Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-04-30

path, many Of them breathe into you desires,
or present opportunities by which, through
subtety or violence, you may gain your own
selfish ends. Many Of them inspire you
with hate, many with mistrust. Some OF
them offer you what is kindest in their affec-
tion and most soothing in their love. Each
one has his distinct influence upon you
and all together make a tangle OF impulses
which threatens TO enmesh you or whirl-
pool of distractions which threatens to
engulf you. You listen TO profane words,
foul words, scofiing words. Into all these
currents you dip your foot when you leave
your door. | have drawn the picture strongly,
but not more strongly than Is the truth not
more strongly than those will confess who
are accustomed to analyze their spiritual
states, aud to open the bids which Satan is
always making for their souls. And then
go through the day, see how easy it will be
to fret and chide and strive. Watch all the
temptations which shall come to you their
name is legion | cannot begin to suggest
them. Notice that ten to one they will lead
you astray, keep you unsettled and you
will confess that do not overrate the need
we have of help.
Of help-that is the word. of heart to
pity and hand TO save. You want friend;
you want the great strong inlet into your
soul of a sympathy large enough and full
enough to compass you entirely and make
all the little vexations of life seem the petty
things they are, and all small temptations of
life seem the contemplate things they are.
Some of you have known the untold comfort
there is in having near you large hearted
friend, in whom you heartily trust and
whose eye, and hand, and counsel, and love
seem to follow you wherever you go. Your
life is ennobled by the consciousness that
you are worth being thought of and cared
for. This is the power of true love. When
ever our smaller life seems to be gathered
up and held in a life that we acknowledge
larger and more commanding than our own,
it is an easier and more blessed thing TO live.
But all this is but a suggestion of what
we can find in God, and what we can have
from God. Jesus went to God because in
him was life, and the life could become the
light of men. Jesus despoiled himself of
his glory that he might fill himself at the
central fountain of all blessing. In doing
this he made real to us what it is hard to
conceive of as a fact and power. If
tell you that in the past weeks have been
reading and re.reading the poems of Words
worth, because in them there lives and
breathes a spirit of such purity, such lofty
and inspiring faith, such sincerity, such
dutifulness, such kingly nobility, and that
at those clear fountains | have been re-
freshed and lifted up and cheered, you who
have read his Ode to Duty, and his Laoda-
mia, and his Intimations of Immortality,
will say, That is plain; that l can under
stand, but is it possible to find in such help.
fulness any suggestions of what Jesus found
in God, and of what we can find in God
Yes, it is possible; and illustrations like this
are but the suggestion of what we can have
in God. He went to God to fill himself
with the abundance of the great heart of
God, to feel the power, the love, the SYM
pathy, the pity of God.-Reiigious Herald.