Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-03-26

| No love in all the world for comforting,
| Nor any path but holowly did ring,
Where .lust 10 dust" the love from life dsjOined ,
| And If, before these sepuchres unm0ving,
! stood alone las some fOrsaken lamb
Goes beating up the moors IN weary deatthl.
I know d voice would sound, Daughter. l am.
can suffice for heaven and not for earth:"
-Nrs. Brocniny.
The charm of one character often lies
in trait which is wholly undeveloped in
another in n peculiar refinement or full
ness of one part of the nature Thus, in
fruits, the mere husk or film becomes the
luscious peach or fragrant mace.-Rus-
Kim
The humble man, though surrounded
with the scorn and reproach of the world,
is still III peace, for the stability of his
peace resteth not upon the world, but
upon God.-7h0mas a hen,pis.
We need not ask, will the true, pure,
loving, holy man be saved?" for he is
saved he has heaven it is in him now.
He has a part of his inheritance now, and
he is soon to possess the WHOLE ".
RObertson.
THE PILLAR OF THE CLOUD.
Lend kindly light amid tn encircling gloom.
Lead thou HE on
The night IL dark, and am far from home
Lead Thou me onl
Keep Thou my feet do not ask to see
The distant scene,-one step enough for me.
was not ever thus, nor prayed that Thou
Shouldst lead me on.
| loved TO choose and see my path, but now,
Lead Thou me on
loved the garish day. and spite Of fears,
Pride ruled by will remember not past years
So long Thy power hath blessed me- sure it still
Der moor and fen, DER crag and torrent ill
The night is gone;
And with the morn those angel faces smile
Which have loved long since and lost awhile.
John n. NsirHan-
A man should fear when he enjoys
only what good he does publicly. is it
not the publicity, rather than charity,
that he loves III ". Beecher.
There is no worship where there is no
Joy. For worship is something more than
either the fear of God or the love of Him.
1t is delight in Him. ". Fa6er.
Envy, like the worm, never runs but to
the fnirest fruit; like a cunning blood
hound, it singles out the fattest deer in
the herd. Abraham's riches were the
Philistines' envy, and Jacobs blessing
bred Esau's hatred.-J Beaumont.
1t were desolate thing indeed to for
bid the love of earth, if there were moth
ing to fill the vacant space in the heart.
But it is just for this purpose that the
sublimer affection may find room a: the
lower is to be expelled.-F W. Robert
son.
Thelasr words of the great satirist
Rabelais 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 mo die
amid the sound Of delicious music and the
fragrance of flowers" Keats's last words
were poem in themselves: 81 feel the
daisies growing over me-" Burns dying
words we're: ''Dinna let the awkward
squad fire over my grave" Chancellor
Thurlow's: I'm shot, if l don't be-
lieve I'm dying" Hnller slept after the
words 1.-The artery ceases to be at, and
amid the growing darkness of mortality
Goethe murmurel the words. more
Light"
No man can honestly or hopefully ask
to he delivered from temptation. unless
he himself is honestly and firmly deter
mined to do the best he can to keep out
of it, But i'll modern days the first aim
of all Christian parents is to place their
children i'll circumstances where the
temptations (which they are apt to call
opportunities may be as great and
many rs possible, where the sight and
promise Of ''all these things in Satans
gift may be brilliantly near, and where
the act of falling down to worship me"
may he partly concealed by the shelter,
and partly excused, as involuntary, by
the pressure Of the concurrent crowd