Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-10-27

"A word OF kindness is seldom spoken
in vain. 1t is seed which, even when
dropped by chance, springs up in a flower.
Labor is of noble birth but prayer is
the daughter of Heaven. Labor has a
place near the throne, but prayer touches
the golden soepter. Labor, Msrtha-like,
is busy with much serving, but prayer sits
with Mary at the feet of Jesus.
Occasionally it is vouohsafed to a
Christian to see even in this life how SEEM
ingly untoward events were fall of bless.
ings; yet often, doubtless we must wait
until we know even as we are known"
for the solution of life's mysteries.
The consciousness of duty religious
ly performed, is as soothing and cheering
now as at any former period in the his
tory of the church. And the conscious
ness of coming short in the matter of Sab
bath day duty, of wilfully transgressing
what God commands, ought to awaken
uneasiness and regret and sorrow, which,
in the Christians heart, no pressure of
woldly business should be strong enough
to stife.
I'm proportion as the inner life is viz.
i'd, the outer life will be effective. St.
Paul was naturally man of vigor. His
very faults were those of energy. When
he apprehended, or rather was apprehend.
ed by Christ, he did not loose vigor he
became more intense, more earnest, more
executive, than ever. The inward life
does not distract, it concentrates-do does
not enervate, it emphasizes outward.
While it Gains, it stirs; while it gives re-
pose, it also gives force.
Affections sent by Providence merit
the constancy of the noble minded, but
confirm the ohduracy of the vile. The
same furnace that hardens clay, liquifes
gold and in the strong manifestations
of Divine power, Pharoah found his pun
ishment, but David his pardon.
1t is said that Lysimachus, King of
Thrace, when suffering from extreme
thirst, offered his kingdom for means of
quenching it; but after he had INDUCED
in that costly drinking, he exclaimed,
"Ah, wretched me, who for such d mo-
mentary qualification have lost so great a
kingdom p How much more bitter must
be the lamentations of those who, for the
short lived joys of earth, part with the
kingdom of heaven
Count the mercies which have been
quietly falling In your history. Down
| they come, every morning and evening,
as angel messengers from the Father of
Heaven. Have you lived these years
| wasting mercies, renewing them every
| day and never yet realized whence they
came If you have, Heaven pity you.
You have murmured under affections.
but who heard you rejoice over blessing :?
| Ask the sunbeam, the raindrop, the star,
or the queen of the night. What is life
but mercy What is health, strength,
friendship, social life -? Had each the
power of speech, each would say, Il am
mercy" Perhaps you have never re-
garded them as such. If not, you have
been poor student of nature and revela.
ton. What is the propriety of stopping
| to play with a thorn bush, when you may
just as well pluck sweet flowers, and eat
pleasant fruits
A oolored planter named Montgomery,
of Hurricane Landing, Miss, has taken
the $500 prize for the best bale of long
stappled cotton delivered at New Orleans,
He used to be slave of Joe Davis, elder
brother of Jefferson Davis.
John Fl. Cox, who has been nominated
for Congress by the democrats of the
third Virginia district, was formerly an
officer in the rebel army, and obtained
| the nomination over Albert Ordway, who
served in the Union Army.
Recent investigations by the pension
Office have disclosed the fact that there
are now on the pension rolls twelve
widows of Revolutionary soldiers, who
are over hundred years old. The Oldest
is Lydia Blevins, of Troy, Ohio, who is
100 and has son 81 years old.
The Chinese in California have a bury
| ing place in San Francisco, where they
go twice year to distribute food on the
graves of their deceased friends, and
throw pieces of charmed papers to the
winds, with a view of exercising evil
spirits. Nearly $500 celestials recently
participated in ceremony of this kind.
An Arkansas genius conceived that
monkeys would, on account of their MINI
BILE fingers, make splendid cotton pickers
with little training, and further calcu-
lated that one good hand could manage
about ten monkeys, and the expenses of
cotton picking be reduced to minimum.
When the experiment was tried, how
ever, it was found that instead of one
good hand being able to manage ten
monkeys, it required about ten good hands
to one monkey.