The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-06-01
HERE AND HEREAFTER.

A story is told of Boman tyrant who com.
PEELED his senator's to play the fool, masked
for his amusement. In the midst of the sense
less masquerade the masks were raised, and
the wretched performers, overwhelmed with
shame, were seen by all. The unmasking of
ourselves to ourselves is always very awful.
The unmasking of us all to the world must be
dreadful indeed.-[Canon KnOX-Little.
As light of the world Christians are not set
to be looked ut. They are not to invite others
to look ut them, but they are to invite others,
by their example, to look at, and to walk in,
ter tells them that their ''good works." their
right doings-showing themselves all along
their course in life-are to be proofs of their
light-bearing and their light-giving.-[S. S.
Times.
''Let patience have its perfect work" We
are so often impatient with ourselves, not
content to trust God to do His work, and so
hindering just when we want to hurry on His
work. We are impatient with God; instead
of the adoring trust of Him, the God of peace
who is perfecting us, we fret ourselves be-
cause we see not what we had thought out for
ourselves. "Rest in the Lord, and wait pa
tiently for Him." is the law of faith, not only
in times of veal, but specially in the path of
perfection. Faith is the law of the Christian
life to an extent that very few realize. The
assurance that rests in the unseen Power that
is working out its holy purpose will never be
disappointed. As it has been said of an aged
saint "She was sure that, however long any
soul might have to continue in the path of hui
initiation, with self-emptying, the end. with
filling to overlooking of all their inward being
with the presence of the Holy One."-!Rev.
Andrew Murray, in ''Be Perfect"
David testifies to the benefit of the Lords
house in time of trial. Gan the day long have
l been chastened; it was too painful
for me; until | went into the sanctuary of
God; then understood L." Many another of
Gods dear children could tell of the spiritual
strength and uplift that have come to them as
they have gone with bowed and bleeding |
hearts into the sanctuary of God and raken |
their place among His true worshipers. In
the solemn stiffness of His house, the angel of |
peace has descended like a dove and rested
upon them; the all-cOmpassing love of God |
has overshadowed and EMBODIED them; the
''sweet hour of prayer" has been to them one
of devout and holy ministry from out the
Fathers blessed fullness; and they have re-
turned to their broken treside with a sweet
sense of the Divine Presence that will forever
lbide there, and that will not leave them COM
fortress. 'The Lord sent thee help from the
Mrs. Constans L. Goodell, in SIS There
Not Better WayT'
When Christ came, the first message He
lad for men was message of law. In the
sermon on the Mount the law was deeper
nd more searching than i'll the Ten Com '
nandments. 1t was law not merely for the !
UPWARD conduct: il was law for the heart, !
he inward life, the character; not merely a
wv against adultery, but against lasciviOus !
ess not merely against stealing, but against t
covetous heart not merely against profane i
wearing, but against the irreverent spirit. 1t /
as law that laid hold upon the very j
,untain and source of being and sought to a
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ne real pathway to liberty. Law is universal d
God Himself, for God is law, and law is II
cd. God Himself is not free from law, but il
e is free in law He is not free from the law IA
righteousness, for lie is righteous God; q
e is not free from the law of purity, for f,
love, for He is a loving God; He is free be- y
use He is love and purity and righteousness; y
ID that Is the only way by which any man q
II attain real liberty. 1t is by having the
W wrought into his own being. Laws are b
1t manacles, they are muscles; not hind f,
noes to force or repressive of being, but the il
rec of our force. and the life of our life, and n
e strength of our strength. That is the n
lily way to liberty that Christ Knows h
lyman Abbott, ID. ID. h
Never count temptation so triumphed Il
Ter, so beaten off. that it will never assault z
~ any more. Satan has been called Belize d
Id, or the god of flies, some tell us, because
e will not take repulse, because he comes II
lck again and again, because it is impOssi- W
e so to drive him away that he will not re- u
m. Consider the Lord of Glory Himself h
hen the Tempter, thrice encountered and at
rice defeated in the wilderness, left Him, it tt
as only, as we are expressly told, ''for v
ason." There were other hours and powers |
darkness still to come, when the Prince of II
is world should make further proof in the CT
laden whether there was not something m
hich he could claim for his own even in that al
ord who had SO foiled and baffled him in the m
sert. And shall we think that when he de- L
rts from us it is more than for a season! "
ever, so long as you bear about these sinful a.
diss, count any corruption to be so dead in N
u that you are perfectly safe from it hence 10
nth that it can never stir or trouble you W
ain. How much that seems dead. by IA sad &C
perience will be shown to have been only n
,eping; like snakes, which. frozen in winter co
Sc for "A while their power to harm, appear IN
though there were no life in them, but m
ought to the warmth, can hiss and sting ~
ain. How many an old corruption il per- "
ps at this present moment thus torpid and On
ictive in us. wuich yet only waits the re- ca
rning warmth of a suitable temptation to to
'ive in all its malignant strength anew tel
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