Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1906-12-31

are lined up between, with the Two
places of honor next to the mother re-
served for the two youngest in the
family.
No: there is not one missing. AS you
look about the long table at your Sun
day dinner today you will find them all
there. Many day has passed since
the first day Of last July that you
would have given good deal to nave
the whole family about you, as you
have this Sabbath morning In the
first place, no sooner did the SCHOOLS
close last summer than the children
went everywhither. One of your boys
went camping, one of your daughters
went to visit school friend III the
east or on the ranch, your wife had to
take the sick child down to the sea-
shore. you as the husband and father
were away for some time on business
trip, and when you returned you had
to spend most of your time in the city.
You snatched your Sundays off and a
few days here and there to go to the
| country, but for the most part you
were alone Now the family is reunit-
| ed Schools have opened. The boys
and girls have to come back to their
| books. The many dangers of travel
are past Say what you will, you wor-
ried a great deal about that boy of
yours using that gun. Yes; you are all
home again, safe and well. Thank God
today for your reunited families.
lament Amenv' / can hear from doz-
ems of grateful lips as great climax
to this domestic thanksgiving.
Thanks For Reunited Families.
Then, again. | want you to thank
God that you have returned to the
work of the store, or the factory. or the
office. Let me see; how long were you
out in the country? Two weeks? Three
weeks? Ten days? Oh, it does not
matter much how long. ] know one
fact about you. and that is you We're
away long enough to know that the
hardest work a strong, healthy man
ever has to do is to learn how to do
nothing. When you left the city some
months ago you went off in high hopes.
Nothing to do; nothing to do was
your congratulatory cry. The first
night YOU went to bed in the country
you said to yourself: Now l am going
to stay in bed just as long as / wish.
| am not going TO get up until il
O'Clock if / do not desire" Did you
stay in bed until II o'clock? Oh, no.
You arose at your regular time. Old
habits cannot be broken in day.
Then after a few fishing trips and a
few mountain climbs you began to
grow restless. You wanted TO get back
to work. Then. If / mistake not, it has
been your good fortune during this va
cation 10 be thrown with Il few chron
ically unhappy men-unhappy because
, they have nothing to do. Perhaps oil
account of inherited wealth or from
the fact that they have made money
they retired from business to have ;
good time. What a miserable mistake
they have made. Instead of being hap
ny with nothing to do, you have foun(
that they are the most unhappy o
: men They spend most of their time il
playing nursegirl or picking up pin
or in finding fault with their children
or in making the lives oftheir wive
as miserable as their own The simpl
fact is full blooded man like you ha
: no business loafing around the hous
with nothing to do. If you loiter abou
/ the house thus you will degenerate int
? nothing but a first class ''fusser" an
q genuine masculine nuisance. Yo
: know that you never felt happier tina
: when you boarded the street car tn
) other day and started for the store. I
Y Inv II 1fl..n6
healthy men who had retired froI
: business because they had amassed
competency | never envied one {
: them. / have always thanked Coz
- first, that he has given me health: SCI
- ondiy, that he has compelled me /
: work. Thank God today that you hay
- been able to cast off the inactivities
:, q vacation and have been compelled |
. go back to the daily treadmills of MAJ
- ual and mental toll. The financi
Il struggles of life not only earn brea
"a joys for our own healthful physic
n and mental existence
or Welcome Back to Church.
id But as | welcome you back to Il
i" store and to the domestic firesid
It's and to your reunited families l al,
in welcome you back to your church hon
he and to your family pew l WELDON
ut you home to the household of faith
on [ welcome you home to Gods tempt
M where you can worship God better al
ny more simply and deyotedly than in al
es. other church in all this round plane
us | welcome you back from this pull
ne and to this altar.
FOR What do / mean by making such
M statement as this? You may have s
rs, in finer churches than your own VIII
ng you have been away; you may ha
lot heard more eloquent preachers TIL
{ a Your own; you may have had yo
the souls lifted by grander music, me
our exquisitely rendered than you hear
your own church, but has that Civ
you distaste for the home service