The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1880-03-26
God is the soul of the universe.

In the guilty train of human vices there
is no crime of deeper dye than that OF in
gratitude.
The freely only shines when on the
wing. So it is with the mind; when
once we rest we darken.
Whoever is honorable AID candid. hon.
est and courteous, is true gentleman,
whether learned or unlearned, rich or
poor.
All our earthly experiences have an
eternal result. As our spiritual life pro-
crosses on earth, our eternal mansion pro-
Sgresses.-
Beautiful lives have grown up from
the darkest places, as pure white lilies
full of fragrance have blossomed on
Shiny. stagnant waters.
l do not believe the way to merit
heaven is to make earth a hell. That
faith which would render this life a
bowling wilderness and only the ante-
room 10 an etc rnal sleep. is not OF God.
Req. g. F. Babbitt.
Religion, if it is to have any influence
upon mankind, must become to then
knowledge. 1t must be interviewer in1o
the life forces, and Become part OF the
individual.
Between the Infinite and the finite
there is, so far as the human mind mas
been able to penetrate, shoI eless ocean,
stretching out into space, kissed by the
clouds at the east, west, north and south
wherever the mind can reach.
Mind should blend with mind, and as
piration with aspiration; respect the
conscientious convictions of every per-
son, no matter what their convictions
may be. for by so doing you challenge
the love and respect of every honest
person.
Reason ever moves in advance. 1t is
the lamp sent from God 10 light man
kind through the circuitous paths OF
life, and by rejecting light little in a
glance, gi.es assurance to the traveller
that beyond the present environments
are conditions greatly to be desired.
Simple belief in God has never cured
trouble. Until we come to distinguish be-
tween creatures and children, and believe
We are not simply products of Gods skill
and power. but the real offspring of His
heart. our simple belief can produce no
agreeable feelings toward Him. - DR..
Deems.
Everything in our daily life is but
shadow of our spiritual life, and so that
feeling which we all have that we can
speak more freely to friend in the dim
twilight than in the glare of MONDAY, is
only type of the freedom that we are
meant to be led to exercise toward the
dear Friend. who darkens our surround
ings to win us more completely TO Him
self.-Hope Ledyard.
One day you will BE- pleased with a
friend and the next day disappointed in
him. 1t will be SO TO the end, and you
must make up your mind to it and not
quarrel unless for very grave cases. Your
friend, you have found out, is not perfect.
Nor are you, ard you cannot expect to
get much more than you give. You must
look for weakness, foolishness and vanity
in human nature; it is unhappy. if you
are too sharp in seeing them.
The last words of the great satirist Ra-
belais were: Il am going to take leap
in the dark; let down the curtain, the
farce is DONE" Mirabeau's farewell to
life was thus expressed: LET me die
amid the sounds of delicious music aud
the fragrance of flowers" Keats's last
words we're a poem in themselves: Il
feel the daisies growing over me-"
Burns's dying words were: Don't let
that awkward squad fire over my grave"
Chancellor Thurlow's: I'm shot, If l
don't believe I'm dying" Halter slept
after the words: 1.-The artery ceases TO
beat" and amid the growing darkness OF
mortality Goethe murmured the words,
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