The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-10-05
HERE AND HEREAFTER.

What we are stretches past what we do,
beyond what we possess.-[Drummond.
When Mr.. Spurgeon was once asked how
he prayed, he said: 81 always find II prom
Use appropriate to the deed, and then in the
name of the Lord Jesus, and for his sake, |
simply plead the promise"
What is it to be vitality spiritual? 1t is to be
modestly Christlike. 1t is to have an unap-
peasabe hunger for gospel truth 1t is to be
unswervingly obedientto Christ. 1t is to love
PRAYER. not as an exercise, but because it
brings the soul into communion with God.
Let us be more spiritual!
White sand means pure water, but the
lilies and the wild rice will not grow in it.
They must have bottom of mire, and do not
ask for a top of crystal, though they rise
above both. Bread and beauty are divine
transformations of materials and qualities
| that are the reverse of themselves. If you
want church that will work as if it were in
spired. root in it ground which Satan calls
his own.- Interior.
Many Christians make a mischievous mis-
take in the perpetual habit of narrowly in
speeding their spiritual condition. They get
| the idea that they cannot do any sort OF Chris
tian work unless they are so regulated that
they cannot detect anything wrong in them
selves. and hence they groan and wrestle,
doing their utmost to get into better shape
for the Lords business; whereas, the true
way is to get ewes off from self, look to Jesus
| for help, and speedily lay hands on any work
/ which Gods providence shall bring within
reach. Morbid self-inspection hamstrngs
| hundreds of Christians, VINO might be OF great
service to Christ if they would only get away
from themselves.
We are as those that march through a will
| derness and each one carries some burden on
his back-of toll, of sorrow, of sin; and in his
caravan some 90 grumbling and complaining
all their life because of the burden they are
bearing, and some try to get their burden OIL
sIvlv on to another's shoulders, and some bear
bravelv their burden, and march uncomplaln-
| inglv on but some the nOblest of them AL
are they who stand erect, bearing their own
burdens. then creep up behind others Dur
dened like themselves, and put their shoulders
beneath the burden of their fellows, and lift
! it. tightening the load. Blessed are they who
know how to bear their own burdens as
oyfulv to bear the burdens of others lso :
Lyman Abbott, d. d.
Christ calls to us, Follow Me; and we say
We do not like the look of that path; it does
not look very practicable; we will try this
Way, to the right; and Christ says, Very
well, try the other way; and we try it,and
| we get in among the briars and the braniies,
| and are wounded and bleeding, and come
back again; and there stands the patient
figure of Jesus, and he calls again, Follow Me
and again we say, That looks as if it were a
pretty steep hill-we will try this way to the
| left: and Christ says, Very well, try it; and
pretty soon we get into the bog up to our
knees: and we come back once more. and
there still stands the patient figure saying
Follow Me. So by trouble we learn the way
of righteousness is, the way OF ODE
dience.