News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-04-02

blaze; or from the sublimities we might
turn to the gentler pictures of the sum.
mer landscape and watch the sparkling
waters of the meadow brook, inhale the
fragrance of the new-mown grass and
listeh to the fairy music of the insect
world, or, still again, we might with
microscopic help trace the exquisite
shapes and mark the brilliant lustres of
every atom in this wonderful earth or
explore the varied marvels of infusurial
| life, and when we have done any or all
of this, the guilty conscience will not
have received one ray of comfort, the
sin bound spirit will not have obtained
one glimpse of liberty. The Gospel is
one grand promise and all its parts are
promises of the same family. You have
seen grand star upon our country S
flag, and all it's indehted outline was a
series of lesser stars-so the great prom-
Use of Christ's salvation is held up by
the Gospel in a grand composite of
promises, each like the whole shining
with heavenly brilliance. Is the heart
wearied with care? Il will give you
rest" is the gem which the tired one can
find in this Bible. Are the soul and
mind full of underlined forebodings?
Here is Jewel for its wearing: "The
Lord will go before yott and the Gcd of
Israel will be your rear-ward. " Do you
feel your coldness and long for spiritual
warmth? Here is your very Koh-i-noor
of diamonds: Chow much more shall
your Heavenly Father give the Holy
Spirit to them that ask Him."
WHY LIFE IS WORTH LIVING.
The Rev. J. nj. ludlow, at the West
minister Church, Brooklyn; We have
here Dob vi, 12) the wall of man who
has lost everything; the wall of phil
osopher who from his seat among the
ashes locked forth upon the world and
found it vanity; the wall of one of the
most popular philosophers that ever
lived, for in our sorrow and disgust we
are too prone to turn to his dolefulness
and pessimism for solace. Let us try
to answer it, and let us see wherein lies
our strength and why we should hope
when our lives seem empty and value
less. Is it not, first, because God made
them? However seemingly worthless
and imperfect, they yet lie upon the
workable of the Omniscient, parts of
some grand and complex structure which
shall endure to eternity. Secondly,
Because there is wrapped up in them
something of priceless value, for which
Satan daily offers US riches and power,
even as the King of India offered his
troops and treasures to the Ameer of
Afghan, asking in return simply the ex-
change of courtesies, the gift OF his
turban, because in the folds of that
worthless turban was wrapped up a
priceless Jewel, the Koh-i-nOor. Thirdly,
We know that our life has divine
collateral; that it has been Or will be re-
deemed; that as a tattered banknote
will have every cent of its value made
good from the gold lying in the treasury
vaults, so our little existence has behind
it the wealth q tbs Godhead. We have
the surety that every hope and longing
and need that God has written upon
it, will be redeemed in eternity. Let us
then leave this heresy of moroseness,
and the ashes Of establishment, throw
off the rags Of our miserable ideas of
life, and come forth into the eternal sun
shine