The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-02-03
CHAT BY THE WAY.

It may not b, quite fashionable TO believe in COM
honesty, but 1t Is good piece of furniture, alter
all, and will last man his lifetime.
Theodore Parker once said, speaking OF sin, that
every all is tall upward. II this be true we are In
clined to sing old song, such gotrng up stars
we never did sec.''
In the Museum at Rotterdam is the first rough ana
crude painting OF Rembrandt Close to IT hangs his
piece over which world goes rap urcs
Most oil succeeded Tar enough TO hang up the
first, but many the Tor the second has
not yet been woven.
Hargrave said once that s'women the poetry OF
| the world" That Is probably the why SO
many men are students OF "Paradiso Lost
New York girl Is SO terribly aesthetic that she
| can't b, p,ous without fashionable church and q
gitedgcd prayeIbook but Boston girl IS so indit.
fercnt and learned that she wears water proof and
| don't believe IN God.
Hold thy peacc!" says Shakespeare. The modern
man replies, 81 will better tho instruction by not
only holding my own piece but trying TO get some
| ones else ALSO"
There is good deal OF theology which is H.
lustrated by the following: "A man wanted his son to
marry his neighbours daughter. at Is Gods WILL he
sad. 'that tho Two should come together. What Is
your daugh ,er's dowry?" The neghbor answered,
at Is Just one hundred pounds" "Why, thought
1t would be AT least thousand Well, II that Is the
1t is evidently Gods will to postpone tho happy
event."
An apology ia evidence of grcnt mind sometimes.
When a certain gentleman called his friend liar and
u fool he Immediately offered his regrets, and then
added, ~ want you to forgive me for what have
said but the iact Ia you talked much like jackass
ihut couldn't help It." Even honey becomes vinegar
IN some peoples mouths
The religion Of the Ratonasts is not unlike that OF
the old farmer who said "My doctrine is true know It
is; and yet ia that yoke OF 10 be OF IT, "
Tyudall and Huxley are undoubtedly great men, Of
equal height with the Tans, but their attempt TO run
the universe without Coo Is like tho attempt to sail
ship without rudder. Facts may be facts, but ex.
perience Of the facts which they 10 have
forgotten. An old Swiss proverb was born right
under Of tho glaciers which they delight to
study, "It t,kcs good many shovcfuls OF earth to
bury the truth
An oh lady OF acquaintance has lately been
reading Darwin with startling results. She studied
his chapter "rhe Survival OF the Fittest," and
then said that she didu't know how 1t might be 10
England but In America she had always noticed that
those who had fits died young. ''However," she
added pathetcay, 'perhaps Mr. Darwin is afflicted
that way himself, and poor man, It's natural enough
10 hold up his own end"
Herbert Spencer calls God tho Unknowable which
seems very profound, but which is really only
another way OF saying "Hc Is lar up that cannot
Him" Huxley intimatcs that He IL the Sub
stratum, which is another way OF saying ''He is
lar down that can't find Him." Now there Two
things tho people want which two things they will
have before the day is donc-Flrst 100 cents on the
dollar from the governments and, second, sufficient
amount Of courage on the part OF scientific
say just what they mean Tho times marked by
political and scientific lodging, and the sooner get
up new dictionary with nothing but PLAN words in
1t the better
We told by certain critics of Christianity that
religious intolerance and bgotry confined to those
who believe In the Bible But VIC were reading very
Interesting story the other day about man with tho
polysyllabic name, Nebuchadnezza He was q ripe
Pagan, II ever there one; and yet in spite OF tho
TACT that he WASN'T Christian, he told these that
unless they knelt 10 image no would try the effect
OF lrc them. We have good reason Tor supposn g
tho story to be true, though We have not seen II in
any oil the newspapers of late and In spite of the
that great many WAC real 1t here Tor the first time
may able to imagine where got II from. 1t
Is great satisfaction to some of US to know that
rtanity is not the author of all tho evils with
which tue world has been am clcd.
Colonel lngcrsoll feeding the morbid appetite OF
u certain class OF people with intellectual mud pie. He
has made more discoveries about re lyon than any
man living With Thomas Paine no has found out that
the Bible Is not inspired. This result has been at
IA, ned by both search aud research The methods of
his research he does not give u.s. we must therefore
evo up the Bible simply because the Colonel says
We may say with soIourner Truth, "'Pcars like there
must be u mistake somewhere but II will never do
to doubt the heroic thinker who says he is willing
bet 600 aud IN gold at that that Pane never re-
cantcd. When q man stakes his bottom dollar he
must Of his ground, We are reluctantly COM
fltht nil
that Paine u saint.
DO Kurnc says he knows II, dat dc Bible isn't true;
An when he SAYS he Knows 1t OATS enun Tor me am
you.
dead shore,
De answer Is, he knows 1t, so don't bodder me no
How true IL Is that wo frequently hunt all over the
house for something which Is right under nose
Fur example Mr.. Darwin has been going up aud down
the world Tor twenty years TO discover human being
who mad even a rudmcntary tail with which 10 sup
ply his missing Ink between a and monkey. If
he should open eyes the ings that are going
on Immediately around him he would ind In every
village gossIps enourh-that is, true species OF tale
bcarcrs-to put his theory on an everlasting founda
tion. lint Darwin Is so purblind not to sec this
let hin, hunt on otcrnally.
good rule, In a world In which tempers
generally hot to extingush all the nros you can and
never kindlc any. We are good deal ike gunpow
der--the spark and the explosion come pretty close
together.
A learned doctor who vent out for days rccrca-
ton Oh the ce talked IN mastery way about the
serene, OF skating He buckled the on his snoes
aud alter few indcscribabc found himself
gliding along his vercbral column and the Of
his head. can" no sighed when no recovered his
equilibrium, III am like some religious pcople-up IN
theory and down In Practice
There arc many people who feel with all their soul
for the poor misguided heather, but who never feel
for him With . dollar BILL A pockotbook Is good