Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-03-05


a spoonful of real hearty love than Tor
whole ship-loads of furniture, ard all the
gorgeousness all the upholsterers III the
world can gather Holmes.
Human happiness has no perfect seeu-
rity but freedom freedom none but vlr-
the virtue none but knowledge and
neither freedom nor virtue has any viSor
or immortal hope except III the principles
Of the Christian faith, and IN the sane
tions of the Christian religion.
dent Quincy.
Leave me, q Love. which reachest but 10 dust.
.And thou. my mind. aspire To higher things:
Grow rich In that which never takeih fusi
Whatever fades, but fading pleasure brings;
Draw in thy beams. and humble all my might
To that sweet yoke where lasting freedoms he
Which breaks the clouds and opens forth the ilyht
That doth both shine and give us sight 10 see-
o take fast hold, let that light be thy guide,
In this small course which birth draws out 10
death.
And ihink how evil becometh him TO slide
Who seekeih heaven. and comes Of heavenly
Then farewell. world, thy uitermosi see.
Eternal Love! maintain thy life IN me.
SIR rhihp Sidn'y-
When man is wrong and won't admit
it, he always gets angry. C. Hdf'b"r-
ton.
Acts, looks, words. steps, form the al
phabet by which You may spell character
-Larater
As thrashing separates the wheat from
the chaf1, SO docsatflic.ion purify vlrture.
Il Bwton.
He tina. has never known adversely Is
but half acquainted with others or with
himself.-C. e. cotton.
Harsh counsels have no effect ; they
are like hammers which are always rc-
pulsed by the anyil-Uelroti"s.
The temperate are the most truly luxu-
rious. BY abstaining from most things,
it is surprising how many things we enjoy.
", q. .Sinnis.
To be in the world, and not Of it, is the
great law of our existence. If your sltI-
alton in life is such that yen cannot per
form its duties without committing SIN
against God then it is time you were ont
of it. But then you must take care moi
to confound great difficulties with abso-
lutte impossibilities. john Canning.
When consider the multitude of Gsso-
ciated forces which are diffused through
nature-when | think of that calm bal
those most powerful in themselves, most
destructive to the worlds creatures and
economy, to dwell associated together
and be made subservient to the wants of
creation, I rise from the contemplation
more than ever impressed witt. the Wis
dom, the beneficence and grandeur, be-
yond our language to express, OF the
Great Disposer of F;Waaay.
APKAYER.
In the still air the music lies unheard;
In the rough marble beauty hides unseen
To make the music and the beauty, needs
The Masters touch, the sculptor's chisel Keen
Great Master, touch us with thy skiliul hand,
Let not the music that Is in us die
| Great sculptor, hew and polish US ; nor lei,
Hidden and lost, thy form within Us lie!
Snare no, the stroke do with us as thou wilt
| Lei there be nought unfinished. broken. marred
Complete Thy purpose that We may become
| Thy perfect image, thou our God and Lord.
! -Eoncr.
The rosary and conjugation of Chris
tan virtues begins with faith and ends
with love, the one being the foundation
or root, the other the crownins glory and
bright consummate flower Of all Chris
tian excellence. .-Jersmy 1aytor.
God alone is perfect, good, beautiful,
and true, and heaven is heaven because
it is filled with the glory of His goodness
His beauty, and His truth. But wherever
there is n soul led on earth by the Splri
of God, and filled by the Spirit of Goo
with good and beautiful and true grace:
and inspirations, there is n soul which, II!
St. Paul says, is sitting in heavenly place'
with Christ Jesus-a soul which rs al
ready in heaven, though still on earth. -
Charles KinGsicy.
''The very word humanity" says Ma,
Muller, dates from Christianity. NJ
such idea, and therefore no such term
WIS found among men before Christ came
James Freeman Carkc.
The thunderbolt strikes the mountain
which has done no wrong, and spares tn
robber hid i'll its caves, who hns don
wrong. Probably God is seeking the con
version of that robber. and He strikes tn
mountain which cannot fear, that the ma
who can fear may he converted.-iWgus
tine.
Tears like rain-lrops have thousan'
times fallen to the ground and come 1T
in iiowers.-H ". Becchfr.
True repentance has double aspect
it looks upon things past with wecpln
tNt, ullil ulDil tilt Niih '"s'-'''
eye.-RObcrf .SOuth.
Always add, always walk, always pr'
ceed neither stand still, nor go back, nc
. dcviate he that standeth still, proceedet
not he goeth back that continucth not
he deviatcth that revolteth he goeth be
ter that creepeth i'll his way, than he th'
: moveth out of his way. iUgHstiac.
> Sorrow ~ SINS echo; and as the eel
!. answers the voice best where there n
broken walls and ruined buildings to +
I turn it, So is sorrow when rcyciberated |
| IL broken, ruined heart. That eye w"el
| most that looks oftencst at the Sun
1 Righteousness. PhiHp Ucnfy.
IA TRUST.
: picture memory brings to me:
look across the years. and see
Myself beside my mothers knee.
e feel her gentle hand restrain
o Nv selfish moods. and know again
il A child's blind sense OF wrong AMI pain