The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-03-11
Pearls of Thought.

Belief is not in our power, but truthful
ness is-Muria EdgeworM.
If the end of one mercy were not the
| beginning of another, we were undone.--
Philip Henry.
Those are the best Christians who are
| more careful to reform themselves than to
censure others Fuller.
Mans highest aspirations should be for
| objects and ends in another and higher
sphere of existence.
As charity covers so modesty prevents,
| a multitude of sins.
As every lord giveth certain livery to
his servants, charity is the very livery of
Christ. Our Saviour, who is the Lord
above all lords, would have His servants
known by their badge, which is love-
Latimer.
Since 1877 the number of churches in
the Universalist denomination has increased
from $50 to 739, and the membership from
80, DAT to 38, 04S, while the value of church
property has shrunk from S7,465, 495 to
Sc, 1857, 092. The Sunday-school has fallen
from 60,75 in 1878 to So, l51, and the
number of colleges and academies is reduced
from IA to H..
In an eastern city, not long ago, Sister
of Charity was dying, and at last from a
stupor she opened her eyes and said at
is strange; every kind word that | have
spoken in life, every tear that have She'd
has become living flower around me, and
they bring to my senses an incense ineffa-
ble"
1t may be in the highest and purest mo-
ments OF our Joy that we feel ourselves
enwrapped and linked with the imperish-
able. When love is at its fullest, when
the vision of truth shines clearest, in the
hours when life is most significant, most
precious,-we come into great calm and
peace. We know that good is at the heart
of all. And as the memory of those high
moments is retained as our law and inspi
ration through all less exalted moods, it
approves itself worthy by working into the
fibre of character a strain of blended con-
stancy and hope, stadfast, serene, invinci-
G.. O Merriam.
Nature has written letter of credit on
some mems faces which is honored where
ever it is presented
Poverty may excuse shabby coat, but
it is no excuse for shabby morals.
Washinton GLADDEN. says that some peo-
pie are quite too submissive to what they
call the "will of God" More grit and less
would keep them in better cir
cumstances
Faith dies when charity ceases to feed
its flame, and strength decays just in pro-
portion as cheerful hope fails to quicken
the energies OF the mind.
As the dress of one who has passed |
several hours in garden retains somewhat
Of the perfume of the flowers, so person
who spends much time in the company OF |
The good will exhale from his person the |
odor of virtue.
No man ought to complain if the world
him as he measures others. 10
measure one with his own yardstick is hard,
hut it is fair.
i. No person can be 30 feeble or so poor
that he has not duty to perform; which,
being performed, makes him one with the 4
highest and greatest. 4
'Deism seemsto me-" said George Eliot \
few years ago to friend, ''the most in
coherent of systems, but to Christianity 1
eel no objections but its want of evil
lence :" sentence which packs into a
nut shell the intellectual attitude of much
modern thought on the subject of religion.
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