Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-05-23
Selections.

Keep good principles and they will
keep you.
Three times our Saviour was spoken
to while on earth by voices from Hea'
ven, and they all three found him pray
ing.
Let us only think of achieving the
present day well and when tomorrow
shall have arrived, it too will be called
to-day, and then we shall think of 1t.
The Spirit of God is the spirit OF
benevolenCe. 1t will make man pa
tient towards the Eailings of others. He
will be full of delicaCy and gentleman
illness.
The sun is always shining, the flow
ers are always blooming, the birds are
always singing, the golden grain is al
ways waving somewhere in this wicked
world.
BE always frank and true; spurn
every sort of affectation and disguise.
Have the courage to confess your ignor-
ance and awkwardness. Confde your
faults and follies to but few.
How often we look upon those who
have fallen into grevious sin, with a de-
gree Of self-ComplaCency that we have
not erred after the simultude of their
transgression, when perhaps the only
reason is, we have not been similarly
tempted.
No prayer is at all likely to bring
down an immediate answer if it be not
a fervent prayer. "The effectual feryent
prayer of a righteous man availeth
much; but if it be not fervent we can.
not expect to find it eneCtual or preya-
lent.
Our religion is to be estimated, not
by few intensities, but by vital and
generous glow and activity throughout
our whole life. We are not to mourn
because we do not feel but if, having
feeling, we find no expression for that
feeling in life, we may well mourn.
Our duties are not so very lofty !;
God places them within the reach Of
men, not Of angels. Which of US Is
there who cannot pray, give aims, com
fort Others, take care of parents, bring
up children Which of US cannot strug-
gle with his inclinations, overcome his
tastes, cease TO do evil learn to do well
Is there anything in this that transCends
human power ? And this is Christian
life, the love OF God, which is nothing
more than the fultillment of our every
duty.
The longer live the more highly do
| estimate the Importance of proper
observance of the Christian Sabbath,
and the more grateful do I feel toward
those who take pains to impress a sense
of this Importance on the community.
The Lords day is the day on which the
Gospel is preached; it is the day of pub.
lie worship throughout the Christian
world, And, although we live in read
ing age and in reading community yet
the preaching Of the Gospel is the form
in which human agency has been and
still is most efiicaclously employed for
the spiritual improvement of men. That
the poor had the Gospel preached to
them was an evidence of his mission
which the author of Christianity him
self proclaimed. And to the public
worship of the Deity, and the preaching
OF the Gospel, the observance of the Sab
bath is obviously essential. Daniel WeJ-
Ster.
We have probably all Of US met with
instances in which a word heedlessly
spoken against the reputation of a fe-
male has been magnifed by malicious
minds, until the cloud has been dark
enough to overshadow her whole exist
ence. To those who are accustomed,
not necessarily from bad motives, but
from thoughtlessness, to speak lightly
Of ladies, we recommend these "hints'
as worthy Of consideration
Never use ladys name in an improper
place, at an improper time, or in mixed
company. Never make assertions about
her that you think untrue, or illusions
that you feel she herself would blush to
hear. When you meet with men who
do not scruple to make use of a womans
name In a reckless and uprincipled man.
ner, shan them, for they are the worst
members of the community-men lost
to every sense of honor, every feeling of
humanity
Many a good and worthy woman's
character has been forever ruined and
heart broken by lie manufactured by
some villain and repeated where it
should not have been, and in the pres
ence OF those whose little judgment did
not deter them from circulating the toul
and braggart report. A Islander is soon
propagated and the smallest thing der
ogatory to woman's character will fly
on the wings of the wind, and magnify
as 1t circulates, until its monstrous
weight brushes the poor unconscious
victim. Respect the name of woman.
for your mother and sisters are women
and as you would have their fair name
untarnished, and their lives unembitte
ed by the slanderer's tongue, heed the
Ill that your own words may bring up
on the mother. the sister, or the wife of
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