Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-09-13

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BORN Ar JERUSALEM.
English child Of Eastern birth,
| Welcome to our wUrdruus earth
| Welcome, innocent blue eyes,
| Opening npon ny rian sk les
| Welcome, ,eet that soon will stand
On Judea sacred land
Bud iro , honorable stem,
| babe, torn at Jerusalem.
Or. if Of still older creed,
| IRE the Y. rid Of Christ had need
| should think Of Rachel fair,
| Haunsh. who child Samuel bare
| hebrew tmen, grsn and calm,
| NhUse pure lives roll like psalm
| D,wn the centuries. Who like them.
| Mothers OF Jerusalem
| Little sweet god -daus shter mine
| Thy Ia unknown lace will shine
| Like the stArs h!ch shepherds see
| stll Ger plains Of 6slilee
| We're | Of that faith Of old
| Christians he'd 'gainst lay nims bold
shruih say, the Virgin mild
| Special. y on thee had smiled,
| That the Mother Of all mothers
| Had loved thine hey ond the others.
Sending such priceless gem
10 her, in Jerusalem.
| And thy unheard voice will fill
Silence, Ike Silt ans rill,
Where the hills in purple hem,
Stand ABOUT Jerusalem.
Babe thy suturc who can see
But hl-,s thee, iu4l and fr,e,
Walk, where walked ChTist's stainless feet,
In the Temp ana the street;
Holy. hal uiless, undthied,"
Yet To parents human child
Till thou walk with Him and them
In the new Jerusalem
- n, .iUfhor of JoAH HdijdT, Gentleman.
Value the ends of life more than its
means, watch ever for the soul of good in
things evil, and the soul Of truth in things
false. and beside the richer influence that
will flow ont from your life on all To whom
L trl lal,
the solution Of that unsolved problem of the
human mind and heart, the reconciliation OF
hearty tolerance with strong positive belief.
Il Phillips Brooks.
Your affections and desertions OILY prove
that You are under the Father : hand. There
is no time when the patient is an object of
such tender interests 10 the surgeon, as when
he is under his knife. So You may be sure,
il You are suffering from the hand of God.
His exc Is all the more bent on you. The
eternal God Is thy refuge. and underneath
are the everlasting arms. - MCheyne.
There are a thousard Joyous things in life
Which pass unhecded in a life OF Joy,
As thine hath been. till breezy sorrow comes
To ruGle II and daily duties, paid
Scarcely at first, al length will bring repose
To the sad mind that studies to perform them.
-TdJsHJd.
A Bible and newspaper in every house.
IL
and appreciated as they merit are the prin-
cipal support of virtue. morality, and civil
liberty Franklin.
When you lie down, close your eyes with
short prayer, commit yourself into the hands
of your faitinl Creator and when you have
done. trust him with yourself. as you must
do when You are dying. -[Jeremy Taylor.
We can easily manage If We will only take,
each day, the burden appointed for ii. But
the burden will be too heavy for US ii We
add to its weight the burden of tomorrow
before we are called TO bear il. Il John New
ton
do not revere any love of God that has
never known any fear of God. Show me |
that kind OF love of God which has not felt |
what the fear of God is, and | will show you |
not principle, but sentiment. not religion, |
but religiosIty. Joseph Cook.
The good man loves all men. He loves to
spca ak Of the good Of others. All within the |
four seas are his brothers. Love of man is
chief OF all the virtues The mean man sows,
that himself or his friends may reap but the |
love Of the perfect man is universal.-[Con-
fucius.
1t is good for man to be checked crossed, |
disappointed. made to feel his own ignorance,
weakness, folly made to feel his need OF
God to feel that, III spite Of all his cunning
and seli-coniidence, he Is no better of III this |
world than a lost child in dark forest unless
he has IA Father i'll heaven who loves him
with an eternal love and a Holy Spirit i'll
heaven who will give him night judgment
in all things and Saviour in heaven who
can be touched with the feeling of his mfr
mites. CHARLES Kingsley.
Its the evening hour,
And thankfully,
Father. Thy weary child