Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-10-18


-P501t0r.
Canon Farrlr. in answering the question,
what Is heaven says ''Oh, to be hon
est, true, noble, sincere, genuine, pure. holy
to the hearts :nmost core-is not that heav-
en-? Is not heaven state rather than a
place ? Is it not temper rather than hab-
itation? Is it not to be something rather than
to 20 SomeJctere?'
Pray to God at the beginning OF all thy
works, that so thou mayst bring them all to
good ending. Nenophon.
The Christian will find his parentheses for
prayer even in the busiest hours OF life
GCecil.
Prayer is not overcoming Gods reluctance
it is laying hold of His highest Willingness
Trench.
The door of heaven is always open to the
prayers of Gods people. r. Watson.
Prayer is the pulse of the renewed soul
the constancy OF its beat is the test and
measure of our spiritual life and health.-[O.
Winslow.
Blessed be God, not only begin PRAYING
when kneel down, but do not leave on
praying when rise up.-[T. Adams
Lord what change with us, one short hour
Spent in Thy presence, will prevail to make!
We kneel how weak we rise how full OF power
Why should we then be overbJrne with care.
oF ever weak, or ever heartless be-
AnNlDuS, or troubled, when with
And JOY and strength and C urase are with Thee ;
-Trtnch.
Hume used to go 10 church sometimes in
Scotland. Collins insisted on his servants
going to church that they might not rob
or murder him, Noltaire built a church to
God at Ferney, Mr. Huxley wants the Bible
introduced into board schools. Professor
Iyndall is indignant at being charged with
hostility to religion, and Mr.. Herbert Spen-
L..
and unknownable. The heart. like nature
''abhor5 vacuum = it Graves for something
beyond a negation, and as long as the un-
known is treated ''unknowable," the
craving is hard to satisfy. Saturday Re
view.
Prosperity has this property, it puis up |
narrow souls, makes them imagine them |
selves high and mighty, and look down upon |
the world with contempt hut truly noble |
and resolved spirit appears greatest in dis |
tress, and then becomes more bright and |
conspicuous [Plutarch's Lives.
ONE oUr OF SEVEN.
Birds cannot always sing:
Silence at times they ask, to nurse spent feeling.
10 see some new, bright thing,
Ere a iresh burst OF song fresh JOY revealing
Flowers cannot always blow
Some Sabbath rest they need Of silent winter.
Ere from its sheath below
Shoots up small green blade brown earth to
splinter.
Tongues cannot always speak.
God in this loud world Of noise and catter,
save US this oace-a-weeE,
To let the sown seed grow. not always scatter.
Aloft. on the throne OF God, and not be-
low, i'll the footprints OF trampling multi
tudes, are the sacred rules of right. which no
majorties can displace or overturn. [Chas
Sumner.
Said General Oelethorpe to Wesley, Il
never forgive" Then / hope, sir" said
Wesley, q" you never SIM Lord Bacon said
He that cannot forgive others breaks down
the bridge owe: which he must pass him
self"
After all. it is the divinity within that
makes the divinity without and have been
more fascinated by woman of talent and ill.,
telligence, though deficient in personal
charms, than | have been by the most regu-
lar beauty.-[W Washington Irving
Don't drink Don't chew. Don't smoke
Don't swear Don't deceive. Don't read
novels. Don't marry until you can support
a wife. BE earnest. Be self-reliant Be
generous. Be civil. Read the papers Ad-
yertise your business. Make money and do
good with it. Love Goo and your fellow
men President Porters sermons to Yale,
students
| think that If you observe what Justice
and kindness both say TO Won in the Journey
of life, other people will he glad to walk with
you and be sorry to part with You. and that
when you get to the end you will look back
on your course with satisfaction and Joy
IF. W. L. Greenwood
Heavens gates are wide enough to admit
every sinner IN the universe who is penitent |
but too narrow 10 admit single sin How
els.
The wealthy mlser lives as a poor man /
here but he must give account as a rich /
man in the day of Judgment. Oriental I
Proverb
Without belief in personal Immortality, G
rehgion surely Is like an arch resting on one {
pillar, like bridge ending in an abyss ,
MAX Muller.
Faint not under the penls OF trials OF the
way. The miles to heaven are few and :
short, and the glorious end will come soon.
-[Rutherford 4,
Happiness consists not i'll possessing much, ,
but in being content with what We possess.
He who wants little has always enough
Zimmerman.
1t is much easier to meet with error than
TO find truth error is on the surface. truth
is hidden in great depths and the way to
seek 1t does not appear To- all the world.
[Goethe.
We should act with as much energy as
those who expect everything Tor themselves !
and We should piny with as much earnest
ness as those who expect everything from
God. [Colton.
Ii is true in matter of estate as OF our [
garments not thst which is largest, but that
which fits us best, is best for us BE CON .
tent with such things as ye have. Arch
bishop Leighton.
n this Poor earth
With all its FIN and woe, doth yet abound !
In l0yeliness and beauty, o what must 10
The beauty Of that world unstained By sin, I
Whose flowers are iadeless and whose hsrps ,
Are ever thrilling with IstemptiOn's song
Eye hath not seen" that world. human heart 1
Fer thrilled with angel symphonies, ,
1T doth not yet appear what we shall be-" ,
Conscience is the true vicar Of Christ in I
the soul a prophet in its information a :
monarch in its peremptorness n priest in 4
its blessings or anathemas. according as We
obey or disobey 1t. II. Newman. I
The school Of the cross rs the school of ;
light. 1t discovers the worlds vanity, and .
baseness, and wickedness, and lets us see
more of Gods mind. Out of dark afilction
comes spiritual light. [Bunyan.
Faith builds in the Dungeon and the lazar- ]
house its suilimest shrines and up through
roofs snd stone, and shut out from the eye 7
OF heaven, ascends the ladder where the an S
gels glide to and iro-prayer. [Bulwer Lyt- !
ton. n
Afiliction is a divine diet. which, though it L
be not pleasing to mankind. yet God hath
often, very often, imposed it as a good, though G
bitter physic to those children whose souls
are dearest to him. Izaak Walton. L
1HE AEIDISG PREsrscK ,
Sometimes our swelling hearts prone to raise )
Lost. lost, indeed, '
Our Lord hath quite forgotten. lie hath passed usby
In our great need a
Lies sun is settng and sinking hearts do
bleed"
Walk Thou with u.s. 0 Christ, cur journey seems SO /
wild,
That We are all bev ilderod, easily beguled; q
Then keep A
Beside us Seeing Thee no more our eyes will
weep! 9
O yes abide with US We cannot let Thee 90
Darkness we fear; T.
But keeping close to Theet the ills We used to know
All disappear A
Then hold each trembling hand. and keep forever i
near
For e are ,ceary, and the Mi ght ia drawing nigh;
The day is past /,
The shadows lengthen' and the evening Winds noat
Then DER us cast
sense Of Thy sweet presence, evermore to last. y
-ChurctmgR. I
Just as the sun CLEANS over the palace, 7
and into the cottage, flushing alike with ats
splendor the council chamber of the mon p
arch and the kitchen of the peasant. so re-
lgion illumines at once the heaven of our 4
hopes, and the earth OF our cares. Secularl- 4
ties become hallowed toll bnghtens with 4
the smile of God business becomes as the D
air OF heaven, a means Of life and growth to
us light from God comes through it to us =
and sances from us go through 1t up to /,
God.-tColey. I