The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1850-02-01
Lost Leaves.

"As | was coming alung to breakfast" I"
said Mr. Green To his employer. "lsaw a
piece of Halls fence down. AS soon as
The cows are turned into the pasture, they
will make their way to his corn. field"
"A mau must see 10 his fences. If he
wishes 10 preserve his crops said Mr..
After breakfast Green and Watson.
who was also in Williams employ. set
'ut for the meadow, in which they were
drain. When they had
gone little way, Green stopped, and
turning to Mr.. W., who was within hear
ing, said: Hadn't better step aside
and put up the fencel that drove of cows
will make sad work with the corn.
Hall must attend to his own business,
as | do mine, said Mr.. Williams.
Green and his companion went on their
way. When they came in sight of the
exposed corn6eld; Green remarked, "lf
were christian. | should go and put
up that fence; and as it is, | should do it,
if | were MT at work for Mr.. Williams;
my time belongs to him"
Hall has not treated Williams very
WE'LL" said Watson. IL do not wonder
that he is disposed to let him manage his
own concerns"
ut is human nature 10 be sure, and
yet Que ought to be neighborly. sus-
pect Williams has lost some leaves out
of his Bible"
What makes you think so?"
"B, cause he acts as he does. He
Processes To rquare his life with the Bi.
BILE. Now the Bible. at least The Bible
that my father used to own. had some
such rules as these: Thou shalt lOUe thy
nrighbOr asMysrU DO good TO them Mat
haie gnu. can't say how much Mr..
Williams Inves himself, but if he does
not love himself better than he loves Hall
he can't be on as good terms with him.
self as most persons are. | cant say but
he does good to Hall; but if he does, he
sticks very closely to the rule not to let
The left hand know what the right hand
doeth. Judging from what see of his
conduct | conclude he musthave lost out
Of his Bible the leaves containing the pas.
sageS just now quoted, and some others
like them.
If we reason in that way we must
conclude that there are great many
leaves wanting in some folks Bibles.
But the fault is not in the Bible. None
are perfect. Sone have one failing some
another: we must be charitable"
THAT is just what tho drunken man
said. when he wanted to be taken into
the church: but the minister would not
take him. We onght to bo charitable;
but if a man steals my pork, | do not
think charity requires me to believe him
to he an honest man and to treat him ac
corlingly. And so if man violates a fun.
damentaI Bible rule, charity does not re-,
quire me To believe that he is Christian
Don't you telieve that Wi llams is
u Christainl'
1T does not become me to say who is,
and who is not Christian. | am great
way from being one myself. There are
a great many good things abodt Williams,
He is an honest unexpectedly so. !
do not believe that he ever wronged a
man out Of a penny in the world. He is
liberal to the poor, is strict 10 keeping The
Sabbath Some of his apple trees once
blew down on Saturday night. offered
To right them up on Sunday; but he would
not let me and so lost them all. Heseems
10 want to do good sometimes. | dont't
know but he always does. The only
hing find it difficult to get along with
S his stubbornness. lfhe gets sci against
4 man, there is no turning him. Now
mere is Hall. Williams won't do any.
thing to injure him to bo sure, but he
won. do anything To benefit him. Hall
has been greatly to blame; but Till there
are the words Of the Book. Do good 10
them Athai hate yoU: Bat if you forgive
not men Mer trespasses, neither wiH yOar
Father forgire y0Ur irespasses. | do not
see any getting away from these words.
There must DO some way; for there
is good deal ofhard feeling in the world
among Christians
j don't see how they can be forgiven;
and a Christian with his sins unforgiven
can't be a thousand lines better of than
a sinner. But hero we are, and must 60
To work
After they had wrough, for some time
in silence, Watson looked up and said,
81 sny Green, what Is the reason, seeing
you know 81 much about the Bible, that
you ure not ChriSlain2,
There are a great many reasons
more than cun stop aud tell you now
'You must have studied the Bible a
good dealP
i can't claim any merit on that score
What | know of the Bible | learned
when | was young, When | was a boy,
my father kept mo at home on the Sab
bath, that s, out of meeting aud made
mo read the Bbe.-ChildIen were not
allowed in those days, to range the fields,
aud orchards, on the Sabbath as they do
now. Parents looked after their children
more than they do now--may be because
there were no Sunday Schools them il
so, it was oil The better for them
1t seems that your father didn't make
a good man of you after ALL
Il um q better man than | should have
been, if he hadn', taught me tn keep the
Sabbath aud read the Bible, ] tell you
Wutsou.l have passed through some
pretty hard times, and should have been
an enemy to religion. if had not known
amman IN III hat twaan uanniue re-.