Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-09-27

every providence, as there was to the fer
cloudy pillar that guided Gods people of ol
In the desert. Nature looks on the dark sid
and calls it sorrow and sadness but fait
sees the sun dispensing the darkness, an
calls it by the name of joy.-[H. Bonar.
am no fanatic, l hope as to Sunday !; br
look abroad over the map of popular fire.,
dom in the world, and it does not seem
me accidental that Switzerland, Scotland
England, and the United States, the cou,
tries which best observe Sunday, constitu,
almost the entire map of safe popular 90,
ernment.-l lJoseph Cook.
There is n test point about you somewhere
Perhaps it is pride you cannot bear an a
front You will not confess q fault. PEI
haps 1t is personal vanity, ready to sacriiic
everything TO display. Perhaps it is a shar
tongue. Perhaps 1t is some sensual appetite
bent on unclean qualification. Then you ar
TO gather up your moral forces Just here, and
TIL that darling sin is brought under tn
practical law of Christ. you are shut on
from Christ's kingdom bishop Hunting
ton.
| sELFwEARY.
Lord, many times | am aweary quito
Uf my Cwn self, my sin and vanity;
Yet be not Thou, or am lost outright.
| Weary OF me.
And hate against myself often bear,
And enter with my self in fierce debate
Take Thou my part against my self, nor share
In that just hate.
But friends might loathe Us if what things pervers
We know OF our own selves they aso knew;
Lord. holy Cne il Thou, who knowest worse.
Should !olthe US too! Trench.
Prayer is the key to open the day, and the
belt TO shut III the night. But as the clouds
drop the carly dew and the evening dew
upon the grass, yet it would not spring and
grow green by that constant and double fall.
ing OF the dew. unless some great shower al
certain seasons did supply the rest SO the
customary devotion of prayer twice a day il
the falling OF the early and latter dew. But
If you will increase and flourish in works OF
grace, empty the great clouds sometimes,
and let them fall in a full shower of prayer.
Choose out seasons when prayer shall over
flow like Jordan in time of harvest Il Bishop
Taylor.
All who know their own mind know no.
Their own hearts, [Rochefoucauld
If you hold the stirrup, no wonder that
Satan gets into the saddle -[Secker.
That which could break a proud mans
heart will not break humble mans sleep.
-[Elenry.
If a word spoken in time is worth one
piece of money, silence in its time is worth
[Talmud.
Thy friend has friend and thy friends
friend has a friend be discreet [Talmud
When man dies. men inquire what he
has left behind angels inquire what he has
sent before him.
The most delicate and satisfying of all
happiness consists in promoting the happi-
ness of others La Bruyere.
BE thyself blameless of what thou re-
bukest. He that cleanses Il blot with blot
ted fingers makes n greater blot.-[Quarles.
The bird of wisdom flies low and seeks his
food under hedges ; the eagle himself would
be starved if he always scared aloft against
the sun Landor.
TRUST IN GOD.
Courage. brother do not stumble,
Though The path be dnrk a night;
There's star to guide the humble
Trust in God and do the right
Let the road he long and dr.ary,
And its endings out OF sight;
Foot II bravey-strong or weary
Trust IN God and do the right.
Norman Mcleod.
The Christian life is not knowing nor hear
ing, but doing.-[F. W. Robertson.
If you are not right towards God, You can
never be so towards man !: and this is forever
true. whether wits and rnkes allow it or not.
- Lord Chatham.
God made the soul to correspond with
truth. Truth is its own evidence, Us the
lightning flash is, as the blessed sunshine is.
IF. W. Robertson.
Whoever thinks of life as something that
could be without religion is yet in deadly ig-
noIance of both. Life and religion are one
Or neither is anything Macdonald.
Whosoevor would be sustained by the hand
ol God, let him constantly lean upon it .
whosoovcr would be defended by it, let him
patiently repose himself under it-[Cal- |
in.
TRUST AND REST.
Fret not poor soul while doubt and fear
Disturb thy breast
The pity ins angels who can see
How VAIN thy Wild regret must he,
Say, trust and Rest"
Plan not, nor schemc.-hut calmly wait
Ills choice is best.
While blind and erring is thy sight:
LIS wisdom sees and judges right
So Trus; and Rest.
Can never
The meanest thing to serve thy will;
All power is his alone. Be still,
Ard rust and Rest.
Desire not: selflove Is strong
Within thy breast;
And vet lie loves thee better still
SO let him do his loving will,
And Trust and Res..
What dost thou ear' His wisdom reigns
Supreme confessed;
Ills power is infinite; his love
Ihy deepest, iondest dreams above -
So Trust and Rest. The OIscrt,r |
There are many things that are thorns to
ur hopes until We have attained them, and
nvenomed arrows to our hearts when We
Things are saturated with the moral law.
here Is no escape from it, Niolets and grass
reach 1t ; ram and snow wind and tides.
very change. every course in nature, is moth
lg but II disguised missionary.
IN.
Alas how little can human beings read
lch other. "The heart knoweth its own
tterness, and stranger intermeddleth
Dt - yet. after all. why Alas ?" Is it not
etter that it should be so. than that our in
ost soul should be legible to all IF. W.
obertson.
All to how many Faith has been
No evidence Of things unseen,
hut dim shadow that recasts
The creed OF the Phantasiasts.
For whom no Man of sorrows died
For whom the Tragedy Divine
Was hut symbol and sign,
And Christ phautum crucified,
-LoHVJ,iicw.
Nothing Is beneath you If it is in the di-
ction of your life nothing is great or de J
-able II II is oil and away from that En- |
son.
The worst Islander often has in it some /
nth. from which We may learn n lesson that d,
iy make us wiser. and if We will, better.
lcn the hrst smart of 1t is Oycr-[F. W.
lbertson.
Culture, if consistently and thoroughly |
rried out. must lead on to religion. that IL. T.
the cultivation ofthe spiritual and heaven \
nd capacities of our nature And religion. q
truthful and wse. must expand into cul- /
re. must urge men WHO are under its power Ii
make the most of all their capacities not '
~ Tor the worth OF those capacities in h
rmsclves, hut because they are gifts of h
'd. and given for this purpose, that we may e
reiully cultivate them Sharp r.
places where our friends have lived and died
Ire haunted through the open doors
g gentle spirits on their eTrsnds glide y
with ieet TINT make no sound upon the floors II
meet them Ht the doorway, ON the stair Al,
ilohs the passages they come and 90. a:
. stranger at my flresidr canno, see 4,
he forms see nor hear the sounds hear
hut pcrceyes what is while unto me
III that has been II visible and clear
. spirit world around thus world of sense
1nats like an atmosphere and everywhrre N
lts through these earthly mists and yspors dense Al
he vital breath Of spirits minist'ring there !!
-LoHyf.how. u
The best books ;or us are not always those n
lch the wise recommend but often those al
zen meet our peculiar wants, and the natu- et
THIRST OF our minds, and which therefore il
AIKEN interest and rivet thought -[Chan- $,
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