Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1875-07-16
uoprR, porp1 AND CHRISTIAN rAl1n

Oar childish trust that God our prayer could hear
Our faith was our nfrmity we own;
Yet deep within hearts these trusts have grown
These instincts strong that with our being spring
| And to their soil with living rootlets cling
| 70 those cold he ghts transplant us tenderV
From these saith-sheltered valleys, lest We de.
| We dreamed n loving presence on US smiled,
As smiles q mother on her trustful chic;
INT earth with heaven was bound by living TICS
| And human hearts with dear dependencies
| Responsive on the hear; Divire might lean;
Thar earth and sky, and all this beauteous sccGc,
| Was but the veil TO shade cur Fathers face
hat man might live and look upon His grace
| That Natures laws were hands with which ilS
wrQght,
| And all events. that aimless seem to wind
| Move TO one End tn -ough one Eternal Mind.
But 10 the dawn of Reasons nobler day,
And Faith sweet morning star, must fade away
| "The age is manl.er-we must lay aside
| Our tmd child-creed; walk with holder stride
Brand faith as folly confidence shame"
Alas, what boasts IN neek-eyed Reasons name.
oh, sceptic, natchless is thy trust and great
| Thy faith beyond our power IL estimate.
| believe not where they cannot proye"-indeed'
And yet no pagan myth can match their creed
| With supersttiOns and cre1ulit es
God had not spoken from those pagan skies
Nor set against unfettered fsncy's Hight
| The word sublime, 'G d said let there be light
| They could believe where little proof was given
| tut not deny the MONDAY sun in heaven
| These modern pagans with a faith sublime
| Can nlandly praise tho legends Of that time.
| Which poised the world upon tortoise shell
And yentured nothing farther back 70 tell
| Can cOolly count as Bibles Of the earth
| Alike inspired. alike civ ne in birth,
| The Northman's Edda and he HindoO ShastcT,
| The hooks of Moses and OF ZorOaster
| Christ they admit Contucius may excel,
| Christianity one movement in the swell
| OF that broad sea OF progress which shall bear
Mankind to s0mewhere e. il TO GHy,rhere.
| Oh give Us hack the old mythology
| OF Homer and the cwellers by the sea-
That peoplcd all their plains ant streams and
| groves,
with dsities who felt with human YES.
Oh. thanks for that deep iounta.5 sprin-,
| winch doth It's living waters bring
From that pure RIVER meath GOO. throne.
| And DER LIES desert sands doth Hing
| Its crystal, ssul-reireshing spray;
| Though ali the winds OF doubt may sweep
Their moon-sands across the plain
| Faiths fountain snail forever Aeep
| A cool, green pathway. till We gain
The shinin. land Faith hath herself made Anown.
Thanks Tor that slcret ight when beams
! IL radiance on our chi!dhroi'- years
! And ln-ers till LIES voyage is DER.
! Which NOM the World eternal glelms
| Through clouds that shroud this mortal shore
Nh.ca neither sat1n's lies nOr human fears
Nor hooking sc NJ nor sceptc sueers.
Nor all that tempts cur hearts % doubt
! Can quite cxtnguish or hot out
| Tharks , that the firing hart doth hr nc
/ To HriHg truth its witnessing.
| And calmly stand amid the shoaa
! or error il caI:.n. spruv5.
! As mid the rreak0Ts stands the rocf.
And say.-"I know not Is and God j. love-
The proceedings then closed with the ben
edic,on by the chaplain.
The music was furnished by ;b5 Geraania
Band, and was of their usual high order Of
excellence The programme embrace!
"S1ngs Without Words Mendelssohn
Ave Maria" Gounoi selection, from
Gounod's Romeo and Juliet" Siasny
overture. "Lustspiel," Keller B-la.
Annual Meeting 81 the Associate Aiiinini.
Tie annual meeting Of the Associate
Alumni Of the University Of Vermont and
State Agricultural College, was held a; ihc
chapel Of the University, on Tuesday morn
ing, July 10, at $50 O'Clock.
The meeting was callet to order by the
President Of the Association, Prof. Seiim II
Peabody, OF Chicago. The records of ;he
last meeting were read By the Secretary and
on motion they were approved. The repor:
of the neurology of the year pas. was read
by H. U. Wheeler, one OF the obituary con-
mittee The list embraced the names OF
William Noble. OF the class of l7l0. who
died at Hy1epark, H., December IL, l,7i.
aged 80, Piiny Moore Clr1in, class Of io23,
who died at Troy, \. /, Nov. @9-a, lS7i,
-, 4-.bjb,l1 r..,o;og e-,-.ofl-a-
who died at Malone, y. Y, June 81, $50,
aged - Benjamin Bal Newton, class Of
Is21 wb, d;ed a, Rro,z.vn :. Y. Ian. L.
IS a,o3 eG Jorath,, Winnie E.rie
cls.. If lsio who diei at Lemars.
Iowa J,ne le.b I,-i a-e3 :. Gso-ce
Morton Hall. elias. Of l.iC. who died
AZ sua,t,n " Aur d 1874 s.-el 4,
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james " u ''e Nu5-' us u INV VIM
died at E-saz. W. Jan. -, $50. assl 81.
Jane, Reid llickok. class of ISIS whl died
~ Rarlingtan VI Dc IN I,-i AGED IS .
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Henry Stanley Pi'kin elias fIe57. who died
at Honolulu. uawaiian Isl. jane - III.
s.,,i - Alfred Gull E,fie-4 elias. of
80 -. y, 10,
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was r,esc.rel 4, hand q c,py Of the same to
the .evcral paper, ofBsrlinstan for pub.icl-
tion. roe rep,-t sf the Treasurer. al, me-
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Burlington
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