The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-05-13
Pearls of Thought.

Swedenborg says: 'Those who live
wickedly, and come into heaven, gasp
there for breath, and wrthe about COM
paratively like fishes out of water, in the
atmosphere, and like animals in the re-
ceiver of an air pump, in either, the air
being exhausted"
The Hindoos, though remarkable for te-
nacious attachment to their own forms OF
faith, are very ready to admit that all forms
of worship are acceptable to God if per-
formed with sincerity of heart 1t is a
place with many DOORS" and each one
may enter in his own way.
When asked what maxim would do for
the whole of life CONTIGUOUS replied ''Never
do to others what you do not wish them to
do to you"
Money is botomless sea in which honor
and conscience and truth may be drowned.
The Gethsemane night comes before the
Easter morning.
Don't let your heart bleed over the poor
heather, while the poor Christian at home
! is starving for kindness or substantial aid.
In loving God so abundantly, manifest d
little for your fellow men. Twill be con-
sistent, and will win hearts to the church.
The world produces for every pint OF
honey gallon of gall for every dram Of
pleasure pound of pain; for every inch
of mirth an ell of moan; and as the ivy
twines around the oak, so does misery and
misfortune encompass the happy man.
Felicity, pure and unaloyed felicity, is not
plant of earthly growth her gardens
are the Skies Burton.
Flattery is often traffic of mutual mean
ness, where, although both parties intend
deception, neither are deceived, since words
that cost little are exchanged for hopes that
cost less.-Cot0n.
More bounteous run rivers when the ice
that locked their flow melts into their
waters. And when fine natures relent,
their kindness is swelled by the thaw.-
Bulwer-Lytton.
Friendship has steps which lead up to
the throne of God, though all spirits come
to the Infinite; only Love is satiable, and
like Truth, admits of no three degrees of
comparison; and a simple being fills the
heart. Richter.
To be wiser than other men is to be
honester than they; and strength of mind
is only courage to see and speak the truth.
-HdzIiH
God has placed the genius of women in
their hearts; because the works of this
genius are always works of love.-LanaGr-
tine.
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more than sharp swords; there are words,
the point of which sting the heart through
the course of a whole life.-Frederikd
Bremen.
The world is comedy to those who
think, tragedy to those who feel.-Hor-l
ace Walpole.
There is no sort of wrong deed of which
a man can bear the punishment alone; you
can't isolate yourself and say that the evil
are as thoroughly blended with each other
as the air they breathe; evil spreads as
necessarily as disease. George Eliot.
youth thou often tearest thy wings,
against the thorns of voluptuousness.
Victor Hugo.
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble,
than the holy fervor of true zeal. -Moliere.
Those who lead the service of song in
the worship of God, ought to be persons of
unquestioned piety and devotion The in
fluence of giddy or irre'igious choir lead
ing the songs of Gods house has sent many
a soul away from the sanctuary disguised
and mortified srd wounded in the house of
God. The use of an instrument may be
either hurtful or helpful. Spurgeon has no
music in his great congrega-
ton of six thousand persons; but when
they lift up their voices in song there is a
power and majesty in the melody that
moves the hearts of all who hear.--Iele-
scope
Pretty women without religion are like
lowers without perfume. Heinrich Heinz.