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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-01-02

Under the Roman law, majority was not
attained until twenty-five years, but when
the day was reached at which the child, by
the custom of the land and the constitution
of the government, was pronounced man,
he could laugh at the schoolmaster, aud his
office had passed away. Up to that hour he
was imperious. Now he was impertinent.
Up to that day his sharpness of examine
ton was only the fulfilment of the duty he
had assumed. After that day, to assume
any such relation to the man was to bring
himself under the law which would con-
denim him utterly. So, saith the apostle,
when faith is come, when the child has
passed up toward full ma jority by trusting
III Jesus Christ, then the schoolmaster has
gone, the believer is freed from the law as a
discipline. Oh dear friend, this is the
inountain-top from which we view the land
of promise. This is the place of privilege
to which every child of God is permitted to
attain. We are not under the law, says the
apostle, we are under grace. But the sign
that this majority has been reached is the
transferrence of the soul from the discipline
of precepts to that of principles, which the
apostle calls the law written on the fleshy
tables OF the heart We are not free from
this law. 1t never passes away but now
we delight in the law of God. There is no
fear now AS we remember the old command
ments. We clap our hands at the base OF
Sinai. The old heathens had in their my
thology saying that the giants made their
way to heaven by piing mountain upon
mountain; and the believer, so far as his
acceptance before God is concerned, has the
reality of such fable. Sinai is made TO
stand upon Calvary, and Tabor finds its re.
lation to the law as it stands upon Calvary.
But the law now becomes a rule of lite.
We do not live under it. pity the child
of God who is still troubled by dead ceremo-
nies and dispensations. To obey becomes
his meat aud drink. He obeys not that he
may secure salvation, but because he ha,
secured salvation. Now, submission to the
will of God from the motive of obedience is
the sign that the schoolmasters Office is
finished. He who is trying to save himself
by his own excellence is not yet come to full
age. Christians, do not be afraid to be glad
and happy. Do not judge yourselves As
though you were trembling beneath Sinai.
Ye sin, yet you do not sin wliully if you are
in Christ. Go not to the law tor forgive
ness. 1t cannot forgive. In Jesus Christ
there is no condemnation. Glorious portion
Blessed thought l-!Stephen H. Tyng, Jr., D. d
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Power OF the Truth.

But, in conclusion, Truth alone can bear
the disclosures OF rolling ages, the various
tests OF advancing mind, aud meet without
qnailing the inqaSitoral glance of the Al
mighty Judge. She alone can transform
the awful paraphernalia of the coming
throne, the blazing heavens, the fusing earth,
and the rising dead, into an empyreal TEN
pie, sparkling with the glory of God, reson-
ant with the songs of angels, and redolent
with the incense of universal praise.
Pilates question, "What is I'rWh? p has
been propounded with fearful emphasis by
outraged conscience, in the dying hour, to
thousands of hypocritical pretenders, pro-
fame traducers sacrilegious skeptics and
goddess blasphemers-overshadowing the
death-room with Egyptian gloom, portent.
Gus OF the deeper'darkness of the bottomles,
pit-and been reverberated in thunder tones
by the insulted law OF Sinai and the tram
pied blood of Calvary.
Voley and Noltalre, D'Alembert and Con
dorcet, Paine and Altamont, heard in the
hidden depths of their souls the fearful APP
peal, and shuddered, from the ominous pre-.
nouitons that rolled up from a looming
eternity and a yawuing tomb.
But those who move on heavenward, with
their loins girt about with 1'rwh and hav
] llB ph WV bl'hnNIi"tN Va ii6hb'buohNoos
honorng God aud keeping his command
ments, will soon reach the elevated goal OF
a blissiul destiny, Aud when our holy re
ligiou shall have enlightened aud moulded
the heart oil the nations; when falsehood
coniounded and ashamed, shall have beer
driven from her last stronghold, and have
He'd to her native he'll; when the legions 0
tie skies and the millions OF the earth slal
have rallied to the trunpet's sound anC
encircled in shining ranks the descending
throue, then shall all unclouded universe .
intelligences await in hallowed rapture tn
Godheads last and loitiest demonstration
of eternal iooe in redemptions wondrou
plan. Creation round, as ii summoned Il
witness the grand denouement of the diyin
economy, reaching through decades of by
gone ages, stands attent, and from he
depths profound and her heights sublm,
her burning stars aud their planetary orb
those luminous and faithful exponent
of physical 7'ruh--in adoring but expires,
i've silence, display their pantomimic wol
ders in ieebler testimony TO the wisdom
power aud goodness of their Creator. More
truth, like the full-orbed moon among tn
stars of night, sheds its mild radianc
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-01-02

al shall do no such thing" she answered,
firmly
al am sorry to draw pistol upon LADY,
ne said, suiting the action TO the word, but
| must have that hundred dollar bill at once"
:" Do you mean to rob me 7''
81 must have the money"
With difficulty she could believe the man
vas in earnest, but When he now cooked his
PISTOL and held 1t toward her with one hand,
while he extended the other for the bill, she
vas forced to yield to the necessity of the
situation. She was a brave-hearted girl,
md even now she did not turn pale or
remble in the least she saw she could not
leip herself, so she made the best of IL.
just a. she held out the bill TO him, a
'udden gust OF wind blew it into the road
md carried it gently several rods from them
The stranger aIighted TO get it, and quick
" thought Maude struck her horse smart
Jlow In order TO get out of the robbers
oower. The sorrel mare was a spirited
little creature, and sprang into smart
yallop at once while the strangers horse
which had been standing beside her. also
started off at full speed in her company.
Bang went the robbers pistol after them.
laving only the effect to increase the speed
of the flying horses, both of which were on
the dead run. Maude did not care how last
he rode, the sorrel was easy as cradle at
hat speed and in ten minutes she dashed
nto her fathers yard followed by the rider
ess horse.
Her story was soon told, aud her father
vas with difficulty prevented from starting
lfter the robber with his pistols and rife;
out he knew that the scoundrel would nat
rally take at once to the wood where he
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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-01-02
The Holiday Season.

This should be to all sensible men and wo.
men season of repentance. There is no
husband that lives year without doing
things OF which he is heartily ashamed as h.
looks back and there is not wife who
loes not, in the course of the year, say and
Ia things which, as she looks back over the
year, she heartily regrets. 1t seems to mt
his anniversary of the birth of the Saviour
- suggestive occasion, and that it would
appear to the husband and wife, father and
mother, a fitting time to repent with a gody
'orrow for all sins committed against til,
amilv relation. 1t seems to lead us properly
10 reflect how we can change our department
me towards the other, if it is subject TO thu
least lapse from what is proper. 1t seem,
10 me that we ought to so order our mood
that those who are compelled to live in Close
contact with us shall be affected only pleas
utly. 1t is in vain for man to say hi,
moods are what they are--to say, II an
what am, and cannot help it" 1t is the
luty of every man, no matter how badly ht
mas been educated, to help himself out OF
that badness, and the whole Christian scheme
was devised to give him a series OF assist
ance in SO doing Now, when we are in al
unpleasant mood, we are ia a mood distinct
from the mood in which the Saviour was a
all times--distinct, not technically, but il
the prevailing characteristics. You car
often change your mood by changing you
method of diet. A man can eat himself int,
the blues or drink himself into insanity, III
can do this without being glutton or a sot
A temperate ordering of our diet is one o
the things which are nee essary to good healtl
and happy mood. Prayer will do SOM
things, but prayer never was intended to d,
anything but what is laid down IN the divin
plan for it to do, and it refuses to do for u
what wise ordering of our diet can do
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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-01-02
A Picture Found I'm a Home.

The AGED mother is a widow. Long years
have passed since her husband closed his
eyes in death and the grave covered his
manly form. They have been lonely weary
wears. and sometimes mothers eyes have been
seen gazing intently upward to see If there
was not a chariot coming to take her home.
Trusting her son, she gave him the property
that was left to her: and he in return was to
give her a home. IIe thinks he has done it,.
But let all see and Judge. Oftentimes he
speaks to her unkindly and rudely. BY act
and word he pushes her into a corner, and
intimates by manner. and sometimes by
spec h, that she is in the way and is a bur
den, and that it costs good deal to meet
her wants. He lets her know he thinks her
childish and her opinion of no worth. She
has no tokens of love. Once it was not so.
The dear one who went to his rest and re.
ward long ago loved her and she had tokens
Of that love. But her son shows no mark OF
love or honor His children do not treat her
with respect and affection Do you wonder
them that she is sorrowful, and sometimes
peevish? Do you wonder at the gathering
and deepening wrinkles on the venerable
brow and sunken cheeks Do you wonder
at the dimness of her eyes, and the dropping
of her shoulders
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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-01-02
The German Wife and Her Lord.

We know that the social position of women
in Germany is bad enough but We confess
that we believe that something has been lett
out of the story of Professor Christlieb, as
told to Colonel Higginsop. An American
student, so the story goes, called on the Pro
tessor, who received him cordially, and en-
tered into conversation with him about the
United States After expressing his admi-
ration of the natural advantages of the coun-
try, and of the enterprise of its citizens, he
added that he felt much solicitude for its
future. On being asked his reasons, he
frankly expressed his opinion that 4" the
spirit OF Christ was not here. Being still
further pressed to illustrate his meaning, he
gave as instances of this deficiency, not The
Credit Alobilier or the PWeed Scandal, but
such facts as the following He seriously
declared, so Colonel iligginson repeats the
story, that on more than one occasion he had
heard an American woman say to her hus-
band, Dear, will You bring me my shawlp
and the husband had brought it! He fur
ther had seen a husband return home a,
evening, and enter the paror where the wife
was sitting perhaps in the very best chan
in the room-and the wife not only did not
go and get his dressing-gown and slippers
but she even remained seated, aud left him
To find chair as he could. These things
as Professor Christlieb pointed out, sug
gested a serious deficiency of the spirit OF
Christ in the community. How differently
things look to Americans "MeiH frau,
says the German to his wife, as they leav,
the railroad car or the dhrosky, have yot
got the carpet-bag and the overcoat and th'
umbrella Z" Yes, my dear" she replies
Then come along" says he, and he marches
before her What American lady, boarding
with her husband in "a private family II
Germany, has not had her landlady beg her
ior the looks of the thing, not to let her hus
band carry bag or bundle while sh
walked empty-handed by his side II is
pleasure TO know that, after ages of oppres
sion of women, the men are, in this coun
try, learning that the women must not hay
a monopoly of the spirit OF Christ that tn
law of Christ, Bear ye one auother's bun
deus" applies to both sexes .-indepemienL
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-01-02

Most of us have had troubles all our lives.
and each day has brought all the evil that
we wished to endure. But if we We're asked
to recount the SORROWS of cur lives, how
many could we remember? How many that
are six months old should we think worthy
TO be remembered or mentioned To-day :
troubles look large, but week hence they
will be forgotten and buried out of sight.
II you would keep book, and every day
put down the things that worry you, and see
what becomes OF them, it would be a benefit
to you. You allow a thing to annoy you,
ust as you allow fly to settle ON you and
plague you; aud you lose your temper (or
rather get ii for when men are surcharged
with temper they are said TO have lost it)
and you justify yourselves for being thrown
off your balance by causes which you do not
trace out. But if you would see what il
was that threw you off your balance before
breakfast, aud put it down in a little book
and follow it out, and ascertain what be
comes of it, you would see what fool yot
were III the matter The art of forgetting
is a blessed art, but the art of overlookiul
is quite as important. Aud if we shoulC
take time to write down the origin, progress
and outcome OF a lew of our troubles, i
would make us so ashamed OF the fuss ",
make over them, that We should be glad /,
| drop such things and bury them at once il
eternal iorgetlulness. Lille is too short b
be worn out i'll petty worries, fretthgs, ha
lreds and veXatious LIT us Danish al
these, aud think on whatsoever things ar
pure, and lovely, aud gentle, aud of goo,
/ report.-Seiecied.
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THE BEST EVIDENCE.

The following letter from Rev. +. s. Best, pastor of the
Methodist Episcopal church. Naiick Mass will be read
with interest by many ply sicans also those suffering from
the disease afflicted the the Rev f. $, Best
No person doubt this testimony there is doubt
about the curative powers OF vEGETlNE:
NATIcK, Mass, January |, 1874.
MIR. II. X. STEVENS :-Dear Strive have good reason
for regarding your YEGETINEa medicine Of the greatest
value We feel assured that 1t has been the Of
Ing sons life. lie is now seventeen yeats of age For
the years he has suffered from necrosis of his leg
by affection, and far reduced that
nearly all who him thought his recovery impossible.
council able physicians could give but the fantest
hope of his aying two of the number declaring that
lie beyond the reach of human remedies, that even
mputaton could not bim as he had not vgor enough
to endure operation just then commenced giving
him VEGETlNE and from that time the present he has
been continuously improving, lie has lately resumed his
studies thrown away his erutches and cane, and walks
about cheerully and strong.
Though there Ia still discharge from the opennp
where the limb anced, but have the fullest conf
dence that in little time he will be perfectly cured.
lie has taken about three dozen bottles Of YEGErINE
but lately but tte he declares that he is wei
10 he taking medicine. Respectfully yours,
y. $, BEST,
Mrs, l.. e. f. BEST
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The Beauty Of Old Age.

An old man, very unhappy, wanted tc
change his home. He was always miser
able, and he thought his neighbors were t.
blame for it. But some one, with more
truth than gentleness, suggested that il
would not he any use, he could not get away
from himself. Every one carries in himself
the elements of his happiness or wretched
uess. Circumstances have very little to dc
with our inner experiences 1t is self, after
I'll that gives the color to our skies, and the
tone to the music we hear. The old man
like the snail, carries his house on his back
He may change neighbnrs, or scenes, or com
panions, but he cannot get away from him
self. Sin puts thOrns III our pillows Con
science violated heaps up sorrow for old age
Sin may seem pleasant at the moment, but
you must not forget how it will look whe
you get past it and turn to look back on it,
and especially how it will look from old age
from dying pillow. Norman Mcleod said
somewhere that " nothing makes man 81
contented as an experience gathered from a
well-watched past" We are hanging VI
pictures every day about the chamber wall,
of our hearts that we shall have to look at
when we sit in the shadows. Then, sum
ming all up, only Christ can make any life
young Or old, truly beautiful or truly happy
Only he can cure the hearts restless fever
and give calmness and quetness. Only ht
can purify that sinful fountain within us
our corrupt nature-and make us holy
Would you have beautiful aud happy Ole
age? Would you look back from amid the
shadows with sweet satisfaction, and forward
with glorious hope ? You must begin YOU
walk with Christ in the golden days o
youth. Then the decay, and waiting, anc
lntirmities of old age will be, as dear DIR
Guthrie called these symptoms of his owt
approaching death, only "the and-brd
lighting on the shrouds, telling the wear,
mariner that he is snearing the desired haven.
- -Rep J. r. Miller
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MONTPELIER VT, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY q 1878

those who are more fortunate than them
selves. Pardon me, my friends, If this seems
like a too personal application of my theories
! am so often panied by the unconscious way
in which the upper classes neglect to use the
influence they might exert for the benefit of
those below them that am unwilling to re-
frain from drawing your attention to the
subject. Every act and word of genteness
aud courtesy toward the servant or the shop
girl, which results from sympathy, is a
charity twice blessed The poor appreciate
very clearly the difference between the kind.
ness of superciiousness and the kindness of
sympathy; and the one rouses what is evil
in them, while the other awakeus what is
good. We must not pity them as if they
we're beings different from ourselves; but by
striving to imagine ourselves in their places
do as we would like to be done by were we
situated as they are. If it were possible to
love the neighbor as ones self, we could
measure more truly the relations of the va
rious orders of society, and could give to all
the justice which is their due. But while it
is very easy to give passionate and self
sacrificing love TO those whom We admire,
and who are ready to give us love and ad-
miration in return, nothing is more difficult
than for us to give to every human being
that consideration which is due as q right
from every one to every one. Generosity is
often easy and delightful; because in exer-
cising it we simply follow out the natural
impulses of our own personal feelings. JUS
tice, ON the contrary, is often difficult and
painful Because 1t requires us to resist our
impulses, and TO work in accordance with
the absolute laws of divine truth. "To do
justly and to love mercy" is the last and
highest perfection to which we can aspire
in our relations with our fellow-beings and
We can reach it only through "walking
humbly with our God" Every step we take
toward this perfection enlarges our ability
for doing good toward all with whom we come
in contact, by giving US power to accept the
truth that we all belong to one family, and
that all have right to the best we can do
tor them, because we are all the children of
The one Divine Father.-.Nrs. VI. g. Ware
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A Talk Appropriate TO the Season.

In order to use our personal influence for
purifying the morality of the classes, it is
not necessary that we should all 90 To meet
them in their lowest haunts. They are
everyw here with us The women in our
kitchens, and in the shops where we make
our purchases, form numerous part OF the
community and we may do much to prevent
them from sinking into the degraded class
that is always waiting TO receive them. Too
many OF these women receive little show OF
kindness or consideration, excepting from
those who are striving to allure them into
the haunts of iufamy, We are all Of us,
every day influencing members of these
classes, whether we desire 10 or not aud we
cannot be too careful that we may not sin
against them by lowering their respect ior
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Are You Gaining /!

If you are gaining little every day, be
content. Are your expenses less than your
income 80 that, though it be little, you are
vet constantly accommodating and growing
richer every day? Be content, for as con
,erns money, you are doing well. Are you
gaining knowledge every day? Though it
be little by little, the aggregate of the ac-
humiliation, where no day is permitted to
oass without adding something to the stock,
will be surprising to yourself. Solomon did
not become the wisest man in the world in a
minute. Little by little-never emitting to
learn something, even for a single day-al-
ways reading, always studying little be-
tween the time of rising up in the morning
aud laying down at night-this is the way
to accumulate full storehouse of knowl-
edge. Finally, are you daily gaining in
character Be not discouraged because it
be little by little. The best men fall short
Of what they would wish to he. 1t is some
thing, it is much, if you keep good resolu-
tions-better to-day than you did yesterday,
better this year than you did last year.
Strive to be- perfect, but do not become
down-hearted so long as you are approaching
nearer and nearer TO the high standard at
which you aim. Little by little, fortunes
are accumulated little by little, knowledge
is gained; little by little, character and
reputation are achieved.