Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1882-09-23
Chat Esy the WAY.

Ii you ever nave t1e gOOu 1OT-
tune to get TO heaven you will
find there a great many people
whom you didn't expect to see,
and you will miss great many
others whom you expected TO find.
You would be happier man if
you would take fifty per cent Off
Of the bad reports about your
neighbors and put fifty per cent
on tae good ones.
If we could get together all the
,ombstones we have set up over
broken resolutions we should have
material enough to erect a marble
palace.
1t will do no harm to repeat
these lines over once or twice be-
fore we go to business
Don't crowd and push on the
march of life
Or tread on each others toes;
For the world at best, in its great
unrest,
Is hard enough as it goes.
Ola, why should the strong OPP
press the weak,
Till the latter go 10 the all?
On this earth Of of ours, with its
thorns and flowers,
There is room enough for all.
The Meunonites are having a
irighl(ul controversy over the
question whether II il more scrip
'uraI 40 wear buttons or hoOk-and-
eyes on their clothes We really
ought to stop the whole train Of
progress until that momentous
matter is settled. Life isn't worth
the living until we fiud out Wheth-
CIR it is heresy to wear buttons or
whether true religion consists of
the hook and eye.
Mr. Beecher has become a Spir-
itua!ist, SO they say, in is old age,
He recently attended a cOnven-
ton made up of 'seers," people
endowed with second sight"
"elairVoyants' and "rappers, "and
made the astounding assertion
that man could be Christian
and not believe in Christ and new
er 60 20 church. The reverend
gentleman is certainly eccentric,
but it is a little hard to hear him
ridicule the system Of thought and
belief which has given him large
salary ali his days and whatever
Of good there is in his reputation.
He made the people laugh, and
man in the audience whose red
face and suffering tongue pro-
claimed the habits of lifetime de-
c8red that it was the best sermon
ne ever heard When Satan sits
in The front pew and after the ser
vice cOngratulates the minister on
his performance there are some
people who are old fashioned
enough to think that there must
be something wrong somewhere.
Imagination con S flutes the
largest part of life, after all. a
man can get up early in the morn
ing, carry a heavy shotgun
through the wet grass for miles,
push his way thrOug brambles and
brier5 which have no respect eth
err for his clothes or skin, and at
high noon return home with
dead crow which he thought was
a black duck, and declare chat he
has had the best time in the world,
that communion with nature sets
man up wonderfully, and that
healthy exercise is a pleasure and
luxury, IT. on the other hard,
you equity lead that man at the
mornings carly dawn, before yet
the stars have quite faded, into
the backyard where the lonely
Woodpie ills its cumbrou5 head,
and putting into his unwilling
hands the persuasive saw, bid him
work perspiriugIy in the open air
until high noon, and accomplish
something better than the killing
of "a crow, he viii gaze All you with
"a frenzied look OF despair, utter
wild wall of horror, and feel more
like committing suicide than do
ing his duty. The exercise and
the open air are both there, bui
something is wanting and life be-
comes q burden