The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-08


II you don't believe that honesty is tho best policy,
the diculiy much with the logic OF the prop
ositlon with your own prejudcea II you will only
try you will surprise your friends and learn
something new.
you would take life easily. the following recipe 10
good one:-Sx grams OF opium just before retiring
TO rest
The Methodsts still determined To sit with closed
doors They'll ventiiate their ideas for fear
they should all take cold.
In this beautiful season when Spring has risen from
her recumbent position In the lap OF Winter and Is just
beginning 60 alone the favorte text Of tho ladies Is
"Blesscd Are the Dressmakera"
His eyes flashed when he said TO his ~ie-"Do you
know have been grossly nsultcd? Neighbor Jones
called liar." She lifted her arms from the tub
which she had been bending IN the attitude
OF dovotion and in q shrill, piercing voice cried
SCALED you q liari Why didn't you resent II, ana
make him prove it?" He suddenly took seat as
though rc had grown 100 heavy to bear, and an
swered-"Thats just tho trouble, my dear. he ola
prove it," Moral-Don't challenge man TO tell the
truth. However unaccustomed he may BIO TO that
sort OF thing, he may surprise himself and you BY
doing it.
When q man leaves our side and goes TO the other
side traitor and always felt that there was
subtle something wrong about him. But when man
leaves the other side and comes over TO US then no IS
man OF great moral courage and we always felt that
he had sterling stun In him.
II you have good character you had better keep
away those who have mono However much you
may have you haven't any more than enough for
yourself and the chances that unless you very
careful you will havc . hard time In holding to
what you've got
great many people who have not yet arrived At
the ago Of discretion have fully reached the age OF
discussion They argue just for tho sake Of being on
the other side They kind OF human brier, and
will tear the clothes and skin Of any one who goes too
near them. They would rather 70 to the other place
and have controversy than stay in heaven and keep
still
1t really does not always follow, you might sup
pose It would, that because differs with you In
opinion he Is therefore wrong and possibly dolt.
We the inalienablo right OF every man 10
adopt our judgments, but we reserve for ourselves
'the sacred right Of rebellion" when We are asked TO
yield TO some one else. To write our own names with
small 81" is only indicative OF slender education,
but it constitutes . herculean task In moral PHI
losophy which very few have succeeded in accom-
plishing.
Unhappy marriages described BY an ill-natured
cclibae. who boasts Of IN. D'' diseases which
assume the character OF "te-fuss"
There are some men who have carefully trained
their selnshness that they could at select tho
biggest apple the pile. II their eyes blind
folded.
Here 10 bit Of human nature, and very encouraging
II Is, too ',Arn't you going TO save one Of those
peaches for your little brother" He replied, with
Christian severity OF temper, "Oh, yes, don't want
10 be mean. I've saved the rotten ono for Tommy"
The position Of the clergyman is SO difficult that ne
can hardly hope for any great success until he learns
how TO assume "knecsy attitude"
The charm Of science Is that II solve all
problems and satisfy all curiosity The great question
OF the age is what becomes OF all tho pins that are
lostp Did you ever try to conceive the number OF
these useful and cheap articles that drop from dresses
and necktes every year? Arithmetic itself is power
less to answer the question drops her pencil in
despair for decimas would give out If tho attempt
made. But what arithmetic cannot do natural
science do with casa What becomes Of the pnsY
Ny dear, said Darwin, they all go
Into mother earth below;
There their development begins,
And ending they are terra pins.
Tho difficulty with MT. Moody in Boston Is that the
people will never forgive him for his first uterance in
the Tabernacle. He said that the human nature of
Boston people just like that OF the people OF Chi
cago or Philadelphia any other place. 1t
ainly shocking utteranco, and, II true should have
been coucned In milder terms than q plain and
brusque statement OF the TACT great many people
would have allowed themselves to DO converted II Mr.
Moody had only admitted that Boston certainly Is
very peculiar place.
There somo little gems OF poetry which cling to
our memories whether will or no. We hnd our
selves repeating or singing them at odd times and In
odd places. These two by Hood like tho
signing OF the wind in the when the il SET
ting, and are better than many . sermon.
We watched her breathing through the night
Her breathing soft and low,
As 10 her breast the wave oil life
Kept hcavng TO aud fro.
Our very hopes bell ed our fears,
Our Tears hopes belied;
We thought her dyins when she slept
And sleeping when she died.
There is In Western city what has been apty called
Mourning Reform Association. Its object is not so
much reform the mourncrs however desirable that
might be, but only 10 reform the methods by which
the public are accustomed to express their grief
Funerals Is at present conducted, are SO expensive
that M the plain language OF the original Cells
much as q mans life is worth die. II is the most
ruinous thing he can do for himself hts
family 1t is proposed, therefore, to abolish
the deep black and Introduce only those
mdcr tints which are found in every dry goods
store In .'mitigated mourning department These
goods partly white and partly black, in wear
ing them the widow is prepared for any emergency
which this enlightened and progressive age pro.
duce II any calls to express sympathy there is
black enough in the costume to make the remarks
quite appropriate; and II, on the other hand, gay
cavalier calls there is white enough keep the black
from dampcnng his ardoE This association proposes
to look tho face ana intends by its projected
reform to mako q reconstruction of the family both
easy and speedy Shakespeare is triumphant at last
and the funeral baked meats will codly the mar.
rage table.
A BRIEF LAY SERMON.
To THE EDITOR or THE HERALD
For passed by and beheld devotions found
altar with this iDton To the Unknown God, whom
therefore. gnorantiy worship i'm declare You
Acts xvii, %.
Every one must be struck with the significant in.
scrintion which Paul found upnn that altar which Ind