Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-05-10
SUNDAY READING.


| There are two angels that attend unseen
+ Each one Of us, and in great books record
. Our good and evil deeds He who writes down
The good ones. after every action closes
| his volume, and ascends with 1t to God.
The other keeps his dreadful day book open
Till sunset, that we may repent which doing.
The record Of the action fades away,
AMI leaves a line of white across the page.
| Now If nv act be good, as believe 1t,
| 1t cannot be recalled. 1t is already
Sealed up in heaven, as good deed accomplished
The rest is yours. -Longteiior.
Love lightens all burdens, soothes all sor.
rows, sweetens all toll
All greats works are done by serving God
with what we have in hand.
right view of sin is the starting point
towards Calvary and heaven.
The righteous are the safeguard of the
community in which they reside.-Bush.
man cannot be unhappy when, from a
heart filled with love, he is blessing others.
Eyes raised toward heaven are always
beautiful, whatever they may be-J;ou-
bert
The happiest soul the Pilgrim found in
his immortal Progress was content to dwell
in the valley of Humiliation.
The magnet which drew a Saviour from the
skies was not our merit but our misery.
Prayers and tears are the weapons with
which the saints have obtained the most
glorious victories.
| This little poem was written in a hospital
by one of our wounded soldiers during the
late war
| lam not eager. bold or strong:
| All that is past;
i am ready not to do
At last at last
| My half days work is done,
And that is all my part:
| 1give patient God
| My patient heart,
And grasp his banner STILL.
Though all the biue be dim;
Tho stripes no less than stars
Lead up to Him.
The artistic element is after all. the small :
| est element in the true Phillips
| Brooks.
All our evils are to be traced up to two
| things-high views of ourselves. and low
views of Jesus.
Sleep is deaths younger brother and, SO
like him. that | never dare trust him with
out my prayers-Sir Thomas BrOtone.
The world is in pursuit of happiness and
Christians owe it to the world 10 show that
true happiness is found in Christ's service.
Amid all confusion, darkness doubts.
fears, there is ever one light. one life, one
| all-Jesus, the living, personal Savior.-N
Macleod
To think kindly of each other is good to
speak kindly of each other is better; but to
act kindly one towards another is best of
all.
How beautiful His will is. how right it is
that his glory should be the grand end of
creation and the sole ambition of the spirit of
man IN. Macleod.
A man really and practically looking on
ward to an immortal life, on whatever
grounds, exhibits to us the human soul in
an ennobled attitude WhelceU
Do little helpful things and speak helpful
words whenever you''can. They will yield
far more valuable harvest than you expect,
and you will find it after many days.
We must not speak all that we know
that were folly; but what man says should
be what he thinks, otherwise it is knavery.-
Nontaigns.
There is none made SO great, but he may
both need the help and service, and stand in
fear of the power and unkindness, even OF
the meanest of mortals.
Build not thy nest on any tree of earth,
seeing God hath sold the forest to death
but rather soar upward to the sure and im-
mutable refuge in the clefts of the rock
Rutherford.
Moody has point and pith in his sayings. |
Il have come hundred miles, said a
minister, ''to get some of Mr.. Moody's |
spirit" You don't want my spirit. was
the reply. ''What you want is the Spirit of
God "
Religion is the tie that connects man with |
his Creator, and holds him to His throne, |
If that tie is sundered or broken, he floats |
away a worthless atom in the universe-its |
proper attractions all gone. its destiny |
thwarted. and its whole future nothing but |
desolation and death.-Ddnel Webster.
If man be visited with providential re-
verse of circumstances if he be under op- |
preston if he be arrested by disease if the |
delight of his eyes be taken away methinks
hear God saying Take this medicine it |
is exactly suited to your case weighed out |
by my own hand take this medicine from
ME. .'-CecH
Corporations are often complained of as
having no consciences. Are they not as Of
ten regarded as having no rights To cheat
the government, to gouge the railroad COM
pany ;-one is considered over-conscientious
who will hesitate to do this. We need few
sermons on honesty in and towards corpora
tions The sin which a man shares as
member of "a board of directors or as citi-
zen of n nation, God will impute to him as
his individual sin. And on the other hand,
TO rob a company Of men is as sinful in
Gods sight as to rob those men one by one.
-Erdmuter.