The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1893-03-24
HERE AND HEREAFTER.

A Christians working capital IL his fai,
in God.
Truth is always willing to be baptlsed wit
fire.
The prayer of faith never stops expectin
an answer.
Nobody can become rich by never givyp
away anything.
Purity In prison pays better dividends tina
sin in palace.
We never love God until we find out that b
Is God Of love.
No man treats Christ we'll who treats hi
wife like mule.
The pleasures of sin have bright look, blu
their touch Is death.
1t Is hard to feel at home with people VIII
never make mistakes.
1t is only little of the preachers VOL
that Is uone In the pulpit.
1t takes contact with others to make us &C
| quainted with ourselves.
The man who never praises his wife dr.
serves to have poor one.
The devil may drag Christian sometimes
| but be can never drive him.
There is no such thing as getting rich with
out asking God TO help you.
| Good men are hated because their lives tell:
sInHtTs Iuat tuey are wrong.
Whenever we look at the dust we ought tc
| remember where God find us.
The man who Is faithfully improving BIZ:
one talent Will soon have ten.
Not many tears are shed when the man dies
who has lived only for himself.
The sin that Is not entirely blotted out will
soon cover the wkole page again.
The man who Is ruled by his feelings will
always travel In ziz.zag course.
Whenever soul is av d God has given
another proof that the Bible Is true.
The man who Is not afraid of a little sin
will soon be In the power OF big one.
Like alone acts upon like. Therefore do
not amend by reasoning. but by example;
approach feeling by feeling do not hope to
excite love except by love. Be what you
wish others 10 become. Let yourself and
not your words, preach for you.-fAmiel.
Some men are so excessively acute at de-
ttcting im1perfectlons that they scarcely nc
ice eXcelences. In looking at a peacock's
rain hey would fix on every spot where
the feathers were worn, or the colors faded
and see nothing else.-l Archbishop Whately
Outward mercies are like the tide which
ehhs as well es flows; like the sky which
sometimes is clear, and at another time cloud.
ed; or like budding flower, which warm
day opens, ard a cold day shuts again. If
God bless us In taking as well In giving. let
us bless Him for taking, as we'll as Tor
giving.-TRev. William Seeker.
If we pray for any earthly blessing, we
must pray for It's solely "if It be Gods will, -
"tf It he for our highest good;" but for the
best things we may pray without reservation,
certain that, II we ask. God will grant them.
No man ever yet asked to be, as the days
pass by, more and more noble, and sweet
and pure and heavenly minded; no man ever
yet prayed that the evil spirits of hatred ard
cast out Of his soul without his petition
being granted, and granted to the letter.-[F.
w. Farrar, d. D.
once heard of some blind men who were
taken to see the menagerie. They had gore
around the animals, and four Of them were
allowed to touch an elephant as they went
past. They were discussing afterward what
kind of creature the elephant was. Ore
man. who had touched its tail, said tire ele.
phant was like rope Archer of the blind |
mon, who had touched his hind limb. said |
mo such thing! the elephant is Ike the
runk of tree Another, who had felt IT'S
tides, said. "That ls all rubbish. An ele-
1hanl Is thing like wall" And the fourth,
who had felt It's ear, said that an elephant
vas Tx none of those things; It was ike a
Gather bag. Now, men look at truth, at dr.
erent bits of it. ana they see different things
# course, and they are very apt to Imagine
ha the thing which they have seen Is the
whole nffair-the whole thing. In reality,
We can only see a very little bit at a time;
nd we must, 1 think, learn to believe thar
ther men can see bits of truth as well as our
elves. Your views are just what you see with
our own eyes; and my views are just what
see; and what l see depends on just where l
tapo, and what you see depends on just where
GU stand, and truth Is very much bigger
han an elephant, and we are very much
Hinder than any OF those blind men as we
ONE 20 look at it.-[Prof Henry Drummond.
Let me remind you all, ye faithful believers
n Christ, that ye are compared to trees
rees of the Lords right-hand planting. Seek
ear ye may grow downward; that ye NAV
now more of your own vieness, more Of
om own notbibgness; and so be rooted In
umility. Pray that your roots may penetrate
Glow the mere topsoil of truth. Into the great
ocks " hich uDderiie the uppermost stratum;
nat We may get good hold Of the doctrines
f eternal love, of immutsble faithfuness, of
)mplete satisfaction, Of union to Christ, Of
le eterna, purpose OF God, which He pur
osed In Christ Jesus before the world was.
bis will be growth which will not add to
our fame, which will not minister to your
anity but 1t will be Invaluable In the hour
storm, growth the value of which no
cart eau COUceiVe W0en Tue nuTTlCi1e ls |
airing up the hypocrite. AS We root down.
ard, seek to grow upward. Send out the
pshoot of your love towards heaven. AS
Re trees send out their spring shoot and their
idsummer shoot; and as you see upon the
r Of the fir that new green child of spring,
e fresh shoot which lifts It's hand towards
e sun. so pant to have more love and great
desire after Go "a nearer approach TO-
ards Him In prayer. sweeter spirit of
ioption. more intense and Intimate fellow
lip with the Father and His Son. Jesus
1rist. This mounting upwards will add TO
,ur beauty and to your delight. Then pray
grow on either side. Stretch out your
anches; let the shadow of your holy In
renee extend as far as God has given you
porunities. But see to 1t also that ye grow
fruitfuness, for 10 increase the bough
Ithoui adding to the fruit IL to diminish the
suty Of the tree. Labor this year nv Gods
ace to bring forth more fruit unto Him than Fl
haveseyer done. We would not be us TIE A
sanlDgs of the vintage when there is only cs
re and there cluster upon the uppormosf ht
ugh. we would he as the Valley of L hcol, iii
rose presses burst with new wine. This Is al
grow In grace to root downward, to shoot fe
ward, TO extend your Influences like far to
aching branches. and TO bring forth fruit 10
to the Lords glory Rev G. H. Sturgeon. M
"a Psalm for the New Year." K
II.
CnuCh and cold are the "d,pger signals" ar
lich nat-re, has provided tn warn the un- er
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