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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-04-20
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-04-20

miscellaneous.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-01-14
This Change Is Once for All,

The hymn says truly that grace has re-
deemed us once for all, 1t is also true that
when we choose the service of Christ, we
choose it once for all. The ideas that a man
is Gods child one day and Satan's the next !;
that he is continually vibrating between
heaven and hell cannot be successfully de-
Tended. The trouble with the people who
fall from grace every six months is that they
never had any grace to fall from. They
have never submitted themselves unto God
as those who are alive from the dead. When
the soul is welded to Christ it is forever I,
for neither death, nor life nor angels, nor
principalities, nor powers, nor things pres
ent, nor things to come, nor height, nor
depth, nor any other creature shall be able
to separate us from the love of God,
which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. The
Bible teaches that we are born into the
world as children of Satan. We need no
change to become dead in trespasses and
sins. Looking at men from Gods high and
holy law, there is none that doeth good, no
not one. They are altogether gone astray /;
they are all become filthy. Into this world
of moral degradation and death comes the
Lord Jesus with his glorious aud blessed
gospel. Those who listen to his call and
obey it receive power to become sons of
God. They pass from death to life. They
are born again. Old things pass away all
things become new, and there is no record
in Scripture that any man thus born again
is ever born the third time. Hebrews vi I:
4-6, declares plainly that it is impossible to
renew again unto repentance those who
should become partakers of the Holy Ghost
and then fall away. This passage seems to
prove that if persons do fall from grace, it
is fall into perdition, But instead of con-
tinually considering themselves as back
slidden Christians or persons who, having
been Christians, are now strangers to the
grace of God, such ones shonld think them
selves deceived in the matter of their con-
version aud work out their own salvation
with fear and trembling, knowing that it is
God that worketh in them both to will and
to do. This continual furnishing up of old
professions of religion, which is the constant
winter work of so many churches is largely
time thrown away, The slight wash that is
put on the old metal will wear off before
summer comes in and leave matters worse
than before. What is wanted is repent
ance and faith evidenced by works. A
humble conservation TO the will and work of
God with confession and putting away of
sin. A man chooses Christ once for all.
Grace redeems the man once for all. Hence
the constant injunctions to dig deep, to
build on rock, TO count the cost and other
Scriptures of like unprecedented
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-01-14
The Two Roads.

1t was New Years night. An aged man
was standing at the window. He raised his
eyes towards the deep blue sky, where the
stars were floating like white lilies on the
surface of clear, calm lake. Then he cast
them on the earth, where few more helpless
beings than himself were moving towards
their inevitable goal-the tomb. Already he
had passed sixty of the stages that lead to
it, and he had brought from his Journey
nothing but errors and remorse. His health
was destroyed, his mind unfinished, his
heart sorrowful, and his old age devoid of
comfort. The days of his youth rose up in
a vision before him, and he reached the
solemn moment when his father had placed
him at the entrance of two roads, one lead
ing into a peaceful, sunny land, covered
with fertile harvest, and resounding with
soft, sweet songs while the other conducted
the wanderer into deep, dark cave, whence
there was no issue, where poison flowed in
stead of water, and where serpents Missed
aud crawled. He looked towards the sky,
and cried out, in his anguish "Oh, youth,
return Oh, my father, place me once more
at the cross-way of life, that | may choose
the better road !" But the days of his youth
had passed away, and his parents were with
the departed. He saw wandering lights
float over dark marshes, and then disappear.
Such" he said "were the days of my
wasted life !" He saw a star shoot from
heaven, and vanish in darkness athwart the
church-yard. Behold an emblem of my.
self !" he exclaimed; and the sharp arrows
of unavailing remorse struck him to the
heart. Then he remembered his early COM
panions, who had entered life with him, but
who, having trod the paths of virtue and in
dustly, were now happy and honored on this
New Years night. The clock in the high
church tower struck, and the sound, falling
on his ear, recalled the many tokens of the
love of his parents for him, their erring son ;
the lessons they had taught him the pray
ers they had offered up in his behalf. Over
whelmed with shame and grief he dared no
longer look towards that heaven where they
dwelt. His darkened eyes dropped tear, and
with one despairing effort, he cried aloud
Come back my early days Come back !"
And his youth did return; for all this had
been dream, visiting his slumbers on New
Years night. He was still young; his
errors were only dream. He thanked God
fervently that the time was still his own !;
that he had not yet entered the deep, dark
road leading to the peaceful land where
sunny harvests save. Ye who linger on the
threshold of life, doubling which path to
choose, remember that when years shall be
passed, and your feet shall stumble on
the dark mountain, you will cry bitterly,
but cry in vain, "Oh, youth, return Oh,
give me back my early days ~-Jean Paul
Richter.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-01-14
VictOria's ReprO0f.

Queen Victoria was noted in early years
for her punctuality, and was apt to be i'm
patient with those who were negligent as to
time. She administered once courteous
but severe reproof to the Duchess of Sunder-
land, who, as the mistress of robes, was
obliged to be near the queen on public oc-
casions. The duchess was a little careless
in matters requiring promptness. One day,
when public ceremony was appointed for
given hour, the queen and her ladies had
gathered in her palace, and the duchess
alone was missing. The queen grew i'm
patient, and, as the hour appointed passed,
she was about to enter her carriage without
her first lady. The duchess suddenly ap-
peared, breathless with haste, and STAN
mered an excuse. "My dear Duchess" said
the queen, :" think you must have a bad
watch" Unloosing from her neck the chain
of magnificent watch, she fastened it
round the neck of the duchess. The reproof,
though conveyed in an elegant present, was
overwhelming. The proud duchess colored,
bit her lip, aud dropped hot tear The
next day she resigned her office. The re-
slgnation was not accepted, and from that
time the duchess was never known to be
second late in keeping an engagement.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-01-14
Answers to InanirieS.

al. c." can tell when book is Svo,"
"12mo," or " lGmo,' by noticing how many
leaves there are between certain numbers,
which are usually placed at the bottom of
every eighth leaf if the book is an Svo,
every twelfth leaf if it is l2mo etc.
In regard to why the 4th of March was
chosen for Inauguration day, the Cottage
Hearth says " 1t was for the reason that
the date seldom occurred on Sunday. But
thrice during our history has the Inaugural
tion day fallen on that day The first was
the second inaugural of James Monroe, the
fifth president, March 4th, 1921. The sec
ond was when Zachary Taylor was made
president, March 4th, lS49. Being Sunday,
his Inauguration did not take place until the
next day, and the same was true of the in
auguration of President Hayes in March,
1877. This will happen three times during
each century,or one year after every seven leap
years. Except when passing from one CEN
tury to another, there is slight variation,
as will be observed in the following dates of
the past and future inaugurations of the
first two centuries of the republic: March
4th, 1921; March 4th, 1919; March 4th,
1877; March 4th, 1917; March 4th, 1915
March 4th, 1873" If this is not a salts
factory reason, Byron might find con.
tent in thinking it the result of compro-
mise, as st. Patrick's day is said to have
been, one party believing him to have been
born on the Sth, the other on the 9th but
not being able to agree, the dates were
added and they celebrate the 18th.
LET " b. B." imagine two circumferences
before him, placed one within the other,
the first horizontal or "level," the other in
clined from perpendicular to the first, at
an angle of 23t0. The first represents the
suns apparent path through the heavens,
and the other the earth's equator extended
to the sky. These circumferences will cut
each other in two points, called the equi-
noxes. The sun appears to be travelling on
the horizontal circumference, and twice each
year, in his apparent journey north and
south, crosses the " line" or point of COLI
tact. There is about as much reason to con-
clude that the suns crossing this imaginary
line will cause slime storm" as to think
that peas planted in the " old Of the moon
(or new, which ever way you dreamed) will
"run to blows"
OK the condition of alternating animals
when awakening from torpor, the weight of
authority seems to be in favor of their com.
ing out, as one writer suggests, like some
farmers cattle, spring poor" although many
old hunters stoutly affirm the contrary,
citing as proof instances which have come
under their personal observation, claiming
that animals of the bear family are fat ON
first appearing, but soon lose this flesh in
their lively search for food. Concerning
this point one authority says "All hiber-
mating animals do not hibernate alike.
Some, preparatory to Information, take on
inside fat only, like frogs and do not show
it, Others, like bears, take on muscular
fat which is slowly absorbed during their
torpid state, but at the same time assume a
dropsical condition which DISCUSSES their loss
of flesh"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-01-14
German Schools.

A writer in late number of Good Com
pany gives the following interesting account
of the methods and progress of education in
Germany;
"The rapid progress which the children
make in school hours justifies the govern
ment in shortening the school day. The
primary schools open at seven in the morn
ing. They are dismissed for the day half
an hour after the American child begins his
studies. The older the class, the more hours
are required, until for the very Oldest the
number of hours in the school day is about
equal to our own. But where the day short
ems, the term lengthens. Two and a half
hours Of daily stuey will hurt no comriou
child of seven years, which is the minimum
age for admission, though he be kept at it
the year round. Consequently the primaries
have but few weeks vacation, two if we
remember rightly, in the whole year, and
that is not for their own sake but for that
of their teachers. The older the pupils, the
longer the school days and the longer the
vacation, which reaches its utmost length
with university students. The reach of the
pupils attainments testifes to the soundness
of the management.
A German common school has about as
high grade as an American high school.
The recitations showed mastery of the sub
ject. The pupils were all under sixteen, but
in addition to all that our common schools
teach, knew the rudiments of two languages
besides their mother tongue, English and
French. They were proficient in algebra
and geometry and the elements of chemistry.
The latter science turned them into enthusi-
asts. One boy actually got on the top of
his desk to see the experiment, and what to
an American was still more wonderful, was
not scolded for it, but called to order with
the rest of his classmates after the interest
ing phase of the experiment had passed.
A system which educates its pupils so
highly justifes itself by success. Its lead
ing features seem to be these care not to
overtax the children short school days !;
easy positions on the seats, and an atmos-
phere of freedom so that the mind works
easily in harness short vacations for young
scholars, to avoid that mental backstitching
by which half that is learned in term is
forgotten in a long vacation; an economical
use of every moment of school hours, SO
that while the child is in school he is in
structed and not left to himself and teach
ing, wherever possible, not from books but
from the thing itself. To such an extent
is this carried that though every one else
must pay his way, children in the company
of a teacher enter free, botanical gardens,
museums of natural history, and scientific
collections the teachers making use of these
to instruct their pupils through the eye."
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-01-14
Love Of Children.

Those who love children are not those
who merely love the pleasure they can get
from children; those love, not the children,
but that pleasure, and the moment it ceases
to be pleasure, then farewell to the children.
Those who really love children love all
about them-the trouble and the teasing
they make, the washing and wiping aud
worrying; they do not tire with their fret
ting, they are not disgusted with their care,
they are not made nervous by their bawl-
ing; they take them in their entirety. 1t
never occurs to them to say that these things
are dsagreeable, for, in reality, the agree
able things, the velvet cheeks, the exquisite
mouth with its little pearls, the perfect eyes,
the opening soul, the charming intelligence,
the constant sense of the creation of new
hymn going on under the eyes, the receptiv-
ity of love, the thing of love, all so far over
balance anything that is not in accord with
them as to put it entirely out of sight and
mind.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-01-14
Almost Saved.

A man is drowning He fell off the pier
head into the sea and look you can see his
head just above the waves. There he has
caught hold of the rope those men have
thrown to him. Now he has it No; he
has missed it. All that huge wave has car
ried him further out. Nothing can save him
now. o, if he had but caught the rope
when he was so near it "Aud he so near
being saved - says one honest fellow, dash
ing tear from his eye. "Why, the rope
fairly touched his hand" Aye, that made
it all the worse; to think of his being
drowned, after all, when he was almost
saved Almost saved Do you not hear
that cry from another world ? al was once
very near being saved. had almost made
up my mind to accept of Christ, but did not
do it, and now it is too late. Lost lost !
and forever o, if might go back to earth
again and hear once more of Jesus D, that
had come to him then, when | might have
come ,"-Selected
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-01-14
A Living God.

Did you ever, ask you, hear religious
man say, as years went on, that his religion
had disappointed him? Nay the life of our
God is continued even now upon earth; and
where that life is, there is the full unending,
irresistible power by which God will lead us
from strength to strength, until at length
we come to appear before our God in Zion.
We worship no absent God. We serve no
lifeless abstraction. We devote ourselves to
no mere idle idea. We are buoyed up by no
mere inflated enthusiasm. We serve God
living-a God present-a God who loves-a
God who acts-a God who bids us trust him
to the uttermost, as we patiently pursue the
path from whose end, even now, he is beck
oning to us, whispering to us the while, as
our minds are dark, and our hearts are cold,
and our fears are great, these rich words of
most abundant promise, Il have yet many
things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear
them now."-Cdnon Wabertorce.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-01-14
TOlling the Bell.

In an inland circuit church the religious
interest had declined, until, at the advent of
an unpopular preacher, it became impossible
to obtain congregation. The minister,
however, went to the chapel at the ap-
pointed hour of service; but one morning
even the sexton failed to appear. What to
do -? To retire without some effort were
cowardce. To pray were weakness. After
a moment of thought the preacher advanced
to the bell-rope, and after ringing the usual
peal, began to toll. The villagers, unaware
OF death in the community, hastened, one
by one, to inquire the name of the deceased.
In answer to their repeated questions the
preacher gravely replied, as he continued to
toll: "The church is dead. am ringing
its knell" The next Sabbath congrega
tion assembled, and the funeral of the dead
church was never heidi Western Advocate.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-01-14
Flowers on the Table.

Set flowers on your table-a whole nose
gay if you can get it, or but two or three
or single fiower-a rose, pink, daisy,
and you have something that reminds you
of Gods creation, and gives you a link with
the poets that have done it most honor.
Flowers on the morning table are especially
suited to them. They look like the happy
wakening of the creation they bring the
perfume of the breath of nature into your
room they seem the very representative
and embodiment of the every smile of your
home, the graces of good morrow; proofs
that some intellectual beauties are in our
selves or those about us, some Aurora (if we
are SO lucky as to have such a companion)
helping to strew our life with sweetness, or
in ourselves some masculine wilderness not
unworthy TO possess such companion or
unlikely to gain her,-Leigh Hunt.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-01-14
Nhe efneside.
A BLIND SPINNER.

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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-01-14
A Beautiful Story.

young man, who had been on three
days debauch, wandered into the reading.
room of hotel where he was well known,
sat down, and stared moodily into the street
Presently little girl of about ten years
came in and looked timidly about the room,
She was dressed in rags, but she had a
sweet, intelligent face that could scarcely
fail to excite sympathy. There were five
persons in the room, and she went to each
begging. One gentleman gave her Eve.
cent piece, and she went to the gentleman
spoken of, and asked him for penny, add.
ing, 81 haven't had anything to eat for a
whole day" The gentleman was out of hui
NOR, and he said, Grossly, Don't bother
me; haven't had anything to eat in three
days" The child opened her eyes in shy
wonder, and stared at him fol moment,
and then walked slowly towards the door.
She turned the knob, and then, after hesi-
tating few seconds, walked up TO him, and,
gently laying the five cents on his knee,
said with a tone of true grlish pity in her
voice, If you haven't had anything to eat
for three days, you take this, and go and buy
some bread. Perhaps | can get some more
somewhere" The young man blushed to
the roots of his hair, and, lifting the little
girl in his arms, he kissed aer two or three
times in delight. Then he took her to the
persons in the room, and to those in the cor.
ridors and the office, and told the story and
asked contributions, giving, himself, all the
money he had with him. lie succeeded in
raising over $40, and sent the little one on
her way rejoicing.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-01-14

But pupil should be taught to follow
reasoning when listening, as well as when
reading, which of course cannot be done If
the book is always in use. And so with
the shorter problems, the class may recite
without their books; and even with long
problems, while one is explaining with book
in hand, the class may be taught to follow
reasoning by listening, and quickly detect
any false statements.
Such are only few hints for teaching
arithmetic No rules can be made to meet
the wants of every class, but true teacher
can make forms and rules as circumstances
demand.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-01-14

The CITIZENS of Colorado take an extra
ordinary personal interest in the public
schools. The enrolment for 187S79 in
Denver has been 2,700, the number Of visits
paid to the schools during that time by
members of the board has been 1903, and
the number of visits paid by parents and
Others 3,2S3, Last term it is recorded the
children of the wealthy Senator Hill were
contentedly seated beside some negro chill
dren of poor and laboring parents. The
school system is excellent, the teachers most
thoroughly competent.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-01-14
Effects OF Tobacco.

A British physician, observing the large
number of boys under fifteen years of age
on the street with cigars and pipes in their
mouths, was prompted to examine the
breath of this class of smokers, and for that
purpose selected thirty-eight boys between
the ages of nine and fifteen. In twenty-five
of these cases he found various disorders OF
the circulation and digestion, palpitation of
the heart and more or less marked taste
for strong drink. In twelve there was fire..
quent bleeding of the nose, and twelve had
slight liberation of the mouth, caused by
tobacco. The doctor treated them for their
ailments, but with little effect until the
habit OF smoking was discontinued, when
breath and strength were soon restored.
The effect of tobacco in creating taste for
strong drink is unquestionably very great.
If the testimony of some tobacco-users aud
medical men is of any weight, one OF the
most radical methods of keeping the young
from being led to intemperate drinking is
to deny them tobacco.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-01-14
"Only the Chiseling,Y

A Christian mother lay dying. Beside
her a loving daughter stood, smoothing from
the death damp brow the matted hair. Pro.
longed suffering had made deep lines ON the
once beautiful face; but still there rested
upon those features calm, peaceful express
sion, which nothing but a hope in Jesus
could give. Tears fell upon the pallid face
from eyes that were closely watching the
changing of the countenance." Conscious
of the agony that caused them to fall, the
mother, looking heavenward whispered,
" Patience, darling, il is only The chiseiing."
Reader, the Master Sculptor seeth not as
man seeth." There are many deformities
that must needs be chiseled off before thou
canst find place in the gallery on high.