The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-02-28
In life not to be cheerful is t
baspheme against God.

In life not to be cheerful IS t.
blaspheme against God.
BY the very consttu tion of our ma
| ture, moral evil is its own curse.
Right thinking hinges upon right
doing as much as does right dong up
on right thinking.
The scaffold on which truth is gibbet-
ed sways the future because God stands
within shadow -t Rev. \. j, Behends'
Self will kills our gratitude, and in
doing so renders the soil Of our hearts
unfit for the culture of any Of the
Christian races.
The value Of a man as member OF
hnman society depends very largely up
on the sort of idea that gets hold upon
him. - Rev. j. Sand,rson.
Every now a0d then a mans mind is
TO stretched by a new idea or sensation
and never snrinks back to its former
dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes.
No faith is vital which does not sup
ply itself with virtue. That faith is a
fiction which does not fruit in self
sacrifice and righteousness. Geo. ID.
Hem, ID. ID.
If God had intended that man
should go backward lie would have
given him an eye in the back Of his
head. Let us look always toward the
dawn, the blossom time, the hour # !
new birth.
In universe of change one thing is
tiXed-the love of God and in all the
Of starry splendors and un
fathomabe depths and unthinkable |
man cannot fall out Of the |
hands Of the living God. -t Rev, c. +. |
Aked.
The crucial question in the matter
is, docs Jesus Christ approve OF
foreign missions?' Is it His will that
We spend our money and devote our
energies only at home under the shad
w Of our own steeples while the
cations sit in darkness? Did He come
o preach TO a favored few Rev. d.
!. Wylic.
Mr. Story was once showing fried,
Who was visiting him in Rome. his
ecent work. For which of the
Kings you have done" asked his
riend, do you care most. " II care
most said the sculptor, for the
tatue | am to carve next" 1t is not ,
achievement which brings hope, conso-
alton, and spiration.it is opportunity. :
t We are immortal, the future is our r
eality, not the past. - The Outlook.
The art of life consists in taking t
ach event which befalls us with a
mind, confident of good.
his makes us grow younger as we =
row older, for youth and Joy come !
,om the soul TO the body more than
,om the body to the soul. With this J
lethod and art and temper of life, we |,
We, though We may be dying. We
,joice always, though in the midst of
lrrows; and possess all things. a
lough destitute of everything. - 1
James Freeman Clarke. D
People often speak of the solemnity -
dying. 1t is a grave and serious "
after but it is a great deal more -
'lemn thing to live. Dying is but :,
wing back into COTS hand His own =,
ft-life; and if we have lived we, ~
ling Is victory, glory, the trampling of %
fe's Opaque dome to fragments. az b
II soul bursts into real and full life !
I'd blessedness. 1t is living that is :,
rious and solemn. Life TO its last -, ="
rticle is our Lords property, in ";
listed to us to be used SO that it shall -
ow. Then comes the judgment We ~
all have to look up into our Lords a.. az
e. and tell Him what we have done !.
tn His pound. We shall be expect ~ ~
to return our trust, not only kept ~ ~;
fe, but enhanced in value. ID. Il. p
Her, ID. d. IN
Mr.. Lecky writes. that in the Irish a.
ends it is told of lake in Munster da
1t there were two islands in it into Oh
? of them death could never enter: rn,
I age was there and sickness and all
: infirmities of life and the pains -.
! woes of dreadful suffering: and ri
inhabitants, worn and feeble.
we'd under burdens which they could dol
support and which they could not ba'
ow off, grew tired of their immor- IL
Ity and looked longingly over to the fnl
er island where death reigned. as NM
a very paradise. They launched fro
ir boats upon the gloomy and tenn sne
tuous waters and sailed for the ~
re where they were sure to die. and ono
an their trembling feet trod upon inc
IN, they were at rest. We need !
shrink from death if we have full mo,
ID the mission of our life, but well NOT
he its boon and a GROWING reward. pla
Burdett Hart, ID. ID. I,r'
ures. absolute, permanent cures sne
G given Ho DIS Sarsaparilla tbo PO