The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-08-02

Never does a man portray his own
character more wildly than in his
manner of portraying another. Rlch
| ter.
All the doors that lead inward TO the
secret place of the Most High are doors
outward out of self, out of manliness,
out of wrong.
Suffering, disappointment and be-
reavement may be woven into cross
/ for us this year, but faith teaches
/ that behind the cross is love unuttera
bic and wisdom most perfect, working
out more eternal weight of glory.
Put a seal upon your lips and for
get what you have dobe.- After you
( have been kind, after love has stolen
| forth into the world and done its beau
tiful work, 60 back into the shade
again and say nothing about 1t. Love
hides even from itself Prof. Drum
mond.
Open your hearts every morning to
Christ. Let HIM enter and repair the
strings that sin has broken, and sweep
them with his skillful fingers, and
YOU will 90 out to sing through all the
day. Only when the song Of Gods
love is singing in all our hearts are
we ready for the day.
Bv thankfulness the soul is greater
ed in capacity Of moral insight and
feeling. As one grows in faith by
trusting. and in love by loving. SO he
grows in thankfulness by the exercise
of his soul in grateful thoughts and
unto the Lord. philip 5. MoXon,
ID. ID.
We want broad minded, meditatiye
men. We want guides. we want reali-
ty, we want souls who will do and act
before God who would have that dis
position in building up the spiritual
church which the reyerential Middle
Age masons had, when deliberately
carving some craven imagery or quaint
device, unseen by man. eye, on the
fretted roof of cathedral they work.
ed on Gods house, and before God.
Norman Macleod.
There is an impression among some
people that a man is a better man af-
ter having tasted sin, after knowing
evil experience then repenting. being
forgiven and restored. This is
mistaken impression. Innocence is
far better than penitence. Penltence
is infinitely better than despair. but
life is never SO beautiful after sins fires
have swept over it as it would have
been if it had been kept untarnished
and had realized Gods first thought
for it. ii. r. Miller, ID. ID.
We may be able to tell how many
stars are in the milky way we may be
able to count the petals of every flower.
and number the bones of every bird:
but unless faith leads us to deeper
understanding. a more reverent com
prehension of the significance of the
universe. God can no more be pleased
with our knowledge than the painter
is pleased with the fly which touches
his picture with its feelers, and sips the
,arnish from the surface and dies with
out dreaming of the meaning, thought.
feeling, embodied in the colors. But
on the simple soul that feels the won
der and the hidden glory of the uni
verse. ON the child to whom the stars
are little windows into heaven, or the
poet to whom
..the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears
God looks down with pleasure and
approval. For in such soul He sees
the beginning of faith, which is able
to pass behind the appearance TO the
reality. and make its posessor wise un-
to everlasting life. Henry Van Dyke.
ID. d., in Straight Sermons.