The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1870-06-07

what great stress and Importance wa
given to the use OF abuse of this organ
and what beacon warnings and guide
they afforded for dangers and for safety
The poets were next quoted, as keen dis
corners of human nature, as affording sim
liar lessons. The eye was shown to b
often deceptive power, and in what wa
it was such Double vision was dwell
upon--the evil eye of the text. Variou
facts in sacred history were adduced--
such as the cases of Achan-Gchazi
David, &c.
The sorrows incident to double visioI
in the moral sense, were portrayed TIL
mind warning with itself and woundiny
itself by its own weapons. On the othe
hand he showed the happy state of tn,
mind when the eye was single or q" sim
pie, clear, sound, periect--not affected b,
disease The eye is to the body wha
the lamp is to the chamber. When il
was thus simple it lighted the whole in
uer man, and like the headlight Of To-
connective threw its light ahead and around
The evil-eyed man, on the contrary, had
no light within, no headlight, all was
dark and deadly. The wise man had his
eyes in his heat. The unwse had theirs
in their pochetS, their NomochS, their
MroatS, their da0cing-toeS. Reason, with
such was inferior. for guidance, to in
stinct, and gave instances to illustrate it.
The sluggard needed to 90 to the ant and
the imprudent and hayward to the bird
in whose sight it is in vain to spread the
net. maintained, in view Of the mixed
state of the objective world, that we must
train our eyes to 4 sort Of moral eecti-
cism; 50 that as the magnet select only
IRON filings from the dust heaps, so the
eye should select only the best and purest
objects. He closed by showing the need
OF Divine help, of Christ, to enable us to
train and use Alright this powerful and
influential sense.
Next Sunday morning Mr.. Bailey will
preach upon The [ Sc Of the Tongue.
Addison County.
Mr. Isaac McCarter died in Yer
gennes on the 26th ult., aged So years.
The work on the New Haven cheese
factory is progressing rapidly. 1t will
soon bee IN operation.
AT the New Haven East Mills Cheese
Factory the ampnt Of the product has
fallen oil one half since the drouih com
menced.
The annual meeting Of the Addison
Go. Baptist Association will be held with
the church in Nergennes, to commence
June 22d, at l0l o'clock Il IN. Rev.
Ahira Jones, preacher.
Y Dung Carpenter who was 50 badly
injured Il week or two since by Il roller
at Brooksvillc, was alive yesterday morn
ing but III a low state. 1t is feared he
may not recover.
The drouth has been severe all over
the county. even in the mountain towns
where showers are usually more frequent.
The hay crop must be very light if not Il
failure. y shower Sunday evening helped
Bristol, and last night we were all visited
with copious showers.
The members Of the Republican Co.
Committee for Addison county are again
reminded of Il meeting called at the Adj
Olson House, Middlcbury, tomorrow af.
telnoon, TO fix the time for holding the
nest County Convention.
Last Saturday, Nergennes was again
filled with butter sellers and others who
came TO trade. The market hardly jus,i-
fled their expectations however, butter
only - cents per pound, one
cent less than at Middlebnry ihc day
previous.
A. h. Stanley, Esq, Of Leicester,
will lecture at the church in East Middle
bury ON Sunday next, at | o'clock, a. m
Subject "'rhc evidences Of Immortality
and the influence or bearing which our
rarth-liir will have on the future condi-
ton Of the soul
Our local reports that in consequence
Of the extreme dry weather and clearing
up the swamps around Whiting Station
there Is very short crop of mosquitoes
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Mr. d Ii. Nash New Haven Mills,
Is having erected barn 44XO1. 1t has
al oil the modern Improvements inside
ana OUT he Basement Is constructed OF
nlarh!r' It having bcen procured at the
, "a u, ' ,,.' n'''D'e quarry! ar