Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-04-23

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pay and when ! see one who seems par
ticula1y desirous of depreciating Others. !
know it is only for the purpose Of bringing
them down to the mean standard which he
is conscious measures his own life.
Is this uncharitable 2 / think not. Is
it not always the purest woman who is the
last to suspect impurity in other women,
the most unwilling to believe i'll of her
neighhor, the first charitably to paliate the
offenses of those who fall, and the FIRST to
give them the hand Of sympathy 7 Is not
the Christ within them always saying
neither do condemn thee go, and sin
no more 2" Is it no always the nohlest
man who deals the easiest with the foibles
of his neighLors? Is it not always
the best man who is busiest with look.
ing after his own sins, and who has neither
time nor disposition to discover and de-
nouuce those of Others Is it not always
the most Christ-like Christian who osteems
others better than himself and who modest
y regards his own heart as altogether un-
Trustworthy 2 think So
Who art thou that judgest another
mans servant p Who gave you authority
to measure other peoples corn by your pnr-
ticuar bushel Who gave you liberty to
thrust forward your tallble Judgment, your
warped and weak reason, your little no
tions, your uncharitable heart, your long and
lathy creed, and your rule of life taken at
second hand, and badly damaged at that
as the standard of the great worlds life
Why will yon be always salIying out to
break ances with other peoples wiud-mills,
when your own is not capable Of grinding
corn for the horse you ride DOuhtless
the world is wicked enough, but it will not
he improved by the extension Of a spirit
which selfrighreousIy sees. more to reform
outside of itself than in itself. Doubtless
there are great sins, practced by multi
tudeS of men, but they will hardly be di-
miniShed by those who bring into the en-.
terpriSe of determination a greater amount
of baggage than they can defend.
1t so happens in the great economy Of
life, that there is but one thing by which
men may legitimateIy be judged and that
is the heart. 1t so happens, also, that only
the being who made it is capable of judg-
ing it. If we are determined to measure
everything developed by the life around us
by our own bushel let US first Of all go to
the divine standard, and get our bushels
! Sealed" Let us endeavor to apprehend
something of the infinite love which flows
out unmeasured from the Fathers heart to
every creature proceeding from the Fathers
hand. Let US recognize that essential fact
in the human cOnStitut on which renders
uniformity Of belief aud faith with relation
to all truth, and identity of action from
identity of motive, impossible.
There are no twin souls in Gods universe
| Each stands alone in its relation to each
particular truth within the range of its ap-
prehension. In the field of life, each has
its standpoint, from which it observes, and
at which it receives impressions from all the
facts, persons and phenomena of the field.
This round world Of ours rolls ceaSelesSly
in the sea Of light poured from the exhaust
less fountains of the sun. All around it,
thick Strewn with stars, bends the blue
ornament. 1t seems to every man as il
/ he were standing in the center of the
world. The heaven that swellS above him,
skirted by horizon that may be narrow or
broad, is the true heaven. The consolidated
| llRUlS JlluO ullu NCb uDbH ulo fioiOu ho'O .
relation to him as kind of sentient center.
That VIII ch is up, is necessarily above his
head, where his sun shines and his moon
sails that which is down is beuea h his
| feet aud he can hardly conceive why his
autpodes do not die of apoplexy, or drop
out Of. the system of things into the ethe
rial abyss. So this world of human life re.
wolves, perfect sphere, in the eye of God
So embracing it all around--a fathomless
heaven at every angle and aSpect-sweeps
the armament of his love, on which eternal
principles glow with steady flame, holding
to rhythm and harmony the consolidated
truths which wheel around and among
them. 1t doubtless seems to every sou
that it sits in the center of all this great
system of things-hat God is directly
above it-that the essential truths which
have relation TO life are those, and only
those, that come within the range of it:
vision and il wonders how other souls cal
possibly live and thrive while looking out
upon God and the armament of love anC
truth from other points of vision. Yet, a.
a matter of fact, all Christian men see th'
same sun, and the same heaven of truth
only they see them from different angles.
am aware that the two subjects which
l have associated together in this Orticl
only touch each other at certain points
but those are important ones, and justif.
that which might otherwise appear far-fetch
ed and arbitrary My aim has simply beel
to arouse the mind of the reader to NOR
just and impartial estimate of those act
denominated sins, and to refer the minds u
! those who are inclined to sit in judgmen
upon their fellows to the Legitimate stan
, dard of Judgment. A man does not neceS
sarly sin who does that which our reaSo
and our conscience condemn. A man
not necessarily in error who entertains view
aud opinions widely different from ours
; We are constantly prone to fix arbitrar
values upon our own good deeds, and Il
exaggerute evils that we see in other sy'
tens of belief and sins that wesee in othe
men. The true Christian charity is doubt
less that which grows out Of true ChrStia
/ love. Essential Christian brotherhood
, doubtless based in the common possesSio
4 aud entertainment Of the divine life. thoug