Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-07-25


No flower can blow i'll Paradise that is
not transplanted from Gethsemane no
one can taste Of the fruit Of the tree Of
life that has not tasted of the fruit of the
tree of Calvary.-Lcigh Richmond
Where the peace is that Christ gives,
all the trouble and disquiet of the world
cannot disturb it. All outward distress
10 such a mind is but as the rattling of
hail upon the tiles of him who sits with
in the house at sumptuous banquet
leighton.
We picture death as coming to destroy i;
let us rather picture Christ as coming to
save We think of cath as ending let
Ms rather think of life as beginning, and
that more abundantly We think of los
ing let us think of gaining. We think
of parting let us think of meeting We
think of going away let us think Of ar
irving. And as the voice of death whls-
hers, "You must go from earth, let us
bear the voice Of Christ saying You are
put coming to Me r'-NOrmdn Mcleod.
A charitable untruth, an uuchartable
truth and an unwlse management oil truth
or love, are all to be carefully avoided of
him that would go with a right foot in the
narrow way.-Bishop Hail.
The sweetest life is to he ever making
sacrifices for Christ the hardest life a
man can lead on earth, the most full of
misery, is to be always doing his own will
and seeking to please himself Bickir-
steh.
A really good man had rather be de-
ceived than be suspicious had rather
forego his own right than run the venture
of doing even hard thing This is the
temper of that charity Of which the
apostle says it shall never fail.-Bishoi,
Butler.
The consummate hypocrite Is not he
who conceals vice behind the semblance
Of virtue, but he who makes the vice
which he has no objection to show a
stalking horse to cover darker and more
profitable vice, which it is for his interest
to hide Nacdutdy.
We are firm believers i'll the maxim that
for all right Judgment of any man or
thing. IT is useful, nay, essential, to see
his good qualities before pronouncing on
his bad. Carlyle.
1t is difficult, | own, to blend and unite
tranquility in accepting, and energy i'll
using. the facts Of life but it is not i'm
possible if it be, it is impossible t. be
happy.-Epictetus.
Augustine said, Faith is to believe
what We do not see. and the reward Of this
faith is to See what We believe
We lay it down as a propagation not to
be controverted that the human mind,
even by natural instinct, possesses some
sense Of Deity-John CaiUin.
The body of our prayer is the sum OF
our duty and as We must ask of God
Whatsoever We need, SO we must watch
and labor for all that We ask.-Jremy
Taylor.
When Ennomius the hereto vaunted
that he knew God and His divinity, st.
Basil graveled him in twenty-one ques
tions about the body of pismire -
Thomas Fntter.
1t is never worth while to make rents
IN a garment for the sake of mendmg
them, nor to create doubts iii order t,
show how cleverly we can quiet them. -
SpWgeOn.
Faith, like light, should ever be simple
and unbending while love, like warmth
should beam forth on every side, anC
bend to every necessity ofour brethren,
Luther,
An old mystic says somewhere, Goo
is an unutterable sigh in the innermos
depth of the soul" With still greater
Justice, We may reverse the proposition
and say, the soul is a never-ending sigl
after God. 2hfGd1re ChFisletih.
While oondemning enthusiasm, did you
ever quite get rid of feeling that how
ever unfit it was for life, it would be fal
from an undesirable state to die in Tn,
truth is that by enthusiasm men mean be
ing more religions than th.lnsei.es.- -
r. ~ fuber.
/ am passionate admirer Of whatever
is beautiful IN nature or exquisite IN art
These are the gifts OF God, but no part q
hls essenee they proceed ifolA God
goodness, md should kindie onr graft
tude to HIM but cannot conceive tina
the most enchanting beauties oil nature, o
VI. Aios' 'piehu'u P,l'' 1".;