Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-06-28

To that unknown and silent shore,
Shall We not meet as heretofore
some summer morning,
When from thy cheerful eyes ray
Hath struck bliss upon the day-l
| A bliss that would not 20 away,
A sweet iOrewarnns
-Chari,, Lan5.
I,leas are pitiless [Lamartine.
Industry need not wish. Franklin.
Brisk takers are slow thinkers Bovee.
Difficulty is the spur of love- Alalherbe.
Tie creation of beauty is art Emer-
son.
Children are the tomorrow OF society
| Nv hately.
Beauty may excite love. but beauty alone
cannot sustain it kozlay.
Steel assassinates the passions kill where
is the difference , Delnzy.
We must have great merit to be virtuous
only in our own eyes, Fontenelle.
The wise man is wise in vain who cannot
be of use to himself EnnIus.
Daring destroys genius elevates, good
sense preserves and pertects. Fontanes.
Perhaps TO know what friendship is, We
should have experienced love. [Chamfort
| The most sublime virtue is negative it
teaches us to do evil to no one. Fl Rous-
seau.
Superstition is but the fear Of belief reli-
| eion is the confidence. u Lady Blessington.
| All other knowledge is hurtful to him who
has not honesty and good nature.-[ Mon
taigne.
will listen to any ones convictions, but
pray keep your doubts TO yourself. have
plenty of my own. -tGoethe.
We are haunted 10y an ideal lie, and it is
because We have within us the beginning and
the possibility of it Phillips Brooks.
Age is not all decay it is the rpening,
the swelling of the fresh life within, that
withers and bursts the husk George Mac
donald.
Anxiety is the poison of life the parent
| of many sins, and of more miseries. Why,
then. allow it, when We know that all the
future is guided by a Fatherss hand p
| [Blair.
The great blessings OF mankind are with
| in us and within our reach, but we shut our
eyes. and, like people in the dark, we fall
| foul upon very thing We search for without
finding .-[Seneca.
Evils in the journey OF life are like the
hills which alarm travellers upon their road /;
they both appear great at distance, but
when We approach tEem We find that they
| are far less in1uTmountabe than when We
had conceived them Cotton.
| Music is the harmonious voice of creation
an echo of the invisible world one note OF
the divine concord which the entire universe
is destined one day to sound - Mazzini.
We can easily manage if We will only take
each day, the burden appointed for 1t. But
the burden will be too heavy for us If We add
10 its weight the burden of tomorrow before
we are called to bear it. [John Newton.
Happy indeed are those whose intercourse
with the world has not changed the tone OF
| their feelings, or broken the musical chords
of the heart whose vibrations are SO melO-
| dious tender and So touching III the eve
ming of then lives.
He that knows how to pray has the secret
Of support in .rouble and OF relief from
anxiety the power of soothing every care,
and filling the soul with entire trust and con
iidence for the future. - William Jay.
Love is immortal in a SUMMER cline
The friends We loved On earth wen clasp once
more,
The lows which blossomed in our hearts in time
Will bear celestial iTuit on that hlest shore.
Christian faith is grind cathedral. with
divinely pictured windows. Standing with
ont. you see no glory nor can possibly lima
gine any standing within, every ray o.
light reveals harmony Of unspeaknbl,
splendors II Hawthorne.
He who climbs above the cares of III,
world, and turns his face TO his God, la,
found the sunny side OF life. The world,
side of the hill is chill aud freezing to I
spiritual mind, but the Lords presence give
a warmth of Joy which turns winter .Int,
summer -tSpurgeon.
Tn. nj .ht will come again Ahyes' know
The night. the storm. the bitter cold, the snow 90
, But ,uDshine warmth and greonness ill to-day
| My little world and thou gh II pass away
70 Beyond recall, yet alter all
, 1t is no dream-nay but glenn
or GOi's eternty-this one glad day!
And since lie gave, 'ds His alone 10 take
| Ay more to keep Tor aye
If ] could choose what would be- most de
hghtful, and / believe. most useful to me
should prefer firm religious belief to ever
other blessing -[ Davy.
A friendship that makes the least noise l
very often the most useful for which reasO
! | should prefer prudent friend to zeulou
one. [ Addison.
1 | had rather a forgiven child. with al
4 the prospects of the future opened up unit
me, wear the crown purchased 10y the re
/ | deeming love OF Christ. than that which /
worn by the unfallon angels, because tn
r | blessing of divine ntonoment through
a | Divine incarnation, secuted to the soul IL
| harmony with the conditions of the Gospel
f reveals the character of God in way i'm
. possible to be made known to those who Ia,
! complied with all that the law demands an,
S | this places the sinner, penitont and forgiven
G | upOn Il platform of experience and persona
j. relationship to God Of nature so peculia
V and so extraordinary as TO throw all othe
i stars glittering never 30 brightly in tn
{ heavenly armament, into comparative oil