Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1905-05-22

throw IN an away before fermentation
commences" Why? Because inevita-
bly, If person harbors i'll will toward
another he will focus his vision simply
and entirely upon the evil which man
does and not upon the good he is capa-
BILE of doing and has done. He is like
a ranchman or a farmer who peevishly
goes forth and with his ak hews down
, whole orchard merely because the
San Jose scale honeycombs a few trees.
He Is like lapidary who throws away
q valuable jewel because he has found
one flaw In it. Because Of some
fault of character, because of some
weakness of nature, because of some
meanness, because Of some poor, little,
petty, fault finding disposition or some
deprecatory jealousy in the makeup Of
your friend you are ready to turn your
back upon him and let the future part
you as the waves of the sea separate
the new hemisphere from the old.
Only First Ofense.
One offense Is often sufficient to
break up a lifetime Of friendship.
What is the matter, Mr.. So-and-soF'
/ ask. HAS any one done you an IN
jury? You look angry enough to make
somebody suffer-" well, / should say
So" you answer. You know my old
friend, John Newman We have been
for years the closest of associates. We
grew up together as boys. We have
had many business dealings in COM
mon. Some months ago he came to
me and said: Harry, 1 have fine herd
of cattle out in western Kansas. L
want you to help me weather the win
ter through l lent him $500. He has
not only lost every cent of it, but as
far as / can make out he lied to me
about the cattle He never owned a
horn or a hoof. He squandered my
money in Wall street" "Is that SO?
What are you going to doP Moth
ing" you answer. "What can do ex-
cept contemptuously leave him alone"
+, Yes, you can do that if you will. But
tell me, friend, has John Newman ever
failed you before? 1 grant that he was
not truthful. / grant that he did not
do right. But are you going to let that
one act, that one sin, blot out the five
hundred good deeds he has done you
in the past and the five hundred good
deeds he would do for you in the fu-
ture if you would only forgive him
this once and give him another chance?
Because a gun misses fire once or
twice or thrice shall the hunter throw
it aside as useless? Yet that is the
way some of us deal with those who
have done US wrong Suppose you
were in the position of very dear
friend of mine some years ago. He
took a young man into his employ and
made him his right hand man in the
business. He confded to him his most
treasured secrets and purposes. One
day that young man, under great
temptation, betrayed my friend. He
tried to start a rival business and to
entice away all his clerks and steal his
employers agencies. He failed. What
would you do under such conditions?
| For the one error, the one mistake,
would you blind your eyes to many
years of faithful service? ''Let not the
sun go down upon your wrath" You
! had a right to be angry for a little
while. In one sense, you had right
| to strike back. But do not bear that
grudge any longer. Forget and. for
give" is the meaning Of the Pauline
commandment
Home Rules Waterloo.
But the danger Of harboring resent
ment is not limited to the breaking of
friendships; we m3y suffer it to preju-
dice us against good causes. Try as
hard as we will, we must and do asso-
ciate the success or the failure Of the
onward movements of great principles
and causes with the personalities of
our friends and neighbors. When
| Charles Stewart Parnell was dethroned
from the respect and affections of his
colleagues the Irish cause of home rule
| met its Waterloo. Home rule was de-
feated at the time when the palm of
victory was about to be grasped by tke
outreaching hands of it's advocates
When Mark Antony loved his sinful
Egyptian enchantress more than he
loved Rome, then the mightiest wal
chieftain who ever trod in the foot
steps of julius Caesar saw his follow
ers fee his standards, even as the birds
of the forests seek the shelter of theil
nests before, the tempest blasts of the
onsweeping tornado. When Mirabear
breathed his last and was thought t.
be untrue by his henchmen, then tn,
royalists' cause was defeated il
France, and the guillotine had to b.
drenched with the blood of a Mari
Antoinette and a Louis XVI. Sa,
what you may, every man natural,
represents a cause or principle apar
from his personality. When you bea
grudges against men you bear grudge
against causes. When you divorce you
affections from individuals you los
your fidelity to the causes and move
ments which those men, in more thai
one sense, may typify.
Let me illustrate. Why are you pre-
udiced against the church of the Lor'
Jesus Christ? You are not bad. Yo
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