Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-07-18
Selections.

The Tempest
Our God heis tower of strength;
| trusty shield and weapon.
Martin Luther
Foster the beautiful. and every hour
| Thou call'st new flowers to birth.
Schiller.
| An atheists laughs poor exchange
| For Deity off ended.
| am sworn brother to grim
| Necessity, and he and
| Will keep league till death.
king Richard.
| Think what Spirit dwes within thee;
| What Fathers smile is thine:
What Savior died to win thee
HenrV f. Lvte.
The steps of Faith
Fall on the seeming void and find
The rock beneath.
-Whiujer.
"She knew he was with Jesus
And she asked him not again"
"If you wish me to weep-begin the stran
Then shall feel your sorrow-fee your pain"
Truth is light Cicero.
Patience is power Eastern PyouerJ.
"All beginnings are difficult. ."-Anon.
Take me! break mel make me!-7heo
Monod.
Christ is the symbol of divine wisdom
-Spinoza.
A whispercr separateth chief friends
Proverbs.
"Them that honor me will honor "
Book of Samuel.
slow the heart drifts away from Jesus .
Professor Harrogh.
Rest is the blessing of toll ."-Arch.
bishop of Canterbury.
Be man among men and no longer a
dreamer among shadows. .-L0ngfetiow.
A picture is an intermediate something
between thought and thing g.-CoL
eridqe.
1t is one thing TO like defiance and an.
other thing to like its consequences
George Eliot.
The ruins of old friendships are a more
melancholy spectacle to me than those OF
desolate places. .-CanpbeN.
| Be mine life of action and reality! |
will work in my own sphere, nor wish it
other than it is.-Hyperian.
There was but one crack in the lantern,
and the wind has found it and blown out
the candle, and so it is with one unguarded
point in the character.-Spurgeon.
Our spiritual constitution must be 6raced,
not only that we may be strong for work
or fight, but that we may be proof against
the infection of the times.-Bonar.
Cheek is not better than wisdom; it is
not better than modestv. The world will
not be deceived; it searches for merit and
when it finds it, merit is rewarded. bur-
dete.
If man meets with injustice it is not
required that he should not be reused to
meet it; but if he is angry after he has had
time to think upon it, that is sinful. The
flame is not wrong, but the Goals are.-H.
w. Beecher.
One must go beyond the mere crude
analysis of the Ten Commandments, and
mark whether he is not habitually sad
when he should be cheerful and slave to
market. place or pursuit in world
always be greater than its daily pursuit.
SaUing.
The truth cannot be burned, beheaded
or crucifed. A lie on the throne is lie
still, the truth in a dungeon is truth still
and the lie on the throne is on the way TO
victory. No accidents of positions can
change the essential nature of things, or
the eternal laws which determine their
destinies.
Temptation is a fearful word. 1t indi-
Gates the teginning of a possible series of
infinite evils. 1t is the ringing of an alarm
bell whose melancholy sounds may rever-
berate through eternity. Like the sudden,
sharp cry of fire in the night, it should
rouse us to instantaneous activity, and
brace every muscle to its highest tension
Tins.
1t is no more possible for an idle man
to keep together certain stock of knowl.
edge, than it is possible to keep together
Il certain stock of ice exposed to the
meridian sun. Every day destroys
fact, relation, or an Inference; and the
only method of preserving the bulk and
value of the pile is by constantly adding
to it.-Ernestus.
Churches don't make Christians, though
Christians make churches. The test is,
new aims and new life-in word, Does
he believe anythingp The devil
hates creeds unless he can have the
making of them himself. Strong beliefs
make strong men, weak beliefs make |
weak men. Athanasius fought to the
death for an iota. DR.. Burton.
The history of skepticism is its best ex-
planation. 1t arose in q time of goddess.
ness and Journalism in the Christian church.
France caught the infection from England,
and Voltair. Rousseau. d Alembert and
Diderot dressed up English deism for
French taste. The effects of That poison
are still in the French constitution. Skep-
tics commonly imagine that they alone
have knowledge of these books, md that
if intelligent Christians could only get
over their prejudlces and read them they
would cease to believe. This is not, in
point of fact, the case. Educated Chris
tian men know these books, arguments
and obligations, and we know the men,
too, and more disreputable group it
would be difficult TO find. One thing is
very noticeable among nearly all of them.
They are devoid of that calm, dispassion-
ate spirit which ought TO mark instructors
in solemn truth. This puts their candor
In doubt, and their temper suggests the
words, They hated me without cause"
DR.. John Halt.
PRAYING IN THE NIGHT WATCHES
he night is more suited to prayer than
he day. never wake in the middle of
he night without feeling induced to com
nune with God. One feels brought more
nto contact with him. The whole world
around us, we think, Is asleep. But the
great Shepherd of Israel slumbers not, nor
Ileeps, he is awake and so are we! We
eel, in the solemn and silent night, alone
With God. And then there is everything
n the circumstance to lead one to pray.
The past is often vividly recalled. The
7oices of the dead are heard, and their I
orms crowd around you. No sleep can {
bind them. The night seems the time in
which they should hold spiritual commun-
on with man. The future, too, throws
is dark shadow over you-the night of the
grave, the certain death bed, the night in
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