The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1831-1858, 1831-12-07

mrst be a keeper at home" And how can the
duties that devolye upon the female head of a
family 30 well discharged, if she be not I" a
keeper at home p Whoever has leisure for
gossiping, SIZE has none; whoever NAV be
i.und wandering from hose To house, "hear.
lug or telling some now thing" re must not
A mothers place is in the midst of he. family
mothers duties are to take care OF hem
Nothing can excuse a neglect CT these; anu
yet we often ser such neglect. Mason in bis
Treatise on Self knowledge, remarks, There
IS an uncommon beauty, force, and propre,y
IN that caution which our Savior gives US, And
why behoides. thou the mole that is in thy
brothers eye, but considereth not the beam that
is in thine own eye2 Or how wilt thou say to
thy brother, let me pull out the mote out OF
thine eve, and behold the beam is in thine own
eye! Thu hypocrte, first cast the beam out
Of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly
TO cast out the mote out Of thy brothers eve
Matt. vii, 3-5. In which words these four
things are plainly intinated ]. That some are
much more quickest Jhled 10 descern the faults
AND blemIshes OF others, than their own ;1ey
can spy mote in another's eye. sooner than
beam in their own. 2 Thai they are often the
most forward to correct and cure the febes o.
others, who are most unqualified for that Office
ne 6edm IN Their own eye makes them alto
gether Hnht 10 pull ont the mote fran their
never set up For an ocuttst. 3. That they who
are inclinod to deal in censure should always
6eg'n at home. d Great consciousness is
erea: hypocrisy. " Thou hypocrite,' &c, all
this 10 nothing but the effect of woful self ipno.
rance. This failing of human nature, even the
heathehs were very sensible of; and lima esd IL
In the following manner: Every man." say
they, "carries wallet, or two bags with him
the ono hanging before him, and tho other be.
int hat t.T,. H.. -
OF others; into that bshind, his own; b. which
iheans he never sees his own faifings, whilst he
has those OF others always before his ewes"
But, seli-knowledge now helps US TO turn this
'oaHet, and place that which hath our own
faults before eur eyes, and that which hath in
1t those OF others, behind our back A very
necessary regulation this, if we would behold
our own faults in the same light in which 9th
eLs do II these are the injunctions of the Son
OF God, what excuse has professor of moral
worth. and much less, professor of pure and
indebted religion, for dealing in SANDER and
pfomnigating dscord, in places that would
otherwise be delightful? Such conduct from
protesting moralists and christians is bLot OH
The lace OF piety, and a stain and disgrace to
the place III which it is found Aside from the
divisions and difficulties, this " meancst of all
bad habits" creates, l would ask the public to
consider for a moment, the example if affords
to the rising generation, for, as the twig is
bent the tree Inclined
1t people who boast of civilization. of moral
and spiritual refinement, are guilty of these
acts, who would not be content in heinz n
heather, who 10 say the least of him, carries
tive bags or wallets with him, one Of which is
before and the other behind? We will venture
To- assert, there is not a man or woman in the
community, however Independent. as to wealth.
holiness, or moral worth, they may think them.
selves, but what has as big wallet of sins, of
every description, at their back as he or sho at
the day Of judgment can answer for Then, in
the language and meaning of Scripture, we
would ask, Let him that is without sin cast
the first stone?