The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-09-20

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braska. sir to you.
You're a gentleman and
a schoie-. ....u what is much more import
ant, you are man of sense knew that
before l knew what you'd been saying.
BY what token2
heard the unco guild a calling of YOU
names
Is it justifiabIe to listen to a minister
say things you 90 not like-ir the motive
should hate to think Of the great
tnrOng or the unJusulled who would
tnrong the churches II 1t Is not.
4 never went 10 church in my life with
OUT nearing something didn't like
either IN the sermon. o. in the prayer, or
IN u ne nymns-put what OF II?
W no am 1, who is the average mortal
anyway to set himself or herself up IN
Judgment over the creeds of the rest of
or ali the cIamorous nuisanees on earth.
commend me 10 the man with the siren
Hes never strenuous about his own
It's what the other man believes. or
does not believe, or ought to believe, that
He's the sort of creature who would
interrupt a funeral discourse to tell the
mournefs what the real character of the
deceased was-as he saw it.
Who cares what you believe or do not
believe. my poor. deluded .self-lover2
ing discomfort or unhappiness to one 1
loved, I'd do my best to dissuade him
from it.
If. on the contrary, it made him happy
to believe that this universe was ruled
over by a jealous and revengeful Being.
who damns unbaptized infants to eternal
torment just for being born. why I'd
call up my most amiable smile and let
him be happy-in his own peculiar way.
The man who is always arising and an
nouncing that he cannot sit silent under
this or stand by and hear that. is the
most effulgent and unanimous nuisance
OF the whole tribe of nuisances who at
tlict the human race like so many irri-
Why can't he sit silent and stand by?
Other men have done it and lived.
Some of US have TO stand by ana listen
to him, for instance-why should he be
gloriously exempt?
When I was very. very young
thought it was my duty to tell the wait
ing world the ''trewth' about everything.
old my teacher she didn't know thing
She didn't. but she knew a whole lot
about good manners which | would have
done well to learn.
told my mother that she was really
stupid about the things girl of ought
TO wear to party
Would she had taught me lesson in
discreet silence at that very moment.
And 1 told my Sunday school superin-
tendent that had my doubts about God
me that there didn't seem to be much
cOmmotion in the heavens over my sad
state OF nina.
I'm older and I hope a little less con-
ceited and bit wiser.
II a good man or a good woman is SLAM
dered in my presence I will defend them
though the heavens fall.
But If had an impudent. self-coneeited
child who would say one word of disre-
spect to any creed in the presence of a
person to whom that creed was comfort
and a help. I'd find a good. Old-fashioned
willow switch. and I'd argue with him till
he saw the error of his ways.
II 7 see a woman having a good time
rocking her baby to sleep. I'm not going
to talk myself eathless telling her how
much better that baby would be If be
went to sleep without rocking. =
When IFS time for her to find that out
she'll find it out herself-and besides. it's
her baby.
II. on the other hand. see a woman
being worried to death by n child who
will not sleep without a long course of
rocking. and il that woman came to me
and said: DO. in mercy's name. tell me
how TO manage Johnny, then viii [ rise
and in my almost Superhuman wisdom
will I tell her just how and when and
where to manage Johnny. sos
Speak when you're spoken to-
That isn't at all a bad motto for the
strenuous conscience folk
I do wish they'd take "A leaf ont of MIR.
Andrews book and learn it by heart.
WTNIFRED BLACK