The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1891-11-06
Self respect governs morality; respect for

Self respect governs morality; respect TO
others govern our behavior.
Men show their character In nothing NOR
surely than In what they think laughable.
mans worth Is estimated in this wor
according to his conduct.-[La Bruyere.
Every individual who has work to do II
this world. and does 1t, needs a vacation.
DR.. Helmuth.
The test of your Christian character shout,
be that you are a joy-bearing angel to lh
world Beecher.
If man should happen to reach perfection
in this world, he would have to die immedi
ately to enjoy hmsef.-TH. W. Shaw.
Women 60 further IN love than most mel
do; but men go further In friendship thar
women.
AS we truly are only as far as God Is with
us, SO neither can we truly possess (that Is
enjoy our being or any other real good but
by living in the sense OF his holy presence.
Wherever there Is failure there is some
| giddiness, some superstition about luck some
| step omitted which nature never pardOns
| Emerson.
| A few books well studied and thoroughly
digested nourish the understanding more
than hundreds but garge6 in the mouth
| [lrrancis Osborne.
| A great capitalist Is like great lake, upon
| whose bosom ships can navigate, but which
Is useless 10 the country, because no stream
issues thence to fertilize the land.-fTallky.
| rand.
We hear it said sometimes that this Is an
age of transition, as II that made matters
clearer; but can anyone point us to an age
that was not! II he could he would show US
an age Of stagnation.
Opportunity Is In respect to time, In some
sense, as time Is IN respect to etc, nifty /; 1t Is
the small moment, the exact point, the criti.
cal minute, on which every good work so
much depends.
There is something sublime In calm endur-
ance, something sublime In the resolute, fixed
purpose of suffering without complaining,
which makes disappointment oftentimes bet
ter than success.
Our value, such as 1t Is, remains wanting to
our community, and, when its crisis OF trial
shall come. we shall not have been trained by
watchful experience to understand either
their cause or their remedy.
Some absorbing employment on your high.
er grOund-your upland fsrm-whither no
cartpath leads, but where you mount alone |
with your hoe, where the life everlasting
grows; there you raise crop which needs
not to be brought down into the valley to |
market; which you barter for heavenly prod.
ucts.
There are griets that hang no Grape on the
ioor.be II, that wear no black garments, that
close no shutters, that droD NO tears which
men can see. that can gel no sympathy save
that of the blessed Christ and perhaps of q
closest human brother, and must wear smiles
before men, and go on with life's work as II
Ill were gladness within the heait. II we
inew the inner life of many Ct the people we
neet,we would be very gentle with them and {
would excuse the things In them that seem
TRANCE or eccentric to US. They are carry.
ng burdens of secret grief. We do not begin =
o know the sorrow Of our brothers. There :
} no need to try to solve that old, yet always !
ew. question of human hearts, "Why does d
Tod permit 20 much eufering IL His chill q
renw 1t is Idle to ask this question, and oil
forts at answering II are not only vain, but
icy are even irreverent. We may be cure of
ne thing, that IN every pain and trial there q
blessing folded. We NAV miss It, but It n
there, and the loss IL ours II we do not get 4
Every night Of sorrow carries In its dark =
,son its own lamps OF comfort. The dark
'ss Of grief and trial IL full of benediciions.
y. r.. Miller, ID. D., In Masking the Most n
Life.r