Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-08-31
Selections.

A happy home is the one spot in all
this beautiful world, where the most per-
feet rest is found and the most undivided
confidence given. Its joys are like the
flowers of paradise, perpetual in their
fragrance and most delicate in their
beauty.
"A writer beautifully remarks: A
Christian may, on fine day, and amidst
the glorious scenery of nature, elevate his
hopes respecting the enjoyment of flu
ture state, by thinking, if this beautiful
world be our prison, what shall our home
be?
The savage knows little of the keen
anguish to which the cultured mind and
sensitive heart are liable, and the more
debased the moral character, the more be-
numbed are the stings of conscience,
which give the pure-minded such exquisite
pain.
Zone would think" said friend to
the celebrated DR.. Samuel Johnson, "that
sickness and the view of death would
make men more religious" "Sir," re-
piled johnson, ''they do not know how to
go about it. a man who has never had
religion before, no more grows religious
when he is sick, than man who has
never learned figures can count when he
has need of calculation"
| MEMS natures may be divided into
the lower, the social and the moral. With
the lower the manhood serves the animal
nature. With the higher, the moral ma
ture. There is the greatest field for ex'
PLANTATION. Character is low even in the
highest. No man will be saved because
he is baptised, and being converted ia on
ly being begun upon as a sinner. There
is not a drunkard, not gambler, who has
not right to look up and say, "God help
me- If man is a sinner. that is the
very reason he should go to God. When
we are dangerously sick we send hurried
ly for physician, If men should not
pray till they were good, no one would
pray on the globe.
Many discouraged mother folds her
tired hands at night, and feels as II she
had. after all, done nothing, although she
has not spent an idle moment since she
rose. Is it nothing that your little help
less children have had some one to come
with all their childish griefs and joys
| Is it nothing that your husband feels
"safe" when he is away to his business,
because your careful hand directs every
thing at home? Is it nothing, when his
business is over, that be has the blesse d
refuge of home, which you have that day
done YOUR best to brighten and refine
o. weary and faithful mother, you little
know your power when you say, 81 have
done nothing" There is book in which
a fairer record than this is written over
against your name.
just in proportion as ones speech is q
pure and simple effiux of his spirit, just
IN proportion az it's utterance lies in the
order and inevitable procedure of his life,
he will be liable to undervalue it. Who
feels that the universe is greatly enriched
by his heart-bents ?-that it is much that
he breathes, sleeps, walks ? But the
breaths of supreme genius are thoughts,
and the imaginations that people Its day
world are more familiar to 1T than the
common dreams of sleepers to them, and
the travel of its meditations is daily and
customary; insomuch that the very
thought of all others which one was born
to utter he may forget to mention, pre-
sumipg it to be no news.
The silent tears that fall at dead of night
over sriled robes which once were pure and
white:
The PRAYERS that rise like incense from the soul
| Longi1 for Christ to make it clean and whole:
These are not lost.
The happv dreams that gladdened all our youth,
Wher. dreams had less of self and more of truth,
The childhke faith so tranquil and so sweet,
| Which sat like Mary at the Masters feet;
These are not lost.-IArgosv.