The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-03-06

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Amethyst and hyacnth can only bt
removed by heat. Thus Gods jewels
are purified: all that can stand Tho
fire must pass through it, and in the
fierce heat trial many a commonplace
Christian begins to glow with ne"
hues of grace, at which men greatly
wonder. i W. Y. Fullerton
The way to get happiness is to give
it.
Only those who love souls can
learn how TO win them.
1t is not by searching thou canst
| find out God; it is by following HIM
! Our Christian faith can he meas
ured only by the quality Of our self
surrender.
Pay for no particular blessings. but
| for that state of mind which will make
His will ours.
How to live is the great study of
the word. Dying is of comparative
unimportance.
There is only one door into the
kingdom of God, and that is faith !;
only one ship that sails for heaven,
and that is faith.
Following Christ brings some uphill
climbs, but victory and holy JOY
awaits MS at the top; crosses then
will turn into shining crowns Com
ing to Christ must not end with com
ing: ii is those who follow. His lead
ing and endure to the end who will
be saved abide in Me, and We
shall bear much fruit" and that
is the one sure way to be delivered
from the curse and infamy of a barren
life.
Persistent alienation sometimes
kills the love Of the human heart, but
forever he stands ready to welcome
the prodigal returning to his Fathers
house.
To be religious is not to be seer of
visions and a dreamer of dreams! 1t |
is not to be a dweller on the Mount of
1t is not to be rapt |
in sweet and serene meditation. 1t is |
TO be yourself; and, being yourself, to |
take the nature which God has given |
you, and use it in his service by using |
it for your fellow men. He that hath |
My commandments, and keepeth them,
be ii is that loveth Me. We all know
the Twenty third Psalm: THE Lord
is my Shepherd | shall not want - and
be that can sing 1t with glistening
eyes counts himself religious. But the
24th Psalm we do not know so well -
"Who shall, ascend into the hill of the Lcrd,
Or who shall stand in His holy place
He that hath clean hands and pure heart
Who hath not lifted up hi. soul into vanity.
Or sworn deceitfully."
But it is more difficult to live the
,4th Psalm than to sing the 23rd and
t is just as religious. - LymanA bbott,
,. ID.
There is nothing on God earth that
grows rank sooner than AN experience.
II is a principle, universally true, that
he more delicate thing is and the
more finely organized, the more direct
y it will decay and fall to pieces when
)nce it is parted from the root from
which it sprang. The perfume will
from rose and its fragrance
urn into offence almost as soon as it
las left the stalk. There is NJ limit
% the meaning contained IN all this,
and it lies down closely at the level of
Dur need. Good things require to be
made over and over and everlastingly
The fresh river must in
draw on the young rivulets
hat necessarily trickle from the hill
ide Christian joy that we call ours, I
tut that does not bear the stamp of to-
lay, is not an experience but relic {
md an antiquity and no more our own
PERSONAL possession than though it had I
occurred IN a prior generation. 49, c. '
|. Parkhurst, d. ID.