Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1858-09-10
Religious MisrrIIauu.


without our consent, can share the monarchy
of this realm, or constrain us to lift hand or
speak a word, when Resolution bids us be
still and silent And from our inmost con-
scousness we do know that, whenever we
will, we can make ourselves execute whatever
we approve, and strangle in its birth whatev-
or VIC abhor. Tomorrow morning, If you
choose to take up a spirit of such power, you
may rise like a soul without a past fresh
for the future an Adam untempted yet;
disengaged from the manifold evil Of willing
usage, and with every link Of guilty habit
shaken off. / know indeed that you ioiH moi
that no man ever will but the hindrance is
with Yourself alone The coming hours are
open vet pure aud spotess receptacles for
whatever you may deposit there pledged to
no security of good neither mortgaged to
greedy passion, nor given to generous toll.
There they lie in non-existence still ready
to be organized by creative spirit of beauty,
or made foul with deformity and waste.
Let us start up and live; here
come the moments that cannot be had again;
some few may yet be filled with imperishable
good.-MariHeau.
MIRrm A MEDlctNE.-I know Of nothing
equal to cheerful and even mirthful conver-
sation, for restoring the mind and body when
both have been overdone. Some great and
good men. whom very heavy cares and
tolls have been laid, manifest a constitutional
tendency to relax into mirth when their work
is over. Narrow minds denounce the incon-
gruity large hearts own Gods goodness in
the fact, and rejoice in the wise provision
made for prolonging useful lives Mirth after
exhaustive toll. is one of natures instructive
efforts to heal the part which has been rack
ed or bruised. You cannot too sternly rep
rebate frivolous life; ; but if the life be ear
nest for God or man, with here and there
layer Of mirthfulness protruding soft bed
ding to receive heavy cares which otherwise
would crush the spirit, to snarl against the
sports of mrth may be the easy and useless
occupation of small man, who cannot take
in at one view the whole circumference of
large one. - ArnoHs illustration Of Proverbs.
A MoruER's ADMINISTRATION touching
tho tribute of thr Hon. T. II. Benton, to his
mothers influence:
Ny mother asked me never to use tobac-
co, and / have never touched il from that
that time to the present day she asked me
not to game, and have never gained, and
cannot tell who is winning and who is losing
in games that can be played. She admonish-
ed me too against hard drinking and what
ever capacity for endurance | may have at
present, and whatever usefulness | may at
tain in life, | attribute to having complied
with her pious and correct wishes. When |
was seven years of age, she asked me not to
drink. and then made resolution of total
abstinence, at time when was the sole
constituent member of my own body, and
that have adhered to it rough all time,
owe to my mother.
The SAINT BEoGAR.--The richest saint
must be, and is humble beggar at grace's
door all his days and Christ, the Lord of
the house and the dispenser of the aims and
as the aims is too good not to be patiently
waited for, so the Lord is too good and too
great to be quarreled with, and never did
believer get any good by complaining of him.
Complain to him, and pray and ask largely;
but still with faith and patience Knock at
his door, but stay and bless him that ever
he gave you any crumbs of his grace mix
your prayers for new-wanted graces with
praises for his old dispensed grace. Christ
loveth you, and hath proved it. Believe it,
and bless him for it, and wait for his renew
ing his love to you and in due time you
will find that he will not only answer, but
out-do your desires to him, and all your ex-
pectation from hm.-Irda.
SELF-EsrEEM.-He that holds himself in
reverence and due esteem, both for the dig
nifty Of Gods image upon him, and for the
price Of his redemption, which he thinks is
visibly marked upon his forehead, accounts
| himself both a fit person to do the noblest
] and godliest deeds, and much better worth
than to abect and defle, with such debase-
ment and pollution sinis, himself so highly
ransomed and ennobled, to a new friendship
and filial relation with God.-Milton.
THE woRLD-O you that dote upon the
world, for what victory do you fight, Your
hopes can be crowned with no greater re-
ward than the world can give and what is
the world but brittle thing full of dangers,
wherein we travel from lesser to greater per-
lis o let all her vain, light, momentary
glory perish with herself, and let us be more
conversant with eternal things. Alas this
world is miserable life is short, and death
is sure.--St. Augustine
PERSONAL RnsPoNsIBILITY.---IIe that has
| the business of life at his disposal, and has
nobody to account to for his minutes, but God
and himself, may, if he pleases, be happy
without drudging for IT, He need not fiatter
the vain nor be tired with the impertinent,
nor stand to the courtesy of knavery and fol-
! ~. lie nceu not uhnco hltei tne caprice OF a
humorist, nor bear part in the extravaganza
of another. His fate does not hang upon any
mans face smile will not transport him,
nor ffown ruin him. for his fortune is bet
ter fixed than to float upon the pleasure of
the nice and ehangeable, Collier.
LrFE FLEBTINe.-Life, like an ill-gotten
estate, consumes insensibly, in spite of all
imaginable frugality. Infancy is state of
hope, and has the tenderness of parents, or
the compassion of strangers to support it
Youth, like a BLOSSOM gives us beauty in
hand, aud frui. in prospect; but age grows
worse and worse upon the prospect, sinks
deeper in sorrow and neglect, and has no re-
lief to expect but the graye.-CoHter.
Were each day a month long, bound, as
now, by narrow black ribbon Of night, and
heralded with the sound Of trumpet, we
should tremble at the break of each now day.
Our frequent inventories would disclose loss
es, for which we could find no correspond
ing gains even tho sorrows we have suffer-
ed would seem pleasant, now they had pass