The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-12-21

The Rev. DR.. Mcleod the successor OF the late DR..
Budington. will begin his pastorate with Clinton
Avenue Congregational Church. Brooklyn. to-day.
Christmas Day services will be held in the South
Reformed Church. Fifth avenue; in the Church of
the Holy Trinity. Madison avenue and in Grace
Chapel and Madison Avenue Baptist Church on
Christmas Eve.
CHAT BY THE WAY.
It doesn't hurt . good man to have his character
investigated neither does it hurt gold coin to try
its ring the counter.
The hardest thing in the world to do constantly
that you do it we'll Is to mind your own
business.
lie will die of neglect sooner than in any other
way. The only reason why some lies grow so large
and stout is that everybody pets and feeds them.
1t very easy to believe that everything is for the
best when you sitting at your oars and floating
down stream. but very much harder to believe 1t
when you Juggling against the current with both
oars and can't stop to brush away the mosquito
who has just lighted on your face and is sharpen
ing his bill for good breakfast.
A hot temper will make greater havoc in Q house
hold and turn things more completely upside down
than kerosene explosion.
When man has nothing to do and doesn't even
know how to do that well he is apt to sing. "The
World is All Fleeing Show" but it is pretty sub
stantial old world after all to the who has
plan in head and in his heart the pluck to make
his dream q reality.
It is possible to find logical dilemma oven in the
writings Of st. Paul To Titus he wrote. Zone of
themselves. prophet OF their own. said the
Cretans are Away liars" The statement cant pos
sibly be true. II the prophet. who was Epimenides.
was liar-an according to the statement he ought
to have been, since he was himself q Cretan-then
the assertion was false Of the Cretans the other
hand. If he himself truthful. his assertion
still untrue, because there was at least Cretan.
himself. who was not liar.
Europeans think. and perhaps justly, that we
Americans are bit conceted in our valuation of
ourselves. An Englshman quoted statement
made by westerner in proof Of this criticism. He
did not SEQ that It was joke. but regarded it
matter OF fact assertion. 'Why, said he, II heard
the other day of Of your countrymen that he
boosted that he could Jump higher and stay up
longer than any other person in the country. That.
you know. is impossible. because the law Of grav-
tation il the same everywhere"
There Is in Heidelberg very curious old church.
It was once Catholic church. but now 1t is both
Catholic and Protestant. 1t is divided into two
parts, lengthwise. and Sundays the one half is
occupied by Romsnists while in the other Presby-
terian service is held. Under roof Catholics
Presbyterians. Lutherans and Old Catholics. We
can't help wishing that the church were large
enough for all denominations everywhere to wor-
ship in and that each worshipper might forget his
.ism" or his ''oxy" and remember the one only i'm
portant fact that he is q Christian.
1t is better to poor vest with q royal heart
behind it than to wear royal vest with beggar's
heart inside.
We are all willing to give sympathy to good
object. and when only that Is asked enthusiasm
rol,o 80. -.
reckoned by words And it difficult to get words
that are large enough to tell all we know, but when
il is to be reckoned by cash we find it still more
difficult to get piece Of money small enough to ex-
press our opinion. When 1t is merely matter OF
rhetoric all aglow, but when 1t is . matter of
money we don't. IS the African said. "ciprocate
worth cent"
Colonel Ingersoll said in lecture that 1t was
his habit to put his pocketbook the sitting room
table, and allow his children to help themselves.
It may be that infdelity produces better children
than Christianity with its dogma of total depravity
can hope for but it is certainly very danger
Gus experiment to try with boys whom we have
known. We once collected the youths of the family
about the writer's dreside and explained to them
all the uses and abuses of money. Then tax
ing out an old fashioned wallet we put IL
on tho table with the remark that hu.
man nature could not be improved much.
that boys knew MS much men and had the family
good at heart and that they might have free
to that purse until returned from short visit ia
the country. We absent just four days. and
then hastened back to our happy home to note the
result Of the great philosophers theory. The first
thing that met astonished gaze approached
the old homestead huge hole in the ground
where the corner of the garden wall used to stand
The boys had had royal time. they said. and that
hole in the ground caused by five pounds
OF gunpowder, bought with our money. Seven
teen window panes had been broken during
game of baseball. and one finger put out
of Joint. The interior OF the house
looked like q rather we'll preserved ruin
of the last century. Three high-priccd dogs we'll
developed monkey and seven parrots had been added
to the live stock of the family sults tops. rocking
horses balloons and nameess other articles of value
had been purchased and were scattered through our
once happy home. We picked our way to the sit
ting room. and there on the table was the purse
The same. and yet not the same. A more weather
beaten and dsconsoate purse 1t has never been our
lot to see. When left It II resemblcd an Alder
man; when we returned It like the living
skeleton. That evening reconstructed our house
hold, and the basis of stringent discipline
We talked about the evils of misspent time and
money. but after all It was only too evident that
those boys thought we were mistaken, and although
they admitted that they had been somewhat lavish
in their expenditures and that they might have got
on without two of the dogs aud possibly without
the monkey. though on that question there was
some doubt. they nevertheless insisted that they had
never enjoyed themselves much In any four day 70
of their brief existence. We have thought the mat
ter over very carefully. aud concluded to keep the
purse in our pocket hereafter and take chances
with judicious of the rod of Solomon instead.
There are people in the world who very aptly
called scatter brains" They do many things
passably that they can do nothing WELL We noticed.
when we were younger and to live In the woods.
that the notion that scattering gun will kill