Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-12-27
SUNDAY HEADING.

SUNDAY READING.
SIGiIr.
Mysterious Night when cur arst parent knew
Thee from report divine, and heard thy name.
I'D he not trrmble for this losely frame
This glorious canopy Of light and blue
le: meath curtain OF translucent dew
Bsthed In the rays OF the great setting fame
Hesperus with the most of heaven came
And 10 creation widened in mans view.
VINO could nave thought such darkness lay con
With'n thy beams, o Sun orwho could f1d
Whilst fly, and leaf, and insect stood revealed,
That TO such countless orbs thou mad'st US blind
WIS do We, then shuu death with anxious STRIFE
II Light can thus deceive, whei efors not L'f-f
}. Bi1nco Ufns.
1t takes Just so many turns of the potter S
wheel to make vase or a cup and the pitch
er OF life requires Just so many turnings OF
the wheel OF grief Gods wheat is not ready
to be taken into the garner until the hoofs OF
calamity and the hoofs of persecution and
the hoofs of death have tram pied it out. Do
you realize, then, that you are in Gods keep
ing Each person is as much under the
searching care of God the fatherly care OF
God the motherly care OF God as though he
were the only person in all the world. in all
the universe.-[Selected.
rHE SOURCE OF BEAUTI.
uui 10 the painter toiled and sought
| 10 place the ideal beauty in his heart
| Upon his canvas and failed but wrought
| Such wondrous sweetness by his art
As made men marvel and wish to see
| His models whence he drew so faithfully
moment Guido paused, then took
coarse, low fellow from the street
Then while. diverted, they with laughter shook
| With rapid stroke and pencil fleet
lie drew lace with holy look.
With tenderness divine. with sadness sweet
| The beauty in the heart said he,
And is no matter what the model be
ChnreanH".
The Father Is ready to accept us 4: the Son
to intercede for us the Spirit to sanctiy us
the promises are ready as well as wells OF
water for supply. Is all this preparation
m d for us and shall We be glthankful p
| Matthew Henry
What evidence have | that love the truth,
| if | do not keep it continually in my thought :?
| What proof that have an obedient spirit, if
| | am not living an obedient life What as
surance that Christ died for me. If am not
living for him
Keep your face ever towards the sun of
righteousness, and you will have before you
nothing but its bright light and comforting
heat. But turn your back to it, and before
You will be shadows and darkness, and the
chill will enter your soul.-ISpencer
The hiding-places OF men are discovered
by afiiction. As one has apty said Our
refugees are like the nests of birds in sum
mer they ars hidden among the green leaves,
but in winter they are seen among the naked
branches. + Alexander.
An ounce of mother is worth II pound OF
clergy Spanish Proverb.
The great moments of life are but mo-
ments like the others. Your doom is spoken
III a word or two. A single look from the
eyes, mere pressure of the hand, may de-
eide IT ; or OF the lips, though they can not
speak. rhackeray.
Reading furnishes the mind only with the
materials of knowledge it is thinking that
makes what we read ours. We are of the
ruminating kind, and it is not enough for us
TO cram ourselves with a great load of col
lectlons, We must chew them over again
lChannlng.
tis not growing like tree
la bulk, 10th make man better be
90 stan log long an oak, thres hundred oar.
10 "a! -og at last dry. bald, and sere.
lily OF day
J., fairsr far in May
Although it fall and die that n e.it
II was the plant and flower OF ght
In small proportions We Just beBut es see.
And 20 short measures lie may perfect be,
As the years of go on, there gathers II
special radiance OF eternal truth around some
OF the figures from whom all our hopes in
There are lives SO rounded and crowned by
their completed deeds of love, tha. Death
seems to have appeared in the fulness of
their prime only to conSecrate them forever
Others stand aDait ifnlI human ties in soil
tude which uiahts time seem of little conse-
quence, and the grave not unfamiliar coun-
try. IN all these cases We may even now see
fitness in what. according to mere reckon
ing of time. would be called unreasonable.
And If We can catch glimpses of these things
from without, there are no doubt many in
ward dramas which refuse to square them
selves with the external framework of human
life. We do not know to what nnlathomable
necessities the times and seasons of life and
death may correspond, and as little do we
know. IN looking at each others lives, what
may be unfolding or what may be concluded
as seen from within. That which seems to
Others u cutting short OF activity may be to
ourselves the laying down OF arms no longer
needed our eyes may see the haven, where
our friends can see only the storm or if We
cannot see fitness in the time of our DEATH
Is that strange thing in such life as this ,
-GCornhill Magazine.
At a late gathering the Rev. c. II. Spur
geon spoke on 'Drve On" being two of
the last words muttered on his death bed by
Christmas Evans. Mr.. SpurGeon observed
Platltudinariaus, the Latitu linarians and
the AttitudInarians but though he liked
these little there was another church he
liked less. 1t WAS neither High church nor
Low-church, but No-church to which he WAS
chiefly opposed. Drive on with orgauiza-
tons or without. He liked committees for |
such work. . yes but the best committee
was a committee OF three. and two of them |
i'll in bed. Let the third man take the reins |
and SO drive on After aludiug to the pow |
er of prayer to drive the religious machine |
ry, he dwelt on Sunday-school work which |
he urged should be we'll kept up, and made |
as pleasant as possible. Let it not be Us with |
the little girl who was asked, well Mary, |
why did the Ethiopian Eunuch 60 OH his way
please. teacher. ii was because |
Philip had done teaching"
We are apt to smile at enthusiastic people
and the smile is mingled with compassion.
''fie IL SO enthusiastic. We say apologetically .
OF some friend, and We make the admission |
as II II implied want of balance But what
would the world be without enthusiastic
souls, or how would its great enterprises be
sustained and accomplished, Enthusiasm
IS the lever by which most OF us need to be
lifted. The lnertness of selfish or preOccu-
pied or lndolent souls can only he overcome
by this force. For enthusiasm is gifted with
tAo VI h'tliS y, anu over
looking the intermediate steps the toll and
effort OF the work, beholds glorious vision
of the whole and Is refreshed thereby. while
the duller spirits are yet doubling and cal
Some one has said and said truly,
that me is old indeed who has outlived his
Well for us il We have kept
ours, il We can still be enthusiastic over a
line poem noble deed. an exalted faith.
| Christian lutelligencer.
You are associated in church life to develop
Christ in yourselves and in the world and the
idea OF dedicatlng yourselves to Christ means
OF course, to come here on the
Sabbath Is right, and to attend the Friday
night prayer meeting is right but to be nc
tive, and to give something of yourselves to
others, and do it continually. is more than
right. it Is your privilege | will not say
that 1t Is your duty. Love should have no
duty. Love Is we'll from which springs
spontaneous offerings. Duty is mean for
men who have not risen TO the height of love.
And every man who IL conscious that he has
been redeemed by tho precious blood of
Christ, who believes that the children of men
the body of Christ on earth and
who has faith that Christian men and women
here below are IN sympathy with the great
church OF the redeemed in the heavenly band !
Is inspired with Il desire to labor for the good
Of his kind, and feels that II he does any
thing he must do it quickly, because the
night cometh when no man can work And
to- every man who believes that Christ is
and waiting and saving NY son |