Litchfield enquirer., 1831-09-15
TKe Iniunctions and Enampls ef Christ.

Among the numerous injunctions ot the Saviour, there is perhaps not one which has heen treated with less respect or more tre- ouentlv violated than the followings
 "Jndge not that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge ye shall be iudoed: and with what measure ye mete. if shall be measured to you again." Matt. vii. l, 2. rr
 Luke has expressed the injunction dlf- ferently:
 "Judge not and ye shall not be judged
 Condemn not and ye shall not be condemn ed." Luke vi. 37.
 How very little are these injunctions re-
 garded by different sects of Christians m
 their treatment of one another 1t Will De
 pleaded that no one can suppose that
 Christ meant to prohibit all kinds and ln- stances of judging. He could not mean to prohibit judicial decisions in courts oi !us- tice, and probably nothing was proh1Dileo bv these iniunctions but what may proper ly be called rash and censorieus judging or condsmning one another. Be 1t even so; What then is rash and censorious judging If judge and condemn my brother as wicked man merely because he disscnts from my opinion respecting some import ant texts which we both admit to be genuine Scripture, am not chargeable with rash and censorious judging? Or if I say that 1t is owing to the wickedness of his heart that he dissents from me, is not this rash ana censorious How often has the censorlous accuser been the one in error! Was not Jesus in the right, as to his opinion of what it was lawful to do on the Sabbath! Yet on account of his healing on that day. the Pharisees ventured to say, We know that this man is sinner" Why then may not be liable to similar error when l thus judge my dissenting brother? If l am not inspired, how do know that the error IS not on my part? Or that my brother is less honest than I am in his inquiries after truth?
 The reason given by Christ why we should forbear judging is worthy ofnotice. {" For with what Judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again." This I consider as similar to the admoni- ton given Peter, For he that taketh the sword shall perish by the sword" lt was not, I conceive, the intention of our Saw iuuI tu ue understood in either case, that the wrong done would in every instance be retaliated nor that those who should re- talate would do right; but to forewarn his disciples of what would be the natural con- sequences of such rash and injurious meas ures. As motive to forbear such con- duct, he would have his disciples keep in view the common retributions of provi- dence, even in the present state. Now what is more common than for censorious persons to be censured Or for warriors, duellists and assassins, to perish by the sword or by violent death? |,
 Another precept of Christ is this" All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them." This precept is as applicable to judging one another as to any part of human conduct. But where is the Christian who would" that his brother should impute supposed err TOTS of opinion to the wickedness of his heart? If I would that others should for- bear thus to judge me, then of course I should forbear thus to judge them. This is called the Golden rule, on account of its excellence. But alas, how often is it treat ed by professed christians as of no worth at all l!-Dr. Worcester.
 1'o0ds, the Genessee Farmer says, should not be despised. During the sum- mer months, they feed almost wholly on'in- sects. Tho brown worms which destroy the cabbage plants, do their mischief in the night, at which time the toads are on the alert; and if sufficient number are put in- to garden, they will protect the cabbage. But it is during the months of July and Au- gust that these animals will be found of great use to the gardener. Although the melon, cucumber and squastrvines, during l these months are of that size that the yell low bugs can't entirely destroy them, yet they continue to feed and multiply upon them in compound ratio. and in this Reighborhood the large black brown bugs often become so numerous upon squashes as entirely to check the growth of the vine. Where gardens are fenced with boards and tight. a few toads put in will entirely des- troy those bugs, which, if left, would be sure to appear in an abundance the follow ing spring. 1t has been recommended to place small pieces of boards about one inch from the ground supported upon small stones, in that quarter of the garden where the labors of these animals arc wanted, as they will take shelter from the sun, under them but after cabbage leaves have att tained their size they afford them a suffi- nianf novarin0 70