The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-02-02
HERE AND HEREAFTER.

Omit the negative propositions. Nerve U
with 'nce'sant affirm atives.-[ + nerson.
God himself ia the portion of every sou
ami the deeper our Christian experience. tn
Iess we think Of Gods blessings.s nd the NOR
we dwell upon him. Rev DR. Meredith.
Strong feelings often evaporste IN words
Strong expressions about self-sacrifice or self
denial. ABOUT life sustaint high above th'
world, often satisfy the heart and prevent 4
from rising to the grace talked about.-[F
W. Robertson.
He Is rich toward man who possesses those
Things which man VALUES. He IL rich toward
God who possesses those things which, are in
man and mans rich man may ne paupers to
each other.-lD ID. Whedon, D. d.
Rich with no very great things, but with
the little daily self.denials, the speaking q
cheerful word when the heart is weary. the
patient. steady performance of duties
tnat come with every returning day.
little tbinss, and yet they contain the riches
with which God is well pleased. Por.
| ter.
throw away wealth and luxury because they
make life too easy. Really, 1t is throwing
away wealth and luxury because they make
life hard, because IN them the chance of deep
and spiritual life is beset by many mysterious
| and subtle dangers, over the conquest OF
which alone can man go forward to do hi.
best. Surely there Is a drawer, a franker. and
nober way. Surely, the man who taxes hi.
wealth or privilege and keeps it,, and learns
how to live in 1t and use 1t and conquer its
dangers by continual watchfulness and care.
surely, he has done work more worthy OF
respect than anv monk Or ascetic In the cell
or cave to which his coward life has fed
Bishop Brooks.
All men who have confident expectation
Of future good make sacrifices or risks to OBJ.
tain 1t. When merchants ships are
wrecked, or when bis investment turns out
bad he loses not only the gain be hoped for,
but the means he risked. Suppose, then.
Christ were declared bankrupt. unable to full
d your expectations, would you really find
that you had ventured SO much upon bis
promise that you are deeply involved In his
bankruptcy, and are much worse off In this
world and now than you would otherwise
have been? If you have IN nothing
become poorer IN this world that your reward
10 heaven may be greater, II you have made
the na:ura! interference is that your faith In
the future Inheritance is small.-Marcus Dods
d d In "Genesis."
IA great nation :" divine blessing; to be
a source Of blessing to the whole world, and
a touchstone by their conduct to which men
would be blessed or cursed; what was there
In these to fascinate man, unless he had
faith to teach MIN the relative importance of
The earthly and the heavenly, the present an
the future? The whole promise appeals
to unsefsh desire. 1t is always. 10 some mea.
sure, elevating to live for future, rather
ID an present, good but ii 1t be only the
same kind OF good AS the present would Weld,
II is poor affair. The only reason ennobling |
faith Is one which sets before itself future |
full of divine blessing, and OF diffusion of
that blessing through us,and which, therefore
,corns delights, and Is content to lie solitary
and wapderer for such gifts.-rAlexander
d d.
An engineer took contract for the build
ng of bridge In mountain district, and
spent about $40 900 upon 1t. He had finished
me OF the arches, all except the keystone,
md when the hour came for the men to quit
work. be said to them:'I should like to have
you work four or five hours beyond time to-
hight, for II l should leave that arch as 1t is,
md the flood should come all our work will
,e swept away" But the men said the flood
would not come and besides they we're not
,oing to work over time. But the flood did
ONE before morning and swept that arch
way. 1t was all right except the Keystone,
nd lacking the keystone, lacked every
hing. Lacking one thing Is great lack. when
hat one thing Is life itself. Let no evil spirit
~ friend, cajole you into believing that you
an bridge the river of judgment and enter
aradise without the keystone of the sacrifice
Christ.-[Rev. A. G Dixon.
Every time that God appears to you. 1t Is
n purpose, and that purpose Is consecra.
on and concentration. 1t ia nothing else;
ID the very moment that you renew your 4
'nsecrstion, then will come YOUR new mis-.
On. Not all of 1t, nor yet Gil Of 1t at once,
r God 10 an economist. He never wastes
ords on q man. He never avalanches grace
q soul. He Will never give a second bless. L
z until you have used your first, and used it
and well. God never puts q storage bat
~ into . mans soul, and supplies him with
ace for the next half decade. Not at all.
. will give you blessings according TO your
ed and no further. Conscerated
arts and concentrated brains are GODS
osen Instruments. God could
volutioniz3 this world morally and spiritu-
y In this generation. II every one Of us
uld step to the front and say with empha-
(. "Here am l; use me."-TH. c. Farrar,
D., at Montreal Convention.