The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-11-22

tFr0m Rev. T.. d. Leavitt's Sunday Event
Lecture

tFrOm Rev. +. d. Leayitt's Sunday Evening
! Lecture
| doubt whether many OF us worl
harder than does Mr.. Gladstone, ano
yet he finds recreation and refreshmen
in study of theology, and in discus
sion of knotty points of Homer. In
deed | think it is true that almost al
men who have made themselves promi-
ncnt, and won success in one depart
ment of life, are also exercising theil
minds in some other department
| Goethe turned from poetry to science
and became Psychologist of no mean
powers Dante Rossetti was both poet
and painter: DR.. Thomas Arnold a great
English school teacher, made himself a
master of Roman history Gen. Lee OF
our Rebellion, Gen. Charles Napier.
and Gen. Chinese Gordon were not
only all splendid soldiers, they were
also biblical students and bookish men.
So might go on giving examples OF
many men who find that most COM
plete rest is to change direction of a
mind, but by no means to cease using
it.
Cling with your temptations, fancying
NOuIbtiI dlOHt- ~ Itdd tuC OioSIoPiCS
Of men who have fought and conquered.
Read life of Scott and his Splendid
struggle to pay his debts. read the life
of Thomas Arnold and see how religion
may be translated into duty read life
of the great soldier Napier and see how
a man may live and fight in world
and still be true to his God and his fell
lows; read the life of Macauley by his
nephew almost the best of biographies
and see how this mans facility was
conquered by severe work; read the life
of Darwin, and see how no physical
disabilities can stand between the
student and success; read a life of
Lafayette, and see howthe.man may turn
the most insidious temptation.of world
into strength. Delvc into books and
make friends with Charlemagne and
Luther and Savanorola and Loyola and
Washington and Napoleon, and men of
action: learn what kind Of men these
were, who stopped current Of the world
for a moment and made it flow around
them. Read your Bible. and read Mar
Gus Antonius and Darwin and Emer-
son and Tennyson and learn the secrets
of religious life.
With your eyes and ears you can only
see and hear very few men--but with
books you may know thousands: with
books you may widen your experience
to almost any extent. with books you
may clasp hands with a good and great
of all ages, and feel yourself strength |
cd, guided, lifted by an invincibe |
grasp reaching out to you from the |
pages of book. Ii you do not know
the calm for temper and passion that
is to be found in books. the comfort I
there is from the stress and struggle of |
life the opportunity there is to get
far away from the turmoil around you,
the lessons there are for Just your pc
culiar circumstances and weaknesses,
the forgiveness. the promise. the hope,
the peace there are in books them in
Iced YOU must be lonely--and despair
ing. ! know of only one panacca for
I'll the ills of mind and body-and that
S the love of reading. Sick men sin
ul men tempted men may work out
heir own salvation thus. | will go
arther than that and say no man has
ound a tithc of all the happiness
here is in this bright world for him,
Iot even little of all God holds out
o him, who haslnot,rained his mind
Who has not learned to lorn the world
nd his neighbors and his God with all
is mind.