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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-08
The Sunday Evening Service.

Mr.. Moody emphasizes the value of
Sunday evening for religious work. He
says: "lt is worth more for this than
any other three nights in the week.
Sunday morning is used to instruct and
build up Christians, but Sunday even
ing is the time to reach non-church-
goers, and an entire change of service
is needed in many churches. Talk off
hand; forget your manuscript. The
people don't want anything formal.
They will not be reached by a discussion
of the labor question and riots. A
Scotch woman who couldn't keep awake,
and whose minister advised her to take
little more snuff for that purpose, adj
vised him to put little more snuff
into his sermons. The seats must be
absolutely free at this Sunday night
service and the people must have a
cordial welcome. Encourage the moth
ers to come and bring their babies.
Don't feel cross because they get into
your pew. If the babies are too noisy.
have a room in your chapel where some
of the good women can take care OF
them and let the mothers 90 into the
meeting. Circulate flyers giving notice
of it. This Sunday night service never
should be given up, not for mission
airy concert nor temperance meeting
unless they could be made gospe
service. Every church ought to have 6
pool of Bethesda every Sunday even.
ing. If we aimed at conversions we
should get them"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-08

We think if we could only be rich, or
honorable, or healthy, or learned as
others are, how happy we should be.
But he who sees the end from the be-
ginning, who knows our present and
our future, knows best and wills best.
Sometimes it would seem as if he per-
mitted us to have our own will and way
for season, just to show us how much
better il would have been had we sub
mitted cheerfully to his will. Then
the very things which we had thought
were so desirable we find are full of
thorns or stings, and often we are
glad to escape from what we had
thought so desirable. Very many of us
will also remember how we have longed
for certain positions and relations in life,
for the possession of certain things, and
how we have lived long enough already
to see that if the Lord had given us our
hearts desire it would have made us
poor, or miserable or wretched. -Er-
chdnqe
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-08
Trust and Obey.

Miss Havergal tells story in verse of
a young girl named Alice, whose music
master insists upon her practicing very
difficult music. To Alice it seems cruel
that she may not play easy pieces like
other girls. The chords are difficult
and the melody is subtle. Her hand
wearies, her cheek flushes, and with
clouded brow she makes protest. The
master will not yield, and she writes
home to her father, who answers kindly,
but firmly, that her teacher knows what
is best. "Trust and obey" is her
fathers advice. Persuaded to try again,
she at length masters Beethoven's
masterpiece. Years afterward, at a
brilliant assembly of musical artists,
when the gentle twilight fills all hearts
with thoughts of peace, Alice is invited
to play some suitable strains. She Sc
lects the very piece that was once so
difficult, but which, thoroughly learned,
has never been forgotten. She plays it
with pure and varied expression and Sc
cures the rich approval of one of the
masters of song, who confesses that
even to him Beethoven's music had
never seemed so beautiful and so sug-
gestive as in her rendering. Many a
hard task may yet come to both boys
and girls. Let them also " trust and
obey" and little by little they likewise
may become interpreters of life's holt
est music.-AdrOcate Of Peace.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-08
Christian Endurance.

But there is no greater strength ever
manifested on earth than that of quiet
endurance. | have known, and so
have you, those on whom for years
there has not risen single unclouded
day; those, too, who knew all the glad
ness of life, but for whom the sun was
darkened long before it had climbed to
its meridian height; those whose be-
reavements have involved the loss of
everything that seemed to make life
precious; those who have been rem
dered permanently helpless by chronic
disease and can never hope for pain
less waking hour or night of restful
sleep; those whose penury has been
absolute and entire, with no prospect
of relief. Among these have been the
bravest, strongest souls that l have
ever known; and it has seemed to me
that no emergency of outward action,
not even the foremost of the sacrament
tai host, in waging the great conflicts
in behalf of the truth and the right,
has equaled theirs. which could endure
without murmuring, and could render
constant thanks to God for the heav-
emily mama which has fed them, for
the living waters of which they have
drunk deep draughts, for the hope, full
of immortality, which has never for a
moment forsaken them.-A. II. Pea
bOdy, ID. ID.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-08
The AristOcracy of Talent.

The Hon. James G. Blaine addressed
the Chautauqua Camp at Fryeburg, in
Maine, on the subject of education. In
the course of his remarks he said {:
The university in the United States
which can establish democratic equal
ity in the style of living among its
students, and tolerate no distinctions
except those based on the aristocracy
of talent and requirements, will newt
ably become the center and source of
the highest culture in America, and
will contribute to the elevation of the
learned professions in civil life in as
high degree as West Point and An
napolis have contributed TO the military
and naval prestige of the republic.
Another feature Of modern college
training to which exceptions may be
taken is the long time employed. The
admission to college is now on the av-
erage at the same age at which students
in the preceding generation graduated.
To young man favored with ample
means the course runs thus: Admitted
to college at eighteen; graduates at
twenty-five; completes his professional
studies at twenty-five; goes abroad to
hear lectures in foreign university
and returns home at twenty-seven or
twenty-eight. If he be heir to great
fortune, and intends to lead life of
mere leisurely elegance, this form of
preparation is very well; but if he
is compelled to depend ultimately on
his own labor for his bread, he is sim
cerely to be pitied. He has contracted
habits and tastes quite out of harmony
with the people among whom he is tC
live, and uncongenial to the clients
upon whose favor and confidence he
must depend for success. He finds that
the contemporary who opened "a law
office at twenty-one or twenty-five years
of age has already gained strong foot
hold in his profession, and while he
with his European training, may know
more in many fields, he knows less il
the fields essential to success. He finds
himself junior to those of his own age,
and finds that he has wasted in genera
culture some precious years which
should have been devoted to his specia
calling in life. The disadvantage tC
which the young man would be sub
jected in the learned professions is
vastly increased when he intends to en-
ter upon business career-a banker, {
merchant, a manufacturer-and il
either case his fate is not unlikely to be
that of discouraged life"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-08
Discoveries About the Sphinx.

An undertaking has been begun
which ought TO yield results of special
interest. This is the removal of the
sand from round the Sphinx. The
Sphinx occupies position where the
encroachment of the desert is most con-
spicuous. AT the present day nothing
is to be seen of the animal except its
head and its neck; but the old Egyptian
not only the entire body down to the
paws, but also large square plinth be-
meath, covered with ornaments. Since
the time of the Greeks, perhaps even
since the reign of Thothmes w., this
plinth has disappeared beneath the
sand, and its very existence had been
forgotten. 1t is generally supposed
that the Sphinx is hewn out of large,
isolated rock, which overlooked the
plain. But M. Maspero's researches
suggest that it is work yet more stu
pendous. He has proved that the
Sphinx occupies the center of an ampi-
theater, forming kind of rocky basin,
the upper rim of which is about on a
level with the head of the animal. The
walls of this ampitheater, wherever
visible, are cut by the hand of man. 1t
seems probable, therefore, that in the
beginning there was a uniform surface
of rock, in which an artificial valley
has been eXcavated so as to leave in
the middle a block out of which the
Sphinx was finally hewn. The excava-
tons now being carried on will doubt
less verify the existence of the plinth
shown on the old paintings, and also
furnish evidence by the ornamentation
of the plinth of the true age of the
monument. M. Maspero is inclined to
assign it to very great antiquity, pos
sibly higher than the early dynasties-
that is, than the first period of Egyp-
tan history. As the result of last win
ter's work, the sand round the Sphinx
has already been lowered by about
thirty metres.-London Acodemy.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-08
The COlOrs of the Sea.

The changes in the color of the sea
have attracted the attention of sea-
faring men from the earliest times. MI
merous theories were offered in eX-
PLANTATION of these changes, some
ascribing them to the varying color of
the sea bottom, some to the difference
in depth, others to the presence of GER
tain coloring substances, others, again,
to the chemical composition of the
water. Most of these suggestions con-
tanned an element of truth, although
no one of them, taken by itself, sufficed
to account for alteration in color which
had often been observed to occur in the
course of a few hours sail and within
distance measuring less than a ships
length. Of late years, as the reader is
aware, numerous scientific expeditions
have been fitted out and dispatched
by the governments of England, Nor
way and America for the express pur-
pose of exploring the secrets of the
deep. Among the problems which
have now for the first time received a
satisfactory solution, new light has also
been thrown upon the conditions which
affect the color of the sea water in
every part of the ocean, thus cOmplet-
ing the information for which we were
indebted to the unaided exertion of
earlier travellers. One of the most re-
markable and most widely distributed
contrasts of color is that which is known
to exist between the intensely blue
seas situated between the tropics and
the green seas of higher ATTITUDES. 1t
appears as the result of recent observa-
tons, and more especially of series of
experiments made on board the Ger
man frigate Gazelle, that there is an in
innate relation between the coors of
sea water and the proportion of salt
held in solution by the latter. On COM
pairing the specific gravity of green
water with that of blue water, it was
found that the latter is always heavier
than the former, and therefore contains
more salt, the two differently colored
waters being supposed to have the same
temperature. In other words, the
greater or less intensity of the blue
color of the sea water may be taken as
a direct index of its sadness and of its
specific gravity, so that when we OBJ
serve the color of the water success
lively change from deep blue to blue
ish green and dark green we may con-
clude that the water has become at the
same time less salt and less heavy. This
result agrees with the experience of
navigators in every part of the ocean,
for as the vessel proceeds from the
dense and salt water of the tropical
regions toward the lighter and fresher
water of higher ATTITUDES and of the
polar regions the color of the sea is
seen to change from an intense blue to
greenish blue and green tint. There
are, however, numerous exceptions.
Green seas are met with between the
tropics, and the blue seas are encoun-
tered in the temperate region and even
within the Arctic circle, but these ex-
ceptions, far from contradicting, only
tend to confirm the above rules-Phild-
delphia Erening Telegraph.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-08
The Everlasting Light.

"The setting of great hope is like
the setting of the sun. The brightness
of our life is gone, shadows of the
evening fall around us, and the world
seems but a dim reflection of itself-a
broader shadow We look forward
into the coming lonely night; the soul
withdraws itself The stars arise and
the night is holy" How impressive,
in contrast with this, is the language of
the prophet in describing that land
where disappointment never comes !:
"Thy sun shall no more go down /;
neither shall thy moon withdraw itself;
for the Lord shall be thine everlasting
light, and the days of thy mourning
shall be ended. "-LOnqfellOlU.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-08
Sorrow Not an Accident.


Sorrow is not an accident, occurring
now and then-it is the very wool of
which is woven into the warp of life.
God has created the nerves to agonize
and the heart to bleed, and before a
man dies almost every nerve has thrilled
with pain and every affection has been
wounded. The account of it which
represents it as probation is Inadequate;
so is that which regards it chiefly as a
system of rewards and punishments.
The truest account of this mysterious
existence seems to be that it is intended
for the development of the souls life,
for which sorrow is indispensable.
Every son of man who would attain the
true end of his being must be baptized
with fire. 1t is the law of our human
ity, as that of Christ, that we must be
perfect through suffering. And he
who has not discerned the divine sacred
ness of sorrow and the profound mean
ing which is concealed in pain, has yet
to learn what life is. The cross, mani
Tested as the necessity of the highest life,
alone interprets it.-F. w. Robertson.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-08
An Exemplary Christian.

A distinguished Christian lady was
recently spending few weeks in no.
tel at Long Branch, and an attempt was
made to induce her to attend dance,
in order that the affair might have the
prestige bestowed by her presence, as
she stood high in society She declined
all the opportunities of her friends, and
finally an honorable senator tried to
persuade her to attend, saying: "B. .,
this is quite harmless affair, and we
want to have the exceptional honor of
your presence" Senator" said the
lady, Z" l cannot do it; l am a Chris
tan; never do anything in my sum-
mer vacation, or wherever l 90, that
will injure the influnce / have over the
girls of my Sunday-school class" The
senator bowed and said: /" i honor you !;
if there were more Christians like you g.
more men like myself would become
Christians. DR.. PentecoSt
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-08
Songs In the Night.

Why art thou cast down, my brother?
Has any sad news been brought to thy
door? Has thy best friend forsaken
thee? Has the wind or the fire swept
away thy property? If not, why art
thou in low spirits? Is not Christ still
thy Savior and is he not present with
thee? Is not the sky bright above thee
and the earth clothed in beauty? Do
not the smiles of lovely children greet
thee as thou passest along? Hast thou
not food and raiment sufficient for thy
present need? And yet thou art sad.
Thy head is bound like the bullock
thy step is faltering, thy eye fearful
and thy face cloudy. My brother, thou
art unwise. Thy God is still bending
over thee his rainbow of love and
wreathing around thee beautiful flowers,
and bringing to thy side friends trusty
and kind. Awake Stir thee about
and shake off thy doubts and thy fears
and tremble no longer. " Delight thy
self in the Lord pray in faith, sim
cerely and earnestly, and our word for
it, before to-morrow's dawn thy peace
will be like the river, and the Joy of thy
heart will burst forth in songs of graft
tude and praise .-ETchange.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-08
" One Only Name.o

1t is well to be "liberal," but
we must not give away the founda-
ton. 1t is well to be !" broad" but
we must beware of subtitle devices for
getting to heaven by some other way
than the mediation of Jesus Christ.
Whatever else we may find in the BIZ
BILE, we can never find it saying that
there is any other way to be saved.
Remember the four onlys 1.-THE BIZ
BILE only; Jesus only; the Holy Spirit
the only fountain of holiness; faith
the only condition of justification. On
the cover of Longfellow's fine edition
of his Dicine Passion there is Greek
cross, on the four arms of which are
the words Rec, Lee, Due, Lur," Je-
sus being the center to whom they all
converge and apply. So on our hearts
let him be written as our only King,
our only Law, our only Guide, our only
Light.-Arthur T. Pierson, DID.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-08
Footprints.

A farmer went out in the deep winter,
when the snow was thick on the ground.
and he took his little boy with him. BY
and by they came to very steep hill,
and it was dangerous climbing, for the
snow concealed great many ugly gaps
into which they might fall; so the father
went ahead, and his little boy climbed
after him. When they had gone this
way some distance, the little fellow
called out, " Father, be sure you take
the right road, for | am stepping in
your fOotprints!'' 50 My son stepping
in my footprintsl" thought the father,
and the thought troubled him, and
made him think, and at last made him
pray and become good man; for he
thought, " If my son is following me,
surely l should be following Christ"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-08
Selett MlisteIlanp.
One at n Time.

One step at time and that well placed,
We reach the grandest height;
One stroke at time, earths hidden stores
VIII slowly come to light
One seed at a time and the forest grows;
One drop at time and the river flows
Into the boundless sea,
One word at time and the greatest book
Is written and is read;
One stone at time and palace rears
Aloft its stately head
One blow at time and the trees cleft through
And city will stand where the forest grew
A few short years before.
One foe at time and he subdued
And the conflict will be won;
One grain at a time and the sand of life
viii slowly all be run;
One minute, another, the hours fly;
One day at time and our lives speed by
Into eternity
One grain of knowledge and that well stored,
Another and more on them,
And as time rolls on your mind will shine
With many garnered gem
OF thought and wisdom. And time will tell,
zone thing at time and that done well "
Is wisdom's proven rule Golden Days
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-08
Fidelity to Principle.

Nicholas Biddle of Philadelphia, when
president of the old United States Bank,
once dismissed a clerk because he re-
fused to write for him on the Sabbath
The young man was thus thrown out
of employment by what some would
call an overnice scruple of conscience,
but what really was true fidelity to
principle. Not long afterward, how
ever, Mr.. Biddle, being asked to NOM
mate a cashier for another bank, recon-
mended this very man, mentioning what
had occurred as proof of his integrity
and trustworthiness and adding: " You
can trust him, for he would not work
for me on Sunday
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-08
Moral anb Beligiuus.
IL Doth Not Yet Appear.

Earth sings her parallels of loss and gain
In bodest speech,
Yet heights sublime which spirits shall attain,
She cannot reach.
Aerial whispers float DER land and sea,
at doth not yet appear what we shall be-"
Her royal puppies and her crowns of gold,
Her white attire,
Her sceptered lilies which her summers hold
With flames aflre-
All fail to show the glory we shall see
at doth not yet appear what we shall be-"
Who from unsghtly bulb or slender root
Could guess Alright
The glory of the flower, the fern, the fruit
In summers height?
Through tremulous shadows voices call to me,
" 1t doth not yet appear what we shall be-"
Triumphant guesses from the seer and sage
Through shadows dart,
And tender meanings on the poets page
Console the heart.
songs prophetic, though sweet are ye,
ut doth not yet appear what we shall be-"
Sunday Magazine,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-08
A Swedish Breakfast.

A newspaper correspondent who has
been travelling in Sweden writes: " In
crossing the Gulf of Finland the water
was rough for few hours, and the
pitching motion of the vessel disturbed
the equilibrium of all sensitive interi-
ors. In the morning some of the
friskiest of our company of the night
before did not report for coffee at Z: 30
missed some coffee that was wonder
fully good. 1t was served with an as
sortment of bread, sweet biscuit and
cakes. This light refreshment kept
one alive till six, when those who could
pull themselves together dove into the
little dining-saloon and had their regu-
lar breakfast. The most important
part of this meal-Swedish fashions
the trimmings" You are expected
to fill yourself at a sideboard before you
sit at table. | counted twenty different
dishes set out as appetizers. Among
them were Holsters, cells in jelly, head
cheese, slices of sausages, picked
tongue, potted meats of nature un-
known, cabbage, beets, onions sliced
with vinegar, bread, butter and cheese.
The true Swede when in good I" form !"
attacks all these viands in turn and
makes hole in them. But before he
does anything he fills large wine-glass
from the colorless contents of one or
more decanters which tower above all
other things in great castor Those
hold gin or kummel, or other fiery spir-
its. After ten or fifteen minutes thus
spent on his feet he is ready to appre-
ciate the beefsteak and potatoes and
the ham omelette and other substantials
which are rendered to him when he sits
down
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-08
Florence Knitting Silk.
WHY Is 1T so POPULARP

Because it is the most durable of any
textile known. Because full weights
and measures are always given. Be
|cause it is pure silk. Because no
poisonous dyes are used for the pur-
pose of obtaining an artificial lustre. Be-
cause it is "Soft Finish" and easy to
knit. Because it is uniform in size
and correctly numbered. Because it
is positively the only silk suitable for
knitting which will bear washing
without injury to color or texture!
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-08

DECLINE OF MAN.-Mental or or
ganic weakness, nervous debility and
kindred delicate diseases, however in
duced, speedily and permanently cured.
For large illustrated book of particulars
enclose ten cents in stamps and address
Worlds Dispensary Medical Associa-
ton, 663 Main street, Buffalo, N. Y.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-08
Gods VIII the Best.

Gods will is the best. We do not
know what is or will be the best for
us. We think we do. We think if we
could only have our own will and our
own way we should be perfectly happy.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-08

A YOUTH asked at city restaurant:
"What have you got?" " Almost
everything" was the reply. +" Almost
everything-well, give me a piece of
that" Certainly. Hash!" screamed
the waiter.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-08

THE empire of Christ is a moral, not
material empire; it is a realm, not of
bodies, but of souls instinct with intelli-
gence and love. Its seat of power is
the conscience of mankind.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-08

THE most stubborn and distressing
cases of dyspepsia yield to the regu-
lating and toning influences of Hoods
Sarsaparilla. Try it.