Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-04-22
selections.

He that is truly polite, knows how to
without adulation, and is equally remote
from inspired complaisance, and low
familiarity.
He that reproveth another without
praying for him, or having compassion on
him, is merciless foe; no good phyei-
clan. but a troublesome prater.
The full assurance of faith, always
attended with the full assurance of hope,
never fails to be productive OF perfect
/ love, even the love that casteth out fear.
To know that we can smile on death
will surely make US happy in life. Get
the matter of death and eternity right,
and this life is robbed of all its darkness
and terrors.
| "A sincere man is not gilded but gold );
not splendid and FURNISHED plating out
side, to cover up the baser metal within,
but all the way through to the heart what
he outwardly appears to be.
Blessed is he who employs all his
time proftably, is silent on subjects that
do not concern him, and passes through
this timultuous world like one who Is
dumb and heareth not for the Lords
| sake.
A white garment appears worse with
slight soiling than do colored garments
when much soiled SO little fault in a
good man attracts more attention than
great offences in bad men.
Cicero, made the following wise re-
mark =" As | approve of the youth that
has something of the old man in him, so
am not less pleased with the old man who
has something of the youth"
1t is observed that the most censo-
rious are generally the least judicious
who, having nothing to recommend them
selves, will be finding fault with others
| No man envies the merits of another who
has enough of his own.
Our character as sinners leads into
the sweetest intimacies of the Lord of life
and glory. As creatures, we know the
strength of his hand, his wisdom and
goodness but sinners, we know all
the love of his heart and all the treasures
OF his grace and glory.
The warp of Gods providences for
doing good, are stretched all along our
pathway, and if we fill it up with good
works,.lt will constitute garment which
will shield us in the coming storm
-Murmur at nothing; if our ills are
reparable, it Is ungrateful; if remediless,
it is vain. A christian build bic foI IL
tnda a LocLer foundation than stolclsm,
he is pleased with everything that happens
because he knows that it could not
happen unless it had first pleased God,
and that which pleases him must be the
best. He Is assured that no new thing
can befall him, and that he is in the
hands of a father who will prove him
with no affection that resignation cannot
conquer, or that death cannot cure
There is fragrant blossom that
maketh glad the garden of the heart its
root lieth deep; it is delicate yet lasting,
the lilac crQcus of autumn; loneliness
and thought are the dews that water it
morn and even memory and absence
cherish it, as the balmy breathings of the
south its sun is in the brightness of af-
lection, and it bloometh in the borders of
hope; its companions are gentle flowers,
and the brier withereth by its side
That which yexeth thee now, provok-
ing thee to hate thy brother bear with it
the annoyance passeth, and may not re-
turn forever The same com binations
and results which aggravate thy soul to-
day, may not meet again for centuries in
the kaleidoscope Of circumstances for
men and matters change, new elements
mixing IN continually, and, as with chem
zeal magic, the sour is transmitted into
sweetness. A little explained, a little en-
duted, little passed over foible, and,
10, the jagged atoms fits like smooth mu-
sic
Christ incites to fidelity by all the
powers of a great example. Real life
kindles life. Men are aroused to effort
by the sight of excellence. Models in
any line of achievement naturally awaken
the desire of imitation Let any young
American read of such a man as Chief
Justice Ellsworth, who at this majority,
was launched In life with only track of
wild land and an ax-who labored by
day and studied by night, or as his poeti-
Cal biographer renders ii; was " at dawn
with Cinclnnatus at his pillow, and at eve
laying his hand on the mighty fabric OF
Jurisprudence, following like the chosen
people of God, the pillar of cloud by day
and of fire by night y let him attentively
follow such tillage to its golden harvest,
and like that Mr. Help" in Bunyan's
dream, it will give him a pull when he
stands hesitating before the gate.
Sometimes at glance thou judge,t
well; years could add little to thy knowl-
edge: When charity gloweth on the
manly cheek or malice is lowering in the
eye; when honesty's open brow, or the
weasel-face of cunning is before thee, or
the loose lip Of wantonness, or the clear.
hrY., -
thou judgest to the good mans harm: it
may be the hour of his trial, or he slum-
bered at his post, or he hath slain his foe
but not yet leveled the stronghold, or
barely recovered from the wounds that
fieshed him in his fray with passion
Love looketh softly from the eye, and
kindleth love by looking; hate furreweth
the brow, and man may frown till he
hateth for mind and body, spirit and
matter, have reciprocities of power, and
keepeth up the strife; mans works
make or mar him. There be deeper
things than these, lying in the twilight
of truth but few can discern them Alright,
from surrounding dimness of error.
Anton Olsten, being in love, and not
being allowed to drown himself, hung
himself at the Jersey City Almshouse,
Saturday, with piece of carpet-bin ding.
$3.50 was found in his pockets.
John Brown, an eccentric colored
barber Of Akron, Ohio, died last Tuesday,
leaving property valued at $35, 900. In
the year 1910, when colored children
were refused admittance into common
schools, Mr.. Brown erected q school-house
in Cleveland at his own expense. For
some time he hired teachers and paid
them, the school being free to the chill
dren Of his race.