Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-10-14
WORDS OF WISDOM.

tney make her mlscarry.
Riches would be little esteemed if
they did not furnish vanity with the
pleasure of having what others have
not
The chef properties of wisdom are to
be mindful of things past, careful of
things present, provident of things to
come.
The narrow-minded ask, Is this enc
of our tribe, or is he stranger ? But
to those who are of noble disposition the
whole world is but one family.
The best means to learn our faults is
to tell others of theirs /; they will be too
proud to be alone in their defects, and
will seek them in us and reveal them
to US.
A man that is not able to make a
bow to his own conscience in the morn
ing, is hardly in condition to respect
fully salute the rest of the world during
the day.
Very few people 60 into an argument
in order to discover the truth of the
matter. They want to hold their own
and route the enemy. Hence. the gen.
eral loss of temper.
Polished steel will not shine in the
dark no moro can human reason. how
ever refined and cultivated, shine efica-
ciously but as it reflects the light of
divine truth from heaven.-J0l'a Foster.
If thou desire the love of God and
man, be humble for the proud heart,
as it loves none but itself, so it is below
ed of none but itself The voice of hu-
mility is Gods music, and the silence of
humility is Gods rhetoric. Humility
enforces where neither virtue nor strength
can prevail, nor reason.-Quarles.
Joseph Cook does not put the matter
of Sunday observance too strong when
he says: 81 am no fanatic, hope, as
to Sunday but l look abroad over the
map of popular freedom in the world,
that Switzerland, Scotland, England
and the United States-the countries
which best observe Sunday-constitute
almost the entire map of safe popular
government.
Nothing is more uncertain and unsat.
isfying than the hopes based upon earth
ly possession, which may in momen
take unto themselves wings and fly
away. In the morning of life, before
the eyes in the runners of this race, tn,
5 mirage glitters with brilliant and entic
: ing visions along the horizen's edge
but at the evening hour of famishmen
and fatigue the grateful shade and invit
ing streams all disappear. Their splen
8 doris were printed only on the fading
cloud, and in the season Of extremes
r need they have vanished.
d If we would believe in the life t
!; come, you must look at the high power
: of the human soul. and 60 where th
sunlight is quickening life out of deaf
where the tokens of enduring love kee]
guard above the green mound, and tn
soul is keyed by the hand of hope int
such delicate harmony with the eterna
that it seems to the pensive spirit as the
some angel hand were stirring tn
strings of that hidden harp. If we d
our part as single leaf in the grea
/. forest of human life, when the fallin
time comes we may let 60 our hold o
this life as fearlessly as the leaf fall
to the ground.-Our work on earth
done, and He who takes care of u
: grass of the field and every leaf of tt
forest will not forget US.
Have you made one heart hapr
to-day? How calmly you seek your pi
low; how sweetly you sleep In all tn
world there is nothing so sweet as gil
comfort to the distressed, as getting
sun-ray into the gloomy heart. Chi
dren of sorrow meet us wherever '
turn there is not moment that tea
are not shed and signs uttered, yet he
many of these signs are caused by o.
z thoughtlessness, how many a daught
q wrings the very soul of a fond moth
e by acts of unkindness and ingratitud
a How many husbands. by one little wo
8 make whole day of sad hours and u
9 kind thoughts. How many wives.
7 recrimination, estrange and embitt
y. loving hearts. How many brothers Al
= sisters are there who meet but to v
each other, make wounds that no hum
power can heal. All if each one wor
ed up this maxim day by day-"Stri
1T. to make some heart happy l"-jealou.
10. revenge, madness, hate, with their Xxi
ON dred evil associates, would forever lea
the world.
Here is quiet description of WI
every woman has been, or hopes to
"a bride; She quits her home, her p
'ne ents, her companions, her occupation
els her amusements,-everything on viii
she has hitherto depended for comic
for affection, for kindness. for pleasu
The parents by whose advice she
been guided, the sister to whom {
dared impart every embryo thought a