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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-01-25
Secret OF a True Life.

DR.. Arnold of Rugby gives in one of his
letters an account of sanity sister. For
twenty years, through some disease, she was
confined to a kind of crib; never once could
abe change her posture for all that time.
" And yet" says DR.. Arnold, and think
his words are very beautiful, az never saw
a more perfect instance of the spirit of
power and love and of sound mind. In
tense love, almost to the annihilation of sell
fishness; daily martyrdom for twenty
years, during which she adhered to her early
formed resolution of never talking about
herself thoughtful about the very pins and
ribbons of my wife's dress, about the MAX
ing of dolls cap for child but of her.
sef-save as regarded her improvement in
all goodness--wholly thoughtless enjoying
everything lovely, graceful, beautiful, high
minded whether in Gods works or mans,
with the keenest relish; inheriting the
earth TO the very fullness Of the promise; (;
and preserved through the very valley Of the
shadow of death from all fear or impatience,
or from every cloud of impaired reason
which might mar the beauty of Christ's
glorious work. May God grant that
might come but within one hundred degrees
of her place in glory Such life was
true and beautiful. But the radiance of such
life never cheered this world by chance.
A sunny patience, a bright-hearted self-for-
getfulness, sweet and winning interest in
the little things of family intercourse, the
divine luster of Christian peace, are not
fortutous weeds carelessly towering out of
the life garden. 1t is the internal which
makes the external. 1t is the force residing
in the atoms which shapes the pyramid. 1t
is the beautiful soul within which forms the
crystal of the beautiful life without. There
are exquisite shells within the seattle shell
Of the nautilus, many chambered, softly
curved, pearl-adorned, glowing with i'm
prisoned rainbows. There are ugly shells
within the sea--rude, dirt-colored, uusightly
clam-shells. But the shells are as the fishes
within. So life will be what we make it
nautilus-shells or clam-shells. If we would
have our life true and beautiful, then we
must be true and beautiful. There is no
other secret. How can we be thus? There
is Scripture that answers the question
"Behold, stand at the door, and knock If
any man hear my voice, aud open the door,
| will come in to him, and will sup with
him, and he with me-
BE what thou seemest live thy creed;
Hold up to earth the torch divine
BE what thou prayest 70 be made;
Let the great Masters steps be thine
Sow love, and taste its fruItage pure;
Sow peace. and reap its harvest bright;
Sow Hunbeams on the rock and moor,
AnAA and hurs hapt Of lrns
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-01-25
Useless Expenditure.

While every girl and woman should justly
take pride in her own adornment and that
of the home, she should use her own judg-
ment and not buy just because thing is
cheap. Get what you need, and before buy
ing think whether you really need the ar
ticle. 1t is probably pretty tride in dress,
in furniture; but what solid benefit will it
be to you Or it is some luxury for the
table, that you can as well do without.
Think, therefore, before you spend your
money. Or you need new carpet, new
sofa, new chairs, new bedstead, or new dress |;
you are tempted TO buy something little
handsomer than you had intended, and while
you hesitate the dealer says to you, It's
only triAe more, and see how far prettier
it is" But before you purchase stop to
think. Will you be the better a year hence
much less in old age, for having squandered
your money? Is it not wiser to lay by
something for rainy day ?" All these lux
uries crafty you only for the moment you
soon tire of them, and their only permanent
effect is to consume your means. 1t is by
such little extravagances, not much separ-
ately, but ruinous in the aggregate, that the
great majority of families are kept COM
paratively poor. The first lesson to learn is
to deny yourself useless expenses; and
the first step toward learning this lesson
is to think before you spend.- Christian at
Work
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-01-25
MONTPELIER, VT, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25 1882.

manufacturer or future artisan but in the
next grade the road should divide. A very
few schools will suffice to train the future
collegians of the country, and they should
be adapted specially TO that end. The great
majority of our educational institutions, for
the great majority Of our people, will teach
the things which the great majority are en-
gagged about-things related to the useful
arts as the classics are related TO culture"
This would seem to be simple, rational,
and easily accomplished solution of the diff
fculty. 1t is not so easy as one might
think. 1t is for the interest of the colleges
to have the money derived from the tut
tion of those who do not want classical
education paid in for the support of schools
whose grand aim and purpose is to winnow
out few in every town fitted for college"
1t seems to make no difference to them that
the time and money Of those who do not
(and do not mean toy go to college is, to
great extent, wasted and misapplied Con-
sequently the strongest educational forces
in the nation stand exposed to a severance
between the two systems. Still, that sever
ance is being gradually effected, under the
pressure of necessity and the dictates Of
common sense. The task, however, is long
and difficult. In our English grammar
schools and high schools, and even in or
technical and agricultural colleges, the
teaching force is to great extent drawn
from the classical schools, and is imbued
with the ideas there in vogue. That is the
reason why many of them are so unsatisfac-
tory and ineffective, and yet this very inef-
fectiveness is quoted by the classicists to
show that industrial education is a failure.
But gradually, as teachers are trained up
who are more and more insulated from the
influence of the old regime, we shall see in
dustrial schools take on their true functions,
and shall have results to show which will
forever establish the wisdom of practical
methods for the attainment of practical re-
suits. 1t is the work OF time, but it is
work that time is sure to do.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-01-25
Old Maids.

If we knew the heart-histories of many
old maids we should find them character
lied by the purest pathos and life's most
elevating discipline. Often does a woman
remain single because she is faithful to an
idea. Perhaps some happy dream of girl
hood was broken by death or estrangement
perhaps she has never met the man who
fully realized her aspiration, and whom, in
perfect fealty, she could feel herself able to
love, honor and obey. Whatever men may
think on the subject, the last word, obey"
has grave meaning to thoughtful women
who, conscious OF soul of their own," are
little terrified at all obedience might in
volve. Other women there are of gentle
and more yielding natures who have formed
an ideal, which in real life is never approx
imately reached, though this class only de-
sire to find the idol worthy of their adora-
ton and obedience. At any rate, the wo-
man who remains single rather than make a
half-hearted marriage" is worthy of all
honor.-Selected
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-01-25
Crowns or Sorrow.


To-day the church-bell rang out its re-
morseless toll, and we paused for a moment,
and counted one, two, three, four,-that was
all-and the words dropped carelessly from
some ones lips, "Only a child" Thought
less one; but you do not realize how every
stroke rives that mother heart how to her
it seems that she is bearing sorrows crown
of sorrowsr'
Ah But some one exclaims that their
burden of grief is heavier to be borne than
the bereaved mothers; for is not her child
safe in Christ's fold, while theirs may be
burden to be borne for weary, hopeless
years All this may be true, but l am
thinking tonight how apt we are to think
our burden, or sorrow, heavier than our
neighbor's, and harder to be borne yet how
few of us would dare choose, and exchange,
if we knew the sorrows of others.
Itseems to me in this world of ours every
heart bears about its own weight of sorrow,
and we should not dare Judge Of what we
cannot know 1t is how the heart receives
these lessons OF sorrow that causes them to
become curses or blessings, for know that
some of the dearest lessons of Gods love are
sent through sorrow aud suffering, and the
crown of sorrow becomes glori6ed. In the
bitterness of our grief we may not see it (;
we may wait long, weary years, his tender
love gathering in great shades of darkness
about us, but he will not leave his children,
at last the light will come the heavy
weight be lifted from the heart, and we shall
rejoice in him.
Tired hearts the way may be long OIL
short you may come to the light suddenly
or after long years of weary cropping in the
dark; but if you do not doubt that the
goodness of God is in it all, you will see in
the end how his hand has led you on, and
life will be taken up with hopeful hearts.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-01-25
l Must Pray More.

/ was lately in company of one of our
older ministers, who has labored long and
with much success in some OF the most diff
fcult fields of the church. The object of
my interview was to learn from him the Sc
cret of success with which it had pleased
God to crown his ministry in positions and
places where others have failed. In
stead, however, of directly giving me
the information | desired, he told me with
great sorrow the reason why he had ac-
complished so little, and said with unaffected
sadness, My young friend, the mistake of
my life has been that / have not prayed
more. | fell into the error of most ministers.
/ studied and preached. ! worked and wor.
ried too much, and | prayed too little
Could live my life over again, / would be
more with God and less with men. see it
all now--what wasted years of unrest have
passed, how much of my life was my own
doing, and how little OF God has been in
my active ministry can now, in the eve
ming of my days, only ask God to forgive
my shortcomings, and to aid me in spending
my few rerl aiming years differently from the
imperfect way in which / have served my
Master" | will not attempt TO say how
deeply humbled was by this unexpected
revelation l returned to my own home
greatly cast down in mind and thoroughly
ashamed of myself. For time | could
scarcely drag through my ordinary duties,
so self-condemned and wretched was |. The
mistake of this father of Israel has been mine
also, only in a ten-fold greater degree. l, too,
have asked forgiveness Of God, and by his
grace have amended my negligent ways.
have learned by this interview what least
of all expected, viz how little prayer to God
was mixed up with my own busy life.
see now why my failings have been so many
and so manifest. The reason is apparent
Gods work was carried on largely without
God. The half or quarter of an hours de-
votion in the morning and evening did not
meet the real needs Of the soul, much less
the demands of the work, which has been
committed to my charge. Hence the weak
ness, the lack of spiritual power, and the
sad failures of my life see it all now, and
repent in dust and ashes can only pray
to God for my pardon and send up the
piercing cry, "My soul cleaveth to the dust
quicken thou me according to thy Word. -
The Workman.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-01-25
No Real PRAYER Is Lost.

The dew which bathes the summer rose
and glorifies the meadow with its morning
sheen had its origin in what might seem to
be the escapes and wastes of the planet.
Aud when rose and meadow have exhaled
their dews at the touch of the sun, the view
less, imponderable vapor is not dissipated
beyond recall; it is not all spent on the
thsnkless air; it is gathered and garnered
in the chambers of the sky, and returns
again in due season, according to its circuit,
in orient dews or refreshing showers. Aud
shall not the fine exhalations of the soul
the prayers which are breathed from the
deeps of the breast, the secret VOWS, the
Godward thought, the devout aspiration
shall not these also return according to their
circuit, and bring their blessing 2-F. H.
Hed1e
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-01-25
Learning a Trade.

The Jews had saying that "he who
does not teach his son trade is much the
same as if he taught him to be thief"
and every male child was required at five
years Of age to learn trade by which he
could support himself. In Germany the
crown prince is turner, and could easily
earn living if his inheritance was lost
His eldest son, Prince Wilhelm, is an ex.
cellent artisan, and another son who died
was a book.binder The present Emperor
keeps samples of his graudchildren's work in
his cabinet. If Guiteau had been trained
to useful labor it might have saved him
from the dreadful crime for which he is on
trial-Selected.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-01-25
sMoraI and Reliaions.
HE KNowrTH THE WAY THAT ! TAKE.

know not. the way IA 30 misty,
The Joys or the griefa It shall bring,
What clouds are o'erhangng the future,
What flowers by the roadside shall spring;
But there's one who will journey beside me,
Ana ,h,. y. ,,,,, so,a,o "a oa,,,,a,,
an ,no,,,a,,' ,,,o ,,,a, ,,,a, ,aSo.
stand where the crossroads are meeting,
Andknow not the right from the wrong;
No beckonng fingers direct me,
No welcome floats to me in songi
But my Guide will soon give me a token
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-01-25
The Explanation.

To my own mind there is only one solu-
tion for the mysteries OF life and only one
support for the days of terrible ailliction.
The only relief | can find is in the certainty
that this life is not the end, but simply and
only the preparatory school for the real and
the endless life that is beyond, The mo
ment that accept this truth fully and hold
it firmly find solid ground for my feet and
light for my sorrowing soul. Then | dis
cover that the whole journey of the believer
is "portioned out 10 him, and that the dark
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-01-25

or women in Vermont and New Hampshire,
for instance, who see and feel this necessity
Of better school system would write about
it themselves, and prod up the lazy editors
to write about IL in all the local papers, the
desired end could be effected. The people
must be awakened to the needs of the times.
1t is good deal of work to do it, but there
are enough people who know the need to do
the work. If they do not doit, it is because
they are too lazy and too much wanting in
that public spirit which makes vitalized
people, such as New England has always held.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-01-25
A Child's Laughter.

Is there anything like the ringing laugh
of an innocent, happy child ? Can any
other music so echo through the hearts in
ner chambers 2 1t is sympathetic, too, be
yond other melodies. When the father sits
absorbed over his book, which seems to con-
centrate every faculty, he hears his little
boy laughing in his sports, and laughs also,
he knows not wherefore. The bright being,
continually gathering intelligence, casts
around us gems of thought and pearls of
affection till our paths seem paved with
precious stones from heavens treasury. No
day of storms is dark where he is, no wintry
evening long. A young child is full foun-
tain of delight to the house and heart.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-01-25
Cold Hearts.

As to serving the Lord with cold hearts
and drowsy souls, there has been too much
of it; and it causes religion to wither.
Men ride stays when they hunt for gain,
aud snails when they are on the road to
heaven. Preachers go on see-sawing, dron-
ing and pressing, and the people fall to
yawning and folding their arms, and then
say that God is Withholding his blessing.
Every sluggard, when he finds himself en-
listed in the ragged regiment, blames his
luck, and some churches have learned the
same wicked trick. | believe that when
Paul plants aud Apollos waters God gives
the increase and | have no patience with
those who throw the blame on God, when it
belongs TO themselves.-C II. Spurqeon.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-01-25
VOL. 77.-392S. NO. 16.

heart is always malicious. The best advice
we can give is the homely old adage, "Mind
your own business" Very few OF us ever
know the whole truth about any thing con-
cerning neighbor, and TO speak Of his or her
conduct is usually to run the risk of being un-
Just. Much less should we talk of the mo-
tives Of others. Very few of us know our
own motives, and to venture on discussing a
neighbor's motive is always impertinence,
and often real crime.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-01-25

WE think the following paragraph from
the United Presbyterian quite worthy of quo
tation: "A man should use his seat in
church very much as a chair in his own
house that is, courteously toward guests
who may come to receive the hospitality of
the household. II he canuot provide him
another he should surrender his own, doing
ii gladly also as a part OF that Christian
pollteness that should be seen in every place,
but most Of all in the house OF worship
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-01-25
Ghf Dnmf Girrle.


Tonight az sat at my window,
When the west was all ageam
with that strange and wonderful splendor.
That is fieetlng as dream;
thought that the hands Of the angela
Had flung open heavens gateway wdei
And caught glimpse Of the glory
From the hills on the other side.
Is It not a beautiful fancy,
This sunset thought Of mine,
That the gates of heaven are always
Flung open at days decline,
That those whose day is ended
or earthly woes and Ills.
May pass TO the morning sunshine,
That dwells on the heavenly hils9
When for me the sunset gateway
Shall at days decline inclose,
And pas in through its portals
To that long and sweet repose.
know that shall remember
In that city 40 fair and far
My strange and beautiful fancy
OF the sunset gates ajar.
Perhaps while sat there dreaming
OF the gateway In the west,
Some poor soul went through its portals
To a long and endless rest;
Passed through the sunset gateway
To that city paved with gold"-
Passed into the new life's gladness
To be no longer old. Selected.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-01-25
The Gospel OF Mark.

There is no padding in Marks gospel.
You may go through every line and find no
redundant word. One of the maryels which
daily and painfully beset us is the multi
tude OF words which can be employed to
say almost nothing. A man or woman of
leisure can expand over four sheets of pa
per what man of business would say on
the first page. Marks gospel is model of
descriptive writing-noticing innumerable
points in the story which the other Evangel-
lists omit, yet always telling them in the
compactest possible way. 1t would be a
lengthening OF days TO editors, if their con-
tributors would study Marks style as their
model of mposition,-LOndon Christian.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-01-25
agricultural Meparfmeh
7. IL. HosKINs, Agricultural Editor.



Would you choose a wife for happy life,
Leave the court and the country take,
Where Susan and Doll and Nancy and Moll,
Follow Harry and John, while harvest goes on,
And merrily, merrily rake.
Leave the city DANES, be II spoke to their shame,
To lie in their beds TIL noon;
Then get up and stretch, then paint too and patch,
Some widgeon to catch, then look to their watch,
And wonder they rose up 20 soon.
Then coffee and tea. both green and bohea,
Is served to their tables in platei
When their tattles do run, as swift as the sun,
OF what they have won, and who is undone
BY their gaming and sitting up late.
The lass give me here. though brown "A my beer,
That knows how to govern her housei
That can milk her COW, or farrow her SOW,
Make butter or cheese, or gather green peas,
And value not fine clothes a sous.
This, this is the girl, worth rubies and pearls
This is the wife that will make man richi
We gentlemen need no quality breed,
To squander away what taxes would pay;
In troth, we care for none such.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-01-25

Mr.. W. II. Bliss of Corinth, Vermont,
writes TO say that he endorses the use OF
ashes and bone as 30 frequently recommend
ed by US. He especially recommends the use
Of ashes upon the tops of knolls, where
"white top" comes in. A dressing of ashes
will soon bring in clover on those spots. We
have had frequent evidence of this in our
own experience; but the barrenness of the
tops of knolls is often due as much TO win
ter-killing as to poverty of the soil Where
the snow is blown oil in winter good grasses
are killed, and poorer but more hardy sorts
partially occupy the ground.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-01-25

MANY small man is never done talking
about the sacrifices he makes, but he is
great man indeed who can sacrifice every
thing and say nothing.
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The Prayer OF Saints.
The poet Longfellow tells of Sandal
phon, the angel of prayer" how
" He gathers the prayers rs he stands,
And they change into flowers In his hands,
Into garlands OF purple and red;
And through the great city immortal
la Waftel the frAqrauce thev ahadh -

The picture is but reflection of Johns
vision at Patmos, where the angel offers to
the Lamb on the golden altar the walls odor,
GUS with the prayers of the saints" Are
we praying " evening, morning, and at noon,
praying "seven times day." or, indeed
"without ceasing"2 Then are we swelling
the volume of that perfume which Jesus
daily delights TO receive.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-01-25

BE what thou seemest; live thy creed
Hold up to earth the torch divine;
BE what thou prayest 10 be made;
Let the great Masters steps be thine.
Sow love, and taste its frultage pure;
Sow peace. and reap its harvest bright
Sow Hunbeams on the rock and moor,
And find harvest home of light.