Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1858-07-09
RNApING NOR sATuRpAY NIGHT.

I'HE DOMESTIC ALTAR.--lt is pleasing to
fin in private hocses an altar raised 70 God.
Ntthing riyets family attachments wholly so
securely meeting every morning to pray for
each other, when every petty difference must
be laid aside, and every misunderstanding for
gotten before the sun goes down. What can
be more pleasing also than for the absent to
| know precisely at what hour they are remem-
bered, with the supplcatons and blessings of
an afectionate circle While those who re-
main together can enjoy no greater solace
than in following them with prayers, and uni
ting, on their own account, in the expression
of every anxiety or pleasure, or sorrow, which
each shares in common with all the others.
There is indeed. no pleasure more to be
priced than that of raising family altar,
where those shall daily assemble on earth,
who hope hereafter to re-assemble in heaven,
and not wanderer lost
THE CoMMuNIoN OF SA1xrs.--It is easy,
no doubt, to journey alone in the broad
shine, and on the beaten highways of our lot;
but over the midnight plain, and beneath the
still immensity of darkness, the traveller seeks
some fellowship for his wanderings. And
what is religion but the midnight hemisphere
of life; whose vault is filled with the silence
of God, and whose everlasting stars, if giving
no clear light, yet fill the soul with dreams of
immeasurable glorys 1t will be an awful
thing to each of us to be alone, when he takes
the passage from the mortal to the immortal
and is borne along-with unknown time for
expectant thought-through the space that
sewers earth from heaven and till then, at
least, will not part, but speak with the
common voice of duplicating trust of that
which waits us all True Union.
Coon ADvIcE.-One of Wyatt's common
sayings was, that there were three things
which should always be strictly observed -
Never to play with any mans unhappiuess
or deformity, for that is inhuman nor on SUI
| periors, for that is saucy and undutiful; nor
on holy matter, for that is irreligious.'
D1sPUrAr1oUs PEoPLE.-Mr. Emerson, in
one of his recent lectures, in describing va
rious classes of people, said-"There are dis
putatious people-talkers for victory-doal-
ers in contradictions-wh contradict your
first word, without waiting to get the scope
of your meaning, and who appear to think
that nothing is doing unless an argument is
going on"
! The SHADOW OF WRoNG-As the shadow
follows the body in the splendor of the fair
est sunlight, so shall the wrong done to an
other pursue the soul in hours of prosperity.
! A HINT-Systematic labor compared with
that without plan or order aecomplishes far
more, aud does its work with much greater
ease to both mental and physical powers.
/ MAxrMs.-We always overrate the happi-
ness of others, and underrate the means Of
our own. man is in the 81 ght of God what
his habitual and cherished wishes are.
Y1ELD-It is better to yield little than
to quarrel great deal. The habit of stand
ing up as people call it for their (little) rights,
is one of the most disagreeable and undgni-
fed in the world. Life is too short for the
perpetual pickering which attends such dis
position and, unless in a very momentous
affair indeed, where other people claims and
interests were involved, we question if it is
no better to lose somewhat of our precious
rights than squabbe to maintain them.