St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1870-01-28

seemly laughter on the Lords day" |
had tacitly excused my bcin, ''in dar,"
to my conscience, by the plea that sit
is lawful to do yood on the Sabbath day
that devi>ing good Is par; Of the do
inn of it-and that, even among the Pu-
ritans, Sunday evening after shutdown
int Su-dW. Bat as the discussion pro-
cecdcd, | began to think ot-''W hat
would your grandmother say ?'-and
taking my hat, slipped out to hunt gos
pei elsewhere.
Another Vermont boy, leaving at the
same time. remarked a fact which ITALICS
with my own experience, namely, that
however sensible Il woman may discourse,
the moment she begins 10 talk rapidly
and earnestly. Il man Of any habits OF
business despatch begins to feel nervous,
lest he i Just Going 10 be fastened with
an everlasting >trin@ of parentheses. One
i reminded of poor Dennis, in Edward
Everett IIalc's story of My Double and
how he lnlid Me-" when he had to c~-
cort Mrs .Ietiiir>.to dinner at the Gov
ernor'S party. Who could blame him ii
he was forever afterwards in terror OF
being button-holcd and then did not
he have to hear about the mu,np-, and
the measles, and arnica. and bclladunna.
and chamomtlc, and dudeCatheon, till
she changed oysters for salad, and thvm
about ;hc old practice and the new, and
what her e.Stcr said. and what her SIS
tcr'S friend aid. and what the physician
t. her >i~t r. iric..i aid. AMI then what
was said by the brother of the sister OF
the ph, stefan ot the friend ot her SISTER.
exactly as if il had been in OllemIofii's
Method -
At Horticultural Hall yesterday. R"v.
Mr.. Weiss gave the first of the course If
Sunday afternoon lectures. Subject -
II dI-t anu / W Sentiment i'l ->dI'lC
Here Is sample OF his wheat; your
readers won't tiui much chatl in it
Speaking OF the fl!lic> and cNtrava@.n-
cies of the conventional Ic@ard tor M
turc. he ~aid:
"What - mistake it i to presume that
any refinement result, from iudul4rr" in
such feeling OF that "a htr al This Kind
OF admiration, >lcnt in the choicest >tol-
Of natures power. couli ever hr strained
or Distilled into ryi,gi,a 1t !, sent
mental Ia affirm that the mountain litt-
our mial> to heaven. Our minds lit tic
MOUNTAIN there. 1t Is only Il f cbIe ;,',d
mclolr"matic !.mcy that finds the hill
80 difficult 10 climb and it l. only the
mind If th- spiritually Developed man
gcriv tor a~Iou-hmcmr, who j. impos, d
upon 10y GIett misses, and couples the
name OF God with them ~ if that were
just about as towering and Impressive.
How many removes l. Tins from
the SupcrSlitiuu- dread of the -a,a.r,
who beat hi drum to Tighten the dragon
from swallowing the moon II the
greatness ni God consists III the uguI-
tudc " Inch space assumes to our feeble
Vision. then it depends upon The making
/ of AN eye. anl hruugs may exist to whom
| the >prc,'~ whch enclose the stars seem
mi-,rahy small. in Il verr lew year,
tnr-r spaces with have diminished To- our
c-timniiuu also. Their Arificcr viii
. Al IL. in
other ciam Il greatness than our near
-ightcdnr>~ originates. Neither does il
make the calculation any more religions
to suppose those spaces 10 be pcryaded by
an umn'pTc>'..i -piii'. for the relation to
the mortal >cn-c- continues, and that ali
tribute of God must also depend upon
our liitlcnc-S. Ia order that an attri-
butte OF God should really excite IL spirit
ual idea, au | form an element of per-
soual rclgion, it must he great intrinSi-
cally, and Tor eternity. The grcatn, :,
of Cod which ILL., the soul with awe.
during which worlds and starry svstefn>
are compressed into II point, and dis
tancc> ar. ohlircralcl, i made known /,
IL III momcnt> when Nn are Conscious
;hat He lrcOncyiVcd all irart7 and i'm
aglnatlUn~. moves or thoughts, and cal
cu!atc~ the rliipscS ct our mo, ives iul
the invisible l. tLcn contempt: ting tho
invisible, and we sink adoring at the rr
Election that even split has 20 abyss:
of distance and darkness, and never cal
have. To deny admittanc, to this search
'Whither shall 90 from thy spirit
whittier shall flee from thy presence :
VIM. IL Channing has returned from
Earopc to stay, and gave at the Radir;,
club last week, an intcrcstr % account o
his wandcrings. spiritual nj otherwise
Those Of your readers W no may haS,
seen ''Warrington's pleasant review
thereof IN the Springfield Republican
must not with him. too pr ematureIv con
ciude that 'IIcll has been dismissed will
costs in all the polite ecclesiastical courts
OF this nci"hborhuod." On that point
and on the discussion gong on i'll Mr.
lIale's new MONTH y-Old and News
far IA ii concerns Boston folks, | ma,
wish to say word hereafter.
Boston, Jan'y 81, 1870.
Prince ARTHUR i his scion Of roy.
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