The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-11-15

HERE AND HEREAFTER.

Unless we first look up, we WIZ NY
do much lifting up.
rho o;,,enium would be here now
~ ~ unad nm TO what we demand from
others. ~ h,, and Inv
Re beautiful and you. will py anu NTH +.
annear SO. Carve the race iro,n ;+homt
IN, and not dress 1T from w %amork.
Within lies the robing room, ano would
shop of sculptor. For Whoe'1Ia o;n in
he fairer, illumination must . ~ GLOW
the soul; the face catches the gu"
only from that SIDE ;o+o
Often precious stones are pua Inv, and
the fire. The Oriental corhei'a, che The
BRAZILIAN topaz change coior II, 10 Tho
'lurning. and the black Spots o. 'ho
AMETHYST and hyacinth can an, oni ;yswel ale
remoyed by heat. Thus lIou > !ew ths
are nurified: all that can stan;' th ne
fire must pass through IT, anu ~ eme
aarce heat of trial many con'in ';th
Mace Christian begins 10 giomh WAN Wan
new hues of grace, at art ,, wnacn 'fN
greatly wonder. Nv. Y. fulie''on'
Nothing but the setting up OF ms ms
viii senarates man from MS True
u I;sa IN" in Cod. And in the strong
ia , Of an old writer: mNothrhg
h,,rnetR in hell but self-wlil. Ing
b'n.n will must be harmonized WIN
The Divine Will, the human SPli;tt'
u n he reunited to the Divine spirit
nr homeless disaster overtakes the SOU.
NJ accomplish this restoration is lhe
vork Of the invisible Christ within US.
His Spirit broods always, over .ho
chaotic waste of our restless lives
restless and shapeless until re. create. nd
;nto the image of His Father. anu
20 Insured with the breath OF HIS own
aternal being. We find ourselves, We
know ourselves, we are ourselves only
in Him. Il Lucy Larcom'
Remodeling of the Soul
The artist sits at his table, with MS
o,av before him, and with his fingers
unodeis the statute-the arms, IN.
hands. the features, everything n'
mndels If from without. Your SOU,
ras;ding within your body, mooel'
vo,r body. 1t models the hheer'
which grow flexible at the piano ..
mat which the soul directs them U
do. their fitness for service is lnaue
NOT nv fingers working on them iron
without. but by soul working VI
tbem from within. So the race
made by the soul that lies behind IN
face. If there is fire whlch ilasiiI :,
. from the eve. or kindness whicl
locks out from it, it is because the SOU
! has fire or the soul has love
there are grooves of care nodded IN III
brow or in the cheek, it IS not D
, an eternal artist who shapes thel
as Rogers shapes them in his statut.
y You Yourself, by your own spiri
" have nodded your face. so there
- in nature life molding it; there Is
\. life hut the life resides WITHIN, h'
to without. God does not stand exlei
d. nal to nature, shaping it with eSteri'
-, hands: did not in the creative gay
4. does not today Creative days 4
DAYS are creative days; today Is
= creative day; every spring Is hs
Z creation. In the ground are Two SEED
! which look so much alike that !e
Z can hardly tell them apart, not at
x unless YOU are an expert; vel one w
: come up, the one flower with one coio
Z and the other will come up anotii
( flower with another color. no arti
! stands and with hand and pru'
Z naints the color, or with model ana CT
I forms the leaf; the vital force Is
! the seed and leaf itself. That W
Z force which forms the flower, WORK.
< from within. not from without,
! God himself the life OF the wo f
Z So everything in nature speaks Oh W
( because God Himself is within spea
Z ing forth. Il Lyman Appott, ~ y.