Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1859-06-10
Religious MisctIIanu.

/ CoMMUNtoN WITH Con. -- Were we ac-
quainted with the way of intermngling holy
thoughts and eiaculatory prayers to God in
our ordinary engagements it would keep the
heart in a sweet temper all the day long, and
have an excellent influence in all our ordina-
ry actions and holy performances. This were
to walk with God indeed, to 60 all the day
/ long as in our Fathers hand whereas, with
out this, our praying morning and evening
looks but as a formal visit not delighting in
that constant converse which yet is our hap
piness and honor, and makes all estates sweet.
This would refresh ms in the hardest labor
as they that carry the spices from Arabia are
refreshed with the smell Of them in their jour
y.-Leighton.
ToLERAT1oN. - The London Examiner
says :-'The Japanese are not intoleraut, for
they have three different religions divided in
to upwards of thirty sects, the votaries Of all
Of which live peaceably together. The perse-
cution Of the Christians in the seventeenth
century was a political, and not a theological
one. Before it commenced, the BONES, or
priests Of Buddhism. a form Of religion intro
duced from India, were the most importunate
IN their complaints against the Christians
They petitioned the Emperor against them,
who demanded how many forms of religion
existed in the empire, and the reply was thir-
ty-fve. WELL replied His Majesty. where
thirty-ive can be tolerated, we can easily
have thirty-six. Leave the strangers in
peace.
/ RELIGIOUS DIPIoMAcY-The Paris cor
respondent of " the Precursor a Belgian
journal, says, under date Of May lth-"The
| Papal government has just replied to a ques
tion singularly embarrassing, which was pro-
posed in letter namely-Whcther it should
order prayers for the armies of Austria or
of France and Piedmont. The telegraph an
nounces to US a circular letter which orders
prayers for the BE-EsTABLIsHMENT or PEACE.
/ FATHER DIEGO DE STELLA says "that the
beginning Of all our misery was Eve curious
disputing about the commandment Of Cod
If she had been obedient, she would have re-
Piled to Satan, when he asked her why God
did forbid her to eat, that the authority Of
God was sufficient for her but because she
went about to dispute the matter at large, and
to exercise her private judgment, she utterly
undid herself"
HERE AND HEREAFTER. - 1t is strange
that the experience of so many ages should
not make us Judge more solidly of the present
and of the future, so to take proper meas
ures in the one for the other. We dote upon
this world as if it were never to have an end,
and we neglect the next as if it were never to
have beginning .-Fenelon.
The AroNEMENT.-The atonement by the
cross is not so much member Of the body Of
Christian doctrine, as the lifeblocd that runs
through the whole of il. There is not an i'm
portant truth but what is presupposed by it,,
included in it, or arises out of it, nor any
part Of practical religion but what hangs up
on it.--A. Fuller
FAITH AND WoBKs-It is an unhappy di-
vision that has been made between faith and
works. Though in my intellect may divide
them, just as in the candle l know there is
both light and heat, yet put out the candle
and they are both gone remains not
without the other; SO is it with faith and
works.-Selden.
SINS WAGEs.-The wages that sin bar
gains for with the sinner are life, pleasure and
profit but the wages it pays him are death,
torment and destruction. He that would un-
derstand the ialsehood and deceit of sin. must
compare its promises and payments together
-Sodh.
AN ASSURED HorR. 1t is not like a
mountain torrent, but like stream flowing
from living fountain, and often so quietly
that it is scarcely visible but for the verdure
of its banks.-Sp7ug.
THE SABBArH-Thc streams of religion
run deeper or shalower, as the banks Of the
Sabbath are kept up or neglected CaicoH.