Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1905-10-16


by my side; / must have this interpre-
ter of dreams here to warn me against
any dangers which are ahead. He
must keep me from doing wrong again"
But. no. That was not the chief but
ler's way. After the different court Of
ficials had congratulated him he hunt
ed up his gold chalices and looked at
their sides. There he sees his own
smiling face. Then he said: "Aha,
am safe! am safe! No danger now!
l am safe forever Then In his sup
posed safety he forgot the warning
signals of the past. Perhaps he fell
into the same evil ways which ne once
followed, which evil ways may ulti-
mately have caused his execution, like
the bakers. His decomposing flesh
may have been eaten by the hyenas
and the vultures who banquet off the
dead bodies Of all Egyptian criminals.
My brother, can it be that we are for
getting our past misfortunes? Have
we forgotten the awful results Of our
past sins? Do we forget the patience
and the pardon and the love of God
which once rescued US, as the butler
was pardoned from death by his royal
master?
ForEetful of Past.
The misfortunes Of the past can be
reproduced In our lives if we 60 on re-
producing the evils which once caused
our downfall. The forgetfulness of the
butler may be compared to the dyspep-
tics forgetfulness of his physical ago.
MES. Nature takes him in hand and
fays him with scorpions. By eating
what he ought not to eat some night
he nearly dies. He is careful one day,
one week, perhaps one month. Then
the past sufferings are forgotten The
cravings Of gormand are satisfied.
Another night of horror or perhaps
forgetfulness is like that Of the drunk
ard Delirium tremens has gripped
him. He imagineS serpentS are crawl
ing over his bed. Demons, with eyes
of burning Goals of fire, are glazing at
him. Wild beasts, with their angry
roar and their glittering white teeth
and their lolling red tongues and their
springing upon him. But in a few
weeks he feels so well and strong that
he forgets his past terrors. Another
glass of fiery liquid turns his brain into
a madhouse. The butler Is like you and
me If we forget the past evils which
we brought upon ourselves through our
past sins. o God, teach us never to
take our eyes off the awful precipices
of temptation over which we have tum-
bled again and again into the yawning
chasms Of despair unless it be to raise
them in gratitude to the face of our
Saviour, who, though exalted to the
right hand of God, remembers us still.
Let us never forget our rescue and our
deliverer as the butler forgot Joseph.
But 1 must hasten on. | brand this
butler of my text with one Of the black
est marks ever placed on a mans
brow. 1t is as black as the mark upon
the forehead of Cain, who killed his
brother Abel. He is not only blind to
his own interests, but he is an migrate
He has turned his back upon the one
friend who was true to him in his time
of difficulty. He is like miner l was
reading about who discovered rich
vein of gold ore. He went and showed
it to a friend that they might be
sharers together in the wealth. Then
this supposed friend slew the miner
that he might possess all the gold HIM
self. This butler was not only a per-
jurer; he was an migrate as we'll
That Good Sister.
Is the ingratitude of the chief butler
to Joseph duplicated, o man, in your
life? You are a successful lawyer.
Your income may be ten or twenty
thousand dollars a year. You are one
of the most honored men in the COM
munity. How did you get a start in
life? "Oh," you answer with pride, 81
started myself When l came to this
| city l did not have a friend here.
worked my own way through college.
was a poor farmers boy. 1 am a self
made man." Are you? Oh, you miser-
/ able bOaSter! You are a contemplate
/ butler of Pharaoh's court. You have
! forgotten your Joseph. You are no
more of a self made man than l am.
! Away back on your fathers farm you
/ had an older sister. She was the pack
+ horse Of the family. She wanted to
| get an education and go to college, but
she could not. She did, however, edu-
cate herself enough to become a coun-
try schOolteacher. But what she could
not do herself she set her heart on
your doing. You We're her only broth
er. When you We're little fellow run
ming barefooted about your fathers
farm, caring more for fishing and play
ing baseball with the boys than for
work, she would call you in and saw.
Nov, Samuel, you must come and get
your lessons. Remember, some day Won
are going to college. You must study
hard. You are to be a great, rich ~
yer for sister to be proud Of"
You finished your course at the coun-
try school. Your father said you must
go to work on the farm. NO, father. IS
said she; samuel must go to college .
But I cannot afford it, well" she