Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-09-19
Some of the New York IHerald's "Chat
by the Way"


1t il the busineas of every man to look up.
Business is looking up, and so ought we all.
It is better 10 keep your eyes on the stars and
to stumble over cod now and then than to
look down so persstently that you are not
aware that the stars exist. As Jerrod says,
if we did not come into this world to better
ourselves we might as well have stayed where
we were.
Remember, you cannot. be suspicious of
Others without making others suspicious of
you, and you cannot spend time in talking
against the honesty of others without exciting
the feeling that you yourself will bear watch
ing
The greatest evils in life have had their
rise from somewhat which was thought of too
little importance to be attended to.
There is comfort for spinstcrs in Scripture,
which tells them that Naomi was $50 years
old when she married. The veterans mny still
hope.
Men trust rather to their eyes than to their
ears the effect of preccpts is therefore slow
and tedious, while that of examples is sum
mary and eGectual
Every person has two educations-one
which he receives from others and one, more
important, which he gives himself
lie who spends all his life in sport is like
Olt huO WthTb uOAhluB bhN lIlllBth uilAl tuNb
nothing but sauces.
A charitable untruth an uncharitable truth
and an unwse management of truth or love
are all to be carefully avoided 10y him that
would 60 with a right foot in the narrow
way.
Confidence and fear ARE almost one thing
rather than two, when we speak Of God. He
that trusts most fears most. To none is death
so little of change as to him whose life
has been one long confidence in God.
MA" said little girl 'do men want to
get married us much as the women do p
"Pshaw what are you talking about =
"Why, ma, the ladies who come here are al
ways talking about getting married; the men
don't"
Little Freddie was undergoing the disagree
able operation of having his luir combed by
his mother, and he grumbled at the manUuyre.
"Why, Freddie" said mamma, you ought
not to make such a fuss. | don't fuss and
cry when my hair is combcd' "Yes," re-
piled the youthful party, "but your hair amt
hitch,d to your head
Put out your tongue a little further, said
doctor to fair invalid. "a little farther
still, if you please" "Why. doctor, do you
think n woman's tongue has no end 7" said
the gentle sufferer. An end, perhaps, mad
am" replied the physician, but 10 cessa-
ton"
During the hard times from which nearly
every nation in Europe is SUD ring, and from
which We ourselves just emerging, one is
reminded 30 strict is the nee, ssity for econO-
my, of the story of the IriAhman. When
urged to buy portmanteau, he naively ask
ed And what shall buy it for 7" why"
was the reply, ito put your clothes in, to be
sure" What aud 90 naked ?" said the po-
litical economist.
1t is easy to believe in special providences
when an unexpected bit OF good fortune hap
pens to you, but when it happens to your
simple coincidence
If you want to make sure of getting to
heaven. the best way is to make an early
start.
A little philosophy makes the burden of
life much easier. 4 disconsolate man was
asked the reason for his melancholy. Il
owe money, and cannot pay it, was the de
jected reply. Then" said the comforting
philosopher, ''you had better leave your mel
ancholy for your creditors to indulge in. Isn't
it enough that one Of the parties should be
sorry for what neither Of the parties can
hclp?" And the poor man went away with
the cheering consciousness that when one is
helplessly nsolvent it is bad enough TO have
/ ai NO Ni''At'ih HhA"ilg NiAhoHe iANNibiiAb
! in the same luxury himself
II your minister lacks magnetism by all
means get rid of him. He may be good as gold,
a faithful pastor, a fine scholar and a true
| friend but in these modern times We must
have magnetism. A simple plain preacher,
who breaches the fresh milk of the Gospel,
| is not at all suited to our wants. We must
| have man of the condensed milk sort. He
must be the persouihcatiun of "A whirlwind, a
man who tears everything up by the roots
and makes you wonder what he will do next
n man who will draw from all neighboring
churches, and so incr us your pew rentals
that you can afford to hav.- II quartet with a
soprano who lives on the high C's and base
| profundO whose lowest notes come from sep
ulchral depths-a man who can write rhetor-
| ically and twist himself into all sorts of log
ical contortions, until you find it impossible
| to tell whether he is exactly orthodox or not,
or whether he is anything or not BY all
means, in these days of electric light and
| bearded women, let the religious world keep
up the general reputation and turn out moth
ing but men Of immense magnetism, and men
who will promise never to grow old, from
their theological seIninnries.
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