The New York herald., 1876-10-29

foa can,er,n It's nevcr well for parents TO say 20
their children, Gc;' the moro persuasive word Is,
.Cone."
In ,hs K>fAcdss OF this week letter on the weak
ness OF American women. u triumphanty denies sne
statement which SO many mon are fond OF making.
thai women have nothing to Go and that they do u
faithfully, and sha, there members Of the
genter sex who have endured more, physcaly, and
accomplished much intellectually. ssshe best spsc-
mems u manhood The writer says with ndirete
which absolutely charming under 'he c,rcumstaaces
and which argument is irrefragiels. ~ have
known whore woman has raised Six children IN
years, and done all her Homework and sewing
oesides," and then adds Bcculcs would have thrown
down his club In despair at such tasE" The mere
statement OF the carries conviction, and closes tho
case without appeal
IL is sad that Engl!shrnau has cured hmsof Of
chronic form Of the gous by breaking sundry bottles
and using the pieces TO insuino his bedsteAd' With.
lie insists that he II Indebted to a peculiar kind OF
electricity for his curc but his physician says that
Is mostly due TO a lack Of ''spirir IN the man himself
lie further says that tho remedy Is Of universal app
cation and gives the following recipecFenr bottles OF
champagne; pour the contents a roscbush In tho
garden and put the bottles the bed No,c-The
rosobush will dic, but tho patient will recover.
Another has been found In London whose crme
is tha, he has TOO much faith His child had scarlet
down his knees and asked the Lord the boy
Tho Judge said that the prayer was undoubtedly
good one but that !, ought to have been accompanied
with cham ten He then sentenced the criminal 10
three months hard labor declaring that II was not
because he prayed, but because he did not prac-
ticc II man does the very best he can there will be
enough for the Lord TO do but to ic down by the
sidc OF plain duty and 60 to Sleep with tho prayer
that tho Lord will both forgive your lazlness and
stupidity and do all your work for you besides, s
rank heresy.
A church debt is like much dynamite 1t is
bound to explode and blow tho whole Institution
to atoms. Last week minister In Boston gavc up
despair because hts salary overdue and there was
nothing IN the treasury. A few days ago another
minister Chicago began to look for larger field Of
usefulness for the reason. And Brooklyn,
which has afforded illustration Of almost everything
that is eccentric in the way OF church methods affords
another instance OF tho kind II used TO be said
tnnt debt church Is what ballast Is to vessel,
but thcre Is such thing having so much ballast
tnat when the wind blows the whole concern goes
down. The Americans enthusiastic and think they
can't have too much OF good thing While It may be
we'll enough to have floating debt IL Is a very bad
thing 10 have sinking debt.
Men have had their own way long enough. The timo
OF reaction is at hand religious sect has sprung
up in Russia one Of whose leading tcncts Is that
is subordinate TO woman, and that the former became
"lord or creationn through some misunderstanding
II is rule Of the new sect that every man shall con-
fess his sins to his wife at least week Such
upheavai OF tho established order would drive all
to Indiana Under a regime of that kind we lost
Far be the day when man shall cease to 40 as no
plenses and his wife shall to do he tells her to
"To armsl to arms!'' he cried
Ann Eliza, the nineteenth wife OF Brigham
lao 1oo has hpcl,n nd In
suit at court In her young days. when
She road romanccs and wrote tender poetry, she
thought it tho delightful thing in tho world be
'.seaed" as number nineteen to tho great Mormon,
and properly tckcted, sent into his harcm But frac-
tionat matrimony has made her unhappy. To be one-
nineteenth OF that crowd, which, being aggregated,
constitutes the wife OF Brigham, and TO possess that
small fractional proportion OF his affections
cited her jealousy and wrath. Her disturbed felicity
has. however recovered It's balance, that is balance
Of s. 900 which the great seaer compelled pay
She has fair dowry and fair face, and, under
the protection Of monogamy, s.l cntertans hopes OF
domestic bliss
Sometimes clergymen may learn lesson from poll
tcians This may seem a strange assertion, but
stranger si 10 say that the politician upon whom
eye this moment Is that political geyser OF
Massachusetts,, Benjamin +. Butler. We have been
greatly amused the controversy between that gentle
man and Judge Ebcnezer Hcar Mr.. Butler may have
a great deal OF hot temper In his heart, but no was
careful not 10 pour any into his inkstnnd He
facetiously remarked that Judge Hoar has unncces-
eary raised his Ebenezcr In both politics and rcl
gion the laws OF courteous controversy should be OBJ
served II il not always necessary to call man hard
In order 10 get the better OF him In argument
Still confess with some surprise that learn
lesson poltcncss from that restless politician who
never forgets TO say tiny dear judge even when he
boiling with indignation.
Rev. Joseph Cook, OF Boston, who appears to be
walking encyclopedia is fighting the evolution theory
with it's weapons He is perfectly willing TO ad
init that we wcro all tadpoes once II scientific men
will only agreo TO that fact among themselves So
long they disagree however, he intends to hold
TO Noses He says that Huxley that 500
years ago the protopasmos seed of all lie, began
to develop ITSELF while geology says that at that par
ticuar period the earth In state of fusion That
seed must have been perfect salamander to have
dured such heat But to our minds Huxlcy's theory
is corroboratcd by theology That primal seed egg
must have had awful roasting, and therefore deve
opcd an imperfect life; and that Is where the dogmas
OF original sin and total dcpravity come from. II is
pretty hard mankind however, for geology says II
from hot place and theology says 1t Is going to
one
WEEKS OF PRAYER.
So much good spiritually has resulted from obscrv
ing the nrst week in January every year week Of