The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-12-23
CHAT BY THE WAY.


CHAT BY THE WAY.
We ought to be 80 Clearly in our moral habits that
when man drops an offensive remark no could be
compelled to pick It up.
Tho days arc at hand when tho letter quietly
retircs from the language and waits for sunny spring
For three months from date, If you ask man how be
is ho will reply, "l'b we'd enough, cgsobt codo ID
the cd"
sewing circle Is haven Of resslor certain restless
feminine soas. II is the only place this bleak earth
where you can everything about your neiehbor.
II Is kind objective headquarters, whore profound
secrets arc told in confidence 10 all tho gossips IN
town. the injunction Of strict secrecy being only an
added incentive tell everything you hear 10 every
body you sec and mako the story as big AMI as bad
as possible
The why Boston persists In Its rationalism is
very plain The Bible says, that ''straght Is the
way" while Boston streets are crooked; and II tho
dilemma is presented Of choosing between the state
OF the Bible and the streets OF Boston the people
are loyal give up tho plan OF Iher city. II the
Bible had said that the way Of virtue 10 crooked
path Boston would have at established itself a.
tho headquarters Of the Christian religion.
Many man Will sit on the river bank and wait
patiently for = nbble and think IL fun who
will scod his wife, pinch his children and introduce
young volcano into his household II he has TO walt
nvc minutes Tor his breakfast. In spite Of this fact
Mr. Beccher says he doesn't believe IN eternal pun
isnment
Some things can be overdonc. It IL we'll enough
for circus company send glded wagons through
tho town to excite in the minds oithe people desire
to SEQ the great show, but for undertaken TO walk
his black span, with new hearsc ard waving pumes
through tho village In the hope OF getting customers
Is carrying competitions OF trade too far.
Some ministers in America answer the description
given by old Scotchman OF his spiritual adviser
.He is invisible during six days and inconprehensi-
bio on the seventh" We have had much head
hitting from the pulpit that we have come to regard
going sleep under sermon one OF the ristian
q aces II ministers would aim Their blows ABOUT
breast high and strike hard the seepers would begin
10 rub their eyes and possibly thinx about paying
their honest debts
Nature Is full OF compcnsations In those days,
when every rich mans will is contested aud when,
Tor the sake Of little moro money, he physically
and morally turned inside out, the or man closes
his eyes In death with certain degree OF satisfaction
Every rich man is insane when no makes his will
but the poor can die OF my disease he chooses
and be quietly put under ground without q word OF
criticism.
What could DO more ridiculous than tho fuss which
some people are making about tho rcmunera-
ton OF Moody nnd SankcyY Why should they not
have money for their scrviccsY Because they are
good Christian mon and arc trying to make their fel
lows better should they therefore be starved to dcath
We not very much frightened when o church men,
Der "raiscs''a note, and promises 10 pay whom he
comes back from Europe; but II Moody lives any.
thing better than brown brcad are all horror
struck 1. Is time 10 stop this nonsense. Ono would
think that n It Is right Tor u CITY minister to get
$40 coo ycar IL can't DO exactly wrong for Mr. Moody
10 DO paid at the ratio OF q penny pieco for the
drunxards no savea II would be far moro decent,
not to say Christian, for tho religious people Of
America TO tell Mr. Moody that II he will continue his
good work they will see TO IL that no shall want
nothing so far this world goes. II 10 the mcanest
thing Of the age sputter about his salary Give him
oil the money he can use. and tell him that you are
behind him with more.
Even mean men sometimes have o spark Of gen.
crosby. One night the vile OF miser lay sick and
near her end. Sho had helped him save his money,
and priced accordingly. Shocomplained, however,
oil the darkness, saying "Ips unco hard that can't
have q candle 10 see to die" The old mans heart
was touched. He remembered her long years OF
pinching service and determined TO sacrifice evcry
thing for her sake. So going to a cupboard, he
brought out aud lighted penny DIP and placing It by
,he side OF her bed said, "rherc. die nowI'
The divine aflatus Can ba made to gush almost
any subject The poet can touch our lachrymal font
and fcol as though centipede werc creeping
upand spinal column rs he pictures in verse
tho cashing horses hoois the hard road to
Winchester where Sheridan changed defeat into VIC
tory, and no can make tho mouth sings OF
gusttory delights, and stirs up the molecules Of Tho
North American stomach by his eulogy god
thcso M nj "
without thinking of brown bread ana the old home
The pot OF baked beans, with what pleasure saw IT,
Well seasoned, well porKed by some rosy laced dame;
And when IRON the glowing hot oven she'd draw Il,
Well crispcd ana we'll Drowned TO The table Il came.
Oh give me my country, The lacd OF nv teens,
Or the dark Indian PUDDING and pot oil baked beans.
III you have tried to be moral man mud TO
.cord with lhe laws Of the Dccaogue you KIN we'll
OIL ough that tcan be koncd only TO your first attempt
10 kate In your dreams skating 10 both easy and
deit htiul You.sec yourself Swimming tho at
lea. 7u rarc tho envy OF all observers. With grace
unparl Ncled you cut nil sorts OF fan tast,c figures
on the ice, and glide in lines Of beauty
and yet rsth mathematical precision from
one corner OF the pond to the other. All
this ami more Is done your dreams. Nothing Is
easier than to 81 alto IN dream and nothing Is harder
than 70 skate or real Ice. Buckle the runners and
try It, Instantly your legs attracted In different
one OF them searches Tor tho cast side Of the pond
and the other for tho west demon tho mos, de.
ION ,ycal typo takes u, his position foot, and
our aroedom OF will c~aporates That which you will
to do YOU do not and tn which you VIII to do
tina. very thing you do. Eacn demon hits up the loot
on winch ne Is sitting, and, with an awui hump
your>organ or philopg u,tiveness comes In contact
ice At tnaa moment you hear what Joseph
Cooscals ..,ne ghterfths soul at sc' Alter such
an experience you generally como TO the conclusion
that nil first attempts should be made In some farmers
far away fronnthe staring crowd
IL is atlast discovered that the discmbodcd spirit
no asssss Dr. Siado 10 wrong on his spiritual states
consists OF an india rubber thumb with an elastic
50 when tho sitter wants to
Investigate IL is drawn upthc OPERATORS sleeve WHAT
u privilege IT Is TO live n age when Immortality
:an DO demonstrated by such simple contrivanco as
sis little slcight hand, lew shrewd guesses and
dve- dollar bill and the thing Is done No; there Is
ole other element needed, aud that Is fool 10 hold
the Ave doilars until no has been sufficiently guided
A modern scance is pericc when it 10 composed OF