The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-12-05
The Anti-AGonoPolist.
AS YOU LIKElT.

Every mans roof covers little
corner of paradise, unless he has Il
scOlding wife. i'll which case the eli
mate changes.
1t is easier for a tippler to go by a
dramsllop when he is thirsty than for
Il Christian to go out into the rain
without taking some ones umbrella.
The dying words of president Ray
mond ought to be written on the
sky:--"How easy-how easy it is to
glide from our work here to our work
there
One half Of the misery of human
life comes from the Imagination, and
half of the other may be overcome
by a strong will, and the whole of it
by faith.
1t is not true that women make bet
ter fireman than men simply because
they wear longer hose.
There are three lights. First, the
sun; second, the moon, and third,
ourselves: and the greatest of these,
in our judgement, is ourselves.
Sermons. it is sagely said, when
they are effective, are like the eyes Of
il portrait Oh the wall, which seem to
be looking at every body in the room.
Let us add, what is equally true. that
!. bad sermon is like The eye of a man
who squints. for wherever YOU stand
it is always looking the other way.
Neal Dow, the great temperance
reformer of Maine, had a narrow
escape the other day. For a whole
generation he has been regarded rs a
consistent teetOtaller. But tramp
sOlemnly swore that he and Neal
| Dow stood at the sane counter and
lmblbed brandy and water. Things
| looked q little serious for a while.
and the temperance folk in that far.off
region felt that even the greatest Of
us will once in a while have a fall.
The tramp, however. on the cross
examination explained that he drank
the brandy and Neal Dow the water,
and the whole State of Maine
breathed freely once more.
Mr.. Talmage says that if he could
only connect all the telegraph opera
tors and all the editors the whole
earth would hear salvation's call in
twenty-fonr hours. He simply means
by this. Of course. that every tele.
grapher would take his religion on
tick. and that every editor would is
sue an extra with an account of Tai
images little expedition to New
York in it. illustrated by diaQ rams.
+ anything can reconcile us to the
total depravity which prevails aaaong
newspaper men and the Geographic
corps it is this statement. 'falmage
taken N still larger doses, the slime
of New York spread ali over the
country, is too horrible to think of.
The Baptist at one of their late
meetings came to the conclusion that
ministers ought to read the Bible
lesson more dramatically. If they
had said that the Bible ought to be
read more understanding they would
have hit the nail on the head. We
have heard ministers read it as though
they neither knew nor cared for the
meaning of the text. 1t is not neces-
sary to put on airs in the pulpit, to
strike attitudes, to roll up the eyes.
or tn mouth sentance in the tones of
i baSso profondo; neither is it neces-
sary TO take quite all the sense out of
IA passage Ivy reading it badly. The
Bible must be of Divine origin or it
could not have stood the awful strain
ut ordinary clerical elocution during
the last nineteen centuries. But the
criticism applies to the sermon rs
well. Ii Il man should describe a
horse which he has TO sell in the Mt
tersy Indifferent tone in which he
talks about his religion he would have
to keep the animal until he died oil
old age.