The Sitting of Peter. A FOLK-SONG. "Behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as i cheat." —St. Luke, xxu. 31. In St. Luke's Gospel we are told How Peter In the days of old Was sifted; And now, though ages intervene, Sin Ih the same, while time and scene Are shifted. Satan desires us, great aDd small, As wheat, to sift us, and we all Are tempted; Not one, however rich or great. Is by his station or estate Exempted. No bouse so safely guarded Is But he, by some device of his, Can enter; No heart hath armor so complete But ho can pierce with arrows fleet Its centre. For all at last the cock will crow Who hear the warning voice, but go Unheeding, Till thrice and more they have denied The Man of Sorrows, erucifled And bleeding. One look of that pale, suffering fact- Will make us feel tha deep disgrace Of weakness; We shall be sifted till the strength Of self-conceit be changed at length To meekness. Wounds of the soul, though healed, will ache; The reddening sears remain, and make Confession; Lost innocence returns no more We are not what we were before Transgression. But noble souls, through dust and heat, Rise from disaster and defeat The stronger, And conscious still of the divine Within them, lie on earth supine No longer. —ll. W. LONGFELLOW, Christ is our sun! How striking the figure! The suu's beams penetrate every where. We live in them and by them, and yet the sun is undiminished, perfect ; .n splendor and power, forever giving out, yet never evhausted or spent. And we receive of llim just in the measure of our willingness to reeeive. Will we open to eye and hand? He is here, ever the saint, ever ottering himself as the Life of life, ever giving himself away Are we willing He should enter in, take possos siou of us, aud dwell with us, guiding every spiritual faculty, refaeshing, invig orating, conforming us to his likeness? This willingness is faith. We have not to go after him. See Rom. 10: 0, etc He is at hand. He waits, haw patiently! "lie hold I stand at the door and knoch." "If any man open." This receptivity is a thing of degrees. The more we take, the more we may have, the more capacity we have. Infinite grace and loving kindness! Grace upon grace, every faculty, every atifection in us renewed. "New creatures in Christ Jesus."— llishop Huntington. Sittings. Life is a flower, love is its honey. Pleasure becomes an ill when it costs regrets.— Bocheburr ic. Beauty without modesty is like a flower 1 brokeu from its stem. A small evil ought, not to be doue, even for the sake of a great good. That civility is best which excludes all superfluous formality. It is very dangerous for any man to And any spot on this broad globe that is sweeter to him than his home. Write your name by kindness, love and ! mercy in the hearts of thousands you ' come in contact with year by year and ! vou will never be forgotten. Anybody can soil the reputation of any j individual, however pure and chaste, by j uttering a suspicion that his enemies will believe and his friends never hear of. Events are only the winged shuttles which fly Irom one side, of the loom of life to the other, bearing the many-color ed threads out of which the faberic of our 1 characters is made. N BW JOB . PRINTING OFFICE. I j We respectfully invite public attention to I j our I COMPLETE JOB PRINTING HOUSE' j Corner Main and Pine streets, over the I Music Store. ' COMMERCIAL PRINTING ANl"> PHAMPLHT WORK A SPECIALTY. LETTER, NOTE AND BILL HEADS, JiNV ELOPES, TAGS Neatly executed <n the shortest notice. BUSINESS. lAICIA and CALLING CARDS printed lo order. ALVORD A SON. Y ertical Feed. As usual, the Vertical Feed Sewing Machine took First Pre mium, at the late county Fair. 1831. THE CULTIVATOR 1880. AND Counti\v Gentleman. The Best of the AG It ICU LTU RA L WEEK LI Rv. 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