Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-07-23

you have q small foot if we have little
means it will be we'll to have little desires.
Poverty is no shame, but being discon-
tented with it is. In some things the
poor are better off than the rich for if
poor man seeks meat for his stomach, he is
more likely to get what he is after, than
the rich man who seeks stomach for his
meat. A poor mans table is soon spread,
and his labor spares his buying sauce. The
best doctors are Dr.. Diet, DR.. Quiet and
DR.. Merryman, and many godly plough
man has all these gentlemen to wait upon
him. Plenty makes dainty, but hunger
finds no fault with the cook. Hard work
brings health, and an ounce of health is
worth sack of diamonds. 1t is not how
much We have, but how we enjoy that
makes happiness. There is more sweet in
a spoonful Of sugar than in cask Of vine
gar. 1t is not the quantity of our goods.
but the blessing of God on what we have
that makes US truly rich. The parings of
a pippin are better than whole crab
dinner of herbs, with peace, is better than
a stalled OK with contention Herewith.
Better is little with the fear of the
Lord than great treasure and trouble
Herewith" A little wood will heat my
little oven; why, then, should l murmur
because all the woods are not mine
When troubles come, it is of no use to
fly in the face Of God by hard thoughts Of
providence that is kicking against the
pricks and hurting your feet. The trees
bow in the wind, and so must we. Every
time the sheep bIeats it loses a moutnful.
and every time we complain We miss a
blessing. Grumbling is a bad trade and
yields no profit, but patience has golden
hand. Our evils will soon be over. After
rain comes clear shining; black crows
have wings; every winter turns to spring !;
every night breaks into moraing.
Blow the wind never so fast,
1t will lower at las.
If one door should be shut God will open
another; if the poas do not yield we'll. the
beans may; if one hen leaves her eggs.
another will bring off all her brood /; there
is bright side to all things, and a good
God everywhere. Somewhere or other in
the worst food of trouble. there is always
a dry spot for contentment to get its foot
on, and if there were not, it would learn to
swim.
Friends, let US take to patience and
water Cruel, as the old folks used to tell
us, rather than catch the miserables. and
give others the disease by wickedly finding
fault with God. The best remedy for at
Fiction is submitting to providence. What
can't be cured must be endured. If we
cannot get bacon, let US bless God that
there are still some cabbages in the gar
den. Must is bard nut to crack, but it
has sweet kernel. "All things work
together for good to them that love God"
Whatever falls from the skies is, sooner or
later, good for the land whatever comes
to us from God is worth having, even
though 1t be rod. We cannot by nature
like trouble any more than a mouse can
fall in love with a cat, and yet Paul by
grace came to glory in tribuiations also.
Losses and crosses are heavy to bear, but
when our hearts are right with God it is
wonderful how easy the yoke becomes
We must needs go to glory by the way of
Weeping Cross and as we were never
promised that we should 60 to heaven in a
feather bed, we must not be disapp o:nted
when we see the road to be rough, as our
fathers found it before us. Ais well that
ends we'll and, therefore, let US plough
the heaviest soil with our eye on the
sheaves of harvest, and learn to sing at our
labor while others murmur