Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-11-22


believing now. 1t is not seeking to make
ones self better, but coming in all our SIN
| fulness, that Christ may make us so. 1t Is
| through Him We come to know the love OF
| God and in this is rest and peace.-lR
| Newton.
A person is not worth anything who has
| not had troubles. You cannot subdue sell
fishness without a struggle. lou cannot re-
| strain pride without conflict. You cannot
go through life without bearing burdens.
| But You are going TO have help under cir
| cumstances that will redeem you from these
things You are going to experience more
| victories than defeats. Your suffering Will
be only here and there little spots in whole
field OF peace and Joy.
| No flower can blow in paradise that is not
| transplanted from Gethsemnne ; no one can
taste OF the fruit of the tree of life that has
| not tas.ed of tie fruit of the tree of Calvary.
-[Leigh Richmond.
The growing good of the world is partly
| dependent on unhistoric facts and that
things are not so Ill with you and me as
might have been is halt owing 10 the num-
ber who lived faithfully hidden life, and
rest in unvisited tombs. George Eliot
Setting out on thy souls pilgrimage, unite
to thyseif what hearts thou canst. Know
well that a hundred holy temples of Mecca
have not the value of heart. [Omar khey-
! AIN
love truth because love to have an ap-
pie, thought 10 be an apple, and hand
hand /; and the whole beauty and hopefulness
of God S creation II truth instead OF 4 lie
Leigh Hunt.
There are duties lying around us undone
now-t things which men call quixotic and
laugh if anybody suggests that they may lie
| done some day but as sure a. 1t Is deslra-
| bic that the thing should be done, some day
| a man will come to do it, Il man who Will say
| with Jesus For this cause was born, and
for this cause came | INTO the world :; and
that assurance will make 1t very easy for him
| to disregard the ridicule and stolId criticism
that Is sure TO greet him when he comes and
! undertakes his task Philips Brooks.
There are those to whom a sense OF relg
ion has come in storms and tempest there
are those whom it has summoned amid
scenes of revclry and idle vanity there are
those too who have heard its ''still, small
voice amid rural leisure and placid content
ment. But perhaps the knowledge which
causeth not 10 err, Is frequently impressed
upon the mind during seasons OF atiiictlon
and tears are the sottened showers which
cause the seed OF heaven to spring and take
root in the human lreast-lSir Walter
Scott
What is ii to be a gentleman: Is it to
have lofty aims, TO lead pure life, to keep
your honor virgin, TO have the esteem OF
your ellow-citzens. and the love OF your
tireside, to bear good fortune met KY, TO sui
fer evil with constancy, ana through evil or
good to maintain truth always Show me
the happy man whose life exhibits these
qualities. and him We will salute as Il gentle
man. Whatever his rank may be show me
the prince who possesses them, and he may
be sure of our love and loyalty rhacx-
cray.
1t is not darkness the Christian goes to at
death. for God is light 1t is not lonely, for
Christ is with him. 1t is not an unknown
country. for Jesus is there and there the
vast company of the Just made perfect, who
shall be one with Him in the fellowship and
blessedness Of heaven furever.-t Charles
Kingsley.
All Is but lip-wisdom which wants expert
ence-- [Sir p. Sidney.
The truost end of a lite is to know the life
that never ends William Penn.
Talents are best matured in solitude
character is best formed in the stormy bill
lows of the world.-[G [Goethe.
The best teacher of duties that sill lie dim
to US is the practice OF those we see and
have at hand.-[Carlyle.
Whenever any trait OF justice, of gener-
osity, or far-sighted wisdom, or wide toler
ance. or compassion, or purity, Is seen IN
any man woman throughout the whole
human race, there, as the fragments OF Il
broken mirror We see the reflection of the
Divine image.-[Desn Stanley.
Avert your gaze from the crosses OF the
future, You see them without the softening
sustaining grace which accompanies them
when they reach you. Let all your efforts
tend to bearing the cross of the present mo-
ment. Fenelou.
1t cannot be that earth Is mans abiding
place, that our life Is cast up 10y the ocean of
eternity to float moment upon It's waves
and then sink into nothingLesS. Else why
is it that the high and glorious aspirations
that leap like angels from the temple of our
hearts are forever unsatIstiedt Why Is 1t
that the rainbow and cloud come over us
with beauty not earthly and then pass of
and leave to muse upon their faded love
illness Why is it that the stars which hold
their festival around the midnight throne.
are set within the grasp Of our limited tacul-
ties, forever mockIng us with their unap-
proachHble glory And finally, why is II
that the brighter forms Of human beauty are
presented 10 our view and taken from us,
leaving the thousand streams of our affec-
tions TO come back in Alpine torrents upon
our hearts We are born for a higher des-
tiny than that Of earth there Is a lealm
where the rainbow never fades where the
stars will be spread out before us, like islands
that slumber IN the ocean and where the
beautiful beings which here passed before us
like shadows will stay in our presence Tor
evet.
We are haunted by an ideal lite, and 1t il
because We have within Us the beginning and
the possibility OF it Phillips Brooks.
Within ourselves our evil will is moment
Gus. and sooner or later 1t works its way out
side Us it may be. iu the vitiation that
breeds evil acts, but also it may he in the
sell that stlngs Us into better striving
George Eliot
yenerlte old age and | love not the
man who can look without emotion upon the
sunset of life, when the dusk Of evening be
gins TO gather over the vatery eye, and the
shadows of twilight grow broader and broad
er upon the understanding ILongiel!ow-
The longer | live, the more do / become
satisfied that nothing is 50 good foi people
who are in deep trouble Us real hard work, -
| work that not only occupies the hands but
| tie bruin work on which one luvishcs the
| great deal Of resolution to break away from
the apathy Of deep sorrow or heavy
trouble, and resoluteiy put ones hand to the
new or long-disused plOw but the effort
| once made, II there Is anything III the lndI-
| yidual, he she will never turn back. And
after work. real work. work with the hands.
| head, and heart, after this will come trust
and with trust will come peace. William
| G. Eliot
always know something unpleasant is
| coming when men are ANXIOUS to tell the
truth. [Disraeh.
Good thoughts, like rose-l,aves, give out u
sweet smell If laid up in the jar Of memory.
-[Spurgeon.
| The greatest cusmopolities are generally
| the neediest beggars, and they who embrace
the entire universe with love, tor the most
part. love nothing but their narrow sell,
| [Herder
Ministers are not like Pinto and Aristotle,
| the originators Of their Gwn doctrines, or the
teachers Of the doctrines of other men, but
simply the dispensers OF the truth which God
has revealed. Hodge
Every promise Of God rests on four pillars
| Eis holint 81 and justice, which will not suffer
| him to deceive his grace and goodness,
which will not suffer HIM to forget His truth.
| which will not suffer him tp change, and his
| power. which makes him able TO accomplish
| GSalter.
A teacher was practising her youthful class
| in original composition, and gave one pupil
the subject Boy" to write upon. The sub
iect was to be treated Of in three parts-iirst,
what is it second what is its use And
third, what is it made of, The lad wrestled
hard for few minutes ID desperate perpleN-
lty and then wandered up to the teacher =
desk radiant with enthusiasm aud submitted
the following "a boy IS an animal his
use 10 carry in wood he is made Of bones
A Yankee aucuoneer lately ;ndulged in
the following hit Of the pathetic GENTLE
men, If my father aud mother stood where