Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-01-29


shall reign where e'er the sun
Doth his successive journeys ruu,n
when the church shall become the sepulcher
OF the soul, and tho priesthood shall be the
dominant power in literature, finance, law,
and religion.
Tho Protestant exhorts to wait in patience
for good time coming" when everybody
and his sister shall have an open Bible in
their hands, and shall own u pew in the
meeting house, when tho creed of the denom-
ination shall stand for statute law and DEM
onstrated science, and the facility of refor-
nation shall obvato the necessity of any
care IN formation.
The spiritualisi intorrogates the land of
shades to learn what waits for him in the
"good time coming" when the form shall
beIdropped, and he shall roam at will mid
the people of tho earth or among tho celestial
spheres, upsetting dining tables and tables
Of chronology on earth, and tearing up the
floors Of heaven, when mind shall subdue all
material and physical law.
Women lecture and write for the paper
about II " good time coming" when they will
enjoy all the rights and be competent ito
perform all the duties of men, when the bal
lot box shall be as open to them rs the band
box and the state capitol be rs familiar to
them as the home kitchen. and they may al.
so MS readily shoot bullets AS they kiss
babies.
The temperance worker CRATES of "good
time coming" when
"There'll be no rum sold there"
and distilcries and drunkards will not be
found, when sobriety, friendship and truth
shall constitute all mankind social order,
and those who practice these principles shall
not be odd feliOVs, or u peculiar people, but
the divinity of manhood shall dwell intact in
man.
The dram drinker and dram seller drink
to the "good time coming when whiskey
shall be free as water, and tipplers shall be
plentiful us throats, when all earth shall con-
| tinuously hold high carnival and none need
pass the river Styx to experience the horrors
| of Pandemonium.
The kings and princes plot for " good
time coming" when they shall exercise all
power over the actions of men and the land
and sea shall be theirs by fee simple, when
they shall be responsible TO none, and their
divine right to reign shall be acknowledged
by all.
| The slave wishes for n :" good time COM
ing" when there shall be no work to dc, and
his master shall be his waiter, when he shall
be free to make all his life one long playdny,
and tho fruits Of tho field shall be placed,
without hands. upon his table.
The granger plows in expectation of
good time coming when lawyers shall
turn sawyers and merchants shall become
mechanics, when every business shall be
conducted without expense, and they shall
sell all the grain and eat all the bread.
The lawyer and tho merchant figure for
"good time coming" when fees and clients.
profits and customers shall be liberal and
| frequent, when the adjustment of all claims
and the distribution of all commodities shall
be done by them respectively, the sole arbi-
tiers of equity (O and divisors of products.
The mechanic and the laborer strike from
work to gain II " good time cen,ing." when
wages shall be HIGH time short, and jobs
light, when they shall receive all the praise
and twice the dividends, and knowledge,
sagaclty and enterprise shall be at a discount.
| The teacher talks of n" good time COM
ing" when education shall be general, and
colleges shall be rs abundant rs corn-mills,
and Greek and geometry shall be green In
every memory as the grass in mountain
gorges, when brooks shall be the staple man
ufacture, and study the unanimous pursuit.
1t is evident that all classes cannot realize
the full extent OF their desires. The contra
rieties aud overlapping of their several in
terests preclude the positive prevalence of
all or of any except by predominatng over
others or excluding them entirely.
Yet each class and individual in society
may have, If they can be agreed, an equitable
proportion of earthly good, and be satisfied
Herewith, rejecting that not the good of one
or of one class, faction and sect only, but Of
each, every and either one is contemplated
by the over all Dlsposer Of events.
Whilst the perpctually surging tide may
recede, and leave an oyster TO perish on the
dry beach, there ARE other oysters on the
transmarinc shore to be revived by the in
coming wave. When half the world sleeps
in the darkness of night, tho antipodal half
is busy in the light of day.
Whoever seeks II monopoly OF all good can
keep il only for time. Whoever would
abide in any good must share part with his
neighbor. Whoever would hold wealth
without limit and without wings must obtain
it from heavens treasury of spiritual riches
which grows no less by being divided, but
even that will decrease unless impaired to
| ofhara II, gram va f.aaly pannivo aud a.,
retain it ye must freely give.
The expectation of something better to
come has been the paramount thought of the
world ever since Adam and Eve ate the
fruit of knowledge, or n Christ allowed him
self to be sacrificed in hope of redeeming the
race. Aspiration and hope are parts of hui
man nature, and therefore to be exercised,
but with caution, remembering that like ev-
erything else when used in II reckless man
ner or carried to extremes of application,
they ARE productive of arrangement
The only time which is real is the present
time. Time past is gone, time future is not
come. The only way to have a good time Is
to seize both time and its freight of good as
il flies. With time, MS with other things, it
is distance which lends enchantment to the
view" magnifying objects to the imagina-
ton, in inverse ratio to the square of the
distance, as they appear diminished to the
direct sense of sight. Tho difficulty encoun-
tered in experiencing good time is the dis
cernment of what is good when it is pre-
sented. The moralizing poet says truly;
"---iIoW few In this world
Know their own good, OF knowing It pursue"
The fathers stoned the prophets, the sons
gHrnish the prophets sepulchors. The old
man signs that the former times were better
than these, and the young man shouts for n