Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-12-29
2Reliaiolls Department.
SUNDAY READING.

III do'OioioJ iCluSO'
We can hardly learn humility and
tenderness enough, except by suffering.
Leisure for men of business, and bus
mess for men ofleisure, would cure many
Nature lives; every pore is bursting
with life; every death is only new
birth every grave a cradle.
1t is apparent to so many parents
that great many children get on the
wrong track because the switch is mis-
placed.
The greatest benefit which one friend
can confer on another, is to guard and
excite and elevate his virtues.
Prosperity is great teacher, adver-
sity greater. Possession pampers the
mind; privation strains and strengthens
it,
Be not angry that you cannot make
others as you wish them to be, since you
cannot make yourself what you wish to
be.
Malice and uncharitableness as often
consist in the vivid remembrance of the
pang inflicted as in that of the blow
which caused it.
If success in an undertaking was pro-
portioned to the earnestness brought to
bear upon it, hen could run eighteen
hundred miles day.
The essence of true nobility is neglect
of self. Let the thought of self pass in
and the beauty of great action is gone,
like the bloom from soiled flower.
Secret kindness done to mankind are
as beautiful as secret injuries are de-
testable. To be invisibly good is as
godlike as to be invisibly evil is diabol-
ical.
To be bodily tranquil, to speak little
and digest without effort, are absolutely
necessary to grandeur of the mind or of
presence or to proper development of
genius.
Nothing so humanizes the soul as
sympathy. Nothing so thoroughly proves
the man as his sympathizing with and
alternating the miseries of his fellow
creatures.
Skepticism has never founded empires.
established principalities, or changed
the worlds heart. The great doors in
history have always been men of faith.
The winds of adversely sweep over
our souls, and scatter their fairest bios
SONS of hope. But the blossoms fall
that we may bring forth much fruit
patience, faith and love.
Our principles are the springs of our
actions, our actions the springs of our
happiness or misery. Too much care,
therefore, cannot be taken in forming
our principles.
1t is in vain to put your finger in the
water, and, pulling it out, look for a
hole; and equally vain to suppose that,
however large space you occupy, the
world will miss you when you are dead
If we had keen vision, and feel
ing Of all ordinary human life, it would
be like hearing the grass grow and the
squirrels heart beat, and we should die
of that roar which lies on the other side
of silence.
1t is no small commentator to man
age a little, we'll. He is a good wagner
who can turn in little ROOM To live
we'll in abundance is the praise of tn,
estate, not of the person. [ will stud!
more how to make it more.
The world is full of need unless W,
wisely spend our means we are sure t.
require them all and more. But tina
is poor life which helps no one. Ant
it is only by economy that one can pos
sibly have the joy of assisting others
This, too, is worth planning for.
Idleness and luxury produce prema
ture decay much faster than many trade
that are regarded as the most fatal t
longevity Labor, in general, instea
of shortening the term of life, increase
it. 1t is the lack of occupation tina
) destroys so many of the wealthy.
) Each animal has its little work to do
even the tiny insect does its little par
and does it faithfully. The ant, toilin
SO steadily and perseveringly to bull
its house, to be thoughtlessly trample
on by careless feet, teaches us lesso
} we should all do well to profit by.
. Definite work is not always that whic
! is cut and squared for us, but that whic
: comes as claim upon the conscience
5 whether it is nursing in hospital (
: hemming a pocket handkerchief.
: would be hard world to live in if the
: were none to do the odds and ends
= the work in 1t.
n A man must invest himself near
!, hand, and in common things, and
s content with steady and moderate +
: turn, if he would know the blessedne
d of cheerful heart and the sweetness
:, walk over the round earth. This is
y lessen the American has yet to learn
a capability of amusement on a low key
n Cheerfulness is an excellent wearil
G quality. 1t has been called the brig
+; weather of the heart. 1t gives harmon