Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-08-10
Selections Y.

1T is fashionable in these days. with
small wita, to ridieule men of one idea
Bat no man has ever yet made his marx
ON the world WHO was not possessed by
some master passion.
"A man who lives for a noble end by
noble motives, and keeps his coincidence
closr and clean, has touched in him, by
airy hands, chords that give forth music
such as ia never known to the lower ma
ture.-Beecher.
We want such an access of truth
that the general mind can be fed with s
worthier conception of God, which will
make every thought of him inspiring 81
the dawn of the morning, and will Danish
the superstition that this life is the final
state of probation as an insult to his plan
Of eternal education and a chimers of a
barbarous age.-1hoDaaS Starr King.
How ever slow the progress of man.
kind may be, or however inperceptible
the gein in single generation, the ad.
vancement is evident enough in the long
run. There was u time when the most
part of the inhabitants Of Britain would
have been as much startled at questioning
the truth of the doctrine of transubstan.
most skeptical doubts on the being of 9
God-John Locke.
Don Quixote thought that he could
have made beautiful bird cages and tooth
picks, if bis brain had not been so full OF
ideas OF ohivalry; and many other per-
sons would achieve an easy success in
their csllingS. if they were not distracted
by rival ambitions.
The tiny drsughts of the slender
anemone are not to be compared with the
rivers of sap which bear to the royal oak
it, centuries :. but oak and anemone each
demands all the juice it can 9usff, and
earth and sea and sky are alike under tri-
butte to fill the fairy drinking cup of the
one and the huge wassaif of the other
Gal Hamilton.
The contemplation of the Divine Be.
ing, and the exercise of virtue, are in
their nature so far from excluding all
gladness of heart, that they are perpetual
sources of it. In word, the true spirit of
religion cheers as we'll as composes the
soul 1t bsnishes. indeed, all levity of
behavior, all dissolute and yioions mirth,
but an exchange fills the mind with per-
petual serenity, uninterrupted cheerful
ness aud an habitual inclination to please
others ss we'll as to be pleased in ITSELF
Spectator.
The preacher must study the way
men work and speak. Learn the language
Of their life-the sort of material on
which he is to use his skill. Whitfield
boosted that he spoke market Language
Different persons need different approach
es. This man claims to believe in hard
fact. This woman is moved by graceful
smile. Still others are to be touched only
through their synpsthies. Every Eolian
had is not walked to music by the same
breeze. This vibrates at whi.per--anoth.
er finds its voice emily in the surge of the
storm.-Cld and Neao. |
To those who judge by the outward
appearance nothing is more difficult of |
explanation than the strength or moral
influence often exerted by obscure and
lives. Some great reform
which lifts the world to higher level,
some mighty change for which the ages
have been waiting in anxious expectancy,
takes place before our eyes and. in seek
ing to trace it back to its origin, we are
often surprised to find the initial link in
The chain of causes to be some compare
lively Obscure individual, the divine COM
mission and significance of whose life
we're scarcely understood by his contem-
,oraries, end perhaps not even BY him.
elf.