Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1921-05-04
ILL TEMPERED PEOPLE

Some of the worst tempered peo-
pie in the world are members of the
church, in good and regular STAN
ing. And they are from the fact that
they never take any vacations. They
toll all the week at some profitable
occupation, and they give all their
spare time to experimenting Sunday
school, listening to sermons without
the ability to go to sleep) serve on
endless committees, attend all sorts of
conventions, try to put into practice
all kinds of impossible projects, take
all the criticisms and hypercriticisms
that always come to earnest people,
rush about everything they undertake,
have all their irons in the fire at
| once, develop their hearts at the ex-
pense of all their other functions,
and die before their time. They are
| such good people that the devil tries
to kill them off as quick as possible,
for they keep him busy heading off
their fine schemes. Such people ought
| to understand that it is as much their
| duty to take care of their health as
to go to the sacrament. A man can
commit suicide with the sword of the
Spirit as certainly as with revolver
shot, Life is a treasurer to be guard
ed, not to be recklessly pitched over
board. 1t is an outrage to die when
one ought to live. / think some people
will have to explain to the gate keep
er of heaven how it was that they
arrived before they we're expected.
To fire up the boilers so that they
explode in mid-Alantic shows poor
: judgment on the part of the navig-
ator. The disposition of the old-time
Mississippi river pilot to pass every
thing on the route, blew up many a
steamer and cost many a life. Many
a train rushing through the country
at record-breaking speed comes to a
halt through a hot axle And the
same thing is true Of men. The rush
of business produces>a hot box. Every
| normal person ought to be doing bust
ness regularly with old DR.. Quiet.
RECREATION SHOULD BE RE-
CREATION
The selection Of the text in the Cos
pei of Mark is an unfortunate choice
for teaching on rest, for on the oc-
| caslon noted there was no particular
rest obtained although Jesus and his
disciples fled away for that purpose.
Their object was good although in
stead of rest there was long hard
day Of service for himself and his
helpers, and it was followed by a
night of prayer for him and storm
for the disciples. Recreation should
be recreation. That man or that
family who spends the day of rest, the
Lords day, in tearing about country
IN an automobile, eating up the roads
in frantic effort to see how many
miles they can compass before dark,
and who return at night all tagged
out and exhausted, have not had a
vacation; they have had delirium.
They have not only broken the Sab
bath they have broken all the laws
| of health, and will reap as they have
| sowed. When Christ saw the multi
tude IN the wilderness who had fol-
lowed him, as people flock to the cir
| Gus. He made them sit down on the
grass, and he made them do it in an
orderly way, not like mob. Then
me began to teach many things" and
| without doubt he told them some plain
truths. Thus he got them quiet, took
the fret out of them, Gained their
nerves, cooled off their high spirits,
allowed nature to get in some good
work on their fevered bodies. And
after they had cooled off, he fed them.
CHRIST AT A PICNIC
DR.. Diet was right on hand.
Christ fed those 5000 people in the
wilderness, not with indigestible and
inappropriate food, but with good, old
fashioned, homely, nutritious bread
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