Around the tea-table . hat seemed to imply that he had taken acontract for removing all the colds of a lifetime atone spit? Do not let us fret over the poor ser-mons of yesterday, for brooding over them willonly hatch more of the same breed. Besides that,our most insignificant effort may be raised ingreatest power. Christ used spittle to cure theblind man. I write these things for young ministers juststarting. Formerly, Mondays almost killed me;but by observing the two or three rules abovementioned, Monday has come to be the brightestday of all the week. As I go down the street Ican hardly kee
Around the tea-table . hat seemed to imply that he had taken acontract for removing all the colds of a lifetime atone spit? Do not let us fret over the poor ser-mons of yesterday, for brooding over them willonly hatch more of the same breed. Besides that,our most insignificant effort may be raised ingreatest power. Christ used spittle to cure theblind man. I write these things for young ministers juststarting. Formerly, Mondays almost killed me;but by observing the two or three rules abovementioned, Monday has come to be the brightestday of all the week. As I go down the street Ican hardly keep my feet to the pavement, and goround the corner with a skip, first having glancedboth ways to see that nobody is looking. Let THE MONDA YISH FEELING. 211 Monday be the golden beach of the ChristianSabbath. Its pebbles are pearls, and the surf thatstrikes it are the songs of heaven, like the voiceof many waters. Next to the Sabbath in joyfulexperiences stands Monday. Two blissful days!I am glad they have been CHAPTER XXXIII. D. M. TT ^E are glad to see that the emperor of Aus-\ \ tria has bestowed upon an American in-ventor of sewing machines the Imperial order ofFrancis Joseph, which, in our climate might betranslated to mean D. 5. M.—Doctor of SewingMachines. We do not know why the learned professions,so called, should have all the titles. Why nottreat as honorably the work of the hand as thework of the brain, or that which employs bothhand and brain ? We know men who are doinenothing for the bettering of the worlds condition—great hulks of laziness and obesity—who havefastened to the end of their name titles as long asthe tail of a kite: not a modern Chinese kite, butone of the splendid old-fashioned kites pretty muchall tail, with appendages that looked as if a clothes-line with a whole weeks washing were bein^ trans-lated: a frail, professional name made to carry abig string of D. D., , F. R. S., S. T. P.,X. Y. Z., etc.; while some man who has lig
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