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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-03-12
The Home Atmosphere.


One last thing is in my mind to say to
you who are parents concerning homes. 1t
is not worth much for us to try to teach the
Sunday-school children here on Sunday for
an hour, if that is all there is of it. The
most important part of the religious educa-
tion of your children that would call upon
you to see to is not teaching to them always
in the Bible, is not saying to them this
thing or that about religion but the one i'm
portant thing that would have you esteem
as OF the highest Importance is the atmos-
phere moral and religious, in which your
child lives day by day. | have seen a
house plant in winter in soil that was
everything that could be desired, cared
for, and yet in spite of everything that
was done for it, the plant would wither
and die. Why? For the simple reason
that, detected or undetected, in the air of
the room, there was some vicious, poisonous
gas, or influence, or power, that was unta-
vorable to the proper life and development
of the plant. And so you may take chill
dren, and, after all the teaching of the Sun
day-school aud of the day-school, the one
thing that influences them more than every
thing else put together is the air they breathe
at home. 1t is not worth while for the Sun
day-school teacher, or for yourselves, to tell
child to be truthful, if day by day he finds
out that in your business or in your social
relations, your intercourse with your SER
wants, your calling on your friends, you are
departing from the strict line of veracity
either in word or character. 1t is not worth
while to tell children that they ought to be
patient if they find you, towards them OF
towards each other, fretful and scolding and
inpatient 1t is not worth while to teach
them this or that moral lesson unless they
breathe an atmosphere that illustrates the
beauty of that moral characteristic, and
shows that what it comes to is something
noble and desirable in the practical life oi
the home. And so | appeal to you Hell
US in the Sunday-school by giving the chill
dren such home atmosphere to breathe a.
shall make il natural and easy for them tC
believe in, to accept and to live out, the
highest and sweetest religious lesson that W,
can convey TO them.-Reu. MinOt J. Sdrdge
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Fair Weather Christians.

Disagreeable Sundays sift churches as
honestly as the test OF tapping water +"
sited the ten thousand troops under Gideon.
Those who really want to get to Gods house
on wet or Wintry Sabbath usually do get
there. The richest spiritual blessings are
often obtained by those who submit TO some
hardship in order to do their duty. And
what a melancholy spectacle to the eye of
our loving Lord must be the sight of his
own sanctuary on disagreeable days; aud OF
his own supper rooms of communion when
his disciples have turned their backs upon
him For one, honestly confess that all
the trash of the skeptics, from Renan or
Huxley down TO Ingersoll, do not inspire
such misgivings of Christianity as a heart
power as are awakened by the spectacle Of de-
linquent Christians in unfayorable weather.
Next to that is the sight of contribution.
box after it has gone the rounds of con-
gregation who live in "ceiled houses and
keep their own carriages Theodore Cuyier
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MONTPELIER, VT, WEDNESDAY, MARCH -, 1879.

Wolcott boy. And they told me that there
had been other deacons in those churches
from Wolcott before now. That news was
great encouragement to me. As rode up
the hill that night to my home, said TO
myself Il see now why the Lord wants
the Wolcott church kept up. It's to supply
Waterbury with deacons.'' And that old
minister was satisfied as never before, that
he was living at the center-as, indeed, he
would not have been IL he had deserted VOL
colt for Waterbury. There is many little
country church kept up to supply large
cities with deacons--or other leaders. There
is more than one backwoods schoolhouse
which has mission for the training of men
and women of power, whose influence is to
be worldwide and eternal. Aud in many n
nursery a mother sits to-day at the very cen
ter of avaster circle than she has ever prayed
or hoped to reach for good.-Sundayschooi
Times
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The Beauty OF Old Age.

An old man, very unhappy wanted to
change his home. He was always miserable
and he thought his neighbors to blame for
it, But some one, with more truth than
gentleness, suggested that it would not be
any use-he could not get away from him
sell, Every one carries in himself the ele-
ments of his happiness or wretchedness.
Circumstances have very little TO do with
our inner experience. 1t is self, after all,
that gives the color to our skies, and the
tone to the music we hear. The old man,
like the snail, carries his house on his back,
He may change neighbors, or scenes, or
companions, but he cannot get away from
himself. Sin puts thorns in our pillows.
Conscience violated heaps up sorrow for old
age. Sin may seem pleasant at the moment,
but you must not forget how il will look
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A Suggestions.

What have you learned at school to-day ?"
asked lady of little girl. Z" | don't know"
was the reply. The question was repeated
and the child urged to tell something she
had learned during the day but she per-
sisted in saying she had learned nothing.
The lady remarked, Z" I often ask that ques.
ton and never receive any better answer"
A few days later, the same lady said to lit
tie boy, as he came in from school, What
have you learned to-day p and he replied
as did the little girl. Both these children
are called good scholars for their age, and,
in each case, the teacher is doing good work.
The trouble, no doubt, is mol that the COM
bined efforts of teacher and pupil have
amounted to nothing but the child does not
understand how to state what he has ac-
quired. School is not merely a place for
training the receptive faculties the power
of transmitting ideas needs just as much
cultivation. To learn for the sole purpose
OF retaining is like trying TO walk with the
same foot forward all the time. After a re-
citation, if some member of the class were
called upon to state the chief facts contained
in the lesson, it would be step in the right
direction. Instead of this a few moments
before the close of school might be taken
for general exercise of the same kind-one
and another being called upon to give a
synopsis of lesson or state one or more
facts, according to the age and capacity of
the student. The teachers of our ungraded
schools will think they have not time for
this; and it is true they are overburdened
with such multitude OF classes as TO make
the statement an honest one but we teach
for the real benefit of the pupils in after
life; and if such an exercise shows good re.
suits, it will be proper to omit, if necessary,
a recitation each day for the sake of it. There
might, also, be gain in time if less were
used in a general way during recitation and
more taken for fixing in the memory the
central points of the lesson.
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Raising Deacons for Other Churches.

Nearly twenty years ago, at one of the Con-
necticut Sunday school conventions, a quaint
old minister from the town of Wolcott told
Of doubts and discouragements in his field
Of work, Wolcott is one of that class OF
hill towns of New England which has sui
fered by the steady draining of population
into the busy villages aud cities along the
streams and railroad lines. "Mine isn't an
encouraging field" he said. "There are few
young people in it at any time. Once in a
while there will be bright young man
brought into the church but just as he gets
TO taking part in the prayermeeting and
teaching in the Sunday-sehoo, aud begin
TO have comfort in him, he is off for buster
center, and | feel all alone again I've won
dered, sometimes, what the Lord wanted
that Woleott church kept up for; but |
think I've found out. | was down at the
city of Waterbury the other week, aud there
found that deacon of the First church.
a good substantial man in the community
was Wolcott boy. And then found that
deacon of the Second church was another
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eMoraI and Rehgions.
I PRAY FOR THEE.

When thou art very weak and weary, dear,
When II Is dark, and all seems dreary here,
And suddenly light almost divine
Upon thy doubling eyes and heart doth shine,
And thou the way to go dost plainly see,
Know dearest heart, that then pray for thee.
when with a weight OF sorrow and Of fears
Crushed to the earth thou weepest bitter tears,
Lol gently round thee arms Of tenderest love
Raise thee from depths of woe, and far above
Thou hearst n sweet voice saying, " Trust in meW
Know, dearest heart, that then pray for thee.
When all the answering beauty Of the soul
Is throbbing thrilling. with the rapturous whole
OF nature, "a on odorous summer night
The tremulous stars thy senses all delight.
Thou fcelest higher Joys than these can be,
Know, dearest heart that then pray for thee.
when tenderly beside some stricken child
Thou standest, and dost speak Of Jesus mild,
Dost whisper Of his patience and his death.
II seems TO thee IA II some quickening breath
OF Gods rich power In thine own words might he,
Know, dearest heart, that then pray for thee.
Nor think that In arrogance would claim
The credit of these gifts In Jesus name
I'm praying for thee always-and my prayer
Is answered-that too may have my share
In thy great nobeness, and thus may be
Doing some work because pray for thee.
Thus always in my loneliness I'm saying
Such words, all softly, and God hears inc praying
Dear Lord, both he and I
Are far from strong;
To each OF us be nigh
The way s long
Perhaps he needs not me
Jesus, we both need thee
Make us more strong!
-Chrisiian linton,
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Seleff sWisreHanp.
THE END.

The course Of the weariest river
Ends in the great gray sea;
The acorn, for ever and ever,
Strives upward to the tree.
The rainbow the sky adjoining,
Shines promise through the storm;
The gmner Of coming morning
Through midnight gloom will form.
By time all knots are riven,
Complex although they be.
And peace will at last be given,
Dear, both to you and to me.
Then, though the path may be dreary,
Look onward to the goal
Though the heart and the head be weary,
Let faith inspire the soul.
Seek the right though the wrong be tempting,
Speak truth at any cost
Vain is all weak exemptng
When once the gem II lost
Let strong hand and keen eye be ready
For plain and ambushed foes
Thought earnest and fancy steady
Bear best unto the close
The heavy clouds may be raining,
But with evening comes the light,
Through the dark are low winds complaining,
Yet the sunrise gilds the height
And Love has his hidden treasure
For the patient and the pure
Aud Time gives the fullest measure
To the workers who endure;
And the Word that no law has shaken
Has the future pledge supplied;
For we know that when wa awaken"
We shall be satisfied" Selected
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!Ghr Come Girrle.
THE WONDERFUL GIFT.

Because in day OF my days TO come
There waiteth grief to be,
Shall my heart grow faint and my lips be dumb,
In this day that Is bright for me2
Because Of subtle sense Of pain,
Like puseDcat threaded through
The bliss Of my thought, shall dare refrain
From delight in the pure and true?
In the harvest field shall cease TO CLEAN,
Since the bloom Of the Spring has ned2
Shall veil my eyes to the MONDAY sheen,
Since the dew Of the morn hath sped2
Nay. phantom III, with the warning hand
Nay, ghosts of the weary past.
Serene, as In armor Of faith. stand
We may not hold me fast
Your shadow across my sun may fall,
But ms bright the sun shall shine.
For walk In a light ye cannot pail.
The light OF the King divine.
And whatever he send from day TO day,
am sure that his name Is Love;
And he never will let me lose my way
To my rest In his home above. Sunday Magdi in
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Railroad Gime Table.
CESTRAL VERMONT RAILROAD LINEi
Commencing on Monday December 3Oth 1878.

Trains GoinD South and East.
Leave Montpelier at II 2S A. NJ, 740 p. NJ,
and 800 y. NJ
Mail-Ffun Montreal, Malone. st. Albans, Burlington,
etc leaves Montpelier nj II 2S A. NJ, for Boston, New
Mixed Train-fenves ST. Adams at 3lOP, NJ. Burlington
Night Express-From Ogdensbup, Montreal, st. AL
for Boston via Lowell or Fitchburg, Springfield, New
York and intermediate points
Trains Goinp North and West.
Leave Montpelier at 3.25 a. NJ, $40 A. NJ, 1910
=. NJ, and 422 p. NJ.
Day Express-Leavcs Boston via Fiichburg at 80 A. M
via Lowell at 500 A. NJ New London At 500 A. NJ,
Springfield a 500 NJ, Montpelier At 422 Nj, for
Burlington, St. Albans, Montreal and Ogdensburg.
Accommodation Train-Ieaves Norihned Rt s.3n A..
NJ Montpelier 1t $40 a. ". for burlington, Rutland,
st. Albans, st. Johns and RIohfor
Mixed-Leaves W. II. Junction at 7Os A. NJ Northfeld at
1900 NJ, arrives at Montpelier at 1882 IN.
Accommodation Train-Lcaves Montpelier at 1910
M, for burlington, Rutland and ST. Albans.
Night Express-Leaves Boston via Lowell at $50 p NJ,
Springfield ut 500 p. NJ Montpelier at 325 for Bur-
ngon, ~. Abans, Montreal and ogi'bg and the West.
Trains leave Montpelier for Barre at 72O A. M 1000 A.
". and AZ ~, NJ Returning, leave Barre at 500 NJ,
1850 A. NJ. and 520.PM.
Sleeping attached Night Express trains running
between Montreal and Boston. and Montreal and Spring
ael and New York via Troy and parlor to Day EN
press between Boston and Montreal
Through tickets for Chicago and the West for sale at the
principal stations. J. W. HORARr. General supt.
O. W. BENTLEY, Gen1 Manager.
1t. Abans, Vt. December %. 1878.
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Origin of the Hymn "Abide with Me.v

In the Autumn of 1917 the Rev. Mr.. Lyte
was advised to go for a time to the south of
France in the hope that warmer climate
would strengthen his failing health. Before
leaving England he wished once more to
preach TO his people. His family feared
what the result of such an effort might be,
but he gently insisted and was able TO go
through with the service. He knew that he
was preaching for the last time, and his SER
mon was full of solemn and tender appeal
to those whom he had guided and instructed
for many years. At the end of the service
he retired, exhausted in body, but with his
soul sweetly resting on that Saviour whom
he had preached with his dying breath. As
the evening drew on he handed to member
of his family the following beautiful hymn,
which he had just written:
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KEEP out of debt, out of quarrels, out of
damp clothes, out of reach OF liquors, aud
out OF doors all you eau in good weather.
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HumOrsOme Waits.

A MAN advertises for " competent persons
to undertake the sale of new medicine"
and adds 1T will be profitable to the under
taker." No doubt of it.
Ii was New Jersey wife who said: My
dear, if you can't drink bad coffee without
abusing me, how is it you can drink bad
whiskey without abusing the barkeeper ?"
An old maid suggests that when men
break their hearts, it is all the same as when
lobster breaks one of his claws another
sprouts Immediately and grows in its place.
"THE only reason got my ears boxed
said Johnny, "was cause when mother said
neighbor had borrowed hen of her, said
the lent-hen season had arrived. ."-Erchange.
A YOUNG man, searching for his fathers
pig, accosted an Irishman as follows "HaVe
you seen stray pig about here ?" Pat re-
sponded; Faix, aud how could | tell
stray pig from any other ?"
Ir has been discovered that an organ
grinder can't be Induced to visit neigh
borhood after the residents have once
dropped Limburger cheese into his hat. A
hint TO the wise is suiIicient.-P Philadelphia
Chronicle.
"EUGENIA, Eugena, will you still insist
upon wearing the hair of another woman
upon your head ?" "Alphonse, Alphonse, do
you still insist upon wearing the skin of
another calf upon your feet Z"
In Wetherell churchyard, England, is the
following epitaph considerably more than
century old;
In this vain world shorl was my stay,
20 S Sefors f,%sS snS SIs lead i ihs is'sst' Ssy
Aud thou comes Jogging after.
A WOMAN cured her husband of staying
out late at night by going TO the door when
he came home and whispering through the
key hole Is that you, Willie 2" Her hus-
bands name is John, and he stays at home
every night now, aud sleeps with one eye
open and a revolver under his pillow
"FIRsT CLASS in astronomy, stand up.
Where does the sun rise 7" Please sir,
down in our meadow | seed it yesterday"
Hold your tongue, you Ounce. Where
does the sun rise 2" 81 know in the east"
Right and why does it rise in the east 2"
Because the east makes everything RISE"
ALL who do not take good newspaper
should have the following warning read to
them
| knew two friends much alike
| As ever were two stumpsi
Aud no phtenologist could nnd
difference In their bumps
one took paper, and his life
His Children ali could read and write
Aud talk Of men and thing
The other took no paper, and
While slroing through the wood,
A tree tell down upon his crown,
And killed hlm-As II should.
Had he been reading Of the news
Al home, like nelghbor Jim,
ia risk cent ms accident
Had not ssfallsn hlA
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VEGET!N {
Behold Me a Well Woman.
CANCER.

MONTGOMERY, ALA, June 26 1873.
H. r. Sterens BOSTON, Dear ir:-I have years been
sufferer from dreadful my side which caused
me untold agony, and as am widow with family de
pendent upon my exertions for support pain OF body
was only cquaed by pain Of mind seeing my children
want for bread. was presented by kind friend In Gin
cinnat with half dozen bottles Of vEGETINE. and al
theugh one bottle Is still untouched, behold well
woman completely restored In body and mind and able
TO perform my accustomed duties. Long may you live
and may the history of my wonderful lead like
sufferers to purchase your valuable medicine. II it Is with
the last cent they possess. Yours gratefully.
MRS. FULLER SUIT.
write this to certify that have known Mrs. Fuller SUIT
from childhood and have the hours agony
patient womanhood has been called upon endure. She
has suffered untold agones, and sits beside per-
feet health with her child upon her knee The prayers Of
this grateful woman will ever be yours my noble SIR and
we add our testimony to the thousands that favor great
est OF all modern discoveries, "vEGETINE."
Yours respectfully, MRS CHELLET SUMMER.
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"a Little Bird Led Me-"

Under the cool shade of the oak trees,
Thomas the wood-cutter, and his grandson
Joe had been eating their lunch Carefully
gathering the crumbs, the old man threw
them far out on the grass, aud then both
waited till first one bird, then another, hoped
down for their share of the feast. 1t was
little bird like that that showed me the
way to God, Joe. I'll tell you about it.
was grown man, with a wife and little
children-your mother was the baby then
before | ever thought much of God or my
duty to him. 1t was one night while sat
in the doorway resting, heard your grand.
mother singing, as she rocked her baby to
sleep:
Jesus lover of my soul
Let me 10 thy bosom fly,
While the waters round me roll,
While the tempest still is nigh
1t set me thinking of my sins, of death, of
meeting God and for days my heart was
full of fear | was coming through the
woods one night, when great storm came
on the wind blew, the trees crashed, the
rain came in gusts, and it was all | could do
to keep my feet. At every flash of lightning
my heart trembled for fear might be called
TO meet my God Then saw bird flying
around with pitiful cry On low branch
was an empty nest, torn and drenched on
the ground were her crushed eggs, There
seemed no refuge for her from the binding
storm, till, by flash of light, saw her dart
under a great rock which stood near, and
knew she was safe. Then the words of the
song came back to me, aud prayed aloud
as hurried through the storm and rain
Jesus, lover of n,y soul,
Let ne to thy bosom fly,
While the waters round me roll,
While the tempest still is nigh
And he heard me, Joe, and through him wh'
said, am the way am not afraid Il
meet my God. So you see it was little bir,
that led me 10 the Lord. d."-ChiLis World.
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1000 Cedar Posts :

Also 100000 Cedar Shingle, Fin
ishing Pine, Pine Lath, Black Wal
nut, ETC., for sale by D. TAFT.
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Blood Cleanser and Purifier.
Has Not it's Equal.
LUNG DISEASE.

SELMA, Ala.
H. r. Steras, Boston - take great pleasure in
mending your VEGErlNE, have been suffering for
long time with the Lung Disease trying every kind of
medicine that could get but seemed to do any
good, until tried your great vEGErINE remedy. had
used only short time before could discover very great
change in my health for the better don't consider that
medicine has ts equal for the diseases which you
propose To cure, especially the diseases that have been
afflicted with. JOHN THOMAS.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-09-11
THK NEXT PRE.IDENr.

Cornell, The r. publican candidate
for the Governor : 0ffice IL Nsw Taik,
Is g powerful uisn befofc the peop'e.
II his name were nGt idontified with
the benefcent university, his personal
aud social virtues aud intellectual
capacity would make him potent IN
the politics Of his State The Presi-
dents friends are not so much opposed
to Coruell as to his devotion to Conk-
ling and there Is no denying the fact
that the Republicans have made g
strong ticket, well calculated to defeat
the discordant Democracy, which TIL
den says he carries in his breeches
pocket. The conduct of the Green
hackers in New York gives sd
ditional strength TO the Repub-
lican ticket, lessening tho prob
ability of Democratic victory.
II this be impossible, Tilden's career
is ct an end, even as Thurman must
stand aside IL Foster defeat Ewing IN
Chic. Hendricks's strength in lodi
ana and In Ohio and the West is no
greater than Ewing,s or Thurman't,
and II Ohio, like California, and as we
have supposed to be possible in New
York, elect Republican Governor, 1t
only remains for the Democratic party
to nominate Hancock, BAyard or DaTid
Davis for the presidency. OF these
three, B4yard is surely strongest, and
either Dsyard or Sherman, in our
opinion, will be the next President OF
the United States.