The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1888-06-01
Every Slice of Life Important.

Among the very many wise and timel
words to boys spoken by Mr.. Thomas Hughes
none are more important than those in whicl
he has told of his teachings on this very sub
ject by DR.. Thomas Arnold. his old teacher
at Rugby. He says, 'IIe certainly did teacl
us : thank God for it that we could not cu
our lives into slices and say, Gin this slice
| your actions are indifferent and YOU needn,
! trouble your heads about them one wav OF
| another, but in this slice mind what YOU are
about for they are important-a pretty mud
qIe we should have been III had he done so.
lie taught us that in this wonderful world no
boy or man can tell which of his actions is i'll
different and which not that by th0ughtIess
word or look we may lead astray brother
for whom Christ died. He taught us that life
is whole, made UP of actions and thoughts
and longlngs, great and small. mean and ig-
noble; therefore the only true wisdom for
boy or man is to bring the whole life into ODE
dience to Him whose world we live in, and
who purchased us with His blood.r
No Death for the Spirit.
Our journey is not TO the grave. am not
growing into old age to be blind and to be deaf
and to be rheumatic, and to shrink miserable
cripple into the corner, shaking and tottering
and forgetting all that ever knew. The best
part of me is untouched. / sit enthroned
within the me. The soul; the reason; the
moral sense; the power to think; the power
to will; the power to love: the power to adj
mire purity and to reach out after it-that is
not touched by time, though its instrument
and means of outer demonstration De corrod-
ed and failing. No physical weakness
touches the soul. Only the body is touched
A nd hpL- hnt lnx lot
go For, as the chrysals bursts open, the and
covering which confines the perfected insect is |
dropped, that he may come out into the |
brightness of form and largeness of life: so
this bodyis out chrysalis and when we
break through it, we rise on wings by the
attraction OF God, and by the propulsion of
our own inevitable desire and need, and are
forever with the Lord Henry Ward Beech
ar.
Death is the portal and portico of our ''Fa-
hers house," As we stand under the porch
he arch way over our head projects a shad-
wv. We are for a moment out of ife's sun
shine. But the next, the door opens: and
better than the blaze of earthly sun is ours.
The darkness is past and the true light shin
,th -[Standard.
Sincerity is to speak as we think, to do as
We pretend and profess, to perform and make
rood what we promise, and really to be what
ne would seem and appear to be- TIllotson.
Him that contradcteth we must not again
but instruct; for mad man is
lot cured by another's becoming mad An
b. G. 42G.
Pains, aches, sorenesses and weaknesses wilt
md fade away after Hop Pdster is applied
adv.
To think we are able is almost to be so. To
determine upon attainment is frequently at |
ainment itself. Thus earnest resolution has
ften seemed to have about it almost IA SAVIOR
4 mnipotence.-TSa Samuel Smiles.
Everybody Likes
} he called handsome, especially the young
.dies. But that Is simply impossible as long
S their face is covered with pmples, blotches =
nd sores. But watt there Is no need of this ; .