Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1921-03-30
The Portrait of Every Day Saint

Inc fOTCTdlC Oh Every Lay OdAtI
Sunday School Lesson for April 8,
4 1921
There are hermit souls that live with
In the place of their self-content
There are souls like stars that dwell
apart
In a fellow-less armament;
There are pioneer souls that blaze
their paths
Where highways never ran
But let me live by the side Of the road
And be friend to man.
So sings Sam Walter Foss of his
| ideal man. And this 18th chapter of
Romans is Paul's picture of the same
| Everyday Saint. This whole chap
ter extolls the character of the man
who is exemplfying the art of living
right with his neighbors.
HIS MORAL EXCELLENCES
And that is the test, after ali, Of
vital piety. Many a man can be as
| Nous as a saint in church on Sunday,
when he has on his Sunday clothes,
anu there is nothing to disturb him
| in the sermon, but when he goes out
| he practically says: "Gaodhy, reli-
| cIon, 1 will be back next Sunday"
| But what Paul is aiming at is not
| FIRST Day saints, not Latter-Day
saints, but Every Day Saints. Saints
| in the shop, saints i'll tie factory,
saints in the office, saints in the kit
chen, saints in the school. Saints
when insulted, snubbed, robbed, per-
secuted, traduced, and otherwise NAL
| treated.
ST. Paul calls the roll of the moral
| exce,lences of the Everyday saint.
| Let every christian put this measur-
| ing line on himself and see how near
he comes to being big enough to wear
these clothes. This is the measure
ment; The Everyday saint is:
Modest-verse 3. His emblem
is the lamb, not the peacock.
2 Generous-verse 8. You can't
be tight wad and christian at the
same time.
3 Faithful-verse g. A christian
boss needs an extra supply of grace.
Genial-verse 8. Some men can
| be spiteful even in showing mercy.
5 Sincere-verse 9. There is a
| good deal. of hypocracy masquerading
in the name of love.
6 Observation-Disclosures II. A lazy
christian is a fraud.
| OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Is. We
ought to be able to laugh or cry as
| the case warrants.
8 nthusiastic-verse II. A
chistian should be lightning express
instead Of slow freight.
9 agnanimous-verse 10. The
| true christian is a booster, not a
knocker.
10 Optimistic verse IL. The sun
always shines above the clouds.
II Devout-verse IL. He wears
out the knees of his trousers sooner
than the seat.
IL Forgiving-verse 20. The Goals
of fire the Everyday saint heaps on
the head of his enemy, does not burn
| him up, but melts him down. There
| are a lot of people who would like
| to interpret that text literally, but
even the people who stick to literal
| Interpretation of the Bible, would
scarcely undertake to treat their
enemies to a shovel of red hot Goals.
One has to use common sense even
in the Interpretation of the Scrip
lures.
st. Paul in this chapter is laying down
the rules by which christian ought
to be guided while living with
others. That is the problem; we have
to live with others. When p1an is
converted the safest thing would be to
take him straight to heaven, before
he has chance to backslide. But the
Lords way is to send him right out
as lamb in the midst Of wolves, and
keep him as safe from their jaws as
Daniel was in the den of lions, an
angel giving the beasts lockjaw dur
ing the whole time that the prophet
was incarcerated with them. We have
to live with people, whether or no.
And whether we live at peace with
them, or at war with them depends
| on us more than it does on them.
There are professed christians whom
nobody can live with but the Holy
Ghost. They are not worldly; they
are other worldly. They remind us
of the summit of Mount Everest,
covered with perpetual snow, white,
cold, glorious in the distance, but
never yet reached by man.
MAN A SOCIAL BEING
Now man is a social being. The
creator said in the beginning; 1t is