Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-06-16
CIR fan1tlp Girtle.
Tendencies to Good and to Evil

i AcuucAClSS 10 TOOu anu w 6VA1'
Much, or most, of the good which we enjoy
comes to US through our own exertions. Our
whole constitution is framed on this idea of our
own working to secure needed and desired good.
The Supreme Disposer has dalt with US in the
inner world of our souls, as in the outer world
of nature. He has not made creation garden
Of ever produced and undecaying frutagc, but
rough with weeds and woods. He has written
the hard soil and rude forest all over with the
same sentence that is recorded in the Bible, " In
the sweat of thy face shall thou eat bread" So
like decree, stamped in the constitution of the
soul, commands us to earn spiritual good by our
own labor We are made not good, but to be-
come good. Various tendencies 10 good and
evil struggle together in the human breast.
There is wilderness to be subdued and made
fruitful temptests Of passion to be calmed, luxn.
rance of worldliness and sensuality to be Topped
off There must be tendencies to evil, else there
would be no virtue, no merit in being good.
lhslssonly could our spiritual power be brought
yiK, and our highest glory consummated. He
only is great and good who has overcome evils
und foes. Is not man noble being for having
had the material world TO subdue and cultivate /?
And may he not be a noble being also for the
inward roughness of own nature, for the very
wi|dness of passions, for the very hardness of
that soil where his virtues are sown2 Yes; here
is another region for labor more severe, and
dominion more extensive. Here are chances
for glory beyond all the dreams of ambition;
for che that ruleth his own spirit is greater than
be that taketh ity."-.4rthvS Home Gazette
TRiADs.-Three things to love- courage,
genteness, affectionateness.
Three things to admlte--intellectua power,
dignity, gracefulness.
Three things to hate-cruey, arrogance, in.
gratitude.
Three things to reyerence--religion, justice,
shf.denal.
Three things to delight in--beauty, frankuess,
freedom.
Three things 10 wish or-health, friends,
cheerful spirit.
Three things to pray for-faiii, peace, purity
of heart.
Three things to like-cordiality, good hu
NOR, mirthfulness.
Three things to suspec,-aattery, sanc,imo-
>>i1eousness sudden affection.
Three things 10 avod-idleness, oquacity
fippant jesting.
Three things 10 cultivate good books, good
friends, good humor.
Three things to contend for--honor, CO untry,
friends.
Three things to govern-temper, impulse, the
tongue.
HEATHEN vs.. CHRISTIAN MoRALlrY.-Dr N
Allen, in his recent work upon the Opium Trade,
relates most singular exhibition of moral con-
duct between Great Britain and China, in refer
ence to the evils Of this traffic. AT the close
of the war, carried on some years since be-
tween those two great nations, styled the
opluul w al, anu WulCU was UCCuSlOueu ny
the Chinese opposition to the destruction of this
drug, ii was proposed by the representatives of
the English Government 10 the Emperor of
China, that he legal;ze the trade in opium, by
imposing tax or duty upon it's importation, and,
that thus large revenue might be raised to-
wards de'raying the expenses Of his Govern
ment. To this proposition, the Emperor replied
in those memorable words :" 1t is true" said he.
4" cannot prevent the introduction of the flow
ing poison gain-seeklng and corrupt men will,
for profit and sensualIty, defeat my wishes; but
nothing viN induce me to derive a rsuenue from
the uice and misery Of my people," Such was
the testimony of heather monarch to a Chi
tin government. And this statement is not a
re theory or dead letter OF words For more
than fifty years, the Chinese Government has
most srenuously resisted both the manufacture
and importation of this drug. But Great Britain
professedly Christian nation can force annual
ly $4,000 chests of opium upon the Chinese
market. raising thereby an annual revenue o
$l5,000,000, and, at the same time, hlstening
to premature grave more than 900 humal
bengs.-Pwitan Recorder.