Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-05-21
CHAT BY THE WAY.

A great many people pray "Thy
will be done" who would be vastly
surprised and entirely unprepared II
their prayer should be answered.
It is not the ability to be idle, but
the ability to work, that constitutes
happiness. Cowper puts 1t we'll
Absence Of occupation is not rest,
A mind q ite vacant is mind distress
Some people have Just religion
enough to make them miserable.
They get far enough to hope that they
will not be damned, but not far enough
to know that they are saved. W men
true religion takes possession OF the
soul it becomes
A happy soul. that all the way
To heaven hath summers day.
A theory of religion is well enough,
but practice OF religion is tar bet
ter. He speaks with most assurance
and persuasion who speaks from e4-
nerience. You need blame no one
but yourself if you are ian alien ana
a strapcern at this moment. There IS
nothing in your "star," but every
thing in your Will.
Man is his own star, and that soul that
BE honest is the only perfect man.
There is a poor minister in England
who ekes out small salary by play
ing the first violin in an orchestra
during the week. The newspaper
item which calls him "poor minis
ter catalogues him correctly. The
mistake he makes IS not in playing
the violin during the week, however,
but in preaching on Sunday. There
is no more reason for paying man
who can't preach than for paying a
mechanic who spoiis his work. 10
that YOU can do well, not what you
can t do at all, is true in the clerical
profession as in any other.
The theologians among the EXqul-
maux have made a very effective
dogma out OF their climate. w hen
they preach concerning the rewards
of the lust and ths punishment OF the
wicked they describe heaven as place
nnder ground, safely sheltered from
rain and snow, and warmed ana
lighted by the smoky lamp when
makes the Northern home SO happy !;
while hell is above ground, ON the
bleakest part OF the shore, where there
is no shelter from the wind and storm,
and where seals and whales are very
scarce. So long as heaven ana nell
are undescribed facts the whole Worlu
agrees, but the moment you attempt
to picture either with anything IKE
geographical eXactness their ciimatic
and other influences begin to tell, ana
we differ. The simple truth IS that
wherever and whatever heaven IS we
want to get there, and whatever ana
wherever hell is we want TO Keep
away from 1t.
Why not keep fresh the romance
and politeness Of our younger days?
There is altogether too much monot-
ony and routine in life. Before you
we're married you went to her who
was to be your wife with feeling that
her simple presence could charm
away the blues, but now you carry
your blues with you. If, years ago,
She had expressed desire for some
flowers that only grew on the top OF
the hill yOnder you were up by sun
rise, and felt fully repaid by the look
of love or the kiss for all your labor
and pains. Now, however, If the
flowers must be had, you give a man
a dollar to gather them, while you
turn over and take another nap
Disease knows no caste and is not a
respecter of persons. Death walks up
the marble steps Of the palace with as
firm a footstep and as uncompromi-
sing a will as across the threshold Of
the poorest hut. The Gar of All the
Russias is in a somewhat respondent
mood because of the distant and pre-
Iiminary symptoms Of insanity. It is
one of the peculiarities of the roya!
family, and not even his coronet and
purple can delay the approach of the
dreaded messenger. Trouble is
democrat and treats all men alike,
going just where he is sent, regardless
OF pomp or poverty.