Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-04-05

Excellence is the reward of labor.

Better Thoughts.
Excellence is the reward of labor
Out of the depths We look to our true Joy.
Faith is the opening of the heart to the
love of God.
The heart that is soonest awake to the
flowers Is always first to be touched by the
thorns
Faithfulness in any place work which
uod mas gwen us wins at last the crown OF
rejoicing.
As everything passes through natural
death to new life, so it is in the progress OF
the SOUL When most discouraged then it is
that We are ready to receive a new encourage
ment-,Ea1aes Freeman Clarke.
How blessed the assurance that whatever
God says He speaks peace. In all His re-
Dukes and ehastenings the thoughts of His
heart concerning us are peace. In the valley
of the shadow of death His rod and His staff
comfort us. And beyond the grave there
shall be no more hungering and thirst
ing
Love looks up to receive higher influence,
to be inspired by purer life. The love Of
Christ must elevate us, or it is not really
love. If it sees mere glimpse of what is
noble, if it detects in us capacities for good
unknown to ourselves, then it is love, then
1t unites us intimately and interiorly with an
other soul He has something added to him,
or developed out of him that was not there
before.-,iames Freeman Clarke.
The dread and dislike of death by no
means prove that q person is not child OF
God. Even a strong believer may be afraid
to die. We are not fond of handling SER
pent, even though its sting is drawn.-MaT-
tin.
BE assured that there is nothing more
fabl Ia he h,,r,
but will, aud it is done, it is set right ; as,
on the contrary, you need but nod over the
| work, and it is ruined For both ruin and
recovery are from within.-Epictetlts.
A learned man has said that the hardest
words to pronounce in the English language
| are ~ made a mistake" When Frederick
the Great wrote to the Senate, Il have Just
lost battle, and its my own fault, Gold
smith says, ''HIs confession shows more
greatness than his victories"
There is dark and also a bright side to
every providence, as there was to the fiery,
cloudy pillar that guided Gods people of old
in the desert. Nature looks upon the dark
side, and calls it sorrow and sadness but
faith sees the sun dispensing the darkness.
and calls 1t by the name of joy.-BOndr.
Let him who gropes painfully in darkness
| or uncertain light and prays yehemently
that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this
precept well to heart : do the duty which
lies nearest to thee" which thou knowest to
be duty thy second duty will have already
become clearer.-1homas Carlyle.
Some care thou must have, that thou may
est not care. Those things that are thorns
| indeed thou must make hedge Of to keep
out those temptations that accompany sloth,
| and extreme want that waits on it /; but let
them be the hedge suffer them not to grow
within the garden Oleridge.
Dr. Kane. finding flower under the Hum
boldt glacier, was more affected byit because
it grew beneath the lip and cold bosom of
| the ice than he would have been by the most
gorgeous garden bloom. So the most single
| struggling grace, in the heart of one far re-
moved from divine influence, may be dearer
| to God than whole catalogue of virtues in
the life of one more favored of heaven.-H
w. Beecher.
The Christian must stand in a posture to
receive every message which God shall send,
whether it be by his word spoken through
the preacher, or any other. He must be so
prepared as to be like one who is called to
set out on sudden journey, and has nothing
to do but to set out at a moments notice
| or like Q merchant who has goods to send
abroad and has them all packed up and in
readiness for the first sail.-R. Cecil.
The spider is said to weave about him q
| web which is invisible, yet strong, through
which the water or air cannot pass. This Is
| filled with air and surrounded and sustain
ed by this tiny bubble, he descends beneath
the surface of the water and lives where an
other creature would speedily perish. So it
is in the power of the Christian to surround
himself with holy atmosphere, and thus
nourished, to live unframed amid a world
that is full of sin.-Dr. Williams.
BEET RooT SUGAR -There has been good
deal of discussion, lately, as to whether or
not the production of beet root sugar would
be remunerstiye in New England and 50
strong are the arguments in support of the
theory that it is to have an impartial and
rather elaborate trial in Maine, under the
auspices CT the State government. A sug
gestion perhaps worth noting is made by a
Massachusetts, man, as follows:
"Milk. cheese, sugar, s.s all articles of
primo necessity. and are also products OF
agriculture; the first two are now produced
largely by cooperative effort among the
farmers, and the last can be as well. if the
choose factories now organized would add the
requisite machinery for grating and press
ing the sugar bee.s, such as Ia now used for
making cider and a pan such as is used for
eNhpOEatiuS sorghum juice, Will answer tue
purpose as well as that more costly. The
farmers would raise the sugar beers, tho
pulp and leaves of which are good for
stock. particularly mich cows. improving
the quality as we'll as increasing the guam
tity of the milk produced the patrons of
the cheese factories would be benefited pc
cuniarily, and as cheese is an
article or large export demand, and
sugar principally imported, if these
interests were united as suggested
above, it would benefit the whole
country and the dairy interest in partiou-
lar. The cost of the necessary apparatus is
but little, and the product large it adds
another remunerative crop to those now
grown and as all the mineral elements are
again returned to the soil, its capacity for
larger crops is increased without any extra
expense, which enables the farmer to carry
more stock. and consequently increase his
profits from the sale o. its products"
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