Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1863-03-13
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Let Him go forth with thee
BY stream or sra, or mountain path,
| Still seek His company.
Thy frat transactions be
With God Himself above
So shall thy business prosper we'll
Aud all the day be love -BotIr.
Flowers which follow the sun in bis course
through the day, do SO equally when a cloud
shuts the sun from sight so the christian,
| who has habituated himself to looking stead.
lastly towards his Lord, las the Dyes ola SER
want towards her mistress,) will not tail to
/ look firmly, SHOULD clouds of sorrow veil
for awhile the heavenly seat.-ArchJishop
| Leighton.
Vanity Of vanities, all is vanity" Inscribe
these words on your walls on your vestments
on your palaces, on your streets, on your
/ houses, on your windows, on your doors; in
scribe them on your consciences, in order that
/ they may represent it to your thoughts
Repeat them in the morning; repeat them in
the evening; and in the assemblies of fash
ion, let each repeat it to bis neighbor, "vani-
ty of vanities, all is vanity. Chrysosum.
The state may indeed have no conscience of
her own; but unless her citizens many of
them keep conscience, she is lost. Christ
does not need the republic but the republic
needs Christ, as the base and bond of her
morality, without which she cannot shape or
keep her political life. And every man wo.
man, and child in the republic needs Christ,
as the Ruler, Owner, and Redeemer of the
| soul for both worlds, and for all DAYS, here
and beyond, And without a large,
active, prayerful, and resolute body of such
citizens, so holding individually the religion,
the morality of the state will not be kept in
working order.-Rev Or. Hm. r. Williams
Men should aim at realities, and should be
| content to be ranked according to their actual
| endowments or attainments. In other words,
men should endeavor to possess themselves
of character rather than of reputation. =
| Now, character is reality. Reputation, as
distinguished from it, and antithetical to it, is
fiction. The one is scene in actual life.
The other is a play upon an artificial stage.
The one represents solid requirements in NOR
al elements and in intellectual conditions The
! other represents what he l. able to contrive
and make appear to be requirements One is
real wealth. The other is the show Of wealth,
where there is none Henry Ward Beecher.
will be what | am really, and not in pre-
tense and what do | will d. and not sim
ply make believe that | am doing it and
what get will earn and not steal, nor OBJ
therefore, that the parent before anybody
else, should make Impressions upon the
minds Of the young. Blessed is be that writes
first on child's mind. A great many old
manuscripts are found on which are two or
three different writings, the old writing hav-
ing been written over and partly obscured by
new monkish legends and stories. And as it
is with manuscripts in this regard, so It s
with people. The mother writes first on the
child's mind the school teacher next and
oftentimes, the great world for the third
time Now, when manuscripts are precious,
and have been written over several times,
scholars take them and remove the last writ
ing or writings by chemical processes, and
come to the foundation, and find out what
that is. Sometimes it is the gospel that is
covered over with these lying, monkish sto-
ries. Blessed, then, is he that writes first on
the manuscript of the heart and parents
should understand that there is nothing more
fundamental TO the prosperity of their chill
dren than prepossessng them with night hab-
it's and ideas before society and the world
have an opportunity to make impressions up
on their minds--7he same.
A mental office is an office with mean
man in it, and it makes no difference whether
it is kings office or a scayenger's Office
There is no service, even though it be girding
ones self with towel, and washing disci-
pies feet, that is not more glorious than the
stars, if it has Christ's spirit in 1.-THE
same
| know that every business has its own
joint, through which the arrows Of the devil
come And yet, ! know there is no place to
which God calls man where he is not God s
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over him, and give him help, so that it is in
his power not only to redeem himself from
sin and meanness, but to iITadiate his own
life and that of others. The same
Pity not me die as man of honor
ought, in the discharge of my dnty they,
indeed, are objects Of pity, who fight against
their king, their country. and their oath. -
These are the words Of the dying CheyalieI
Bayard. 1t was genuine patriotism. 1t il
true Christianity, also, when one lives and
dies e in the discharge of his duty" to God
which implies fidelity to everything-Heav
emily and earthly-king, church, country, fam
lily and mankind.
What you do. do it with all your heart
for it is good to be zealously affected in
good thing; but do it inteligently, calmly
deliberately, AS those who know and fee
that it is the greatest Of all transactions tha
, you engage in when it is with God and fol
your souls eternal welfare that you transact
VIM. Hanna.
: Am Of the truth Il simple humble, ear.
nest seeker after it; and have | this evidence
4 Of my being so, that hear the voice of Jesus
I hear II and hail it, among all the conflicting
D voices that are falling on my ear, as the voice
! Of Him who rightiully claims the lordship Of