The New York herald., 1878-11-10

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the river in ferryboat and lest his word should
not be trusted 70 the wickedness Of this city he
brought of his deacons make afdavits that no
told the truth Then he went before his congregation
and is telling them how little he really and
how much somebody told him who professed TO know
all about it, He could not live in such city this;
no. not $12 600 year. 1t is proposed build
| moral home on the Heights where bank clerks and
cashiers have the benefit OF Brooklyn
inal sum per week. If this does not work a radical
| change Mr.. Tamage threatens to take the besom Of
| his wrath and horror and sweep Manhattan Island
into the We must pacify that man. there will
| be trouble.
There are men in the world who are In such
chronic state of i'll humor that suspects them Of
| living exclusively apples. which have set
their teeth edge They in society about as val
| liable and cheerful as grumbling toothache. Then
| chew away luscious bit of scandal with as much
satisfaction boy who has got hold Of his first
piece Of spruce gum. They go round throwing Wit
rol on peoples clothes and pepper into peoples eyes,
| If there is anything in this world that makes man
wish that the experiment of creation had never been
tried. convnces him that SO far it is signal fail
ure it is the presence of that human chestnut burr
| the constitutional grumbler.
Mind reading is all very well novelty, but as
Of the regular things Of life it would certainly he
intensely disagreeabe There quantities of HARM
less little disguses which put for the sake of
| making things smooth; little slender compliments
which really do make life more pleasant and agreea-
| ble There are times when say something just
bit aslant from what think. little little
less and it makes everybody feel happy; whereas If
the faculty Of mind reading largely distributed
should be compelled to say just what we think.
and give offence May Edison never invent and
patent mind reading machine and sell it at such
cheap rate that everybody possess
| one We should all be consumed by curiosity and
buy the thing; should always be fitting 1t to some
body's brain at just the wrong moment, and we
should get ourselves into trouble New Years
| Day than could get over during the next twelve
months. On the whole. it's very fortunate circum-
that there things in this world which
no fellow find out
What fascination there is about the Irish
brogue, especially when 1t accompanies Irish
| wit and compliment; and, by tho way. it's
agreeable to the last degree to be hattered,
| when you know that it's all nonsense. Everybody
who visits the Killarney Lakes by way Of the Gap Of
Dunloe is met and followed and teased by whole
army Of beggars. And very comfortable feeling
steals your heart when the barefoot Irish lass
looks smilingly at you, holding ont her hand for
penny all the while, and tells that you the
handsomest party that has been there this season.
You may have a pug nose freckled face. squirting
|
to give penny any who will tell you that you
are handsome. This is the weakness Of human
nature which every glad to have gratied any
price, So much for fattery; now for the brogue and
| the witt
/ Says Pat to his girl: by the powers.
| A canondhrum hev fer We, dear
| Why We like the goddess of flowers
Sure ye nivr will guess it. ! fear.
! ''The ansor I'll be afther givin',
| Now, thin, d. ye mind me. swate Nora?
It's two sthories high ye are livin'.
That makes ye . rale second Flora r.
New York city is certainly cosmopolitan place.
lnguist has reckoned up the number Of tongues that
are spoken here and declares that if the whole city
were to be seized with At of indignation the people
could swear in at least eighty different languages.
METHODIST MISSIONARY OUTLOOK.
wEEK-sUCCEss IN HEATHEN LANDS, BUT
FAILURE IN CHRISTIAN COUNTRIES POINTS OF
PROMINENCE IN DISCUSSIONS.
The subject Of missions is of the most interest
ing and important In the religious world to-day 1t
has been brought into prominence here at this time
by the annual session Of the Missionary Committee
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, which last week
closed it's abors this city by the appropriation Of
$575 900 for foreign and domestic mission work, and
| also by q convention the subject held
| few weeks ago in the West by the de-
| nomination known as Christian. II has
| come with renewed interest also before the
British public in q convention not only OF general
but international character held in London last
month That Conference and tho one here were
mainly consultations but the comparison Of methods
of labor in British Conference cannot fail TO have
/ very beneficial results. More than eighteen years
! ago. March, 1860, o similar Conference held in
Liverpool when 100 missionaries and directors Of
! missions were present. This late Conference
much larger body and its deliberations and sugges-
/ tions cannot fail to be of great value to the
missionary organizations and churches represented.
| The wonderful of missions during the last
year or two especially in Asia, is matter for devout
! gratitude. The English Church missions in Time
valy have had during the 1873 2000 accessions
from hesthenism. They not all. of course Chris
tians in the sense in which understand that term.
But they have given up dolatry and all their heather
customs and have asked for and received the
ton Of Christian missionaries and the Bible. Whole
villages and several of them in that section of India
have turned from their idols and trying to
| the living and true God. Among the Teoogors Of
| Southern India the American Baptist missionafies
| have had very remarkable success. During period
Of six weeks. including part of June and July last
| past, the Rev. T.. Clough baptized more than ten
thousand heather converts on profession Of their
faith in Christ And what il better, perhaps. is that
the sixteen millions of that interesting
accessible TO the Gospel. The Baptist Missionary
Union here has recently sent an assistant to Mr..
4 Clough. The Methodist missions have had q
| fair share Of all along the line Of their
work. but nothing to compare with either OF the de-
| nominations named. The Archbishops Of Canterbury
| and York find in this giving way Of henthcnism bo-
| fore Christianity abundant reason for thanksgiving
| and also for intsrccssion for Gods continued
blessing upon the mission work of their Church.
! Hence they have recommended the 30th dav
| OF the current month any OF the following
| seven days to be observed in the in
dicatcd. Bishop Smith. Of the American Epis-
r,pal Church. Endorses this recommendation and
sends Il forth the bishops and clergy of this
try for their observance also: that the day sug
gcsted viii probably be observed here very generally
| RELATIVE VALUE HOME AND FOREIGN MrssroSss
In n review of the actions OF the Methodist Mission
| airy Committee the following points will bc OBJ
| seryel:-Tt will be that though the Methodist
il by its very constitution missionary Church, IL