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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-05-24
- Dollars Worth Of Prayer"

\ young man handed dollar bill TO his
minister, This he did we suppose, in the
kindness of his heart lie had it to spare,
and he thought it would be acceptable, as it
doubtless was, and as such little offerings al
ways are TO ministers when they come from
a liberal heart. But in this instance the
receiver did not at first really understand
why the money had been handed to him
whether as a gift, or for some benevolent OBJ
iect, or, possibly, in payment of some indebt-
edness which the preacher had forgotten.
Accordingly, holding the bill in his hand,
he asked the young man why he had passed
it to him. His off-hand reply, playfully
made, was. | want dollars worth OF
prayer Had the pastor known that the
money was put into his hands with any such
intention, he probably would not have taken
it, but rs it. was, he retained the bill and
thanked him for the favor.
But this was not the last of it. Out Of the
fulness of that pastors heart, prayers ascended
to God for the conversion of the thoughtless
young man. While he was thus engaged
God visited him in a dream. lie caused
him to see, in his dream, as he thought, that
minister bowed in prayer, and pleading most
earnestly for the salvation of his soul. Sc
deep was the impression on his mind that he
was led by the Spirit of God 10 seek and
secure the forgiveness of his sins. lie found
peace in believing. He got his money,
worth Christian Era.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-05-24
The Judgment.

When the Bible reveals day of udg-
ment, it reveals what the human mind of IT,
self perceiyes TO be a necessity. The idea Of
a Judgment after death is no more biblical
than it is classical. Every people under
heaven who have reached any considerable
mental expansion, who have advanced far
enough to study at all the problems of moral
responsibility of justice and equity, have
had their theory of a judgment. In Persia,
in Hindostan, in India, among the Egyp-
tians, in the mythology of the Greeks and
Romans, in the teachings of the Druids, and
in the picturesque faith of the poor Saxon
hunted Indian, among every race and tribe,
the idea of a judgment, day of supreme
and final allotment of the good and the bad,
has been prevalent. The Bible assertion OF
a judgment day, instead, therefore, of doing
violence to human feelings, as some say, is
in exact harmony with them; it is only the
divine and authoritative announcement OF
what the universal consciousness of the race
had instnctively conceived must be fact
and every person at all intelligent and can
did Yields the free, nnforced assent of his
intellect TO the statement of the Scriptures
that God shall bring every work into iudg
ment, with every secret thing, whether it bc
good, or whether it be evil."-Golden Rule.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-05-24
MONTPELIER VT, WEDNESDAY MAY "a, 1876

every light held ,ip set many reilectors.
What power the pulpit will become What
a blaze Of light viii go all through your
community
Reyivals come in this way \ pastur. for
three months after his settlement, preached
on specific Christian duties. Then he told
his deacon a revival was coming. A revival
comingp Certainly. The people had gone
out, and In their better lives had given
the truth reflector. So light had gone
OUT and revival was inevitable. That is
all we can do, TO get the light to men. The
Spirit Of God viii do all the rest.
It is great help TO a minister when he
holds up the light of Gods truth IN the pull
pit, to look downward aud see rows OF re-
Electors in the faithful souls before him, wait
lug to set forth the truth in their better lives,
and to scatter the light everywhere Who
is willing TO help the minister2 Who is
willing to say " Though can't be the light
in the pulpit | will be a reflector 2" Is
Farmer Gray willing TO be a reflector p Dr.
Rant
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-05-24
BnIIdlng for Eternity.

We suspect that only the things which are
pure enough 10 live with God viii continue
to live. The things that are pure enough
TO be framed into suitable pictures for
heaven. will be the things that are 10 be
preserved, and stand the test Of time One
half the wisdom that comes from living,
therefore, is to know what to cut off from
you. As it takes twenty years for the horti-
culturist to know Just how TO prune the
young trees, so II takes man twenty years
TO know Just where to prune his habits Of
living. his wild ambitions. 90 curtail the go
ing forth OF his affections, and to put a
limit, so 30 speak. on the cNcrcscences Of his
passions.
Now how many OF us are ready to con
tract our livesY We are all ready to enlarge
them, 10 push them out. We are all willing
TO make great men and women of ourselves /;
but how many OF rs are willing 10 lower our
selves, TO bring ourselves nearer 10 the cen
tire OF humility, the centre Of lowliness, the
centre of contentment with humble things.
How many of us are willing to give up our
mansion and take up with a cottage, and
take all our happiness into that cottage, SO
that happiness which now requires twenty
rooms in which to live, shall live contented
in five, or four rooms? How many women
can come right down to that, and take all
their womanly tenderness, all their motherly
instincts, and all of the sweetness of wife
hood into that cottage, and so conduct them
selves that there never shall be the appear
ance of loss on their faces or the slightest
regret How many of us are willing 10 be
lowered in the scale of earthly reputation ?
We trust none are willing to be lowered in
the scale Of spiritual expansion--but how
many of us have so much of the man, or
rather so much of God in us, that what men
judge us to be has very little effect on us?
The building materials of this world
self-seeking, fame, vanity, money--these will
not make structure that will endure TO
eternity.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst
after righteousness. for they shall be filled"
-MmTdy
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-05-24

For the watctman.
SOWING sEED---rN MEMORIAM.
NJ MARY n. o. piSGwkIt
Come beauufnl rain with thy piiying nnscr..
Iouch the sod lightly
Where We have sovn
flooers to remain a- fond faemoty fingers
swccily and brightly
over our own.
'ne. summer, again, with Thy sweet troacl singers
Bring IN the mother-world
Bcanty and song.
Come. faith after pain for thou only cansi hnns us
Word from the other world
Whence they belong.
Nv ihe south afaf .ome We sadly lcn sleeping
Who're they were lying.
on the damp ground
THROUGH The gates aiar there T. ncyertuore sgidsg
Nurany dying
No battle sound.
Soy, We om -ccd then, for In beautiful kerrug
Fragrance embslms rest
After the strife;
Whe peace and free,iom. thy purchase. weN reapins
These are Thy embleIns, bs-t
eaeridcehfe.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-05-24
The Headlight.

| can imagine the service TO be over.
The little country church has been emptied
of its worshipers. Farmer Gray fingers at
the door a moment. His eye sweeps and
gathers in the beauties of the autumn land
scape ere he descends the steps to his car
riage. Perhaps the sermon has been upon
autumn leaves, favorite October topic in
the pulpits Excellent sermons we have,
SAYS Farmer Gray. Strange we don't see
greater results. Why, there is a sermon
stamped on the very leaves to help the truth
along. But don't see results. The pulpit
don't have power. Where is the trouble y
A good many people that are not farmers
ask the same question. Why is not the
truth that is sent out from the pulpit more
efIicacious Why does it not go out every
where, lighting up heaven and hell com
pelling men by the yividness of its testimony
TO shun the wrong, and attracting them TO
the light? Why is not the pulpit accom-
panied by such influences of power What
Is the reason ? Many thinking people ask
the question Now il there are willing men
and women. as well as thinking men and
women, the thing desired can be reached.
A little suggestion came to me as was
looking at the headlight of locomotive.
What a great, flaming, fiery thing is loco
motive headlight. just see tcoming round
the curve at night. 1t flashes and grows,
till it sends a magnificent beam along the
track, lighting up all the way. 1t is an i'm
mense eye OF fire looking into the night
and what an eye it gives to the engineer
1t would seem as if he could see spider
crawling on the rails. But what gives the
headlight its intensity? Watching the 10
comotive, saw how ii was. The lamp IL
self was not large. A child could handle it
and carry il about at night. 1t had, though
an immense reflector, There was a reflect
ing surface on this side, on that side, abov,
1T below it, and from these rejecting sur
/ faces there shot out a huge ball of flame. II
was little lamp, but IT had an immense
reflector.
Dear brother sister, you can be a reflector
of the truth. The sermon on Sunday may
be Just an ordinary instrumentality, but II
there are Christian disciples ON this side, Oh
that side, on every Side to reflect the teach
ings of the pulpit in their own faithful Lives,
the work desired Is done. The sermon hold
/ up honesty; be honest. 1t holds up purity
be pure. Ii holds up the heralding OF thu
gospel be a herald OF the gospel Beside
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-05-24

A STORY is told, and sin the days that
are gone" is not at all improbable, that a
youth being brought to Oxon, after he had
paid the tutor, aud the other several college
and university fees, was told he must sub
scribe 10 he TRHy-Nne Articies. "With all
my heart" said our freshman spray, how
much is it z"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-05-24

A YOUNG gentleman who had quarreled
with lady to whom he had paid his ad-
dresses was so imprudent as TO threaten that
he would publish the letters she had written
him. "That," she replied, "would be truly
yexatious; for, though need not be ashamed
OF their contents, certainly ought to be
ashamed of their directions"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-05-24

FREDERICK rnE GREAT being overturned
one day in his carriage, liberally vented his
anger ON the coachman, and then asked him
what he could say in excuse OF his want OF
skill. "Did you never lose battle 2" was
the rejoinder of the coachman. Frederick
was instantaneously paciiied.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-05-24

SAYS MARX TWAIN; When | was boy
there was but one permanent ambition
among my comrades in our village on the
west bank of the Mississippi river. That
was TO be steamboat-man. We had tran
sient ambitions OF other sorts, but they were
only transient When circus came and
went, ii left us all burning 10 become clowns
the first negro minstrel show that came 10
our settlement left us all suffering TO try
that kind OF life; now and then we had a
hope that ii we lived and were good, God
would permit us to be pirates. These am
bitions faded out, each In its turn but the
ambition 10 he steamboat-man remained
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-05-24

4 WRITER in the Washington Capital thus
describes the scene when Seward got the
news of Linooln's nomination at Chicago in
1860; So confidently did Mr.. Seward OK
pect the nomination that ON the eyentful
day he had quite q crowd OF friends In his
parlors- basket of champagne to be opened
In little nat-iron shaped park adjoining his
house was drawn up, in imposing style, a
cannon from the armory; the fuse was
lighted ready to be applied, to sound forth
the echoes OF congratulation. The telegram
boy came in the gate the mighty Seward
himself met him on the steps. TO open the
missiye and read, abraham Lincoln nomi-
mated" Tableau The volunteers around
the cannon were not soldiers enough to fire
over funeral, so they slowly and silently
stole around on back streets to the armory,
amidst the dcrsiye remarks of the wicked
little boys ON the street corners.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-05-24

"TmERE, john" said an irate mother,
"that's twice you've come home and for.
gotten the lardl" ala, mother" explained
young dutiful, sit was so greasy that 1t
slipped my mind"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-05-24
CAsro ronIAt oAsroHIA A

Dr. samuel Pitcher Of Iyannn, Mass, experimental In
his private practice for twenty yea 10 produce eonbna-
ton that would have the properties Of Castor on without
It's unpleasant taste and gliplng effect.
His preparation sent for, near and far TIL finally he
gave the name Of Casora and put II up for sale Is
very wonderful in s effects particularly with the disordere
stomachs and bowels Of children. II assimiiates the
food cures sour stomach and wind col' regulates tho
bowels expels worms, and may he relied upon IN Group
As a pleasant, eteeiye and perfectly safe eaihar'ie
remedy Is superior to Castor on cordhils and syu~
does not contain alcohol, and adapted 10 any age
by regulating the stomach and bowels OF cross ana
.iclly children they become goodnatured and eaihy
They can enjoy sleep and mothers have rest Tue "a.
ioria Is put up at the Laboratory of j. H. Ross co -
Dey street, New York -'4'
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-06-22
THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEES.

Texas and the South will be we'll pleased
that Hayes, of Ohio, and Wheeler, of New
York, are the Republican candidates for the
Presidency and Vice Presidency. Tilden's
nomination becomes, because of issues in
volved in that of Hayes, a foregone conclu-
sion, and the South is no longer the shut
tlecock of partisanship to be crushed
between the upper and neither milestone
Reform and the currency question will be
the issues, and the bloody shirt is con-
verted into the white flag of peace, and
the centennial year is plethoric of bless
ings, and not of woes, for the countt y.
Hayes is well known everywhere as the
Governor of Ohio, twice or thrice elected /;
but Wheeler is the greater man of the two.
He is an old and able and wise member of
Congress, rendered especially famous by
statecraft illustrated in adjusting troubles
in Louisiana. Both Hayes and Wheeler are
moderate and just, and the South Is content.
If Tilden be President, the Union will be
reproduced even as it was; if Hayes, as
perverted by the reign of Radicalism, but
we will have peace and order and good
will and harmony more slowly but surely
re-established. H ri.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-06-22
Alike ON Farure sclen.ists.

New York Times: There is town in
Ireland which sffronts comm ,n-sense and
the language Of the fyrannical Saxon by
calling itself ''Hauibow line" Recently #
has added TO its original offense by peTpe-
trating a gross and malignant attack upon
the Mosaic cosmogonY. The Hanlbowline
authorities have for long period been en-
gagged in the construction OF dock Of such
magnificent proportions that were Ireland q
free and happy republic, any Haulbow1ine
Statesman would by this time have saved at
least 3 million dollars out of the annual
dock appropriation. week or TWO ago,
the workmen were lowering heavy granite
block upon the bed Of concrete which forms
the foundation Of the dock, when 9 reck-
less and presumably atheistic Haulbowliner
deliberately threw himself in its way. The
block descended, and the man was slowly
but thoroughly fattened out. The concrete
yielded to receive him, and by the time
that it occurred to n bystander 70 mention
70 the workmen that they had deposited
their block on g. layer Of fatsened Insh-
man, the latter had accomplished his suici-
dai purpose. As there was no active de-
mand for his remains, no attempt was made
70 exhume them, and accordingly they will
remain Imbedded in the dock until, At some
future day, the dock crumbles into pieces
and .he fattened skeleton is brought 20
light and exhibited by eminent scientific
men as . conclusive proof Of the vast anti
quity Of man fe 4aal
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-06-22
MIR. ALL1soN,s PoL1ox.

Mr.. Allison, of the. House, tells his com
mittee that desperate diseases require dos
perate remedies, and that horse or cattle
thieves must be banged. The people con-
cur wirh. the venerable lawgiver. They
demonstrate the necessity for vigorous
measures by their own vigorous action.
The evil may be ephemeral, but none the
less terrible and, when remedled, the
bloody code of to-day may be remodeled.
Every newspaper on the continent tells of
lawlessness prevalent in wide districts of
Texas. Whatever we may say to the con
trary, the facts are ruinous to society, to
decency and to the States financial fortunes.
Even Texas securities, falling half per
cent per diem, may be affected by that coz
dition of society which begets speedy and
violent popular vengeance for crimes COM
mitted. When mobs supplant courts and
sheriffs, society is practically dissolved and
anarchy inaugurated. To this pitiable con-
dition Texas may be reduced. Wretched
systems of local government have hurried
thousands to poverty. Property, in negro
governed districts in eastern gulf States, Is
unstable and unproductive. All profits
of industry are absorbed by the country's
rulers and people reduced to want become
plunderers of corrals and of stage coaches.
Crime under operative codes IN Texas and
under the existing penitentiary system,
goes, practically, unwhipt of justice and
the very name of. Texas unless a change be
inaugurated, may be scorned by civilization.
Blaine's followers ascribe our woes to the
''murderous spirit of the rebellion" and
tell our credulous northern fellow
countrymen that the demonism of Ander-
sonville is only feeding in Texas on its own
vitals. Prompt and vigorous legisla-
tive action may at once put a, period to the
| preparation Of enormities, and however vio-
lent sectional hates to which, Radicalism
ministep in selecting its candidate for the
presidency, the whole country. by the ac-
ton Of The, Legislature of Texas, may he
forced to confess that prevalent lawlessuess
and violence is dues not 70 secessionism,
not TO inherent savagery of Southern peo-
pie, butto the subversion Of social systems
by which Ignorance and knavery have been
crowned rulers in plundered municipal and
county governments, and by which unae-
,custgmed poverty has been made universal
9 Mr.. Allison's assertions ofrthe necessity
for the instant adoption of a Draconian
code are only popular assertions developed
in popular seton when We read of sixteen
individuals put to death in single day in
Texas. Terrible diseases require desperate
remedies ~. ,.-sa ta
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-06-22

THE character aud habits of life of the
great mass of the people of Texas will be
illustrated in the extraordinary crops gar
nered. The very devotion of the great
body of the people to industrial pursuits
is shown in the violence with which they
are disposed to avenge the commission OF
crime. They hate robbers and thieves and
worthless yagrants that drift into prosper
Gus towns and counties, and therefore the
laws needed to-day, to extirpate villainy,
will speedily cure evils which the people
deplore, and the harvests of the year giving
US plenty, and reformed codes and juries
and courts giving us order and peace, the
commonwealth may prosper as never be-
fore ---. = ------ !.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-06-22

THE nomination of Hayes, and defeat OF
Blaine and Morton, is Radicalism's confes-
sion of the supreme power of Tilden. Til
den's name, fame, deeds and developed ex-
ecutive courage and ability themselves con-
stitute the platform of the opposition to
Radicalism as illustrated in Grants success
sive administrations. To defeat Tilden it
was sought to appropriate his virtues by
nominating candidates at Cincinnati repre-
senting their own party IN nothing. How
ever virtuous the men now nominated, their
party must wear the Nessus's shirt of cor
ruption, of which it is not divested by tear
ing the "bloody shirt" from its reeking,
disgusting body. Tilden has driven them
to msSqueradIng.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-06-22

THE printing bill was before the House
Thursday, and was accepted as it came
from the hands of the committee. A res
olution to not interfere with the present
current printing contrlct, in opposition to
section 10 of the bill, was rejected, and,
during the discussion, Gen. Griffith ex-
planned that the matter cont aimed in sec
ton 10 was marked out by the very bill
which provides for the letting out of the
current printing. This bill, approved May
II, settles this question in section Z, which
reads: ..-.. nm -.. =.
Sec. z. The printing committee of each
house of the Legislature shall certify to
the Comptroller of Public Accounts the
quantity of each item of printing ordered
by such house; and also the number of
copies of the same SO ordered, and also
the number of copies of the same they
may have received, and the Comptroller
shall thereupon authorize the payment of
the accounts for said printing IN accord
ance with the provisions of the contract; !;
Pr00ided that said contract shall terminate
aoie1a other provisions for the public printing
shall haze been made By the Legislature Of
Ier0S. ...ar. ...f ne .-sfstI. 1iai- a.
The STATESMAN has studiously avoided
any reference to matter of printing, and
refers to this matter with the view of cor
recting some eB0neeus opinions. fI