The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-01-19
CHAT BY THE WAY.

the Peoples Churcn, west IWenty-nlntu streSt
Professor Asa Hull leads the singing.
CHAT BY THE WAY.
Don't covet the possessions Of any man until you
are willing to pay for them the price which he paid
then you will not need them for You can 60
and get them for yourself.
1t was Irving who said of a conceited man that
whenever he walked toward the west he expected the
east to tip up.
In the general rage after antique furniture 1t Is
generally forgotten that the oldest article OF the kind
can had at the cheapest rateviz the multiplica-
ton table.
man whose i'll temper is chronic is just like
camel. They both got their backs up when they
were young. and they have remained in that condi.
ton since.
A good intention is very like lady in dead faint
If it is only carried out it will be all right.
There virtue possessed by the colored people
of this continent which does not prevail among the
whites. If you tell them secret they sure to
keep dark about it.
great many books have been written on the har-
mony of the universe Natural laws consistent
with each other, and when science Classics facts
they agree with each other. Things furthest apart
seemingly really in perfect accord. What gap.
instance between the science Of dentistry and the
science of grammar! And yet q verb and tooth are
times so absolute that both Of them may frequently
be called irregular and defective There is perfect
unity in nature If you only know how to find it.
Not everybody has learned to take the things of
life philosophically or how to save himself unneces-
sary trouble. The old gentleman of ninety, however.
who after a dangerous illness. asked to get up.
had found the secret for he replied NO. it's hardly
worth while to dress myself again.
1t may be a very hard thing to be tried by adver-
sity but how much harder to be tried by the County
Judge!
The Catholics have the advantage of Professionals in
some of their theological dogmas. They believe in
purgatory, which is an exceedingly convenient stop
ping place. but Protestants are compelled to go
further and fare worse.
The man who strikes his wife and afterward
penis and takes her to his arms again can find but
one song in the language with which to express his
feelings. 1t is the one which begins. "Come to my
bosom. my own stricken dear"
A mere suggestion is sometimes satisfactory
a detailed statement. "How much did you pay for
that hat?' asked q gentleman Of 3 colored brother.
~ really don know" the reply. ode shopkeeper
wasn't dere jess den.''
No subject serves target for the sharp shafts
of wit like matrimony. The ladies sometimes say
with becoming satire that the why they marry
a man for his money is that they can't find a man
who has anything else. This is plain prose. but
evident libel. The following lines the other
side and show that in the language Of Patrick
Henry there are blows to be received well blows
to be GWEN
Which is of greater value. prythee. say.
The bride or bridegroom? Must the truth be told?
Alasi it must The bride is given away,
The bridegroom often regularly sold.
sensationalism in the Brooklyn pulpit has reached
the outer edge of possibility at last. We thought
few weeks since that when Talmage describing
the lower regions of New York life he had touched
the basement story of iniquity, but he resembles
building which has many stories under ground as
above ground He has now gone down out Of sight
of most religious people and draws crowd to hear
him defend himself from the supposed charge Of the
gravest crime In the calendar. Christian minister.
a member of a respectable ecclesiastical body using
his pulpit for the retail of filthy gossip is novel
sight even in America. where nearly everything is
tolerated.
The little one made beautiful answer without
knowing it. What Kiss such homely man as
papa p said the mother. in fun. "oh, but papa is
real pretty in his heart" the reply
1t is very hard for people to admit that
the doctrine Of total depravity is true. They have
so high idea of human nature and they
many noble and generous deeds that the doc
trine seems TO prove itself false. The difficulty,
however is that they do not look in the right place.
The depravity is there, snugly slowed away it may
be- and hidden under pile Of good things, but still
IL is there Take your position a country road
| side from the branches Of OF whose overhang-
| ing trees depends hornets nest with a lively
and enterprsing population. Persuade the young
and the DID, the church members and the sceptcs OF
the neighboring village. to pass that way. STIR up
the hornets get of the way yourself and watch for
strictly theological results. Put down in your note
book tho first. the most natural expression of
opinion. as each passer by 10 stung and then in the
secuson OF your closet read these ordinations
/ in whisper.
| This little story, which shows how well child
can reason. is symbolical Of universal experience.
81 think know why fell out of bed last night 1t
because slept too near the place where got in
She was hardly satisfied. however. with that solution
OF the problem. and after spending more thought on
it, said. mo- mother. gncss after all 1t was because
| I slept too near the place whore fell out.
Tho way In which the young heart RECEIVERS from
the most decorating is very peculiar. He was
not yet OF his teens but he had managed to fall
| in love. Some people are always ON the edge OF it,
| and at the slightest provocation tumble over. He
| had already mounted hat and learned how to swing
cane and spent large part of his time In caressng
| that shadowy something ON his upper lip which had
not yet sufficiently defined itself 70 enable him to
| prophcsy that at some time in the future u would
certainly become q mustache. The stern. hard.
| grinding fact In his young life was that
| ho cherished. hopeless Affection 1t was
neither the pa the ma who had for
hidden him the house. but the angel herself. who
preferred to dazzle another mans eyes with the
brightness Of her wings and the length of her train
| 1t was a maddcning thought and he determined to
drown himself The burden Of unrequtcd love was
| too much for him. An inky blackness spread itself
his future. he went down to the pond to cut
hole in the and drop himself into IL. The fatal
leap was taken--not however without moments hes
itation, during which he wondered whether II would