New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-04-30
GALILEOS ANNUAL VINDICATTOM

prominently IA topic for the hour and even Il
much less able man than Talmage wouid ind
no difficulty in expanding it into moving
sermon. The BroOklyn divine, as everyone
knows, delights in surprises, and his discourse
! this morning is evidently TO contain not few
startling novelties. For it will be observed
! that he purposes to speak not only OF the
| troubles but also OF the joys of Moving Day.
| So then in the opinion of Mr. Talmage, Moving
| Dav has its lows We wonder if he has ever
movedf We trow not, else of a certainty he
would contne himself TO the troubles OF Nov
ing Day, realizing that JOY and Moving Day,
| like PARALLELS, never meet.
The first of May is the perpetual vlndlcatlOn
of Calico. He said that the world moved and
although the bosses of his day bulldozed him
| into recanting his assertion, usual it was the
| bosses who had the wrong e the matter. But
| they moved the previous question upon him,
thus cutting of all debate and laborinc under
| the impression that his own head rs well as
| deDate might be cut of, Calico, for the sake
| of harmony in the party, accepted their amend
! ment. But in spite of his recantatlon-whlch
| he subsequently recaDted-Galileo has always
| bern-althOugh some of them may not be aware
of the fact-the patron saint of those that
move. 1t is understood that as his latter end
drew near he remarked to reporter Of the
| period who was Interviewing him ! leave my
vindication to people who move. and to the con-
scouent cartmen, until the end of time" But
passing from Galllei Calico of Pisa to T. De
Witt Talmage of Brooklyn. it is an occasion tor
general congratulation that the latter has dis
| covered new method of meeting the troubles
of Moving Day For it cannot be worse, and
may be great improvement upon the method
now in use. The current method Is conditioned
largely upon a generous Use of all the more
emphatic imprecatorv adjectvcs ami Substan-
tives in the language and the recording OF fire.
quent solemn oaths never to move again for amy
cause short of smallpox OF fire. We haven't
been favored with an advance copy OF Mr.
TalmageS morning sermon, 80 we are unable
TO state what is his plan of meeting the troubles
of Moving Day But we can confidently assure
him that allusi0ns to job will not answer. job
did indeed develop the virtue of patience to
an extraordinary degree But since he never
moved every first of May, Mr.. Talmage cannot
hope that the half million. more OF less, OF
New York and Brooklyn people who tomorrow
will move ont Ot the old house into the new,
only to discover how sharper than scrpentS
tooth it is not 10 know when they were well of,
will be sOOthed and sustained all Monday by
causing pictures of Job to pass before their
minds ewes. We are not 10 be understood is
disparaging Job. Were he still in the flesh
and called upon to move on Monday, it is pos
sible ne would approach the trial like one who
wraps the drapcry of his couch about him and
lies down TO pleasant dreams. and that he
would come out Of it with the consciousness
that he had never once talked in italics
during the day, not even when he discovered
that the roof and the stationary waShtubs of
the new house leaked worse than those in the
old, or that the Wayfarinc man whom he hired
at 81 an hour to help him move had broken the
best vases and Appropriated his ovcrcoat con-
tanning the front door key and tho baby
bottle. 1t is possible, we say, that Job would
be as unruliled as a Quaker dress hut since he
never was called upon to pass through this
particular fiery furnace, pointing to him rs a
recipe for meeting the troubles of Moving Day
is far from satisfying. We do not forget that
he remained calm a. Louisiana witness under
a large quantity of highly exaspcrating circum
stances But Napoleon had his Waterloo. and
1t is quite possible il Jobs wife, after ten
years of consecutive and heartbrealling nov
ing, when the next spring came round had
casually made mention OF seeing n house In
another quarter of town that she inst fancied,
that her lord would have grown purple IN the
face with rage and have taken on 50 that
the family would have felt constrained to call
in the police and to smite him with the reprOof
40 come, Job, don't make a Perry Belmont of
yourself"
One of Edward Everett's most notable era
tons contains "A passage of marked beauty and
force which those who move will. or ut least
ought to, appreciate We submit it here, trust
ing that all who have that awful, that unspeak
able. duty to perform tom orrow, may find
some comfort in it, more comfort III Mr. Tai
mage's sermon, and that in any event Tuesday
is to find them still alive, even though they
be SO many human wrecks of their former
selves. This is the Everett passage Yes,
ait does move Bigots may make thee re-
cant it, but it moves nevertheless. Yes the
q earth moves and the planets move and the
mighty waters move, and the great sweeping
tides of air move, and the empires of men
move and the world of thought moves ever
onward and upward to higher facts and holder
u theories"
Old and experienced movers will be likely
to find fault with this stately tribute on the
ground that it contains no reference to any of
those practical phases Of moving which will