Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-07-25

''Our stint of woe
Is common"
Shakespeare
80 Sunshine broken in the rill
Though turned astray. is sunshine still"
Moore
''lie is freeman. whom the truth makes free
Milton
90 thou art farer than the evening air.
Clad in the beauty OF a thousand stars!"
--Marlow's Faust
''To mourn mischief that is past and gone
Is the next way to draw new mischief on"
Shakespeare
BE earnest!
Do what thou dost as if the stake were Heaven.
And that thy last decd ere the judgm ent day."
Ktn0stev
"What need
Is the celestial fire to change the flint
Into transparent crystal bright and clear"
-LonGfHow.
'Ther little shed, scarce large enough for two
Seems from the ground increased in height and bulk
to grow.
A stately temple shoots within the skies;
The crotchets of their cot in columns rise;
The pavement polished marble they behold
The gates with sculpture gracedthe spires and tiles
gold"
Patience is genus.-ButJn.
Faith without love is a dream - Luther.
Dare to be true; nothing can need n
lic.-Herbert.
Afectation is part of the lrappings of
tolly.-Rumbler.
The conscious water saw its God and
blushed.- -CraShaW.
One to-day is worth two to morrows.-
Benjamin NdnhLin.
God enters by private door into every
individual. Emerson
Hope is almost as the air by which the
mind lives. Felhh1ni.
Our holy lives must win IA new worlds
crown. n.-ShakeSpeare.
II the matter he knot,v, the mind must
stop and buckle to it.-LOcke.
Well, you mag fear too far
safer than trust TOO fnr.-Shakespedre.
There is one art of which every man
should be master-the art OF reflection
Herald.
Hold fast to what is secure, for all the
re st are shadows and dissolving views
Slntcoord.
The greatest hindrance to Christian
progress is Unchristian Christianity
Joseph Pwker.
Modesty is that feeling by which honor
able shame acquires Il valuable and lasting
authority Cicero.
The world is looking glass, and gives
back 10 every man the reflection of his
own face. .-7hacherdy.
We love TO think that religious life is
he growth of all the faculties, and not
slow strangulation of them. AS we look
at it religion no more cramps a man than
wings do bird, or fins do a fish. 1t
supplies him with propelling power. A
Christian man should be an active man
active in every fibre, vibrating with energy.
Great injury has been done religion by
allowing people to regard it as a mild
form of slavery. d kind Of bondage to
goodness, in which people consented to be
tied up that they might not hurt them.
selves or others. But there is no such
religion as this; at least in the New Tes.
lament. The gospel Christ taught and
Paul preached is gospel of liberty and
not of slavery Golden Rule.
A morbid desire for sympathy is no
doubt at the bottom of half the useless
complaints in the world. 1t is sweet to
be pitied, and the cheapest way to get
pity is to tell over your troubles. So
there are some who are forever retailing
their atfliclions, Some of them are real
enough. 1t is an exceptional lot in which
there is no crook. Few roses bloom
which are not set round with briers. But
in most cases there are compensa:ions.
unless we wilfully shut our eyes and
refuse to recognize them. If speech is
silvern, silence is golden, as regards the
inevitable vexations, defeats and calami.
ties of life. Even Job, with heaps upon
heaps of distressing events to distract
him, never really gave up till his three
friends opened their mouths and tried TO
comfort characterization at Work.