Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-09-01
Gems OF Thought.

Philip Henry said: "There are two
things we should beware of-that we never
be ashamed of the gospel, and that we never
be shame to it.
FALsEuooD, like poison, will generally be
rejected when administered alone but when
blended with wholesome Ingredients, NAV
be swallowed unperceived.- Whateiy.
Whoever looks for friend without imper-
fections will never find what he seeks. We
love ourselves with all our faults, and we
ought to love our friends in like manner.
There is portion of our time that is our
time, and the rest Gods; there is no portion
of money that is our money, aud the rest
Gods money. 1t is his; he made it all,
gives it ALL and he has simply trusted it to
us for his service. A servant has two pur-
ses, the masters and his own but we have
only one.-uonod.
] make bold to say, that as much delight
may emanate from the pulpit on an arrested
audience beneath it, as ever emanated from
the boards of thester-ay, aud with as
total disjunction of mind, too, from the
essence of the habit of religion. A religion
of taste is very different thing from a
religion of conscience.-T Thomas Chalmers.
No one has any right to consider himself
a Christian who deliberately disobeys Gods
least command, or willfully disregards the
least injunction, if there is any least /" but
there are multitudes, who really are born of
God who are daily cheated into sin. OF
course it is their own fault They do not
enough consult their chart they trust too
much TO their own heart, lean too much on
theirown understanding, and become blinded
and bewildered thereby.
| When it rules right royalty over the con.
science and the life, it crowns us, and we
wear it as our diadem of praise. But how
prone we are TO wear it as our personal
adornment; as something which we have
wrought out and protected, and so make il
our crown of pride, to draw with it the
admiration and applause of the crowd
Hence all our priestly ambitions and all the
selfish motives by which the rites of worship
have been made algow with strange FREE
II. Sears
The showers which fell thousand years
ago watered the earth and made it fruitful
for the men then living. They cannot nov
be gathered up and made available for us
They did not constitute reser yor for tn,
supply of future generations. In like man
ner the unrecorded teachings of Christ auG
his apostles did their work. They were no
designed for our instruction. 1t is as impos
sible to learn what they were as it is Il
gather up the leaves which adorn and enricl
the earth when Christ walked into the gar
den of Gethsemane.-Dr Hodge.
In a late charge, the Bishop of Durham
said; "ln visit, which / once made
when young Clergyman, to the churches o
Belgium, 80 remarkable for the grandeu
and elaborate carving of their pulpits, m,
Alteration was especially attracted by on
well suited TO enforce solemn lesson o.
every one who might occupy it. Ther
arose from the back of it gigantic fgur
of death, stretching its gaunt skeleton foru
over the head of the preacher, aud holdin
in one hand scythe, and with the othe
; presenting SCROLL on which was inscribed
Hasten thou to gather in thy harvest, for
must soon reap mine Yes it is the bre'
!, ity of the opportunity and the inestimabl
interests at stake which render the mini
terial office of such urgency that no seaso
: may be missed, no effort spared, in orde
that it may accomplish its work."