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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-07-31
Common Sense In Religion.

So many Christians and so many people
think that sound business principles which
are, in the last analysis, only sound COM
mon-sense-are valuable for anything else,
but worthless in church affairs. They will
attempt the most impracticable schemes,
and do the most absurd things, in vague
sort of faith that the Lord will help them
out if they get into a scrape. What secu.
lar corporation would erect costly build.
ing on a costly lot, fill it with costly furni-
ture, and cucumber the property with a
mortgage the interest of which exceeded the
total annual income OF the corporation
knowing, too, that the building, instead of
being a source of revenue, would be CON
stant source of expense Any business
man who should do such thing would be
suspected of insanity; and yet it is, or has
been, considered quite the regular and proper
thing for church to do. No church ought
to trust God for the future in any such way
as this God does not give us any warrant
for faith of this kind. Only those may
have this faith who have made the utmost
use of the judgment and the powers that
they possess. God invites faith he does
not invite recklessness or improvidence. A
church that does the Lords business on
business principles may safely trust Cod
and no other.-Erdminer and Chronicle.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-07-31
Tribute TO Woman.

Place her among the flowers, foster her
as tender plant and she is a thing of
fancy waywardness and folly-annoyed by
dew-drop, fretted by the touch of butter
liy's wing, ready to faint at the sound of a
beetle or the rattling of window-pane at
night, and is overpowered by the perfume of
rosebud. But let real calamity come
rouse her affections, enkindle the fires of her
heart, and mark her then How strong is
her heart Place her in the front of the
battle-give her child, bird or anything
to protect-and see her in relative in
stance, lifting her white arms as shield as
her own blood crimsons her upturned fore
head, praying for her life to protect the
helpless. Transplant her in the dark places
OF the earth, call forth her energies into ac-
tion, and her breath becomes a healing, her
presence blessing She disputes inch by
inch the strides OF a stalking pestilence,
when man, the strong and brave shrinks
away pale and affrighted Misfortune hurts
her not; she wears away life of silent en-
durahces, and goes forward with less timid
ity than to her bridal. In prosperity she is
bud full of odors, waiting but for the
winds of adversely to scatter them abroad
gold, valuable but untried in the furnace
In short, woman is a miracle, mystery the
centre from which radiates the charm of ex-
istence.-Seiected
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-07-31
Ghost Stories.

OF all the abominable practices of which
sensible grown people can be guilty, that of
telling ghost stories to children is the most
abominabe.
The man who would do it ought to be
tied up in dark cellar, and be danced
around by a troop of Jack.o LANTERNS till
daybreak and the woman who would do it
ought TO be obliged to forego spring hats
and pull-backs and dress in ghostly white
the rest of her life.
Who believes in ghosts Does anybody 2
Did any person living ever see one, without
the help of the imagination
Children's minds are new-they easily re-
ceive impressions, and first impressions are
lasting. What unimaginable terrors the
poor little things have suffered through the
indscretion of their elders in repeating be-
fore them some silly story in which ghost
| figured
They learn to be afraid of the dark, They
will not go 10 bed without some one to sit
beside them until sleep comes, lest the
ghost may put in an appearance. And il
they wake in the night they cover their
heads in the bed-clothes, and lie still and
trenble, and sweat, and wish they could
hear somebody's rooster crow, so that they
could be sure morning was coming.
Grown people thoughtlessly repeat stories
Of the supernatural, and descanl upon signs
before children, never dreaming of the
trouble and distress they are causing,
Not long ago, a sweet little girl came to
us, with tears in her eyes and terror on her
face, and in trembling tones asked us il we
believed that breaking a looking-glass was
sign of death.
Upon questioning her she told us with a
/ great deal of evident distress that she had
broken mirror, and that her aunt told her
it was a sure sign of death in the family,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-07-31
Christ the Friend.

To make ones self stole is neither wise
nor good. There are dark hours and sea
sons OF adversely in every true and earnest
life A good life needs them, and therefore,
however they may grind u.s. they come in
wisdom. When they come, we will need
help-the contact of some strong and loving
nature. Then we learn to appreciate the
sincere friend. We never know the full
meaning of friend until then. Indeed, ad-
versity is an apt teacher. If we are Chris
tians it gets us nearer to Jesus, and excites
in us desires after him. The meaning of
Christs mission only becomes clear and full
when all the currents run wildly and blindly
against us. There is, sometimes, an utterly
dumb adversely with which we cannot rea-
soma great darkness that blots out every
star and broods over the horizon like doom.
II the ear is open then, it will hear the
grand but melting voice of the Son of God
ringing over storm and billow into thrilling
cadences of help and love. For his voice,
like music, always trembles into its sweet
est melodies by night. Only Christ is equal
to those dark hours. The help he gives us
is inward help. 1t is the help of tender
and suffering presence. 1t is the help of a
heart that beats against and throbs its in
splrations into our own. 1t is the help Of a
love that forgets itself in brooding over
those in trouble. No wonder John says 4:
p" Greater is he that is in you, than he that
is in the world" No wonder Paul says :
81 can do these things through Christ
which strengtheneth me-" o Brother, Mas
ter Christ, grapple us with thy dear strong
hands tenderly, when the winds and the
waves break on us cruelty, and when the
spaces between us and human help are so
wide and waste that the foot of even ones
mother cannot cross them.-Mehodia Re
cor,Ior
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What Shall IL Profit !?


man may know all about the rocks, and
his heart remain as hard as granite or ada
mant; he may know all about the winds,
their courses and their currents, and be the
sport of passions as turbulent and fierce as
they he may know all about the stars, and
his fate be the meteor's, that bazes for a
little while, and is then lost, quenched in
eternal night he may know all about the
sea, and be a stranger to the peace of God ;
his soul may resemble its troubled waters,
which, lashed by storms and ruffled by every
breath of wind, cannot rest, but throw up
mire and dirt; he may know how to rule
the spirit of the elements, and not know how
to rule his own he may know how to turn
aside the deadly thunderbolt, but not the
wrath of an angry God; you may know all,
in short that mans genius has discovered
or his skill invented, but if you do not know
Jesus Christ, if your eyes have never been
opened to a saving knowledge of the truth,
what will that avail you, when they are
fixed in their sockets, glazed by the hand
of death Equally by the death.bed of the
/. greatest philosopher, as of the hardest misers
that ever ground the faces of the poor, there
is room aud reason for the solemn question,
What shall it profit man, if he gain the
whole world-all its learning, its wealth, its
pleasures and honors-and lose his own
soul Y-GLHhrie
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The Fireside.

The firesde is seminary of infinite i'm
portance. 1t is important because it is
universal, and because the education it be-
slows, woven in with the wool of childhood,
gives form and color to the whole texture
of life. There are few who can receive the
honors of college, but all are graduates of
the hearth. The learning of the university
may fade from the recollection, its classic
lore may moulder in the halls of memory ;
but the simple lessons of home, enameled
upon the hearts of childhood, defy the rust
OF years, and outlive the more mature but
less vivid pictures of after days So deep,
so lasting, indeed, are the impressions of
early life, that you often see man in the
lmbecility of age holding fresh in his recol
lection the events of childhood, while all the
wide space between that and the present
hour is blasted and forgotten waste. You
have, perchance, seen an old and obiterated
portrait and in the attempt to have it
cleaned and restored seen it fade away,
while a brighter and much more perfect
picture, painted beneath, is revealed to view
The portrait first drawn upon the canvas, is
no inapt illustration of youth and though it
may be concealed by some after design, still
the original traits will shine through the
outward picture, giving it tone while fresh,
and surviving it in decay. Such is the fire
side-the great institution furnished by
Providence for the education of man.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-07-31
Rich versus Poor.

A great deal is said about the insolence of
riches, and the neglect or disregard of the
poor on the part of those who possess them
but, in sober truth, there is a neglect of the
rich on the part of the poor that is quite
as unjust and quite as hard to bear If
there is gulf between the rich man and
the poor man the latter does quite as much
to dig it and keep it open as the former.
There are multitudes of rich men whose
wealth has the tendency to enlarge their
Sympathies and to fill them with goodwill,
particularly toward all those whom they
have known in their less prosperous years,
Money does not make the man. The poor
man will tell us this as if he believed it, but
either he does not believe it, or he believes
that the rich man does not believe it, Ger.
tainly, in his intercourse with the rich man,
he does not manifest his faith in this uni
versally accepted maxim. He merely ac-
cepts the rich mans courtesies as condescen-
sion and patronage, and is offended by them.
No, let no poor man talk of the pride and
superciliousness of riches until his self-re-
spectful poverty is ready to meet those riches
half way, and to have faith in the goodwill
and common human sympathy of those who
bear them.-Scribner'S
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HumOrsOme Waits.

THE individual chiefly anxious to see the
rule laid down is the school-boy.
WHAT is the difference between a fop and
his necktie One is, and the other is knot
A MAN who with bare feet stepped on
pile of carpet nails, said they reminded him
of the income tax.
ABREwER having been drowned in one of
his vats, a wit observed /" Alas poor
fellow, floating on his own watery bierl'
al WAS mistaken in that house." said a
tramp. al thought I'd be able to get a
warm meal there, but | only got cold
shoulder"
If you would be clear and forcible, don't
use foreign words. Be natural. A man
never stops to hunt up foreign word when
he is stung by hornet.
IRATE customer" Here, waiter This
steak is not rare enough. Take it away"
Obliging waiter" Very sorry, sir Shall
order it cooked over again, sir"
A SAILOR put saddle on hind part be-
fore. A bystander showed him his error;
but the sailor exclaimed How do you
know which way am going to ride ?"
A POLITICAL speaker accused a rival of
unfathomable meanness," and then, rising
to the OCCASION said | warn him not to
persist in his disgraceful course, or he'll find
that two of us can play at that game ~
BOTANICAL old gent Gn the Brighton
gardens) -" Can you tell me, my good man,
if this plant belongs TO the Arbutus fam
lily p" Gardener (curtly)--" No, sir, it
don't 1t b'longs to the Corporation !"
"WHAr is the meaning of backbiter 2"
asked a gentleman at Sunday-school ex-
animation. This was puzzle. 1t went
down the class until it came to a simple
urchin, who said, Perhaps it is flea"
"A nice saddle of mutton to-day 2" " No
| would as lief eat dirt" replied the captain.
Well" said the lloosier, its according to
how man has been raised. Now | would
rather eat mutton"
A FoP took a seat in railroad car be-
hind young lady, but, on perceiving she
had dog, he moved off with an air OF trep-
idation. "Don't be afraid" she said, with
a reassuriug tone "Jip won't bite you
he doesn't like veal"
The following is the Chinese version of
Mary and her lamb
Was gal name Mol had lamb
Flea all samee white snow;
Eyy place Mol gal walkee,
Ba la hoppee long too
Mr. PmaILpER went home the other
night considerably intoxicated and afflicted
with double vision. He sat for some time
with his sleepy gaze riveted on Mrs, Pill
glider, and then quietly remarked Well
(hie) hop, t'holler if you two gals don't
look enuff alike to be (hic) twins.'
A LOVER who had gone West" to snake
home for his Birdie" wrote to her:
" I've got the finest quarter section of land
Zone hundred and sixty acres) ever put my
foot down on" Birdie wrote back Suppose
you buy another quarter section, John, so
we can have lawn around your foot |"
John "made home" but Birdie never was
the mistress of it,
WHEN the brave Corporal Caithness was
asked, after the battle of Waterloo, if he
were not afraid, he replied Afraid why,
| was in a the battles of the Peninsula"
Aud having it explained that the question
merely related TO fear of losing the day, he
said, "Na, ma, | didna fear that | was
only afraid we should be a killed before we
had time TO win it,"
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eMural and ReliainnS.
REUNION.

Where shall we meet who parted long ago7
The frosty stars were twnkllng In the sky,
The moorland lay before Ms white with snow,
The north wind snote our faces rushing by.
Where shall we meot2 on such mooriand lone2
In crowded city street country lane7
On sandy bcach-wak while the makes moan9
In quite chamber Shall we meet again
on any spot of old familiar ground,
Our childish haunts2 OF In a far-off land2
An mel what If on earth spot be found
For longing eyes TO meet, and clasplng hand7
What then2-If angry fate reunion bars,
A better meeting waits beyond the stars
When shall we meet who parted in the nlght2
At some calm dawning, or in noontide heat9
Today tomorrow or will years take flight
Before our yearnlng hearts find welcome SWEET
When shall meet2 while summer roses lie
Beside our path and rustic overhead7
Or later, when leadcn winter shy
Looks coldly on the empty garden-bed2
While youthful faith and hopefulness are ours?
ronly when our hair Is growing gray2
An mel we may have done with earthly hours
Before It comes TO Ms, that happy dayl
What then 2-Let llfes lone path be humbly trod
And where or when meet, we leave to God.
An TIE Fear Round
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Raihnad Tiine Gable.
CENTRAL VERMONT RAILROAD LINE
Commencing on Monday, July Isl, 1878.

Trains Gotng South and East.
Leave Montpelier at 800 A. NJ, 1.i7 =. NJ, 025 +.
NJ, and 10. 80 p NJ.
MaI-Leayes st. Adams at 100 A. NJ, Montpelier at 800 a.
for Boston, New London, ngheld New York and
intermediate points.
Day Express s-Ieayes Rouses Point at lOa0A NJ, Mon
treal at 300 NJ, st. Adams at " NJ Burlington at
l220P NJ, Montpelier a la for Boston via Lowell.
White Mountain Express from Saratoga Springs ar
rlves at Montpelier at 1855 PM
Mixed Train-fenves ST. Adams at 510P. NJ Burlington
at I.O5 p. NJ, Montpelier at s25 P. M, for Northneld
Night Express-FrOm OgdensbuH, Montreal. st. Al
bans and Burlington leaves Montpelier 1850 p. NJ
for Boston via Lowell Ftchbufg Springfield, New
YORK and intermediate points.
Trains Going North and West.
Leave Montpelier at 1926 A. NJ, G. 10 A. NJ, II 20 A.
NJ, $40 p. NJ, and 8. .55 p. NJ
Express MailLeaves Boston via Fitchburg at 80 A. NJ
va S L9wel at sm A. NJ ,Sew London q SEQ A. ~,
Sprngneld az suu A. NJ, Montpelier At $40 r. NJ. for
Burlington 81. Albans, Montreal and Ogdensburg.
Accommodatlon Traln-Leaves Northned at 500 A.
~, Montpelier at $40 A. for Burlington 1t. Albans
st. Johns and Montreal.
Mixed-Leayes w. X. Junction at 80 A. NJ Northneld at
1910 NJ. Arrive at Montpelier at ll,35 A.. NJ.
Saratoga Express from White Mountains leaves Mont
pelier at ll90 A. NJ for Burlington Rutland. Saratoga
Springs, st. Albans, Rouses Point and Richford
Accommodation Train-Leaves White River June
tion at la5 NJ Montpelier at 555 P. M, for Burling-
Night Express Leaves Boston via Lowell at $50 P. NJ,
via ficheuIg at 800 =. NJ, New York at 500 ?. NJ,
Springfield at 500 NJ Montpelier at 325A. NJ, for Bur
nngton, st. Albans Montreal and Ogdbg and the West.
Trains leave Montpelier for Barre at 6s9 A. M and I25
and425r, Returning leave Barre at IlOA M,and LOO
p. NJ, and 5lOPM.
between Montreal and Boston, and Montreal and SPRING
nei- ana New noIk wa troy aud ra9r cas 10 Day Ex-
Mountains and Saratoga Springs.
Through tickets for Chicago for sale at the
principal stations. J.W HOBART, General Supt
IT. Albans, VT, June 2g ISIS.
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Look Up.-There come times to US when
we hardly know which way to turn, or in
which direction to look for aid. No man or
woman lives to middle life without going
through some hard places. Bitter experience
comes to the heart. Dear ones are taken
away. Riches are dissipated. The trusted
prove unworthy of confidence, and the soul
is like ship beaten of the wind and tossed,
But there is always one way to look. Look
up. There, far above the black cloud, for,
ever shines the blue. There, somewhere out
of sight, but inexpressibly near to the frai
one who seeks his help, is the friend who i.
ever waiting to be gracious
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MONTPELIER w. WEDNESDAY, JULY 81, 1873

the evil husks, hindering what is good and
noble in us. The useless straw must be
beaten away from the golden kernel "Now
no chastisement, for the present, seemeth to
to be joyous, but grievous," says the Scrip
ture. Threshing is never pleasant "Nev-
eertheless afterwards it yieldeth the peaceable
fruits of righteousness to them that are exer-
cised thereby the true and valuable grain
appears Christian al Work.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-07-31

SUCCESS in life consists in doing just what
God would have us do; in filling Just the
place he would have u.s. John "fulflled his
course " just as truly when he was enduring
in prison as when he was calling the crowds
to repentance on the banks of the Jordan. A
Christian woman who was suffering under
prolonged and lingering consumption was
once asked, "ls 1t not very hard for you to
bear y She answered, am just where
God would have me be. He says to me,
Mary, lie here and cough and so do just
that and | am content"
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GooD'NAruRE is more agreeable in con
versation than wit, and gives a certain air
to the countenance which is more amiable
than beauty. 1t shows virtue in the fairest
light takes off in some measure from the
deformity of vice aud makes even folly
and impertinenoe supportable.
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The everyday cares and duties, which
men call drudgery, are the weights aud
contemporaries of the clock of time giving
its pendulum true vibration, and its hands
regular motion, and when they cease to
hang upon its Wheels the pendulum no
longer swings and the hands no longer move
the clock stands still.-LOnqjeliolo
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" o thou invisible spirit Of rum, II thou had s
o name by which to know thee, we would cal
zee Deyil."-ShdkePcdre
see the devotee cxto thee
And thy wondrons virtues sum,
But the worst Of names III call thee
thou hydra-monster RUM
rmple-maker, visage bloater,
lieath-corrupter, ider's mate,
Mischief breeder, vice promoter.
Credit spoiler, DEVILS bait.
Ams-house builder, pauper maker,
Trust destroyer, sorrows source
Pocket empter, sabbath breaker.
Conscience suffer, quilts recourse,
Nerve enfecber, system shatterer
Thirst incrcaser, vagRnt thief
Cough producer treacherous fatterer,
Mud bedaubcr, mock relief,
Business hnderer, spleen instier,
Woe begetter, friendships bane,
Anger heater, bridewel's filler
Debt involver, topef's chain,
Memory drowner, honor wrecker,
Judgment warper, blue-faced quack,
feud beginner, rags bedecker,
Strife enkindler, fortunes wreck.
Summers cooler, winters warmer,
Blood pouer, speclous snare,
Mob collector, mans transformer,
Bond undoer, gamblers fare,
Speech bewrangler, headlong bringer
Vitals burner, deadly are.
Riot mover, lrehrand finger,
Dlscord kinder, misery's sire,
slnews robber, worth depriver,
strength-subduer, hideous foe
Reason thwarter. fraud contriver,
Money waster, nations woe,
vile selucer, joy dispeer
Peace disurber, blackguartl's guest,
soth impanler, liver sweer
Brain dlstracter, hateful pest,
Pain inficter, eyes innamer,
Heart corrupter, folly's nurse,
Secret babbler, body manner,
Thrift defeater, loathsome curse,
wit destroyer, joy imparer,
Scandal dealer, foul-mouthed scourge,
Senses blnnter, youth ensnarer,
Crime inventor, ruins verge,
Virtue blaster, base deceiver,
Rage displayer, sot's delight,
Noise EXETER stomach HEAVIER
Falsehood spreader. scorpions bite,
Quarrel plotter, rage dscharger,
Giant conqueror, waseful sway,
Chin carbuncler tongue enlarger,
Malice venter, deaths broad way,
Tempest scatterer window smasher,
Death forerunner. hell's dire brink,
Ravenons murderer, windpipe slasher,
Drunkard's lodging, food and drinki
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A TREE will not only lie as it falls, but
il will fall as it leans, And the great ques-
tion every one should bring home to him
self is this, Sc What is the inclination of my
soul Does it, with all its affections, lean
toward God, or away from him 2"-J. j.
GurneV
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lT is folly to pretend that one ever wholly
RECEIVERS from disappointed passion. Such
wounds always leave a scar. There are
faces | can never look upon without emo.
tion there are names ! can never hear
spoken without almost starting.
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PT T TFS !
FOR SALE.

The very desirable residence belonging the estate of
the late susan Cree, situated in Of the hest locations
In Montpelier village, will be sold at low price
made known on application to y. r. Brooks Montpelier
the subscriber, at Waterbury. l.. II. HAlNEs.
Montpelier, July |, lsIs l2-tf
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WAToH for the Lords interference in
trouble, and you will not watch in vain.