Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-06-05
Gems of Thought.

~" ""uois'ahuhs, III VIII make thee q
great master of philosophy and true
servant to the Divine Author; if thou
but barely read, it will make thee thy
own wise man, and the authors fool
Quarles.
As the rays come from the sun, and
yet are not the sun, even so our love and
pity, though they are not God, but mere
ly poor, weak image and reflection Of
him, yet from him alone they come. II
there is mercy in our hearts, it comes
from the fountain Of mercy. If there is
the light of love in us, it is ray from
the full sun of love- Charles Kinosleu.
II is the nature o. every artifcer to
tender and esteem his own work; and
if God should not love his creatures, it
would reflect some dispsragment on his
workmanship, that he should make any
thing he could not own. Gods power
never produces what his goodness can
not embrace. God oftentimes in the
same man distinguishes between the sim
ner and the creature; as a creature he
can love him while as sinner he does
affiict him.-.South.
Do the best thou knowest to-day.
Shrink not from frequent error in this
gradual, fragmentary state. Follow thy
light for as much as it will show thee !;
be faithful as far as thou canst, in hope
that faith presently will lead to sight.
Help others without blaming their need
of help. Love much and be forgiven.
Margaret Fuller
We touch heaven when we lay our
hand on human body I" This sounds
much like mere flourish of rhetoric !;
but it is not so. If we'll meditated, it
will turn out to be scientific fact, the
expression, in such words as can be had.
of the actual truth of the thing. We
are the miracle of miracles,-the great
inscrutable mystery of God. We can
not understand it, we know not how to
speak of it, but we may feel aud know,
if we like, that tits verify so.- Carlyle.
Death to a good man is but passing
through dark entry, out of one little
dusky room Of his Fathers house into
another that is fair and large, lightsome,
and glorious, and divinely entertaining.
Adam Clarke.
The more we sink into the infirmities
of age, the nearer we are to immortal
youth. All people are young in the
other world. That state is an eternal
spring, ever fresh and fourishing. Now,
to pass from midnight into noon, on the
sudden, to be decrepit one minute and
AMI all spirit and activity the next must
be desirable change. To call this dy-
ing is an abuse of language. Jeremy
Collier.
In beginning the world, if you do not
wish to get chafed at every turn, fold up
your pride carefully, put it under lock
and key, and only let it out to air upon
grand occasions. Pride is garment all
stiff brocace outside, all grating sack
cloth on the side next the skin. Even
kings don't wear the delmaticum except
at coronation. .-Bal'oer Lytton.
That Acknowledgements of weakness
which we make in imploring to be re-
lieved from hunger and temptation is
surely and wisely put in our daily prayer.
Think of it, you who are rich, and take
heed how you turn a beggar away
1Hackeray.
In thy silent wishing, thy voiceless,
muttered prayer, let the desire be not
cherished that Affections may not visit
thee; for well has it been said, such
prayers never seem to have wings. /
am willing to be purified through sor-
row, and to accept it meekly as bless.
ing. | see that all the clouds are angel
faces, and their voices speak harmoni-
ously of the everlasting chime.-L. M.
Child.
Let the foundation of thy affection be
virtue, then make the building as rich
and as glorious as thou canst if the
foundation be beauty or wealth, and the
building virtue, the foundation is too
weak for the building and it will fall
happy is he the palace of whose affec-
ion is founded upon virtue, and walled
with riches, glazed with beauty, and
'ealed with honor.-Q Quarles.
Murmur at nothing if our ills are ir-
-eparable, it is ungratefuI; if remedi-
ess, it is vain; Christian builds his
ortltude on better foundation than
tolcism; he is pleased with everything
hat happens, because he knows it could
lot happen unless it had first pleased
iod, and that which pleases Him must
'e the best. He is assured that he is in
he hand of Father who will proya
nm with no affliction that resignation
annot conquer, or that death cannot
ure.- Cotton.
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