Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-05-11


DR.. Tamagc calls the roll of many stir
ring memories and intcrprcts the meaning
of lifes vicissitudcs The text is Psalms
xxxix 3, while | was musing the fire
burned
Here is David, tho psamist, with tho
lorcfnger of his right hand against his
temple and the door shut against tho
world engaged in contemplation. And it
would he we'll for us to take the same pos
turc often while we sit down in sweet soil
tudc to contemplate.
In u small island Off the coast Of Nova
Scotia | once passed a sabbath in delight
full solitude for | had resolved that I
would havo one day of entire quiet before
entered upon autumnal work. thought
70 have spent the day i'm laying out plans
for Christian work, but instead of that it
became day of tender rcmnisccnce. I
reviewed my paStorato; l shook hands
with an old departed friend, whom l shall
greet again when the curtains of life are
lifted The days Of my boyhood came
back, and | was 10 years of age, and
was s. and was 3. There was but ono
house on the island and yet from sabbath
Jaybrcak when the bird chant woke me,
until the evening melted into the bay of
"huS' AlOih 0hoi' w siul" ''''o "o'e to'i
'""uS"i'~ i,'S'i'oi .''' anu .H' SroNeH "cio
mum WIN voices tha' hau lonB ago
ceased
Youth Is apt too much to spend nll its
time in looking forward. Old age is apt
too much to spend all It's time in looking
backward. People in midlifc and on the
apex look both ways. 1t would be well
for us, l think, however, to spend more
'liiio III re'nli'lsVchoo' ny '"e co"a.'''!uioii
vi our nature We spenu inosU vi 'ho oiiiio
io'Ni"S ~, war" anu VIZ N'', ~!
Vi peoPio NV NV =" inu.n !" WV pi'a0.'U
&c =" WV iuV.''I' 'in" e''o'V Wv n..,n
--o.,.soI, nnl ,Lo oE,,,,ta,.ns .ha+ ,.o,, ~,
90. re- ,cbi.,.,, .,hs,rb . CROFT d.,l NJ ,our
ti,,,o ri s,,, ~, b.r,' IN ,bis - - doos
not mako vo, discontcntnd with Tho nrcs-
ont or dis6u,1ifv vou for ovistiry dntios
II is, usafu1 thing sometimes ia lool; Incl,
ord to 200 Tho dancers ,ro have ooc,rod
,,I o., ,an .ln -, ,,,', h,,,a ,,,y,,,ot
and tho +riols and ,,ordorirt,s Of o,r
artbl,. ,;,r,i,,,oc, ,,,I t, s,,,, a., ,,,r on,
,o,,,nonts 7 ,nonr On f,ros uod nav holm
mo 70 stir nm yo,,r r,onory Of tbn mast
sn tbat In +bn ro,,io,y Won, NOV, bo n,,cn,,r,
sa o,d l,,n,iI,d a,,J ,',,. -l,', =.
Tha,o 10 a cbanol IN TSIoro,do ,,,itb =,
f-osc, h,- C,ido T. ,ras oo,,,raI ~, ,,,ith
two inches OF stucco until our American
and European artists went there, and after
long toll removed the covering and re-
+rocsd tho frosco Ava ~, a,ysra Oh =
~ ,. - a. -. ,.itL -. g
you, is all covered up with obliterations
and l now propose, so far as the Lord may
help me, to take away tho covering, that
the old picture may shine out again.
want to bind In one sheaf all your past
advantages and want to bind in another
theat all your past adversities 1t is a
precious harvest, and l must DO cautious
how / swing the scythe.
Our Early Associations.
Anon, tho ,,ro.test adv.r+,oes If vonr
INST lifa Sroro -, all, ho,,a ga &c s,,r-
roundirrs rho had n.r of tho day for
III, most ,.rt din tbnir heated n,csions
ont of the boiling surjue of an unbappy
home We are not surprised to find that
byron heart was a concentration of sin
when we hear his mother was abandoned
and that she made sport of his infirmity
and often called him 1.-THE lame brat "
He who has vicious parents has to fight
every inch Of his way If he would main
tain his integrity and at last reach the
home of the good in heaven. Perhaps
your early home was in city Ii may
have been when PENNSYLVANIA avenue
Washington, was residential, as now it is
commercial, and Canal street, New York
was far nm TOWN That old bouSe in III,