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WANTED-HELP.

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IN of fourteen and sixteen, TO assist IN general
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A RELIA BILE and respectable woman, to take an
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publican office. luzo
A N apprentice at the printing busness one who
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II and o'clock or bel and halfpast In the even.
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A N honest reliable girl for general housework, ut
IN 1911 X II n W. Jul
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srn-rREAnuRY BALANCES.
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BOARDING.

CSUMMER BOARDING. Desirable, cool south
- trout rooms, with first class hotel board a. IRE;
nont House cor Indiana ave and Second 81; 40 ana
so per month for Two; parlor and bedroom 500 table
board SO JhE
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

w ANTED- Fifty boarders tgnesls) At the Bay
w Cottage dive doors from the ocean,, Pittman
ave Ocean Grove Mrs. L. n Feear. Transient or
permanent boarders will find large airy rooms and
frst-cass table. Everything hrstclass and charges
moderate, iu2O-3t
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-11-03
The Business Of the Pulpit.

The special business Of the pulpit is to
state what is The preacher announces
what he is sure of. As he does not go into
the pulpit to wash his dirty linen, he does
not go there to tell people what his doubts
are. There are other opportunities for that
If he is manly fellow--and, if he is not,
he has no business in the pulpit-he can
discuss these doubts at other times with
those who help him in the discussion. But,
speaking in general, and admitting that
there are exceptions to the statement no
man should use the pulpit for the proposing
of enigmas which he does not solve. In
deed, that is poor preaching which keeps a
congregation on tenter.hooks, even for half
an hour, while an enigma is proposed for
which solution comes at the end. The
masters of preaching state the solution first.
The pulpit announces the truth. True, it
may be the preachers business to state OPP
posing error. Then he states it fairly, and
gives it its best show, that he may confute
it the more thoroughly. But the real inves-
tigation of truth is to be pursued elsewhere.
1t is followed out in the study, or in personal
discussion, or in comparison of the best re-
suits of other investigators. 1t is only by
figure of speech that preacher affects To
carry along body of hearers, made up OF
people Of every different range of information
and ability, into real study for the first time
or the original investigation of subject
where they were in doubt when he began
The success of all public address, indeed
comes from the conviction of the speaker
1t is only in proportion as he believes what
he says that he succeeds in making his au
dience believe it, If he is in doubt, he viii
not lead them. One of the affectations Of
our time leads public speakers the othel
way. But nobody cares much what they
say. Nobody "minds." What a dreary
business it is when the preacher before yor
halts to say Z" Does not this statement ap
prove itself as true? If not, for the love o
truth, do not receive it If, tomorrow morn
ing, l find it is not truth to me, will be tn
first to unsay what have said, and to reliev
you" All Of us, in these modern days o
mock sincerity, have heard this sort o
apology for some half-hearted statement
But we have all taken care not to hear it OF
tener than was necessary. Nobody goes b
church to hear man tell what his doubt
are. If he has no convictions, he need no
stand in the pulpit at all. So much reaso
has a man OF conscience for refraining, il
the pulpit, from bringing prominently fol
ward questions which he is only learning +
answer, and doubts which he has only begu
to solye,-Rep. e. II. Hale.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-11-03
How to Look Mt II.

In all specific service for Christ there is
much of dry detail to be attended to, which
may be counted wearisome and ignoble,
when it ought to be looked at as glorious
and ennobling. In recent address to young
clergymen, DIR. c. j. Vaughan calls atten-
tion to a most suggestive antithesis in the
original form of st. Paul's words to the
Thessalonians, "Be not weary in well do
ing" The kaios and the kdkos of the Greek
there are the beautiful and the "base =
so that the injunction might read "Wax not
base in your beautiful life" Bring not
down to mere drudgery that which is a SER
vice divine. Think not OF this visiting the
sick, of this attending on hospital or mis-
sionary society committees, of this leading
of prayer-meeting exercises, of this prepar-
ing of sermons, of this writing of newspaper
articles, of this teaching in the Sunday
school, as tedious and perfunctory service;
but look at it all and always as representa-
tive work for the King Of kings and Lord of
lords. 1t is this nobler and diviner way of
viewing every duty to which servant of
Christ may be called that is illustrated by
the old writer, who has said, &" II two angels
were sent down from heaven to execute the
divine command, and one was appointed to
conduct an empire, and the other to sweep a
street, they would feel no inclination TO
change employments." He whose work is
only for itself and for himself will find his
best work drudgery. He who lives and la
bors lovingly for Jesus will make all drudg-
cry divine.
FSrsnSSn and rs seTnSpn eTgS and
The empty song repeats itself. No moref
Yea, that Is Liie make this forenoon sublime
This afternoon psalm, this night prayeI,-
And lime II conquered, and thy crown IA won.'
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-11-03
The Rage.

We see nowadays city aud country houses
which look rather like shops for the exhibi-
ton Of bric.a-brac and rich hangings than
houses in which people expect to get COM
fort. The rooms upon which some famous
upholsterer has lavished the resources of his
stock may remind one of the modern scenic
sets on the stage of theater, and there
seems to be little provision for the substan-
tial enjoyment of their occupants. Every
thing in them is harmonious enough, per-
haps, except the people. In color and COM
position they suggest picture, but the in
mates of the house are out of place as the
living figures in 1t. They don't belong
among such surroundings and they can't be
comfortable amid all this tasteful and splen-
did display. But unquestionably peoples
houses are looking better than they formerly
did, and more particularly those of people of
moderate means. For tba happiest thing
about the modern decoration is that its ef.
fects are produced rather by colors than by
materials, and very inexpensive fabrics will
serve the purpose. Cotton stuffs, as, for in.
stance, cotton flannel, will take the most
delicate dyes and yield tints of remarkable
beauty. And our own wall papers, which
are now in unexampled demand, may be
bought for a small price, and yet be of pat
terms and colors which will satisfy critical
artistic taste. Milliners and dressmakers
are full of orders, and the costly stutfs with
which the market is supplied are finding Q
ready sale. During the present month and
during November and December this activ
ity will continue and the business of flower
selling, which has grown to such magnitude
in New York within the last fifteen years, il
now beginning to feel the impetus Of the re
turn of fashion to town. Ladies of wealth
may continue to import their most elegan
evening dresses from Paris, but our homt
dressmakers are rivaling Worth in TIN
beauty of their costumes, though it may b,
said, too, that they are also equaling if they
do not exceed him in their prices.-Neu
| York Sun.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-11-03
Singing to the Old Man.

A touching incident of the last visit of
the Fiske Jubilee Singers to Washington is
related by correspondent of the Columbus,
Ohio, Dispatch The company remained in
Washington two or three weeks giving con-
certs, and during their stay at the National
hotel they unanimously paid visit to
Alexander II. Stephens, who is an invalid.
The time for the call was fixed to suit his
convenience, and his ordinarily confused
apartments were prepared for the occasion.
When the "Children " entered the room
they found quite an assembly Of the ladies
of the hotel, and Mr.. Stephens sitting in
the midst in his wheel chair" He greeted
each one with a cordial hand-shake, and
when this ceremony was over they arranged
themselves in semi-circle in front of him
and sang, Steal away to Jesus" with the
Lords Prayer. During the singing he was
deeply affected, keeping time with his feet
and looking from one to another as if lost
in wonder that such melody could proceed
from mortal lips. When they struck the
words /" Our Father" he covered his face
with his hands and ceased to beat the time.
AS they breathed this prayer in soft and al
most whispered notes, it seemed as though
they were bearing the old man on their
hearts to the throne of grace. There was
not a sound, not even the stirring Of hand,
lest the soft, melodious notes should be lost
and when they ceased, he said, "Oh, it is
wonderful never heard anything like it,"
Now" said Mr.. Stephens, II would like
to hear you sing good old revival song to
a rousing old camp-meeting tune" 1t was
easy enough to comply with this request,
and they sang not only one but several, and
they probably never had more attentive or
more deeply affected auditor. The last
piece closed with the benedictioD The
Lord bless thee and keep thee. The Lord
make his face to shine upon thee, and be gra
cious unto the. Thee Lord lift up his coun
tenance upon thee, and give thee peace
both now and forevermore. Amen" Dur
ing this the old man sat with bowed head
1t was as though the "peace that passetf
understanding had settled upon him; and
when. after a moments hush, he raised his
head and extended his hands in parting, hil
eyes were moist aud there were tears on hi
face. 1t was pleasant incident, this meet
ing of the ancient southerner and the hith
erto slaves, the more so from the fact tina
Mr.. Stephens has always been an independ
ent and practical friend of the race.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-11-03
MONTPELIER, VT, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER g. 1880

whether from heaven or earth. The home
time OF the year Is near upon us. The
altar-fres win soon be lighted the evening
lamps already glow at the center Of the
home circle and the long evenings bring
their old opportunities for intellectual and
social life. Is IL not worth while for the
home-makers and their assistants, of all de-
grees, to plan little to make these long sea
sons of indoor life as varied and attractive
as possible The wise parents will Of
course make as generous provision as they
can, in the way Of books and games and
fascinating amusements and employments
for the children. II you don't want the
boys in mischief and the girls in idleness,
you must furnish them with innocent and
normal activities. The healthful little boy
that will stay contentedly and quietly in the
house, with only his last years toys, books
that are either too old, too young, or too
stupid to interest him, and parents whose
first and last command is that he shall
"keep still, and bother nobody, is either an
angel or a simpleton-probably the latter.
A little wise provision will secure winter
garden of flowers, or some useful fancy
work for the girls--perhaps in preparation
for holiday presents; new magazine for
every month books from the public Ii.
brary box of paints or draughting imple
ments, a footlathe and set of tools, cooI
Of hens for the boys-somethiug new and
interesting for each, according to theil
tastes or inclinations. There are many
lesser things also that go to make up Q
happy home life for the children, and so fol
their elders. How many mothers forget tc
lay in supply Of nuts of various sorts foi
the winter evenings; to have bag of pop
| ping corn hung convenient to the kitcher
| fire, to give the boys regular treat x
keep always barrel of eating apples wher'
they can supply the the children's luncl
baskets and pockets 1t takes good many
things to make home, and forethought i
one of the indespensables,- s,-forethough no
merely for food and comfort, but for cul
ture, recreation, employment, and happiness
Golden Rule.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-11-03
Our Love for Christ.

Many devout soul has said al cannot
love my Saviour as I love my child. do
not, | cannot, love God more than | love
my husband. There is an intensity and
heartiness in my affection for my family
and friends entirely wanting in my atfec-
ton for divine things. l need TO be recon-
verted. l must be altogether wrong" But
the error lies in confounding things that
differ. Mans affection for man must be
more or less instructive. Mans love for
Christ must be altogether spiritual. The
instructive must be intense, because pas
sionate and confined; but the spiritual
mild, because calm and expansive. The
eagerness of the first, and the serenity of
the second belong to their respective ma
lures. The one derives its intensity from
our physical constitution, but the other its
calmness from our spiritual. Instructive
affection is born of flesh and blood, but
spiritual of the will of God and the nature
OF each corresponds to its parentage. Our
love for Christ, then, while wanting the
warmth Of our love for man, has more depth
and root in our being; while its form is less
ferveDt, its essence is more real. The one
seems to be, but the other in reality is, the
greater. Indeed, it cannot be rightly COM
pared to our love for the living. 1t resem-
dead. Death at once sanctifes and spirit.
ualizes our affection. The departed orb
into clear and perfect stars in the heaven of
memory, where the lurid fires of earth no
longer burn, where only the light of immor-
tai purity CLEANS, and the emotions they
awaken are no more intense, instructive and
passionate, but gentle, spiritual and calm.
Our love of the dead knows neither the
paug of Jealousy, nor the agony of suspicion,
nor the fear of loss, but is serene and strong
as death itself. The dead never die TO us.
They live in our hearts purified, beautiful,
exalted into minor deities whom we can rev.
erence without idolatry. 1t is, then, no ca
amity or hardship to have an invisible Sa-
viour. We can love him the better that he
is unseen. Sight assists the affection that
is akin to instinct, but not that which lives
in the spirit That which the eye sees and
the hand handles is commonplace and gross
loses in ethereality by what it gains in vital
| ity. Were God localized, he would seem to
our thought much less awful and majestic
than when he is conceived as everywhere,
like the air we breathe, the element in which
all beings live. If there were only one spot
on earth where God and my heart could
stand face to face, God would seem to my
heart much less divine than he does now
| "hoh eau meeu MN anywhere SPEAK 10
him anywhere, just as my soul has need. So
a Jesus visible to the eye, tangible TO the
touch, would be Jesus too limited and
gross to be the object of universal aud
spiritual Affections Jesus known to the
senses rather than TO the soul. And so,
while God gave us an historical Christ on
whom our faith could rest, he made the his.
tory but moment in the heart of his invis-
ible and eternal being, that we might be
compelled to love him, if we loved him at
all, in spirit and in truth.-Epangelica
Magazine.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-11-03
Why am 1 Going into the Pulpit

Why should the sermon be added TO the
worship of prayer, praise, and holy commu-
nion? The Word of God has been read /;
what would be lost were there no sermon2 ?
You are not going into the pulpit to read or
say something before the people; nor to de-
liver rhetorical Grafton; nor to utter, from
book Tor memory, a succession of true but
pointless platitudes; nor to give lecture on
morals. You are going to deliver message
from God. 70 do this you must speak di-
rectly and earnestly and faithfully 10 the peo-
pie. Earnestness does not mean rant, nor
even loudness. 1t does not mean scolding.
There may be the reality and the manifes-
tation of deep, loving, anxious earnestness,
where there are the tones and gesture of a
calm, grave and penetrating solemnity.
am persuaded that the lack of this earnest.
ness is the fatal defect OF very much Of our
preaching. One has listened to many fair
sermon, bearing on it the marks of care and
study. 1t has had good matter In II, has
been well arranged-sensibly put but it has
lacked directness. From first to last, the
preacher has been speaking before u.s. not to
us. You must not give me the idea of a
man who has, in the discharge of duty, put
together, with thought and care, something
which sensible people may listen TO, for hail
an hour or so, without any great strain OF
their ettention. You must show me thai
you feel you have commission and mes
sage, and that you are burning TO deliver
that message, as that which has an urgent
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VOL. 76.-3S64. NO. 4.

boysw and be was obliged TO tell Miss Eg.
bert the direction over twice, too, and felt
quite uneasy lest IL should not arrive at his
hotel in time.
Outside the door John turned to leave his
uncle, and looked as shy as girl, as he said,
It's all right, Uncle Abel. You've found
new bonnet, and I've found a-a--an old
friend"
Uncle Abel held his hand fast, and look
ing moment without speaking, in the
young mans eyes, said, "she's motherless
girl, john"
"Unole Abel p and John turned angrily
away, or would have done 80 If the OBTAINING
hand had not held him with a grasp which
sixty years had not weakened. "Look here,
my boy, mean no offense. None of my
blood turn Villains" he added proudly "but
you see she's young and purity and forlorn,
and may be, II you see too much of her she
might get to thinkin' more of you than
would be good for her. and IL you amt in
earnest guess it would break her heart
Shake hands with your uncle, my boy, |
mean no harm but promised Liza when
she was on her dying bed that would allps
try to give you good advice, and the last
words almost that she spoke, says she, abel,
watch over my boy"
W. uedft hluu uuCle, L Unduh yOu--lu-
deed do-for all your kindness, but could
not bear to think you should misiudge me.
| knew Amy long ago, when her parents
were both living, and she had all that
wealth could give. loved her then in a
quiet way, but | was too poor to tell her 80.
Then came reverses and death, and in her
poverty and pride the girl hid herself from
me resolutely until now She tried to earn
her bread by her accomplishments but
failed, and gladly took this means TO do so.
Now, If | can win her for my wife, shall
bring Mrs. John Dare to see you some fine
day this summer-may |, Uncle Abel 2"
So they parted, and the passers by little
dreamed of all that had been said.
"Wa'al, wa'al, if things don't turn out
queer" soliloquized Uncle Abel, homeward
bound, with band-box placed under his
seat before him. "To think how near ]
came to gettin' one of them gipsys for
Betsey. Why, she would have laughed a
week about it. And then to think that
painted pictur of a girl was making game
of me all that while. Aud then the other
one, with her gentle way, taking the trouble
to tell stupid fellow like me what was the
right thing to buy. l guess she would
make our John a good wife; and after
Betsey has passed away, there'l be nice
bit Of property coming to John, and that'n
help him on"
How pleased Aunt Betsey was, to be sure,
when the old man gave her the new bonnet
How fair and young she looked in the fresh
ribbons and soft blonde around her face
And how she laughed at the idea of wear.
ing " one of them dish.covers on her head p
Just when the country was in its June
glory, John Dare brought his bride to the
fartn-hOuqp whara ha had oDpnt manu-
childish hours, and he led her to the old ia
mliar spots, from the weir in the brook to
the grave by the orchard. But as long as
straw and ribbon may endure to keep them
both in mind how John Dare found hi:
wife, they tell the story of the time when
Uncle Abel bought Betseys bonnet-Se
lectef
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and paramount claim on my immediate
attention. You must thaw before you come
into the pulpit. 1t is no place for icicles.
Yoa must speak earnestly to my conscience,
to my hopes, to my fears-the deep yearn-
ings of my heart, 80 vague and mysterious
even to myself. You must talk TO me of my
soul, Of eternal Judgment, of heaven, of hell.
You must tell me OF God my Father, in all
the love and pity Of his Fatherhood Of Jesus
my Saviour, in all the adaptation aud sufii-
cheney aud freedom of his salvation. You
must remember that am sinner, suf.
ferer, sorrower, a dying man; 4 am fight
ing lfe's battle, and It is hard one. Gods
providence is very dark. From the varied
and inexhaustible pharmacopeia of Gods
Word, you must give me the medicines, the
auodynes, the cordials, the stimulants, which
| need.-Cdnon Miller.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-11-03
A Bright Look Ahead.

People who are always anticipating trou-
BILE are commonly like those who are on the
outlook for social snubs and Sights they
find what they look for. If half the time
were given to planning for pleasure that is
occupied In looking ahead at work and
worry, we should all be good deal happier,
The habit and kuack of making pleasant
times, instead OF waiting for them to hap
pen, is not enough studied in our homes
Unexpected delights are no more truly God,
sends than those that we earn by providing
for them-though they often seem so from
the sweet surprises they bring, and from the
natural satisfaction we all feel in extras,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-11-03
Looks One Way and Pulls the Other

He faces the shore, but he is pulling for
the ship; this is the way of those who row
in boats, and also of great many who
never trust themselves on the water. The
boatman is all right, but the hypocrite is all
wrong, whatever rights he may practice.
cannot endure Mr.. Facing -both-ways, yet he
has swarms of cousins. 1t is ill to be saint
without and devil within, to be servant
of Christ before the world in order to serve
the ends of self and the devil, while in
wardly the heart hates all good things
There are good and bad of all classes, and
hypocrites can be found among ploughmen
as well as among parsons. 1t used to be so
in the olden times, for l remember an old
verse which draws out just such character.
The man says:
III have religion Of my own.
Whstae. papist or p.Stsstsnt shslI hall no, be KNOWN
In our Lords day many followed him, but
it was only for the loaves and fishes they
do say that some in our parish don't go quite
so straight as the Jews did, for they 60 to
the churches for the loaves, and then go
over to the Baptist chapel for the fishes. l
don't want to Judge, but | certainly do
know some who, if they do not care much
for faith, are always following after charity
Better die than sell your soul to the highest
bidder. Better be shut up in the workhouse
than fatten upon hypocrisy. Whatever else
be better, let us never try to turn penny
by religion, for hypocrisy is the meanes
vice a man can come to. 1t is base
thing to call yourself Christ's horse and ye
carry the DEVILS saddle. The worst kline
of wolf is that which wears a sleeps skin
J-zebel was never 80 ugly as when she hac
finished painting her face. Above al
things, then, brother laborers, let us bt
straight as an arrow, aud true as die, and
never let US be time-servers or turn-coats
Never let us carry two faces under one hat
nor blow hot and cold with the same breath
C. II. Spurgeon.