The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1858-10-20

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who mad leterrninF to live Chris inn M and
! TO c'"Y all fhc GatpA precop's. but who feared
ab,u, entering tllsf ffrrch lccause he hadnot love
enough for ChriA5
Emotion wss not condition of Chris
tiauity in Cbfisbsftime. It has come to
he SO in our day from our accidental
mental philosophy. Whoever was willing
to take Christ as his master and leader
to follow his instructions, and to trust in
| him for salvation, was reckoncd among his
| disciples Cbrists words were, "Who-
ever keepeth m7 commandments, he it is
that oveth me-
In the spring the magnolia tree is COW
cred with blossom-buds long before the
leaves appear. What If on the south and
east branches, where the sun ,trikes warm,
the buds should begin to unfold, exhaliug
delicious odor, and exclaim, q" Now we are
happy Now we know wo have BIOS
somel because all the air is 80 sweet about
u.s." and one little closed bud on the north
side should say, " 1t is Of no use for me
to try and open. have no fragrance"
But" says the cOaxing sun, "if you
will only unclasp your leaves, and let me
shine upon you, you will become like the
others
" No will not answers the bud, " |
am not worthy to join that periume-breath-
ing company"
True it is but, "A bud, and it only smells
green; but the odor is within it, and If it
will give itself up to the sun, littlo while
and ON all the round tree there shall be
no blossom which yields more sweetness to
the air!
Now Christians are not to remain in the
the bud form for ever waiting for the fra
grance and Joy Of the blossom. Unfo|d-
~. trU gre }raea0Hco. God lives wide
open, and he commands men to do so. Do
not he continually looking within, and
lowering over the abyss Of self-conscious-
ness, but begin to do, to live, to love, and
JOY will follow.--N II. Bcccher
Was GENERAL LEE A TRAIroR--N
gave an item from our exchanges some
little timc since, says the Utica IN. "
Hcroid, in effect that recent discoveries
had been made clearly proving the peIddy
OF General Lee the, accomplished ail-de-
camp ct General Washington, The state
mont was published by US with some
hesitation, Tor we hoped it would prove to
be an error. Recently, however, from all
interview with a gentleman employed ry
Peter Cooper to collect documents and
rovo utionary relics for his Institute, we
learned that the report of Lees treachery
was not only true, but that documents had
been found and were now in Mr. Cooper's
possession, which proved beyond doabt
that he had the price fixed aud agreed
upon for betraying Washington and the
army, and s,lling his country to the
British These documents, he says, are
fail and explicit and leave no room to
douot the extent or detestobc character
Of his reasonable purpose.
History has cen charitable to General
lee. 1t ha- generally repudiated the sus-
picons ofhis perfdy, and brushed aside the
evidence hitherto adduced as of little
weight or concern. IF, therefore, such
papers in evidence OF his treason as are
represented, really have been found with
their authenticity and genuineness sub
stautiated, new chapter forces itself into
the history OF our coantry--a chapter OF
iniauy and dsgrace--a companion to the
black recortof Arnold's treason. 1t is due
to tho country that a fact so important be
known. 1t is due to the memory of Lee
that this reproach ie removed, ie it is
not just, and equally due 70 bis memory
that the damned spot be fixed eternaliy
upon him, if the contents ofthose recently
discovered documents have been fairly SET
forth.
AN EpIroR TIGHr.--We believe it i.
rare that editors illulgo in drop, bnt
when they do, their readers are sure to
find them out. \ Syracuse cotemporary
was called upon to record melancholy
event " at time when his head was rather
heavy, and did it up after the following
manner; Yesterday morning, at O'Clock
p. NJ, Il man with heel in the hole o.
his stocking committed arsenic by swallow
ing dose of suicide The inquest of the
verdict returned a jury that the inceasec
came to the facts in accordance with hi.
death, lie leaves a ehtln and six smal
wives to lament the end of his untimell
loss. In death we are in midst Of life.
"A Kinderhook shoemaker onct