Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-07-18
Selections.

-Trifies make perfection and perfec-
ton is no trifle.
Aim high but not so high as not tC
be able to hit anything.
Forgiveness: a kiss Of the lips tc
heal a stab Of the heart
The Lord has many fine farms from
which he receives but little rent.
If God is our guide, He will be our
guard; He always protects whom He
leads.
1t is easier to set a man against the
world than to make him fight against
himself.
Men will never know us by our
faith, for that is within us; they know
us by our works, which are visible to
them.
-Apostacy begins with Titles; it is
called drawing back; not running back ;
beware of ian evil heart of unbeicf."
Where there isnodenial of self, there
is no religion; where sacrifice begins, there
piety begins, there the love of Christ
begins.
Suffering seasons are sitting seasons.
in which the Christian loses his chaff
Good counsels observed are chains
to grace, which neglected prove halters
to strange undutiful children. = Fuller
-Forbearance is domestic jewel,
not to be worn for state or show, but
for daily and unostentatious ornament
AS the best writers are the most
candid judges OF the writings of Others
so the best lovers are of the most chart
table, in the judgment they form of their
neighbors. Seed.
Opportunities are running to waste
everywhere, like the golden fruit Of the
overburdened orchard. They are not
confined to parallels of latitude. In run
ming after them, we are perpetually
running away from them,
There are some troubles that only
time heals, and perhaps some that can
never be healed at all, but all can be
helped by the panacea work. Try it,
you who are thus afflicted.
The heaviest yoke of labor will be
lightened, and the solitary place be made
glad, when he shares them with us who
can give even to the most weary and
heavy laden fortaste of the very rest
of God. John Kerr.
Half the troubles for which men 90
slouching in prayer to God, are caused
by their intolerable pride. Many of our
cares are but a morbid way of looking
at our privileges, We let our blessings
get mouldy and then call them curses. =
Beecher
Some can walk very well along the
plank sidewalk of Gods gentle provi
dences, and over.the smooth pavements
of prosperity. But when this path is
steep and stony, their feet stumble and
they faint by the way. Like Peter,
they sink when they tread the boisterOus
sea Of trouble or sorrow.
In all the phrases, emergencies and
occupations of human life, good temper
is a commodity for which there is
great demand: but in those which bring
an individual into daily contact with
many others, it is perhaps in greatest de-
mand and most limited supply.
Good, kind, true, holy words drop
ped in conversation may be little thought
Of, but they are like seeds of flowers or
fruitful tree falling by the wayside, or
borne by some bird affair, haply there
after to fringe with beauty some noun
tain-side, or to make glad some lonely
wilderness.
In nature no two scenes are exactly
alike, and whoever copies truly what is
before his eyes will possess the same va
riety in his descriptions and exhibit APP
parently an imagination as boundless as
the range of nature in the scenes he re-
cords whereas he who trusts to his i'm
agination will soon find his mind circum-
scribed to few images, and the repeti-
ton of these will sooner or later produce
monotony.-[ Scott.
Lord Bacon SAYS Some books
are to be tasted, Others swallowed, and
some few to be chewed and digested
Taste first, look at the index, read lit
tie here and there, to see if the book is