Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-11-13
Religious department.
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hangs like whitening curse around every
act OF life.-Duf Porter.
lie will find himself in great mistake,
that either seeks for friend in palace, or
tries him at fenst.-Seneca.
The great wish of most people is for
fortune and nothing to do. How fully men
are punished when il is realized
The circumstances Of the world are so
variable, that an irrevocabo resolution is
almost u synonymous term for foolish one.
-SeDard.
The bravo man wants no charms 10 cn.
courage him to his duty, and the good man
scorns all warnings that would deter him
from fulfilling it.
How often do still small voices come to
tho gates Of our understanding, asking to
enter in, then turning away with despair
ing cry, because they fud no place for the
angels unaware, no ear that will listen to
their message.-Duf Porter.
He who has pursued business in such
way as to have neglected all just mental
culture, has sacrificed the end to the means.
lie has gained money and lost knowledge;
he has gained splendor and lost accomplish
mont; gained tinsel and lost gold gained
an estate aud lost an empire gained the
world and lost his soul
II we live truly VIC shall see truly. 1t is
as easy for the strong man to be strong, as
il is for the weak to be weak. When we
have new perceptions we shall gladly dis
burden the memory of its boarded treasures
as old rubbish. When u man lives with
| God, his voice shall bo as sweet as the MUIR
muir of the brook and the rustic Of corn.-
| Emerson.
Heaven penetrates to the bottom Of hearts
like light into dark chamber. We must
conform ourselves to it till We are like two
instruments of music tuned to the same
pitch. We must join ourselves with it like
two tablets which appear but one. We
must receive its gifts the very moment its
hand is open to bestow. Our irregular pas
sions shut up the door Of our souls against
God.-Contucius.
This passionate love of nature, which be-
gan in the sous of imagination, has from
them passed on to the universal people, and
becomes one OF the finest characteristics of
the time we live in-onc of the few offsets
VIC have against sordid sel6shness absorbing
pursuit Of wealth, endless competition aud
the ombittering divisions of classes aud sects
among us. In this love Of scenery we have
touch Of that nature which makes the
whole world kin.-Shairp.
He is the greatest man who is most Of a
man, and he is the most Of man who faith.
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distinctive qualities and forces Of his being
A great man therefore is not one prodigiou:
element, which acts as single instrument
but n concordant congress. Of powers all
working with composite unity to noble
end. Aud 20 we must look in at his hidden
life, as we'll as outward, at his special work
to test the merits OF . man.-T. STAR
Hing.
The truths of nature are ono eterna
change-one infinite variety; there are III
two trees in the forest whose boughs bend il
the same network, nor two leaves on tn
same tree which could not be told one from
the other, Eor two waves in the sea exactl,
alike And out Of this mass Of various, YET
agreeing beauty. it is by long attention on
/ ly, that the conception Of the constant char
acter-the ideal form-hinted at by all, ye
assumed by none, is fixed upon the magma
tion.--AnOH.
Men are to be estimated, as johnson says
by the mass Of character. A block Of til
may have grain Of silver, but still it is tin
aud block Of silver may have an alloy o
tin, but still it is silver. The mass o
Elijah's character was excellence yet h
was not without the alloy. The mass o
Jehu's character was base yet he had por
ton OF zeal which was directed by God t
great ends. Bad men are made the sam
use of as scaffolds they are employed a
means to erect building, aud then are ia
ken down and destroyed.-Ceca.
, The Bible will not be less, but rathe
, more, priced by our occasionally turnin
, from it to open another and equally divin
, volume, to read some pages of the book O
nature. Both are good books, and both ar
Gods books and He only looks on thi
great world Alright, who, valueiug it 70
something more valuable than the gold me
draw from its rocky bowels the hjcks 10 it
!. pastures, the rich freights borne on its waves
and the harvests that wave on Its fields, b.
hold there as in glorious mirror, the wi,
dom and power Of God-the goodness tn;
shines in every sunbeam and falls in ever
showcr.-Dr. Guthrie.
Enjoy the present, whatever it may b
and be not solicitous for the future for
you take your foot from the present stanC
ing, aud thrust it forward TO tomorrow
event, you are in q restless condition ; it
like refusing to quench your present thir
by fearing you will want to drink tho neS
day. If tomorrow you should want, yol
sorrow would come time enough, though yO
Il do not hasten it; let your trouble tarry Ii
its own day comes. Enjoy the blessings
II this day, if God sends them, and the evils
it bear patiently and sweetly, for this day
G ours. We Hre dead to yesterday, and N
yet born to to-morrow,-Jeremy Taylor.
1t will probably be found, however, tn
those qualities which come under the hei
i Of ioibles, rather than of vices, render pc
pie most intoe as companions an C,
y adjutors. For example, il may be observe
that those persons have a more worn, jad,
'e and disprlted look than any other, who hay
to live with people who make difficulties
= every occasion, great or small. 1t is a
tonishing to see how this practice of makiI
difficulties grows into confirmed habit
-, mind, and what dsheartenment it occasion
y The SAVIOR of life Is taken out Of it when "
= know that nothing you propose to do,
- suggest, hope for an endeavor, will meet wi
- any response but an enumeration Of the dii
y culties that lie in the path you wish to ira
! el.-Arthur Helps.
% Thou eternal God, Father of our Lord
"a sus Christ, thou who art clothed with
A. perfection, and whose eyes are too pure
10 behold iniquity, but who art full of paticn
a and long suffering, breathe thy indulge
sn;ril into thnSo xpho than,anlyaa naad ~