Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-04-25

-Gsrhard Terstee0en.
We ask advi ice, but we mean approba.
tion.-Coiton.
Listen to conscience more than to intel
lect. and learn TO concentrate thought
Robertson.
An agnos;ic is one who knows nothing
certain and doesn't care whether he does
or not.-Jounai.
Yes, there is plenty of work for you-
whoever you are. God says to every one,
GO, work in my vineyard. The vineyard
is very large. 1t includes the whole of
life. There is something for every one to
do for God.
| If thou hast not mercy for others, yet
be not cruel unto thyself. To ruminale
upon evils, to make critical notes upon
injuries, and to be acute in their appre-
tensions, is 10 add unto our own tortures.
to feather the arrows of our enemies, TO
lash ourselves with the scorpions OF our
foes. and to resolve to sleep no more; for
injuries long dreamt on take away all
rest and he sleeps but like RegClus. who
busieth his head about hem Sir T7jomns
| BrOune
Principles are radated light and heat
from the soul a capital invested IN bonds
whose interest is paid in gold; the scent
that cling5 to the shattered vase; the real
/ greatness and dignity of the man. compar.
ed with which titles, riches, and honors
are badges, ribbons, and stars. Princi-
pies cannot be burned or scourged out of
the soul. They have the persistence Of
sunlight. and the etfulgence of the stars.
They are extolled in organ tones. in
battle shouts, and in hymns OF praise and
victory.
TribuIation comes, it will be as ye
choose it, either an exercise or condem-
nation. Such as it shall find you 10 be.
will i be. Tribulation is fire; does it
ind thee goldp it takes away the fifth
does it find thee chatf' it turns it TO ashes.
| Wherefore art thou disturbed? Thine
heart Is disturbed by the pressing troubles
of the world. as that ship was in which
| Christ was asleep. Did not thy Lord tell
thee the world should fail9 So when he
tempest beats turiously against thine
heart. beware Of shipwreck, awake up IN
Christ. Present faith. is Christ present
waking faith, is Christ awake sum mbering
faith. is Christ asleep.-St. 4uguStjne.
Sin is not in the appetite. but in he
absence of a controlling will. There were
| in Christ all the natural appetites of mind
and body. Relaxation and friendship we're
dear to him; so were sunlight and life,
| hunger. pain, death. He could feel them
all. and shrank from them. He suffered,
| being tempted from the forces of desire.
| But there was obedience at the expense Of
tortured natural feeling. Remember this,
| for the wav in which some of the 5inless
ness of Christ destroys the reality Of
temptation. and converts the whole of his
history into mere fictitious drama, in
which scenes of trial we're represented,
not felt.-F ". Robertson.
Whenever you think of our Lords
resurrection and ascension. remember
ALWAYS that the background to his triumph
! is a tomb. Remember that it is the
trium on over suffering; triumph Of one
who still bears the prints Of the nails IN
/ his hands and in MS feet, and the wound
of the spear in his side; ike many poor
| soul who has followed him triumphant at
/ last, and yet Scared, and only not manned
| in the hard battle Of life. Remember
forever the adorable wounds Of Christ
| Remember forever that s.. John saw in
! the midst of the throne of God the likeness
of lamb, as it had been slain. For SO
alone you will learn what our Lord
resurrection and ascension are to all who
| have to suffer AMI to toll on earth
Kingsley.
A man is doing the Lords work when
| he is faithful to MS employer-ioes fair
dav's work; when he takes proper care Of
his health; when he governs his temper
when he is careful to speak the exact
truth; when he is courteous to strangers.
and lends a helping hand to the needy
when he has word of encouragement for
the despending; when ne sets IN example
of industry and honesty; when lie returns
good for evil when he leads such an
upright. benevolent, God honoring life.
that men take knowledge Of him that Ee
has been with Jesus. Religion does not
consist solely in reading the Bible, praying,
attending church and laboring for the
conversion of men. These are important
duties. but they do no include the whole
of duty. Gods will mas reference 20 every
act of our lives. Observer.
This has been called an age of doubt.
yiving little promise of the speedy triumph
Of Christianity, and yet there have been
encouraging symptoms of progress, steady
and sure, from the time the text was
written to the present. Never indeed
we're hese signs of advance more notice.
able than now. But IS with the coming
in of the tide, recession is part of the
advancement. There is no power in the
ocean to lift itself. 1t is a dead, inert.
sIuggish mass. That which lifts the
Atlantic six to ten feet is not on the earth.
It Is an irresistible power far above the
earth. Precisely so it is with the progress
of Christianity. There have been periods
W hen it seemed as if ground was being
lost; the wave has been flowing back, but
the tide has been rising all the while. The
mower that lifts it is not IN human arms.
and il ie not in man to stay the upward
movement. The high water mark proph.
esied bv st. Paul will yet be reached. 1t
ia true this is an age of doubt, or rather of
Interrogation. But there is more of true
faith in the world than ever. Our day is
better than any our fathers ever dreamed
Of We are seeing more, we are seeing
farther. But good as is our time, it is not
good enough for our children. We are
told the church is giving up some of the
old fashioned doctrines. 1t may be so
Christ foretold this, when he said to his
disciples that there we're truths they we're
not ready to receive. No essential doctrine
has been Welded. He did not believe in 4
Christianity that must hide itself for fear
some one shall ask it hard question.
Some think their way into infidelity. But
il Is only alfthinking that tends in this
direction. The first thought is intidelity,
the second may be atheism. but the third
leads to Christian faith.
The Burlington Hawbege says of Mr.
Robert Ingersoll's recent article: I'm