Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1868-03-26
Selections.


Selections.
An the lessons Of our boyhood are
the stay and solace of our age,
No man can leave better legacy TO-
the world than a well-eaueated family,
The more we help others to bear
their burdens, the lighter our own will be
lie who forbcars to take revenge,
know, achieves the noblcSt conquest of his
foe,
Beauty TO women is like the flowers
in spring at-eirtuc IL hike the stars in
heaven.
Train up children in the way they
should 20, and they viii not depart from
il, is a truthful maxim, fathers and moth
crs. Therefore, fathers, see 20 the instruc-
ton Of your little ones; and, with all
your getting, get them understanding.
% fathers, see betimcs TO the instruc-
ton of your little ones for what they
have learned in childhood will abide with
them to gray hairs.
For he that is well instructed come,h
TO respect himself; and man that is
conyersqpt with good things getteth chary
of his good name
Some fathers, careful and cautious TO
fault, almost, in breeding and training
steers and colts, suffer, ay, allow their
sons and daughters TO grow up as they
list, strange as it may seem.
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il shows that he is citizen of the world,
and his heart is no island cut off from
the other islands, but a continent that
joins them.-Baeoh,
Ono of the most touchingly simple
wills was left few days ago by the Ger
man Pastor Holzapfel of Reifniz, Ii con-
sists of this one line only My soul to
God, my body to earth, m. money to our
deaf and dumb hospital" The property
of the deceased, who had led a most rigor-
ously. abstemious life, amounts to about
10000 forms.
It's midnight on the mountains brown
The cold, round moon shines deeply down;
Blue roll the waters, blue the sky
Spreads like an ocean hmn.- ~ -4----l-
hUypIHgTcd with those isles of light,
80 wildly spiritually bright
Who ever gazed upon them shining
And turned to earth without repinins,
Nor wishd Tor wings to,fy away,
And mix with their eternal ray.
Religion that does not go with us in
our daily vocations, controlling and guild
ing us, is of little value We should not
makeit obtrusive or ill-timed in any of
its manifestations, but our hearts should
be so thoroughly imbued with the Spirit
OF Christ as to cause every action, in its
own quiet way, to show forth the founda-
ton principles of our life and speak a
stronger language for the Master than
our direct words. 1t is in our worldly
business, in our everyday life that our
religion is needed, if anywhere, both III
its effect on ourselves and on those with
whom we are brought in contact
Hath not old custom made this life more sweet
Than that OF painted pomp. Are not these woods
More free from peril than the envious Court
Here feel we but the penalty OF Adam,
The Seasons difference as, the icy fang,
And churlish Gliding OF the Winters wind
Which, when 1t bites and blows upon my body,
Even till shrink with cold, smile, and say
This is no fattery; these are Councillors
That feelingly persuade me what am.
And tins our life, except from public haunt
Finds tongues in trees, books III the running
brooks,
Sermons IN stones, and good in everything.
SHAKESPEARE.
Warped by the world in Disappointment
In words too wise, IN conduct there fool;
Too firm TO yield, and far too proud to stoup,
Doomd by his very virtues Tor dupe,
He cufsd those Virtues as the cause of i'll,
And not the traitors who betrayal him still:
Nor deemd that gifts bestowed on better men,
Had lett him JOY and means to give again.
Fear'd, shun'd, behcd, ere Youth had lost her
force,
lie hated man too much to feel rpmorSc,
And thought the voice of Wrath a sacred call,
To pay the injuries OF some on all.
Byron.
Have you ever noticed an icicle as it
is formed You noticed how it froze, one
drop at time, until it was foot long or
more. If tho water was clean, the icicle
remained clean, and sparkled brightly in
the sun; but if the water was slightly
muddy, the icicle looked foul, and its
beauty was spoiled just so, our charac-
tiers are forming. One little thought or
feeling at a time adds its influence. If
each thought be pure and right, the sou!
will be lovely, and will sparkle with hap
piness; but if impure and wrong, there
will be "A final deformity and wretched-
ness.
Let any man pass an evening in va
cant idleness, or even in reading some sill
ly tale, and compare the state of his mind
when he goes to sleep, or gets up next
morning, with its state some other day,
VIXEN he has spent a few hours in going
through the proofs, by facts and reason
ing, of some of the great doctrines in ma
tural science, learning truths wholly new
to him, and satisfying himself by careful
examination, of the grounds on which
I known truth rests, so as to be not only
acquainted with the doctrines themselves,
but able to show why he believes them,
and to prove before others that they are
true, and he will find great difference be-
tween looking back upon time unprofta-
bly, wasted and time spent in self i'm
provement. He will feel, in one case, list
less aud dissatisfied; in the other, COM
| fortably and happy. In the one case, if
he did not appear to himself humble, at
least he will not have earned any claims
to his own respect in the other case, he
will enjoy proud consciousness of hav-
ing, by his own exertions, become wiser,
and therefore a more exalted nature
Brougham
~ A recent historical paper relates