The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-09-23
HERE AND HEREAFTER.

Hprchension.-GCor. N. Y. Times.
q HERE AND HEREAFTER.
Z We should always respect anolhcri
Ehonest convictions.
b The soul does not attain to that wi.icl
Hit docs not strive for.
Z Religion worships God, while super
Estiion proinnes that worship Seneca
8 Every flower in the heavenly garden
Twill be turned Godward, bathing its
Binls of loveliness in the glory that ex-
Scellclh.
q Iowlincss in mind is not a flower
(Which grows in The field of nature, buI
i it is planted by the finger of God in .
.3rencwed heart.
q Ruskin says the uoblcst buildings
9madc with hands for spiritual ends must
alack the perfection of grace and beauty
5unlcss lit from the lamp of sacrifice.
! There arc men who no more grasp
the truth they seem TO hold than spar.
3row grasps the message passing through
the electric wire on which it pcrches.
The best people need ailliction foi
dtrial Of their virlurc. How can we cX.
3ercisc the grace Of conicntmcnt it ali
sthings succeed well; or that of forgiv-
mess, if we have no enemies.
All power and outward honor we
should accept with fear and reluctance.
The duties Of every situation are difficult
enough, the glory consists in being true
to thcm.-Gco. +. Simmons.
Good thoughts are blessed guests,
aand should be heartily welcomed, well
fled, and much sought after. Like rose
leaves, they give II sweet smell il laid
Cup in the jar OF memory. .-Spurgeon.
We cast not water on the branches OF
Ia tree, but on the root. SO strcmgi hel
Stalh. We strengthen love, and hope.
Z and all, if VIC strengthen faith and as
surancc of Gods love in Chrst.-Sibbs
Whatever you are from nature, keen
dto 1t; never desert your own line oil
alalcnt. BE what nature intended yon
1 for, and yon will succeed; be anythne
3clsc, and you will be ten thousand times
worse than nothing. Sydney Smith.
Surely, surely, the only tru: knowl-
ledge of our 1clow-man is that which
!cnablcs us 10 feel with him which
3givcs us fine car for the hcart-pulses
THAT are beating under the mere clothes
Iof circumstances and opinion.-G George|
9Elioi.
Like morning dream, lille becomesl
3morc and more bright tine longer wei
Hive, and the reason of everything ap-|
!! !pcars more clear. What has puzzled
us before seems less mysterious and thel
crooked paths look straighter as we ap-!
3proach the cnd.-[ltichter.
Nothing in life has any meaning, cx :,
lcept rs it draws us further into God |
land presses us more closely TO him i
THE world is no better tEan complca- i
ttion of awkward riddles, or gloomyI
2store.honsc of disquiet mysteries, unless y
we look at il by the light of this simplel
ztrnih. that the eternal God is blessedlyI
Ithc last and only and OF every soul OF
/
No people have more occasion TO be-
1afraid of the approaches to pride than]
those who have made some advances mi
II pious life. For pride can grow as,
|well as our virtues and our vices, audi
'stcals upon us on all occasions. Ever,I
!gooG thought that we have, every good
action that we do, lays us open to pride, /
land exposes MS to the assaults of vanityl
land self-satisfaction.-Law's Seriousi
Call.
The Christian system is essentially
,e,hical. 1t is not mystical like thel
illindu religions, nor ceremonial, like;
Ithe Jewish, nor naturalisic, like thei
pagan, but strictly and supremelyI
lmoral. Its ordinances are few andI
simple, its worship is informal and un-.
and lis genius trans
|parently spiritual, blending of the!
lpurest emotions with The devoutcst of
DR.. George G. Lorimer.
Oar bodies, how frequently thcyl
,change; how altogether altered theyl
lbecome during The passage of a few
.brief years, so that the old man has
probably not n single particle of his
3youthfnl structure still remaining to
shim; and yet, Notwithstanding all these
3changes how immutable is memory.
5how detcrminedly does The soul main
ztain its supremacy, unearhing after
Hong years of silence and apparent for
sgelfnlncss, the experience OF lis earliest
sdays on earth.
4 We must have something to love and
Hook mp TO. Beauty and blessing follow
Z the vision, aud we arc lost in alteration
aand devotion, whether we know IL OF
Snot. 1t is life that must be lived
5cvcry day. Simple belonging to u
schnrch does not constitute Christian
Sit is only one duty of Christian. The
falheist not only robs God of the laurcls
sduc from his hand, but himself of the
Eprivi!egc aud pleasure of conliding per
kfcctly in the strength and power of an
Hother. Such a confidence leads us oui
Yof our own selishness. cultiyatine
xthe best attribute of our nature love
2for others. We look about us with q
5new fascination. Life has new mean.
king when We look upward and from the
Edepths of an overilowing heart rever-
Gently say, Father, we thank thee for all
Hth:s perfected beauty. We know there
Earo natural laws that bring natural re.
Ssnlts. But there is also law-makcr,
Ia Creator of the laws above and be.
Nyond them all, wise loving and all
Epowerful.