The New York herald., 1872-12-30

the line OF nature might be productive Of good.
was not In It's unseen influence good when pursued
IN tne llne OF f0rce Then
MANS SELFISHNESS
nad an unconscious influence. Then combatIve-
influence. This law bore upon the irritable and
Impatient. and Its effect Just as perceptible in
the sullen silence as in the irritable reply man
was responsible for the temperament he carried
about with him. Then there was the unconscious
,Ss wrong done by the undue harboring OF sorrow on
quite true that sorrow must have its way and
there were no times in which this evil was
minor sickness. The spirit OF exacting was the
cause OF infinite evil. Let not your good be evil
spoken OF was the admoniton of pagans as well
as Christians. Then there was kind OF egotism
OF goodness that was very painful. There were
people who were SO very good they had all the
fitted them only for the blessed, and these people
knew It: Their goodness was 50 obvious that 1t
such people Mr.. Beecher prayed that he might be
denvered: he could quite understand Theodore
raker when he se said nt he liked Washing
Pharsaisn that neeaea something ad q nunlan, na
Now, let them look at the other side offhs unseen
influence. That was an influence like the Summer
try, the park or the wilderness where no man was
so many men went forth as luminaries OF Gods
dement's, beenedting IN what they mean to benefit,
as there was beauty that did not know 1t was
beauty So there was goodness that aid not
HUMBLER WORKERS OF SOCIETY
who were not noticed and were as 1t we've, out o
sight: Those were the lubricators OF society, who
ike the oil that was put to the joints on locomo
tves on Its journey would, In their absence, cause
society 10 go wrong. Such was the good -natured
man; the tendency OF his good nature was to
make other people gOOd-natured. The man who
came to the breakfast table irritable was very
likely to make somebody else irritable. God bless
good-natured people There was room FOR good
many more OF them. 1t was q blessed thing when
man had wit and humOr in his mental cOnsttu-
ton. There We're no gifts that we should be more
WIT AND HUM0R
IN him, In the name OF heaven let him not suppress
1t. How painful 1t was to see everything taken in
the hard reality OF life, as he saw great many
housekeepers take 1t. They did not know how to
take life and make the best OF it, and what q
blessed thing 1t was that there was comic side to
life. There were many who thought that there
would be no mirth III heaven. Where did they find
any authority for that? I believe there will
be good deal Of mirth there. ! don't
anS anGw now man can can read Ola
Blessed, say, are those who are the natural in
splrers OF hope and courage. We are too apt to
think OF Christ as the teacher not the actor and
the doer Let men think OF the harm that they
are uncOnsciOusly doing by lack OF cheerfulness
and contentment They do far more harm than
they suspect. The shadow OF Peter was just as
hard worker as Peter himself. A few words OF
practical admonition closed the discourse.
NEW YEARS CALLS.
callers on New Years Day at his house, from eleven
A. M. to seven =. n. The humble and the lowly
who felt frlendliness toward him would be very
welcome.