Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-02-07
SUNDAY READING

Ports kHow and statesmen ought to know,
it is by sentiment well directed-as by sor-
row when well used-great nations live.
When sentiment dies out, and more prosnic
calculation OF loss and profit takes its place,
then comes Byzantine epoch, a deerepi-
tude and slow decay Kingsley.
An instant decides the life of man and
his whole fate for after heightened thought
the resolve is only the act of n moment ; it
Is the man of sense that seizes on the right
thing 10 be done II IS ever dangerous TO
linser in your selection Of this and that. and
SO by your hesitation get confused. -IGoethe.
Every particle of matter is an immensity :;
every leaf world ; every insect an ineXph-
cable compendium. How, then, can We com
prehend all the mysteries of truth, and all
the ways OF the infinite God II Lavater.
lou Will confer the greatest benefits on
your city no; hy raising its roofs, but by ex-
alting its souls. For II Is better that great
sculs should live in small habitations than
that abiect slaves should burrow in great
houses. Epictetus.
Man is higher than his dwelling-pace he
looks up and folds the wings OF his soul,
and when the sixty minutes, We call sixty
years, have passed ne takes flight, kindling
as he rises, and the ashes OF his feathers fail
back to earth, and the unveiled soul, freed
from its covering Of clay, and pure as a note
of music. ascends on high. Even amidst the
dim shadows of life, he sees the mountains
OF the future world gilded with the morning
rays of sun which rises not here below. So
the inhabitants OF polar regions look into the
long night IN which there Is no sunrise but
at midnight he sees a bright light like the
rosy rays Of dawn cleaning on the highest
mountain-taps and he thinks OF his long
summer in Which 1t never sets John Paul.
would rather dwell in the dim fog of
superstition than in the air rareiied to moth
ing by the air-pump Of unbelief, in which
the painting breast expires, yainly and con-
clusiyely saspng Tor breath Richter.
Build thee more stately mansions, 0 my soul.
A the swift seasons roll
Leave thy low-vaulted past
Let each new temple, nOhlcr than the last,
Shut thee from heaven with dome more vast,
iii thou a. length art free.
Leaving thine out-rown she'll by life'5 unresting
sea, ES4asss-
You are tender-hearted, and you want to
be true, and are trying to be. Learn these
two things never to he discouraged because
good things get along so slowly here and
never to iall daily o do that good which lies
next to your hand. Do not be in n hurry,
but lie diligent Enter into the sublime
patience of the Lord BE charitable in view
of it God can afford to wait why cannot
We, since We have Him to fall back upon:
Let patience have her perfect work, and bring
forth her celestial fruits Trust to God to
weave your little thread into the great web,
though the pattern shows 1t not yet. When
Gods people are able and willing thus TO
labor and wait, remember that one day is
with the Lord IS a thousand years, and Il
thousand years as one day the grand har-
vest Of the ages shall come 10 its reaping,
and the day shall broaden itself to thou
sand years. and the thousand years shall
show themselves as perfect and finished
day Il Macdonald.
What priceless gift tor the unhappy, the
unfortunate and ior the guilty. Is
sleep Many seem to think OF the body only
as n clog, impeding mental action rs a
weight chainng the spirit down. Were the
mind IN It's activity independent OF the body
were the wounded spirit unable to forget
its pain could the guilty conscience sting
incessantly then the chief human industry
would come to hs the erection Of asylums
for the insane. But by an unfathomable
mystery. the tireless. regal spirit has been
blended with the flesh and blood of its SER
want, the body. In heaven, where there Is
neither sin nor pain, even the body becomes
spiritual but On earth, where it So often
happens that to think and 10 remember is
torture it i, a. blessed thing that the body,
formed from the earth often becomes heavy
as earth, and rests upon the spirit, Tor a few
hours at least, like the clods with which We
fill the grave. F.. z. Roe.
Sum up at n ght, what thou hast done by day,
And in the morning what thou hast to do,
Dress and undress thy soul mark the decay
And growth o. it, II with thy watch, that too
Be down. then Wind up both. siuoe thou shalt be
Most surely Judged, make thine accounts agree.
-tSudries.
1t is easier TO detect error than to discover
truth the one lies on the surface and can be
easily discovered the other lies hidden deep
ly, and few are able to find 1t. [Goethe.
II Is difficult, / owD, to blend and unite
tranquility in accepting aud energy IN using
the facts Of lite butit Is not impossible if 1t
be, it is impossible 70 be happy. Epictetus.
You know that it is a right heart that, in
the end, makes safe head and the ancients
used to say that the punishment of a knave
is that he loses good Judgment. lJoseph
Cook.
A iudicious silence is better than truth
spoken without charity DE Sales.
Death, to the Christian, is the funeral Of
all Ills sorrows and evils, and the resuTrec-
tion of all his joys-[J. Macon.
The best way for a man to get ont of a
lowly position is 10 hc conspicuously effect
i've in 1t I Rev. DR. john Hall.
We must not think 10 trust God and then
live as we list. Itis not trusting but tempt
ing Him If wo do not make conscience OF our
duty to Him. Nor must We think to 10
good, and then trust to ourselves and to our
own righteousness aud strength. We must
trust in the Lord aud do good Matthew
Henry.
Love, it has been said desceuds more
abuudautly thpn It asccnds. The love Of
parents Tor children has always been far
more powerful than that Of children for their
parents and who among theisons Oi men ever
loved God with thOus.tudth part Of the love
which God has manifested to us hugus-
tus Hare
Every object in nature il impressed with
Gods footsteps and every day repeats the
wonders Of creation. There is not an Object
be it pebble or pearl, weed or rose the dow
er-spangled sward beneath, or the star span
gled sky above, not a worm or an angel a
drop Of water or a boundless ocean, in which
intelligence may not discern, and piety adore
the providence Of him who took our nature
that he might save our souls [Guthrie.
Begin the education of the heart. not with
the cultivation OF noble propensities, but
with the cutting away of those that are evil.
When once the n6Xious herbs are withered
and rooted out then the more noble plants
strong in themselves, will shoot upward.
The virtues, like the body, became strong
and healthy more by labor than noursh-
ment. latchcr.
When the Lord drives us from one crea-
ture-rest We presently perch upon another,
but He will not allow US to fix long upon any :
at length. like bind. We become sensible
that We can have no safety, no stable peace
below then our hearts take flight and soar
heavenRnrds and we are taught by His
grace to place our treasure and affection out
of the reach Of changes. Newton.
Lead me, o Christ, mid d,uht or circling gloom,
Lead Thou ne on
The night Is dark aud avn far from home
Lead Thou on.
Keep Thou nay ieet do not ask to
The distant -eene-une steps enough ,or mo.
-IaJsr.
Il walked the floor all night with the
toothache, said he. To which his unfeehng