The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1891-03-20

As an Index to religious character and life
In what Is your time employed? In thing
insignificant, or In those that are truly great
In things indifferent. doubtful or clearly
wron or In those that are truly good? In
idleness, or In profitable work.
"All things come round to him who waits, /,
may not be invariably and universally true
unless, indeed, we take In eternity; yet 1t il
so widely and often true that patient abiding
IN the will OF God becomes cardinal virtue
after faith and works have done their duty
and given place to hope--eternal hope.
| All life In which there Is any value Is life
with God. God has thought great thoughts
and uttered them Ia nature. and He saws
"Scisnce, think My thoughts after Me; study
the stars. study the tides, study the forest,
study the transitions by which plant life
makes leaf and bud and blossom; study these
find out what they are saying. and tell man.
kind" And Science Is working with God.
He beckons Art, and says, Art, come, study
this world that have built; study the forest
trees aud see what have though of archi.
teclure; study all possibilities OF melody and
harmony land see what melodic and harmonic
thoughts have thought; think My thoughts
alter Me" And the artist works with God,
bringing God into the human soul and the
human soul In touch with God. He calls the
man q saairs e Him, and says, II want to
factory. or the president Of railroad, or the
chief of great mercantile concern What
Tor: Simply to carry men across the CONT
nent? simply to get gold and iron out OF the
bowels of the earth? simply to sell dry goods?
God forbid! To teach men how TO live with
one another And teaching men how to live
with one another is teaching me justice; and
every man of affairs Is ever thinking uod's
thoughts after Him, and doing Gods work
with Him and for Him, he really working
justice and goodwill into the hearts and lives
and organic structure Of society. He calls
the mother,and says, "Now. L will teach you
And then He puts the babe in the mothers
arms. And will you tell me which is the
teacher and which Is the pupil? Will you
mothers tell me whether the baby has brought
you love, or you have brought the baby love?
Every one of you Will say that the baby has
brought me more than l have brought the
baby. 1t is God looking out of the little
child's eyes. and Gods casping hands around
the neck, and God stirring and brooding the
love In the mothers heart; and it is God
teaching you, not to think Gods thoughts |
after Hin, but to feel Gods emotions after |
Him, and to know little what love means. |
Nay! He makes the very things that seem
to work against Him work for Him; He sum-
mons the very foes of God and brings them.
as 1t were, to the wheels of His chariot to
swell His triumphal and redemptive process
sion. He calls on Sorrow and Tears, and
says to them, "Come, you,and teach mankind
what pity and patience are" He teaches the
American people what liberty IL out of the
thanking chains Of slavery and switch of Il .
whip Of the slave-driver. He makes the
Tery auction.block reveal TO us the value Of
home. He summons Sin, and the Devil.
prince Of sinners, and says to him and all his
BROOD, ''You shall teach men what 10 the
iepth of the love OF God that forgives and
'edeems and reclaims humanity; you shall
whether you will or no; you shall despite
themselves Abbott, ID. d.