The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-02-18

| With safety TO nlHlselt, Is hOl man.
| An individual is II sacred marx,
Not TO be pierced in play or in the dark"
| -Cowper.
A smile is the bay window of the human
heart.
ga pure heart penetrates heaven and
hell. y Thomas RtnipiS
Human nature is so constituted that all
see and Judge better in the affairs of others
than in their OWN.
1t is with youth as with plants; from the
first fruits they bear we learn what may be
expected in future.
"More things are wrought by prayer.
| Than the world dreams of."-Morte d Arthur
go how good thing and how peaceable
| it is to be silent of others, nor to believe all
that is said, nor easily to report what one
has heard. "-Th0n,as KemptS
"Sow love, and ste its fruitage pure
sow grain, and reap its harvest bright
Sow sunbeams on the rock and moor,
And find harvest-home OF light
Never will seek or receive private, in
dividual salvation never will | enter into
final peace alone, but for ever and ever,
and everywhere, | will live and strive for
the universal redemption of every creature
throughout all the worlds. buddhist Lit
argy.
The mind of man is wonderful store
house, and the duty of every one is to
gather up and distribute, so that future
generations may be blessed by knowledge
that we lived upon the planet earth; and
while living, we gave to the world in return
for that life all that could be CLEANED from
nature laboratories
All thinking beings have been made one
for the other they owe patience one toward
another, for we have one and the same ma
ture. We are made for cooperation, and
to act against one another is contrary to
nature. The good man remembers that
every rational being is his knsman.-MLr-
Gus Aurelsus
When the commonplace eve must all
dien transforms itself suddenly into the
acute consciousness, 81 must die"-and
soon, then death grapples us and his fin
gers are cruel; afterward he may come
to fold us in his arms as our mother did,
and our last moment of dim earthly dis
corning may be like the first. -Middle-
march.
Verify he ,has the highest condition on
earth who best serves his fellow men with
what he is and what he has. Napoleon |,
once in the street very meekly gave way to
heavily laden sack bearer, and in earnest
tones said to his surprised attendants,
sRespect the burden" Yes, if all had felt
so we should see different state of things
in this world.
Hearts, more or less, most of us have,
but we keep them so close cased and pad
locked, we wear an outside so hard and
dry, that little or none of the love that
NAV be within escapes to gladden. those
around us. And so life passes without any
of the sweetening to society that comes
when affection is not only felt but ex-
pressed.
There is nothing that can meet the wants
of human nature as the Gospel of Jesus
Christ. 1t touches the tenderest cords of
the troubled heart, making it glad 1t
sings to the sorrowful in a key that bruised
spirit can join the harmony. 1t gives a
healthy tone to an impulsive boys's life,
and it can steady the strong man in the
race of life.
The only instant when man has anything |
sublime about himis when, PROSTATE before |
the Invisible, he makes an offering OF his |
own will and his wisdom, desiring to be |
guided only to that which is best and wlsest
PRAYER is the appeal from the ttuctuatlng
incomprehensible aspect of this life, to
Him who changes not None but they who
are sinking under some of the infinitely va
ried forms of human need and human weak
ness can tell the strong consolation of TAX
ing refuge from their perplexities with One
'swho knoweth all things, and to whom all
hearts are open"