Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1906-09-24

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''Oh, Absalom, my son, my son, my poor
dead boy. Oh, Absalom, my son, my son,
my poor boyr' He kept this crying and
wailing up for hours and days. At last
Joab heard of the kings ingradtude.
He walked into the royal chamber and
said: my king. have you any heart?
Can you not realize the sacrifices we
have made for you? Can you not come
forth and thank us for shedding our
blood, instead of weeping over that IL
/ centious, unfilial child who tried 10
/ murder your And today, o man, L
/ ask, cannot you stop weeping over thess
/ lives of some people wh9lhaye been I'M
/ true to YOU aud open your eyes to the
sacuiices of those who have been de-
voting themselves to your comfort and
happiness for the last ten or perhaps
twenty years?
You have lost a child. He died as
/ the result of his sins, and you know it.
/ Yet you weep and cry for that child as
though he had been to you a saint.
What about the other children? What
about those lovely daughters and that
fine young son who are growing up by
your side? Are you just to them? Do
you try to make home happy for them:
| Are you true to them? You have dis
solute father oh" you keep COM
planning, IF my father were only what
he ought to be!' Well, he is not. You
cannot help that. But what about your
mother? Have you ever thanked God
that you have such a mother? Have
not her noble example and her tender
sacrifices been enough to start out a
dozen boys like you right, even though
YOUR father has not been what he ought
to be! And yet the strange fact OF life
is this: Most of our modern King Da-
vids will go ON whining and grOaning
and complaining about one person who
has done them wrong and neglect to
show gratitude to the scores OF noble
souls about them who are doing all in
their power to make them happy and
blessed.
A Brave Girl.
Oh, the meanness Of not trying to do
all we can for those who are doing ev-
erything for US! Some years ago there
Joined my church one of the bravest
young MOlIlGu 0N I'll h1CNs 4AS1 ANtLL1CA
died when she was young girl. Then
!. the executors robbed the widowed
, mother of her all The young girl, who
: was brought up in luxury, went forth
: to earn her daily bread. The mother
} never seemed to care or to realize what
3 that daughter was doing. From morn
/ ing until night she kept up her never
g ending series of complaints She com
e planned about being left a widow; she
d complained about loss of money; she
n complained because she had to live
: where she did and that her daughter
{ had to be away all day long. But"
f said one day, madam, you surel!
n should be thankful for that girl o.
l. yours, \ nObler girl l never knew. 0
d course you have to be alone, but thinl
o of her down at the office working. I
d is not very pleasant for her" Eyes,
g said the complaining old lady, Il sup
pose l ought to be thankful and no
N complain, but it is my disposition. an
;e l can't help it, All, me! How man.
IS of us are like that dissatisfied old lady
IT How many of us are like King David
q We brood over our misfOrtunes so Ion
it that we not only make life miserabl
le for ourselves, but add to the burden
Y, of those who are striving to make on
II lives happy and blessed.
30 But King David was awakened t
" more than a sentimental realization {
to his blessings. General Joab gave
D. him. moral and spiritual galvan
lie shock which startled his hands, b
Sc ears. his eyes, as never before. d
s made the king leap to his feet and ste
Of his foolishness. General JOab pract
cally said to King David: 1T is IL
n only mean and contemplate for you
~ ignore the sacrifices your people ha7
d. made for you, but it is more. Ih
NIB foolish crying proves to the world tn
eff YOU are unfit longer to be king.
he YOU do not stop it your best frien'
,e. will turn against you. Within fe
nd weeks you will have another INSURE
nd ton upon your hands, compared
inf which the late uprising will seem on
he a plaything You will be hurled fro
no your throne, and another will ia
, a your place, and that rightly, for if
is man does not do as he ought to do
DIS | WOrlu Will llTOW U1L1 dSluc, anu Ac w
len have no one to blame but himself
id, All, that was a brave act of Genel
1rn Joab 1t was one of the bravest az
To- of his life. He was willing, if nee
en- sary, to sacrifice his own life in orc
md that his friend and king might see
inc error of his ways and guard again
ON the danger lurking at his feet 4
of you and 1 willing to be as true to {
friends as Joab was to his king?
An Easy Task.
cor 1t is easy to praise our friends WI
mr. they do right or to defend them Wh
o,s they have injustice perpetrated again
nm them. The story is told that ma
TO years ago the officers of the army
ted the king of Hanover refused to ha
oh anything to do with a young ieutena
for who had been promoted on the field
to battle for gallantry. They claim
II that he was not their social equal e7