Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-08-02
VOL, Ii NEW SERIES. VOL. XIV.
SUNDAY READING.


SUNDAY READING.
THE SUMNER sosa.
Father. Thy world is awake to-day,
Singing to Thee;
And the music notes swell far away.
Through the valloy's depth and the mountain side
And are borne along on the joyous tide
Of the sunny sea.
6iys US Thy pardon that we have been
Silent too long;
we needs must sing in this beauteous scene;
Or the birds would shame us, and flowers and tree:
upbraid our showers of heart for these
Bring Thee their song.
And now our lips and our hearts unite
| In the happy days
r, That arise to Thee in the DAY and night
! Our songs are lowly, yet, Father dear,
Accept our praise.
Who will not join in the Summer song
| God of grace
Let the world be vocal with praise eIe long,
| And none be silent who feel Thy love.
| But sing on earth ill in heaven above
| They see Thy face.
-MdrIaHns FTHi.qh1m.
| To love in order to be loved in return, Is
man but to love for the pure sake OF loving,
is almost the characteristic of an angel
| [Lamartine.
| 1t is never permissible to degrade the hu-
man soul for the advantage of others, nor to
make villain for the service of honorable
people, Rousseau.
| We part more easily with what we possess.
than with our expectations of what we wish
for because expectation always goes beyond
enjoyment,-[ Henry Home.
The disposition to give a cup of cold water
| to disciple is far nobler property than the
| finest intellect, but not the image OF God
| Howell.
Avoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces of
thy time with severe and useful employment !;
for lust easily creeps in at these emptinesses
where the soul is unemployed, and the body
is at case for no easy, healthful, idle person
was ever chaste if he could be tempted. But
of all employments. bodily labor is the most
useful and of the greatest benefit for driving
away the devil.-[Jeremy Taylor
The only real and truly Christian way of
purity, is to live in the open world and not
be of it, and keep the soul unspotted from it.
There are no fires that will melt out oxr
drossy and corrupt particles, like Gods re-
fining fires of duty and trial, living. as He
leads us to live. in the open field Ct the
worlds sin and SORROWS, its plausibilities and
lies, its prosecutions, animosities and fears,
its eager delights and bitter wants. Bush
nell.
"Tako unto thyselt, 0 Father,
This folded day OF Thine,
This weary day of mine;
Its ragged corners cut meyet;
Oh, still they jar and fret,
Father, do not forget
That ! am tired
With this day Of Thine.
"Brnethe Thy pure breath, o Father,
On this marred day Of Thine,
This wandering day of mine;
Be patient with It's blur and blot,
Wash it white OF stain and spot.
Representa- eyes, remember not
That have grieved Tnee
On this day OF Thine
The infinity of God is not mysterious. it is
only unfathomable 4; not concealed, but in
comprehensible. 1t is clear infinity-the
darkness of the pure, unsearchable sea.-
[Ruskin.
The word of God moves along like pass
ing shower wherever it comes it must be
received at once, or it will be gone. How
soon mans mot now becomes never"
Luther.
When gaze into the stars they look down
upon me with pity from their serene and ST.
lent spaces. like eyes glistening with tears
over the little lot of man. Thousands of
generations. all as noisy as our own, have
been swallowed up by time, and there re-
mains no record of them any more Yet, |
Arcturus and Orion, Sirius and Pleiades are |
still shining in their bright courses, clear
and young as when the shepherd first noted |
them in the plane OF Shinar. Carlyle.
1t is good for man to be checked crossed. |
disappointed, made to feel his own igno-
rance, weakness, folly made to feel his need |
of God to feel that in spite of all his cum
ming and self-contidence, he is no better of |
in this world than lost child in a dark for |
est, unless he has a Father in heaven who |
loves him with an eternal love ; and O Holy |
Spirit in heaven who will give him right |
judgment in all things and a Saviour in
heaven who can be touched with feeling of |
our infrmities. Kingsley.
AsoSe OF The MIGHT.
Soft falls the curtain of the night
Earth gathers all her sons to rest;
But happy they alone whom God
Hath with His benedct;on blessed
Darkness - them, as morning light,
Is but the mantle which He wears
His voice Is heard in every blast
Or whisper OF tho midnight airs,
Goodnefs hath waited every hour,
Andhelped US in our weary work
Goodness still waits tlll morning dawn,
Let evil in the darkness lTrs,
The Kindly Fathers hand is drawn
Ger feyerish brows, with loves caress
he gently by his angel sleep
5oothes them TO sweet forgttfulness.
Thus walking with our God we live
Through daylighrs toll and ceaseless care,
And, sleeping find tn, watchiul God
BY day and night is everywhere.
-Rer L!trslyn ID. Beran, IL. u.
Away from Christ there is no way of safety,
but only wondering no truth. but only er-
ror and falsehood and deceit no life, but
only condemnation by the law, and spiritual
and eternal death to the soul Luther.
Mems lives should be like the days, more
beautiful in the evening or, like the spring,
aglow with promise, and the autumn, rich
with golden sheaves. where good works and
deeds have ripened on the field.
Good nature is the best feature in the
finest face-wit may raise admiation, judg-
ment may command respect, and knowledge
attention. Beauty may infiame the heart of
love, but good nature has more powerful
sffect-it adds thousand attractions to the
charms of beauty. and gives an air of benef-
,ence to the most homely face.-[Anon.
There is test-point about you somewhere.
Perhaps it is pride /. you cannot bear an af-
front you will not confess a fault. Perhaps
It is personal vanity, ready to sacrifice every
hing to display. Perhaps it is a sharp
'ongue. Perhaps it is some sensual appetite,
oent on its unclean qualification. Then you
IRE to gather up your moral forces just here,
md, till that darling sin is brought under
he practical law of Christ, you are shut out
If Christ's kingdom Bishop Huntington.