Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-02-21

Through pleasant and through cloudy weather;
'fs hard to part when friends are dear;
Perhaps twill cost sigh or tear
Thed steal away, give little warning,
| Choose thine own time,
Say not good night but in some brighter cline
Bid me good morning
This prayer was found in the late DR.. he
thune's Bible at the time of his death Lord
pardon what / have been, sanctfy what
am. and order what I shall be, that Thin
may be the glory and mine the eternal saliva
ton. These words, from one OF the an
cient fathers" DR.. Bethune wrote under
meath. ''are proper for any believing sinner
in life or in death.
He is richest who is content with the least
for content is the wealth of nature.-[Soc
rates.
Even the weakest man is strong enough tc
enforce his convictions.-[Goethe.
1t is good for us to think no grace or bless
ing truly ours till we are aware that God has
blessed some one else with it through US
REV. Phillip Brooks.
Every good and holy desire. though it may
lack the form. hath, in itself t.. substance
and iocre of a prayer with 1oi, for He re-
| CARDS as prayer the meanings and sighings o
the heart I Hooker.
| Things are saturated with the moral law
There is no escape from it. Violets and
| grass preach it ; rain and snow, wind and
| tides, every change, every course in nature,
is nothing but disguised missionary L En-
| erson.
1t was first command and counsel of my
earliest youth, always to do what my con-
science told me to be duty, and to leave
the consequence to God. l have always fol-
| lowed it, and have no reason to complain
| that my obedience to it has been o temporal
| sacrifice. ] have found it, on the contrary,
the road to prosperity and happiness and
wealth and l shall point out the same path
to my children. Lord Erskine.
We are always clever with those who ina
| gine we think as they do To be shallow,
you must differ with people to be profound,
you must agree with them,-[ Bulwer.
The end of philosophy is is not knowledge
but the energy conversant about knowledge.
I Aristotle.
The earnest men are SO few in the world
that their very earnestness becomes at once
the badge of their nobility and as men in a
crowd instinctively make room for one who
seems eager to force his way through it, SO
mankind everywhere open their ranks to one
who rushes zealously toward some object "
ing beyond them Timothy Dwight.
In the humblest dwellings and in the OBJ
scurest corners the noblest, the most success
ful and the most honorable lives are lived as
truly as on the wide avenues and beneath the
gaze of myriads of admiring eyes. Every
life which Christ guides by His light, and
cheers by His smile, and crowns with His
forgiven ess and His reward is thoroughly
worth living for its experience and for its
abundant rewards.-[P Press Porter
THERE Is NO DEATH.
There iJ no death The stars 20 down
To rise upon some fairer shore
And bright in heavens Jeweled crown
They shine ioreyermoTe.
There is no death Anangel form
Walks Ger the earth with silent tread.
And bears our best beloved away,
And then we call them dead"
Born unto that und, in, life,
They leave US but TO come again
With JOY we welcome them the same,
Except their sin and pain.
And ever near US. though unseen,
The dear Immortal spirits treld,
For all the houndless universe
Is Lue-there is no DEAD.
-Bu!1er Lyttoa.
Our energy is in proportion to the resist
ance 1t meets. We can attempt nothing
great but from a sense of the difficulties we
have to encounter we can persevere in
nothing great but from II pride in overcoming
them Eiazlitt.
II We mix with the world ior the pleasure
it affords, we shall be likely TO be among the
first TO be reconciled to the freedom and lax
ity it allows. The world is not brought up
to us, but We sink down TO the world the
drop becomes of the consistence and color of
the ocean into which 1t falls the ocean itself
remains unchanged.-[D James Walker.
Thy love shall chant itself its own bea;i-
tudes, after its own life working. A child
kiss, set on thy signing lips, shall make thee
glad poor man, served by thee, shall make
thee rich rich man, helped by thee, shall
make thee strong thou shalt be served thy
self by every sense of service which thou
renderest.-[E. b. Browning.
Alas how little can human beings read
each other. The heart knoweth its own
bitterness, and stranger intermeddleth
not = yet. after all. ''why Alas? Is it not
better that it should be So, than that our in
most soul should be legible to all l?-[F. W.
Robertson.
Make no man your idol, for the best man
must have faults and his faults will inssnsi-
bly, become yours, in addition to your own.
This is rs true in art as in mOrals.-[W. All
Studio.
Persevere against discouragements keep
your temper employ leisure in study. and
always have some work in hand be pune
tual and methodical in business, and never |
never he i'll hurry &; preserve |
self- possession, and do not be talked ont of |
conviction rise early, and be an economist |
of time (; maintain dignity without the ap- |
pearance of prlde-manner is something |
with everybody, and everything with some (;
be guarded in DISCOURSE attentive and slow |
to speak never acquiesce in immoral or per- |
nicious opinions be not forward to assign |
reasons TO those who have no right to ask /; |
think nothing in conduct unimportant or in |
different (; rather set than follow examples
practice strict temperance, and in your trans
actions remember the final ace ount.- Max
inns of Bishop Middleton.
o hold us, Cod. while IL is day,
BY kindly words and deeds,
To store good memories away
For the last evening n, eds
And so TO hear, at set OF sun.
The comfort of our Lords We'll done,
Nor feel remorse, nor grief, and shame,
But gladly face the falling night
Ard hope for heavens eternal light,
Through the RedeemeIs name.
Oh how many deeds Of deathless virtue
and immortal crime, the world had wanted
mad the actor said, will do this tomorrow.
-[Lord John Russell.
If the Lord careth for thee be thyself at
rest Tor il He care. why shouldest thou caro-
ooI His providence will provide if thou
sincerely trust it Leighton.
Morality without religion is only kind
II dead reckoning an endeavor to find our
place on IL cloudy sea by measuring the dis
ance We have to run, but without any OBJ
'ervation OF the heavenly bodies.-( Henry
" Longfellow.