The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-03
Current Comment.

A man is fed, not that he may be fed,
but that he may work. Emerson.
OUR harshest accuser at the iudg-
ment will be an awakened con-
science.-N. 4. T..
THERE is slowness in affairs which
ripens them, and slowness which rots
them.--Joseph Rour.
DON'T see why politician may not
be one of the saints of God. if only
anchored to conscience, not to ar
oflice.-Frdnces Willard.
THE selfish people are those who
never know what real friendship is,
and so can not see how pleasant it is to
do things for others Anon.
REELECTION is an angel who every
day bears reports to heaven of our do
ings here, and when the books are
opened we must answer for the record
kept.-HdzlH.
GOD permits no man to examine the
Book of Life to see his name written
there; but he permits the humblest
soul to look in his own soul and see the
Spirit of Christ there. -Selected
A CONSCIOUSNESS of need, humble
spirit, confidence in God as ready to
help-without these there can be no
true prayer. With these, it is scarcely
possible to pray.-Morning Star.
NOT an atom is lost in the economy
of Nature; so no thought, word or deed
of ours is lost. Each has its influence
for good or i'll upon ourselves and 9TH
ers, and will continue to exert that in
fluence IN perpetuum.-N. A. T.
GET into the habit of looking for the
silver lining of the cloud, and when
you have found it, continue to look at
it, rather than at the leaden gray in the
middle. 1t will help you over many
hard places.-Dr. A. A. Wdletts.
HOWEVER early in the morning you
seek the gate of access, you find it
always open; and however deep the
midnight hour when you find yourself
in the sudden arms of death the winged
prayer can bring an instant Savior
near.-JameS Hamilton.
CoAsTING prayers, such as we pray
every day, bring us many necessities;
but there are great prayers, which, like
the old Spanish galloons, cross the
main ocean, and are longer out of sight,
but come home deep laden with a
golden freight.-Spurgeon.
THERE is no kind of work, from the
merest routine to the highest creative
activity, which does not receive all that
gives 1t quality from the spirit in which
it is done or fashioned. Work without
spirit is body without soul; there is
no life in it.-Christidn Union.
A LIFE for Christ must always be a
life of love, of usefulness and of help
funess. 1t is just living for God, day
by day, hour by hour. 1t is nothing
strained and unnatural; beginning in
the heart, in true devotion to Christ.
it is lived out in simple obedience and
quiet fathfulness in whatever sphere
our lot may be cast.-.Selected.
FAITH welcomes a clear unfolding of
the path it is to tread; but it can do
without it. If the winds of heaven
blow away the fogs of earth and make
the path clear, it is well; but if the
mists hang low and the sky be dark also,
faith does not falter in its march nor in
its singing,
For it's Gods hand that leadeth me.
George NJ Boynton.
BISHOP TAYLOR preached for one
hour and fifty-five minutes, at Ocean
Grove, on the condition and needs of
the heather. In few hours the gifts
amounted to five thousand dollars. This
fact is adduced to prove that long SER
mons are effective when preached by
some men. But if Bishop Taylor got
| five thousand dollars for his long SER
mon, who knows how much more he
might have got if he had preached for
only an Decentralization Inquirer.
THE royal banners forward 90. We
are following One whose standard goes
/ down before no onset, because upheld
| by immortal hands: and the slow
and stately movements of centuries
has in our time quickened TO swift
majesty of march to carry TO SUI
premacy the Lordship of Christ. If
this is not true, the casual connection
of fortuitous events leaves history the
most battling of puzzles, and the phi
| losophy" of it a word without mean
ing.-Dr. II. S. Storrs.
THE pew cries out against the use of
such words and phrases as the following
in the pulpit: " Correlated" verisim-
ilitude,' oughtness," Z" functions of
the Paraclete," "hypostatic union"
supralapsarian view," categorical
imperative" " differentiation of the en-
vironment, primordial, aesthetic"
etc. The pew does not understand
their meaning, and it has pretty strong
conviction that they are sometimes used
to compensate for the absence of
thought .-PreSbyteridn Banner.
Money Made Keeping Hens.