Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-04-19
SUNDAY READING.

| PRAYER OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS.
o soverei gn Jehovah. my hope Is in Thee:
| o jesus, beloved, deliver thou me,
| In letters so CALLING,
In pings so appalling,
strength lsilsih, . ..
| Heart waileth.
Ikneel down before The 0,
| Adore Thee,
| Implore Thee,
| Deliver Thou ne.
Every path hath a puddle.-Gsorge Her
bert
Impatience of study is the mental diseas
of the present generation.-Dr Johnson
They are never alone who are accompanied
with noble thoughts.-.Sir Philip Sidney.
| Self-love is a medium of peculiar kind
it magnifies everything which Is smiss IL
others, at the same time that it lessons every
thing amiss in ourselves. Bishop Butler
Horace says that the very perfection o
earthly blessedness is to lie down beneatl
the shade of an umbrageous lime tree on O
summer day. and do nothing but Just lool
up nj the leaves, and listen to the murmui
| of the bees.
Nv journal of Switzerland does not men
| ton what well recollect, and Wordsworth
has made the subject of a sonnet. the con-
| tinued barking of a dog irrtated by the
| echo of his own voice. In human life this
| is perpetu,lly occurring, 1t is said that a
dog has been known to contract an illness
by the continued labor of barking at his own
echo. and finally to be killed by it Crd6t
ROJmsOl-
Write on your doors the say ing wise ar old.
"Be bold be bold and everywhere be bold;
De not too bold n..Yet better the excess
Than the defect, better the more than less;
Better like u Bector in the field TO die.
Than like the perfumed Paris turn and ny.
-LOnqfelloW.
The pleasures of this world are deceitful
they promise more than they give. They
trouble us in seeking them, they do not
satisfy US when possessing them. and they
make us despair in losing them.
If God has not said Blessed are those
that hunger" know not what could keep
weak Christians from sinking in despair.
Many times all | can do is to complain that
| want Him. and wish to recover Him
Bishop Hall
The belief and the moral nature must in
the end come into harmony and where q
spirit sets itself only to doubt and deny. it
sets itself also to tempt and reduce. 1t must
prove its own theory valid. Hence probab-
ly, what otherwise seems insanity-the
temptation of the son of God, in whom
there was no shade of sin. The mocking and
skeptical spirit, which feels nothing but
hollowness within, sees nothing else around
and above it, and believes it possible to drag
all that seems to be higher down to its own
level.
The Christian aim is to be perfect BE
ye therefore perfect" Now distinguish this
from mere worldly morality. 1t is not con-
formity to creed that is here required, but
aspiration after state or condition. 1t is
not the demand that We perform certain
number OF duties, but that We yield obe-
dience TO a certain spiritual law w Rob-
ertSOn.
A man in blouse once said, Il have no
more influence than farthing rusnlight." Z"
well. was the reply. "a farthing rushlight
can do good deal. 1t can set a haystack
on fire. it can burn down a house yea,
more-it will enable poor creature to read
a chapter in Gods book. Go your way,
friend, and let your farthing rushlight SO
shine before men that others, seeing your
good works may ghrify your Father who is
in heaven"
1t is said that the pulpit needs broadening
out This may be but We think that in
many respects it needs narrowing down. at
least until it confines itself within limits con-
cerning which it is written, Thus satin
the Lord" We want the faith preached
luOTe, anu lHt OllDlOLs OI III. A, d., ana u
preached less We want in short, bread in
stead of stones. facts instead of iancies,
truth instead of guesses. The faith once
delivered never can grow old. Let the pull
pit preach this, and its influence never can
wane.- ClnUcimda.
Napoleon said that the man who never
makes mistake never makes war. Those
who content themselves with standing aloof
from revival and temperance work. and de-
vote their energies to pointing out the mis-
takes and the blunders of those who are in
the struggle, are making themselves, the
greatest of blunders. Nothing is easier than
fault finding. No talent, no seIf-deniel. no
brains, no character. are required to set up
in the grumbling business. But those who
are moved by genuine desire 10 do good
have little time for murmuring or complaint
The .4dudnce.
What then does it mean TO put on Christ
1t does not mean, of course, that you are
only to make an experiment of putting on
the garb Of a new life, and see how YOU will
like it. No man puts on Christ for anything
short of eternity. The act must be q finality
even at the beginning. He must be accept
ed as the AlIha and Omega. Whoever con-
templates even the possibility Of being with
out Him. or of ever being without Him again,
does not put Him on Horace Bushnell.