The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1867-12-17
Moral HeroIsm.

Hc ipliOWitiS Is takeH ITOn tue er0
mont Christian Messenger, by request of
the pastor of the Methodist Society in
this place.
1t is fact patent TO every careful OBJ
| scrver-that great and permanent achiev-
mcnts are born of corresponding sacrifices
and efforts. Pearls are not found strown
! thickly upon the sea shore; they can only
be obtained by deep and perious diving
An Italian maxim runs thus--Vcra non
uruSpcrita, c non haver neccssita 1t lis
not true prosperity to have no adversely
Sol helps those who help Themselves
He whose cause is just shall be yictori-
Gus. Right apd truth are immortal
1.-THE eternal years Of God are hers. -
Those who battle in the name of these,
shall triumph, no matter against chat
odds Those allied with God in labors
Tor the elevation of the race, are armed
with a power all divine and omnipctcnt.
they can take to their cheer these variant
words:
''There are
Powers that will work for thee air, earth
and skies
Thcres not breathing Of the common wind
That will forget thee; thou hast great allies
Agonlrs lowliness and grief and pinching want
Thy friends are God and ni- unconquel ed love"
True heroes are they, VINO "snatch
victory IRON the very jaws Of defeat"
Thousands who would not be found
wanting if called upon to CHI irge bat
terry, wilt and succumb under the Difficult.
ties encountered in everyday life. In>
stead of Il stronger and quicker, they man
fest slower and fcebler pulse, az obsta-
clCs intcrpose, in carrying forward any
great religious or educational enterprise of
the church. Disappointment and discour-
agemenis that ought to arouse the encr-
gies of every one, and make him trice a
man, drive hosts of stout fellows, who
would not have hinched before Peters
burgh or Richmond, to utter despair, and
to the surrender of the grandest moral
achievements, as fJrlorn hope their
physical courage being unaccompanied by
that higher attribute-moral energy-is
not worth straw to them.
In large majority Of cases, the cir
cumstances by which men suffer ihcm-
selves to be overcome, might be controlled
and surmounfed by persistent, vigorous
effort The animus OF all great achieves
ments, in spite of seeming impoSsibiliiics,
i. symboled in these heroic utterances-
.'Never give up"-"fght it out on this
line" challenge fate"-'laugh at i'm
possibilities.
There is a glory. that Imparts celestial
radiance to well contested moral con
flict.
'Nature lives by toll (;
Beasts, birds, air, fire, the heavens and rolling
world
All live by action ; nothing lives by rest,
But death and ruin
These thoughts were forcibly suggested
at n meeting of the friends OF the VT.
Con, Seminary, held at Brandon on the
Dist inst
BRO. Morgan, the able and accomplish
ed Conference Agent IN a brief and lucid
manner laid before the meeting the true
condition of the enterprise. He said sub
siantially -that the plan of locating and
founding first class Seminary and female
college in the capital of our own State,
he believed in spite of any discourage
ments, would be crowned with success at
an early day.
His views were maintained 10y nearly
all the delegates from the different charges
of the District, both lay and clerical
Without single exception every one
present heartily endorsed the enterprise,
and very generally pledged themselves to
labor for its complete and early triumph.
We saw the apportiCnment of the com
mttee for each charge in the districts, and
we confess that in every instance the sum
lin no case reaching $780, looked ex-
ceedingly light, and not difficult to raise.
Very likely the entire sum set to each
charge could be paid by some business
member of our church, and never missed
from his pocket or probably few de-
vout and active ladies forming themselves
into committee OF ways and means,
could curly secare the apportionment -
The truth is, il all the members of the
various districts cooperate cheerfully, the
Seminary will be built and speedily enter
upor its great mission of usefulness, shed
ding lustre upon the church of our