Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1868-01-30

wire aruhss. Then strands - ahdtd tf
strand, until d foundation Il laid tor
blanks. and nov the bnld engineer hnds a
al, f,otwaN aud walks fFmn side 10 side,
- Gol takes iron us some goldenthreaded
Measure, aud stretche. II hence into
Heaven. Then he takes a child and then
a friend. Thus lie bridges death, aud
teaehe, the thoughts # the most timld 20
find their way hitheT and thither between
the shores,
--noys often -ay, I'VE want an cduca-
ton. hut We are p,or and father i poor,
aud We can't gct II; ~ We are going "a
learn trade, OF 90 into a store, OF do
.omething else" Now, let me SAY, every
hay that wants ala education, II lac viii
bend his force 10 il, can ge, just a. good
a one as be wants Tho way is open. Ed
ueati0n does not come through academies
nd colleges anl Summaries, these are
helps, but i, comes by study and reading,
nd comparing Al the schools and col
.ege, in the world will not make a scholar
4 man without these aud with them
4 man will BE- one If he never secs a col.
legr, The same is true Of girls, and what
Is true 81 this pursuit Is true Of any other,
The force must be from yourself and you
must develop il, II is that indomitahlc
Il can" that sets man astride the world,
Eugrayings shed their spirit over a
household, the calm portraits Of the great
md whorthy dead exercise great infu'
snce over me. could look ON those over
my own fireplace until they seem neither
absent or departed, but living yet Every
good picture is the best OF sermons and
lectures The sense informs the soul,
Whatever YOU have, have beauty, Let
beauty be on the paper on your walls, II
) as easy TO choose u paper suggestive of
he lovely in form and color, a the UNI
,outh. Why should not every household
lbject be- sanctihed with this grateful
harm. Each chair, each table, each tea
n chamber service. and every object for
kitchen or parlor, for the home of the
poor man, artizan or mechanic, |
would have them all whor,hy Of home
Il taste.-SidHey Smih.
Consider that our good days are gen
rally more in number than our evil days,
our days OF prosperity-sueh, | mean, as
IRE suitable TO our condition and circum-
,tanoes-than our days Of adversely. This
Is most certain, though most Of Us are apt
TO cast up our accounts otherwise How
many days of-at least competent health
have We enjoyed for one day OF grieyous
sickness How many days of ease 10 one
II pain. How many blessings for few
curses For one danger that hath sur
prised US. how many scores of dangers
nave We escaped, and some of them very
But, alas we write our NOR
cies in the dust, but our Affections We en-
grave in marble. our memories serve US
too well to remember the latter, but we
IRE too forgetful of the former. And this
is the great cause of our unthankfulness,
discomfort and murmuring. bishop HaH.
Tho following eloquent paper on
Time is, we believe, from the pen of
Paulding:
saw temple reared by the hands of
man, standing with its pinnacle in the
Instant plain The streams beat about il.
the God Of nature hurled his thunder
bolt against il, yet it stood firm as ada
mant Revclry was in the halls the
gay, the happy, the young, the beautiful
were there. ] returned--and 10! the
temple was no more Its high walls lay
in scattered ruin moss and grass grew
rankly there and at the midnight hour
the owls long cry added To the deep soli-
ude. The young and gay who had rev
elcd there had passed away.
saw child rejoicing in his youth, the
idol of his mother and the pride of his
father ! returned--and that child had
become old. Trembling with the weight
Of years, he stood the last of his genera
ton, a stranger amid the desolation
around him.
saw an old oak standing i'll all its
pride upon the mountain; the birds Were
caroling in its boughs. returned-and
the oak was leafiess and sapless; the
winds were playing at their pastimes
through its branches.
"Who is this destroyer: - said | TO my
guardian angel.
at is time" said he when the morn
ing stars sung together for JOY over the
new-made world he commenced his course
and when he has destroyed all that is
beautiful on the earth, plucked the sun
from his sphere, yelled the moon in blood
yea, when he shall have rolled the heay.
ems and earth away AS scroll, then shall
an angel from the throne of God come
| forth, and, with one foot upon the sea and
one upon the land, lift up his hand to.
ward heaven and swear, by Heaven,
Eternal, Time is, Time was, but Time
shall be no longer.