi-
BILE to get any man to give his money
to help out the ordinary running ex-
penses of a college, which have to be
met and must be met right away"
Difficult, is IT, to rejoice with a man
xr-hn 10 rOfninoC nd 20 ha1n h
success? Yes, but l believe the grace
of the Lord Jesus Christ is even able
to accomplish that wonder, and it can
accomplish it, o man, in your heart,
SO that you can go to your successful
brother and say: Brother, give me
thy hand l rejoice with you in your
success. How can l help that success
to become greater?"
why Not Reioice9
And why should you not rejoice in
your brothers success? When does
your brother need your true help and
friendship more than when he is scor-
ing a success? Is not the time of sue
cess just the time when he is most apt
to be thrown off his guard and destroy
ed by evil temptations? Is not that
the critical moment when the Satanic
tempters are ready to scrape and fawn
about him, as the seductive young fiat
terers did about Rehoboam when he
went to Shechem to be crowned, as
they did about young King Charles II.
after the English restoration, as they
did about poor Louis XVI. when he
came to the French throne only q
lad twenty years Of age? Do you
not feel that your successful brother
needs your affectionate and hearty CO.
operation in this his hour Of success
rather than your sneers and your oppro-
brium? 1t Is almost time for you to
cease sitting around and sulking be-
cause of his victories. Do not try to
undermine his usefulness by pulling
down the temple Of fame which he has
reared, even as Samson pushed against
and cracked the pillars which tumbled
the roof of the temple of Dagon down
upon the skulls of the screaming and
crouching Philistines.
If brother needs your help in time
" y
all the more Ito weep with him when
he weeps?" Does he not need you to
come to his sympathetic aid when all
the world seems black and when it tru-
~ seems, on account Of his Wrongdo-
ings, that he can never become no
Bile man again? Does he not need your
help when, f1oundering in the quick
-, lD@ 70 ho CnrfQ 6
by God and man alike and to be only
the sport and plaything of devils?
And does he not also need your help
when, in the awful hours of black
temptation, he is about to yield as we'll
as in the black hours Of remorse after
he has done wrong?
If a man VINO has done wrong or is
about to do wrong needs your help.
how much more does a woman in her
hours of trial? L always had great
deal Of sympathy for the prayer of
that woman who said. 20 God, keep
me from going over the precipice of
sin, for if my feet ever leave the path
of virtue even thou canst not bring
me back to the straight path again"
And yet how many women there are
today being torn and lacerated by the
thickets of sin who could lie brought
back to live honest, pure, true, respect
able lives if only the Christian men
and the women in the name of Christ
would go forth to bring them back!
Inc beginning Of my text opens amid
the shouts and gay laughter of the
| merrymakers. 1t closes with the sobs
and means and the groans of breaking
| hearts. Brother, sister, will you TODAY
in the name of Christ weep with
those that weep" Will you stretch
forth the broad, strong, loving hand of
rescue and say, Brother, sister. in the
| name of Jesus Christ, give me tby
hand, and Twill help thee up to God.
up to a heavenly and an earthly res
cueT' Will you do this for Christ?
VIII you weep with those that weep''
and help others, no matter how far
astray their sinful feet may go or are
| about to go?