The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-12-15
Misrellameuns.
THE FALsENEss OF SOCIETY.



Il is said by some OF the good OF our day that
the golden age OF the millennium isjust AT hand,
that already light is seen breaking 10 the east
and that soon the sky will be all aglow.
The men who raise "a The Last Warning Cry -
and point the warning finger are worthy Of our
highest respect, for they are rs sincere as they
are persistent but how 10 have faith in their
faith we know not. We have always supposed
that " The Great Preparation " must preeede
q" The Great Consummation, and Of that Great
Preparation ~ we as yet see but little, for only
here and there a man-and be is a king among
bic ieliows-dares stand up and be true 10 his
God and himself aud those who live with him in
what is called society. Now, 50 long rs society
is what II H. 50 long as the men and women
who compose il are what they are, we must con-
tnue TO believe that there is no extensive prepa-
ration for the trinmphal procession of the true
hearted Inhabitants OF the other world aud,
consequently. that we need not direct our eyes
hcavenward in the hope, or the fear, OF seeing
the sky open, and the great uncounicd multitude
coming through. Biologists tell US that only n
hundrcdih part Of the carihs diameter Is solid,
that all the rest Is rc, and that this fire may, nt
any time. break out and bring the long-expected
day. Well. il Hsy, but We do not believe IL
riH, until there is - Great Preparation - for
il in the hearts OF men. We do not believe in
universal salvation but we do believe ia the
salvation OF great many, aud VIC also believe
that IL the last day Of time should come very
soon, there would be comparatively few 10 re-
joice in the dawn Of eternity. When society Is
cured o' its sickness and its sin-falsehood-
when men and women come 10 have full faith in
each other, and can live together without wear
ing masks then We may d" lifi up our heads, for
behold the coming Of the Lord drawcth nigh
We eau not estimate TOO highly the virtue Of
sincerity. Il underlies all other virtues. II is
the foundation OF all character, and without Il
herr IL ff.tuf FIR ans ma
that God has ever made.
II has lately been argued by some wcll-mean-
ing men-men whom We suspect Of being better
than their creeds-ihat perfect sincerity is an ut
ter impossibiliiy, and also very undesirable II
has bcen said that n certain amount Of deccitfnl-
ness Is no, only very respectable and commendable
but absolutely necessary, In the present state Of
the world. 10 bind people together, and make all
things run ia a smooth, peaceful current
We arc prepared 10 hazard the assertions that
all decci,iu ness whether in homeopathic or nl-
lopathic quantities, y as unnecessary and harm
less ms counterfeit money-ihat society may be
perfectly sincere-ihat every man may be perfect
" sncere-ihat those who lean on the prop Of
falschood will soon iind themselves crawling in
the dust aud keeping company with serpcnis-
that society with no better pillars than lies will
soon fall without any Sampson TO pull It down,
aud that the world With no braVcr, iruer defend
cfs than lying men will At last be completely
conquered 10y evil spirits. We art prepared TO
prove that lying Is poor policy-ihA, Il Is not
even profitable for the life that now is that
Il Is no railroad over which We NAV ride swiftly
10 success aud fruition, but the slowest most
wearisome, aud most damaging Kind Of a con-
ycyance 10 the things that We don't want, and
To the place where we don't want TO be. We
can show by facis-and facts are very obstinate
ihings--ihai mcn have been unlruihful, In plain
Saxon, have lied all their lives, without giving
themselves so much as a days rest in truthful
ness, aud yet made no money. no fame. no hap
piness, no nothing by II or, u they made any.
thing, found that II took to itself wings and
went of aud did not come back again.
THERE'S nothing more Improbable than lying,
aud nothing more profitable than telling the
truth. as we will show at our leisure.
Strange Il IL that with such pleased incentives
10 iru;h-iellug. as all men have, any should be
found arguing for lying, and stranger still that
truth Is something far Ia advance Of the age, and
indeed Of that long past age when prophets and
apostles declared the will OF that great Being
whose character 10 founded In truth
But so IL Il. Yes. there are men, actual exist
cnccs, creatures with minds, and brains for We
hicles, who think that the world was too young,
centuries ago and is still too young, 10 tell the
truth, that as little Is to be expected OF Infants
in swaddling clothes, 90 little, 10 the line OF
truth, ought TO be expected from our young, In
ianiile world.
Aud yet, In spite Of all the babblings Of men,
Il remains true that the path Of truth Is path
for all men OF every age-the present as well a.
the future-io walk In, and that Il is path Of
peace.
A very sweet old-fashIued book too often laid
up, ou, OF reach. on the Shelf or bound 90 hand
somely and claspcd 90 tightly that Il is seldom
opened, settles the question 80 10 the possibility
aud pro6tableness of telling the truth. In times,
long gone by, the Great lnspirer spakc ofien aud
clearly on this subject Of lying. Heidi not say
to any Of bic prophets or apostles :" will keep
silent. for men are, and will, for centuries, con-
tnue 10 be In such q low state OF moral develop
ment, that they will have no power, and feel no
moral obligation, 10 heed what say
No, no. lie sounded out, The Zip Of truth
shall be established forever, but lying tongue
| IL but for a moment"
Lying lips are an Abominatlon 20 the Lord,
but they that deal truly are bis delight"
I" lie that will love lie and zee good days, lei
him refrain bis tongue from evil, and his lips
that they speak no guile"
And among the last words which he prompted
John, the Revelator, 10 speak, are these, and
they thrilled the hearts and controlled the live
Of thousands, more than eighteen hundred year
ago And there shall in no wlse enter into ]
the New Jerusalem anything that dehleih
neither whatsoever worketh abomlnatlon, o
saskeih Ne, but they which are written In III
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