The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1890-10-17

Moral discipline is much more imp0rtnn
than merely intellectual one for gain In
just aPprehensions of the Supreme Being
Moral and religious truth Is best understood
by the Moral and religious culture Of th,
soul. God is to be kaowu by obedience, by
likeness, by spmpathy'-[ Charming.
There Is no greater every day virtue thar
cheerfulness. This quality In man among
men Is like sunshine TO the day, or gentle re-
newing moisture to parched herbs. The
light at cheerful face diffuses itself and
communicates the happy spirit that inspires
II. The sourest temper must sweeten In the
atmosphere of good humor.
Life Is garden, and you who dwell there
| In must cut down with stearn will, the
weeds would you have your flowers flourish ;
give those tender blossoms-love, hope,
truth, and friendship-no artificial warmth,
no forcing process, no undue or nervous
haste but vault them over with the blue
| skies of eternal love, bind them about with
strong hedges of faith, and give them sun-
shine and fresh air and sweet rains and give
them care and everyday attention. Tor these
they will need more than anything else.
And whenever you have moment to spare,
pull . weed-but never hower-out of your
neighbor's garden, that 1t may be as fair as
your own.
When Latimer was on trial for heresy, he
heard the scratch Of pen behind the tapes
try. In moment he bethought himself that
every word he spoke was taken down, and
Re says that he was very careful what words
he uttered. Behind the veil that hides eter-
nifty Is a record.book, in which our every syl.
liable Is taken down. Even the most trivial
are not forgotten, for the Lord Jesus tells us
that Every idle word that men shall speaR,
they shall give account thereof in the day OF
judgment" If our words have an eternity
of existence, II good words have so potent an
TO Ill lilo MIL
sonous speech works such perennial mis-.
chief, how needful Is the perpetual utterance
of the prayer, "Set watch, o Lord, before
my mouth; keep the door of my lips"
Theodore l.. Cuyler, d. D.
As we 60 to botany to learn the life of
flowers; as we 90 to grammar to learn the
art of expression. SO we 60 to the Bible to
learn the great lesson that beats in the heart
OF man, and will so long. as GOD Is God and
selves with studying Bible helps, which have
now become so full as to be almost hindrances
instead of helps. We are to study the Bible
not In the letter, but In the spirit that shines
through It. One may be well up In the Bible,
and yet not really know the real Bible.
We are not to study the Bible alone, but life
tself by means of 1t No man learns how to |
A man may look at telescope all bis life and |
ret learn nothing. He must turn 1t toward
he stars : and SO the Bible must be turned
oward God.-rLyman Abbott, d. D..
The very fact that men call themselves
Is declaration that they are seek
ng tor city. Do you act up to your dec
aration? Is your Christianity matter of
p or life? Have you pitched your tents
inside the city, to confirm your declaration
hat you do not belong to this community!
md do you live as In 1t, but not of It.! Our
UPWARD lives ought to make most distinctly
manifest that we are citizens of the heavens,
nd that will be made manifest by abstinence
rom great deal. There are many things,
ght enough In themselves, which are not 4
xpedient, and tbssefo~e not right, for a J
hristian man to do, II they fasten him down I
this present And you will have to cut :
ourselves loose from good deal that other \
Use It would be permissible for you to be
ttached to, II you intend to rise toward God
nd whatever we do like other people we
lal have to do from manifestly different
,mper or spirit. Two men may engage In
recisely the same occupation. For instance
lere may be two teIIers at one side OF bank
,unter, or two customers on the other, doing
kactly the same things, and yet one OF them
ay do them SO as to ''declare plainly" even
that act, ''that he Is seeking country"
I'D that he Is not wholly swallowed up In the
We and high estimate of worldly wealth:
be motive from which. the end toward
hich, the help by which, the accompanying
oughts with which, we do our daily. secu.
r work may hallow 1t, and make 1t express
IL Observation-Disclosures as comp letely as
e went apart on the mountain and held
In prayer and praise with God.
] Rev. Alexander Maclaren, D. d.