The New York herald., 1877-07-22
CHAT BY THE WAY.

Meekpess gives smooth,answersto to rough Que stiuus
Aud tho meek have promised blessing and the
inheritance.
Poets arc born, not made Some one onco remarked
70 Victor Hugo that It mnst very difficult to writ.
,ood poetry He replied, "No, IL is very oasy or
Utterly Impossible"
Luther was wont TO say that three things make good
ninisters-,emp,ation, unliotion, supplcation.
According to Bruyere cunning leads to knavory and
there Is but step from TO the other. step
may be slippery. Lying only makes the difference; !;
add that 10 cunning and it is knavory.
Sir Walter Scott sad or wrote a truer thing
will. exist anything permanently noble and excellent
In the character OF any which a stranger 10 tho
exercise Of resoutc self denial.
II 10 vain to think that We take any. del ght in
being with Christ hereafter II we car O. not how little
We arc In His company here.
There can be no pcrmanency cficaucy in evangeI-
isiic work. either at home or abroad says Dr. William
NJ Taylor. without tho Scriptures, aud those arc al
ways the most blessed In their lals,rs who put the
Bible In 'front.' so ortho minister The pulpit for the
Christian In tho home and tor schaar in the Sunday
school, tho Word Of God IN tho vers ncnar ia
sable
Ono OF tho old poots boastodhat II bo wcrc allowed
TO mako tho songs OF the people he.dd not caro- who
made their laws Boston correspondent OF the In
dependent has improved on this tritesm and says:-
Lot the people DO compelled TO 1--we In the sunlight
eating wholesome iood ana they will make their own
songs and need few iaws''-Graham bread and blue
glass, for instance.
The grcat preachors,ot New York and Brooklyn have
como hilhcr from other cities and some from other
lands. Somehow New York seems TO run more to
money, law, medcne and journalism, but very little
TO theology. Even Boston, with her ph,losophic ten.
sends ono along to this region. Philadelphia, TOO
sometimes helps OF tight places with minister's
but, with all our wealth and picty New York cannot
raise pulpit orators
Tho lie OF clergyman Is generally supposed to be
one OF ease and comfort 10 u person who regretted
to Dr. JOHNSON that hc fsd not been a clergyman BE-
cause ha considered tho MINISTER'S lilo an easy and
comfortable one, the Doctor made this norablo ro-
ply:-"Iho lilo OF conscientious clergyman Is not
easy. have always considered a-c clergyman as tho
father OF larger family than no is-lbc maintain
No. sir, do not envy corgymans Iifo an easy
life, nor do envy tho clergyman who It easy
life" II has hardly grown easier since Dr. Johnsons
time certainly not where the dutscs OF the position
faithfully performed
We are apt sometimes 10 envy when we see
how much no possesses; but did wo know how little
no enjoys should pity himnnstcad. David. King Of
Israel envous at tho prosperity Of tho wicked un-
I'll he went to the sanctuary of God, and thon was
all madc plain him. VINO would exchange places
to-day with tho chiefs of tho 'Ring" In prison or In
sxiles Corruption wins noismoro than honesty says
spurgcon. Truth and honesty 1.-Two aud reign when
falsehood and theft die and rot
nfhc Rev. DR.. McCosh, of Princeton College. tells a
story OF negro who prayed earnestly no and his
ooiored brethren might be preserved from thier sup
scttin' sins" "Brudder," said OF his friends Mt
tho close Of the meeting, 'you amt got do hang OBJ
dat word It's bcsettin', not upscttin'." .'Brud-
DER" replied tho other, ft dat's t'e so. But was
prayn do Lord TO save US rom dc sin oh ',ox,cation
nn' cf dat aint upsettn' dunno wnat ain.o
The darky right that time But crudities In
prayer not confined to negroes. A white minister
In Methodist pulpit IN Charleston, &c. fcw years
ago, alter a sermon preached by aiother minister
prayed that what had boon 'so,gn in-weakness n.g