Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-10-02
Talk to Girls.

be long now before / meet Evan and the
rest in Heaven.
Talk to Girls.
Miss Frances E. Willard, in an article
addressed to girls, thus refers TO the con-
ditions of success in the better life.
First of all would say, keep to your
speciaity-to the doing of the thing you
accomplish with most of satisfaction TO
yourself, and most of benefit to those
around you. Keep to this, whether it is
raising turnips or tunes; painting screens
or battle pieces; studying political econo-
my or domestic receipts. For, as we read
in one of our authors who has genius for
common sense, " There is not one thing
hat man ought to do; there is not one
thing that ought to be done. which wom-
an ought not 10 he encouraged to do-if
she has the capacity for doing it. For
wherever there is II gift, there is probe
cy pointing to its use, and silent com,
nland of God to use it," Such utterances
rs these are assertions of the " natural
and nalienahle rights of the Individual
as such. They are deductions of the Chris
tian philosophy which regards you and
me-, first and chiefly, as human beginnings
and makes the greatest possible account oI
personal iden ity. In all ages there have
heen minds that discnIned this truth. OF
course, the intellecs which lowered like
Alpine peaks above the mass of men were
the first to reflect its blessed light.
Two thousand years ago, Juvenal made
The heroine of II famous satire " say tt
~ 7 7 -, g.,
which equally includes your sex and mine
For you should not forget that. in al
things highest and best and most enduring
in our natures, | am us much a man as
YOU are. The sun of truth looms hi9t
above the far horizon in our day, and ever
he plains of human thought and purpos'
re glowing with the light of II new inspi
ration. Personal value and persona
responsibility, these are the noonlidt
walchword>, now when our race out o
childhood has grown.
Only yesterday | heard fashionabl,
butterfly, in the surroundings of II uxu
rious home, saying. with sudden enthu>i
asm, " OF one thing | am sure: Ever,
woman that lives is bound to find out wha
is the very best thing she can do with he
powers, and then she's bound to do it.
In creating each of US with some peculia
talent God has given US each call to SOM
peculiar work. Indeed. the time is almos
here when the only call that will be recog
nized as valid, must involve in him VIII
thinks he hears it both adaptation and sue
cess. Each OF us is marvellous bundl
of aptitudes and capabilities. But Just a
| prefer the active to the passive voice,
prefer to put the aptitudes first in my in
ventory. Besides, the world has bar
rangued us on our capacities from the be
ginning. and it is really refreshing to tax
the dilemma of our destiny by the othe
horn, at last. Civilization (by which | III
ways mean Christianity's effect on tn
brains and hands of the race) wonderful
develops and differenlales our powers
Among the MOdocs there are four specia
ties, assigned, with remarkable fairnes:
in the proportions of two for the brave
and two for the squaws. The first hur
and fight, the last do the drudgery an
bring up the pappooses. Among the Pal
isians, on the contrary, the division of Ii
Dor is almost infinite so that the hand PEI
!, fectly skilled in the most minute indu>tr
(as, for instance, in moulding the sho'
! strings of a porcelain slatuette) needs Il
other resource to gain livelihood. Anon
, the Modocs, skins are about the only art
cles of commerce. Among the Parisian
5 evolution has gone SO far in the directio
| of separating employments formerly blent
ed that you cannot buy milk and cream
the same shop. BY some unaccountab
, perversion of good sense, the specialize
of human beings who are women, hay
, been strangely circumscribed. But the
r were there all the same, and now undt
the genial sun of ii more tolerant era, the
D come fairly forth, like singing birds aft
thunder storm. And they hep some
D us wonderfully to solve the tangled pro
D lem, " What is life for?'
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FAITu.-Faith is blind, but it is itself
1 sense keener than sight, The eye nee'
light, but faith sees in the dark. The u
2 Outstanding requires reasons in order
: give its assertion. but faith believes wit
n out reasons. Reason requires evidence
but faith is itself an evidence of thin
G unseen" 1t is no slander against the c
TO say that it can not see, for ii is enoue
that il hears, and the ear asks not the e
| to assure it of the delights of melody.
It faith is itself n spiritual sense, and it as
no help from eye or reason to assure Us
|. the things that it reveal. In fact, VIII
we have sight OF reason to set truth befo
] us, there is then no need of faith. VIII
| Abraham left Ur of the Chaldees, if
Il could have clearly seen the land towar
which he wandered, could he have SCI
It that great nation shining forth from
@ upon all lands, and that long line of pr
y phets, priests and kings that were
i -pread his fame through the ages, Il
II faith that made him " father of the ftit
Y ful" never could have been born in |
j heart. Had be clearly seen that he was
c spring from his loins who was both t
d " root and the offspring of David"
would have been no task and no virtue
e believe the promise =" In thee shall ;
If the nations of the earth be blessed" Cou
Paul have seen himself rs we see hii
the foremost man of the age. and t
% mightiest force of modern civilization,
1t never could have had the faith that ma
him Paul. He simply did the duty of t
o hour as he wrote letters to little bands
" prosecuted Christians, never thinking tll
his words would be more precious tn
diamonds to coming ages. Faith CIV
u them that quenchless lustre that shines
10 the darkness lions Herald.
p II is estimated that Grants trip to L
rope has not cost him over a dollar a
G fifty cents SO far. He travels on q Fl