The New York herald., 1877-10-07

soldier was selling pies In the street. richly uni
formed comradc met him, and began express
his sorrow AZ the change Of fortune which had be-
fallen him. His cloouence was, however, interrupted
by the sudden explosion Of this sentence My freud
hang your pity; buy pie" The moral is easy
and hard 10 follow Don't sigh poverty, but send
paui OF GOALS instead. Roll pretty speech up In
dollar BILL and the recipient will ieel that you have
discovered the secret OF true eloquence.
proper intcrmingiing OF profession with practice
10 always desirable II either of those ingredients
or noble life il to be measured hom9opathically It IL
the safer way to be homeopathic in your professions
and allopathic In yocr practice II does not always
follow, as the negro song runs, that
Dem wat prays. nm de ondcs sings,
Am do ones w'at WARS do biggest wings.
1t 10 great deal easier 70 grumble At your bad for.
tune than TO remember with gratitude the frequency
OF your good fortune Tho who is truly grateful
has tasted OF the ripe fruit OF religion, and the
who jots down only occasions OF defeat to the
exclusion OF Tho many mercies he received, IS though
he would bring . bill Of damages against Providence
In the last day. knows nothing about the Almighty and
deserves nothing from the gracious hand that led
him. There IL halt sermon these few lines,
which, whe they miss the mark OF rhythmic beauty,
touch the very centre OF great truth
Bredrsni sistern, lir your eyes
Kase dc Lord am good, an dc Lord am kind;
An efyou can't SOC II, you mus 10 blind.
How much roligion there is In the world which 10
fairly illustrated by the following :-'MariA those
wicked people next door arc letting their children play
in tho yard Sunday. just wait TIL tomorrow, and
don't set the dog hoir chickens, that's all
may be SO narrow that no win break nine
msndmcnts order TO keep the lessor OF the tenth.
Hero Is another old provsrb which our advanced
thinkers have disprovcd. How often havo said 70
tho lazy man, and in tones Of crushing criticism,
h>lc Shr M -
our lazy friend. struck for the first time in his lie by
. brilliant idea, should quietly walt round tho corner
until we called from town, and tnen steal up tho
front steps and into the chamber, .help himself"
10 whatever seemed him TO be at portable and
valuable should We feel like commencing him as an
obedien, servant OF tho law Circumstances some-
times alter cases.
II is hardly fair conclude that cergymen more
mercenary other people from the fact that they
always "marry for money" Wo have noticed that
thoy happy In proportion to the slze OF the lee.
We have known one or two who were 80 woak that
they utterly unable 10 refuse nifty dollar bill
II you have any doubt this subject try tho interest,"
Ing experiment on your own minister.
II you hit man through his prejudices you ac-
compish your object as we'll as though you convinced
his reason. farmer refused to buy lightning rods
because ne said It the thunder and the light
ming that he afraid Of All commercial Intercourse
with such enlightened mind seemed TO be cut OIL
When, however, tho salesman agreed with him in his
electrical theory. and added that his silverpped rods
Tor the lightDng, but that his god-tipped
were Tor the thunder he had thom put every cor.
ner his roof Some have theological prcudices
OF the Same character ana value.
Tho Rev. Mr. Pentecost, OF Boston, may bo satd to
have checkmated the close communion Baptists wo
use n worldly game q simie with which to express
cc
implies that tho opponents havo not a single move
lott Ho was arragned, and the point OF
being mathematical and accommodated because he
said that he would sit at the Lords table the NO
reference whatever to tho Baptist communion tablc)
with any who Christian, irrespective OF tho
quantity Of water that used at his baptism Such
rank and audscous heresy not to be tolerated for
An instant Tho offender adjudged to Immediate
death, enthusiastically speaking, Of course Mr..
Pcntecost at retired behind the carthworks OF
his Church constitution, which declares that man
may, under certain singular circumstances, be q
Christian, even though ho DO not Baptist, and he
now asserts that tho Court and not he guilty OF
hercsy. water, waterl how many iolIies arc com.
mitted In thy name
And this reminds rs Of pleasant interview which
we had, once on q time, with Mr.. Spurgcon He says
that one reason why he can't America 10 that
the Scriptures do allow q take q vacation
OF forty days. and no exceeds that time trouble
OF somc kind is surc TO follow. He sad that when
Moses cams back from his iorty days retirement in
the mount he found that his people had forgotten all
about him aud wcro worshipping calf. And congre.
cations no bctter now than they were then. Tho
best thing minister do is to stick to his work.
He can't expect others to do n well ho can Hence
Spurgcon takos short vacations two or three times
year instead OF one long one.
docs pray ho prays with distinct purpose In view II
will DO sorry day Tor some people II his prayer
answered He asks the Lord, saying, make mo to
speak tho truth, and make the white man to speak
with straight tongue. May he who lies to-day die
first" There must have been shaking OF knccs
among the government contractors when they heard
that invocation. We shall certainly look forward to
quite number Of funeraA There will be terrible
stalking of'' among both whites and rcds
We have been greatly troubled OF late by certain
omens in connection with the Bible Scientific men
have attacked It's various statements detail SO sue
ccssfully that they have convinced themselves least
that Scriptures out Of datc past their use
fulness. But N. Roman, who never does anything by
halves, has, with one mighty effort utterly annihated
the entire Now Testament He knew moro than sam.
who stood inside the building and crushed In
the general rum Renan has blown tho Bible up with
had better modify that last sentence and say that he
has blown something up, bat whether s the Bible or
himself cannot bc ascertained until tho smoke clears
away. He says tina, Jesus Christ not the author
OF Christianity. He has discovered piece Of vellum
on which is a hieroglyphlc which undoubtedly means
,hat tho author OF tho Christian religion was an
obscure writer OF tho second century The said hcro.
glypnic must mean that bccsuso NJ. Roman cannot
mako anything clsc out OF IT, and is with tho utmost
difficulty that he make that SO Christianity
dies and from It's ashes rises N. Roman, tho god OF
doubt Christianity has. however, died SO many times
in tnIs way that wc propose to wait nt,lo lest wc
shed tears at the wrong funeral.
A CHALLENGE TO MIR. FROTHING-
HAM.
To THE EDITOR HERALD:-
In tho Rev. o. B. Frotningnam's attack on Chris.
tanily last sunday, us reported In the HERALD he
said. 1--WE believe IN bc m