The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-01-28
Pearls of thought.

Sin has great many tools, but lie is
the handle that fits them all.
Difficulties are the stones out of which
| all Gods houses are built.--F. W. F.ber.
Trust man to be good and true, and if
he is not, your trust will tend to make him
such.-Mdx Muller.
Surprising all the great points of atheism
were formed into kind of creed, | would
fain ask whether it would not require an
infinitely greater measure of faith than any
set articles which they so violently oppose.
addison.
Nothing is ever done so as to really please
our Great Father, unless we would also
have done it though we had had no Father
to know of it.--John Ruskin
1t is a great misfortune to have fretful
disposition. 1t takes the fragrance out of
ones life, and leaves only weeds, where a
cheerful disposition would cause flowers to
bloom The habit of fretting is one that
grows rapidly unless it be sternly repressed
and the best way to overcome it is to try
always TO look on the cheerful side Of
things.
Talk Of science as being irreigious,
atheIstic Science is creating new idea
of God. 1t is due to science that we have
any conception at all of a living God. If
we do not become atheists one of these
days under the maddening effect of Prot
estantsm it will be..due to science, because
it is dsabusing us ofxhideous illusions that
tease and embarrass us, and putting us in
the way OF knowing how to reason about
the things we SEQ. B. Fr0thtnghlm.
Do not suffer yourself to be hurried
away by the impetuosity OF your passions,
but in all your pursuits have regard to
justice, and in all your speculation let truth
be your aim. Whatever is agreeable and
consonant to thy system, 0 Universe, is so
to me. Nothing is either premature or too
late, in my apprehension of things, which
is seasonable to nature and conducive to
the good of the whole -MarcuS Aureltus.
1t is not for him who accepts the spirit
ual Interpretation Of life and nature to af
firm or fear any real antagonism between
the world within us and the world without.
The work of nature displayed in
all these forms of being is not merely anal
ogous to the divine word the work of ma
ture is the divine word. DR.. E. H. Cha
pin.
The reason why the men of the world
think so little of Christ is, they do not look
at him. Their backs being toward the sun,
they can see only their own shadows, and
are therefore, wholly taken up with them
selves, while the true disciple, looking on
ly upward, sees nothing but his Saviour,
and learns to forget himself. -Payeon.
The bird of wisdom flies low and seeks
her food under hedges; the eagle himself
would be starved if he always scared aloft
and against the sun. The sweetest fruit
grows near the ground. W S Ldndor.
The slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient.
if it produce amendment; the greatest is
insufficient, if it do not.-Coiton.
Beauty, Gods handwriting. - Hosea
Batiou
Fame, the perfume of heroic deeds. -
Socrates
Here is paragraph from the Congrega-
tonalist which we wish every Christian |
man would read, and then we know some |
will blush for shame: "a smutty -tongued |
disciple is more the Devils follower than
Christ's." Of all abominabe things is
man who claims to be a Christian going
round telling smutty obscene stories, and
yet some do it.
One thing wanted in these times is
Keen realization of the difference between
sunday religion and daily religion and
conduct accordingly. The difference is
,reat Sunday religion is best dress;
laily religion is a working suit. Sunday
eligion is put on; daily religion is an out
,rowth. Sunday religion is a fashionable
orm; daily religion is real necessity.
sunday religion is a compromise with con-
cience; daily religion is hunger of the
cart. A true religious life is not matter
great occasional performances, but of
lcessant little rightnesses