Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1866-12-26

NUMDEh U.
with serpents-that society with no bet
ter pillars than lies will soon fall without
any Samson to pull it down, and that the
world with no braver, truer defenders
than lying men will at last be completely
conquered by evil spirits. We are pre-
pared to prove that lying is poor policy
that it is not even profitable for the life
that now is'-that it Is ho railroad over
which we may ride swiftly to success and
fruition. but the slowest, most wearisome,
and most damaging kind of conveyance
to the things that We don't want, and 10
the place where we don't want to be- We
can show by facts-and facts are very ob-
stinate thiDgs-that men have been un-
truthful, in plain Saxon. have lied all
their lives, without giving themselves 30
much as a days rest in truthfulness, aud
yet made DO money, no fame, no happi-
ness, no nothing by it; or. if they made
any Thing. found that it toek to itself
wings and went off and did not come
back again.
There 10 nothing more Improbable than
lying. aud nothing more profitable than
|, telling the truth, as We will show at our
leisure.
Strange it is that with such blessed in-
centivcs to truth telling as all men have.
any should be found arguing for lying,
: and stranger still that any should believe
aud boldly say that strict truth is some
thing far in advance Of the age, and in
deed of that loug past age when prophets
and apostles declared the will of that
great Being whose character is founded in
. truth.
But so it is. Yes, there are men, actu.
. al existences, creatures with minds, and
brains for vehicles. who think that the
world was too young, centuries ago. and
is still too young. to tell the truth, that
as little is to be expected Of in swaddling
clothes, 80 little. in the line Of truth,
r onght to be expected from our young, in
: fantile world.
s And yet, in spite of all the babblings
, Of men, it remains true that the path Of
truth is path for all men Of every age
> the present as we'll as the future-lc
e wax in, and that it is path Of peace.
A very sweet old.fashioned book, to:
It often laid up, oat of reach, on the shelf
" or bound SO handsomely and clasped SC
It tghrly that it is seldom opened. settles
e the question as to the possibility snC
It prOftableness Of telling the truth. Ii
l. times long gone by, the Great 1nspirel
d spake often and clearly on this subject o
IS lying He did not say to any of BIZ
l. prophets or apostles: 81 will keep silent
t tor men are, and will. for centuries. con
y tinue to be in such low state of mora
development, that they will have no pow
!, cr, and feel no moral obligstion; to hee'
s what say"
). No. no. He sounded out. "Thc lip o
). truth shall be established forever, but
: lying tongue is but Tor moment"
+. Lying lips are an abomination to tn
g Lord, hut they that deal truly are bis dt
d light
g "He that will love life and see goo
Q d Us. let him refrain his tongue from evi
t aid his lips that they speak not guile
= And among the last words which i
. prompted John, the Rcvelator to speal
t are these, and they th'illed the hear
I and controlled the lives vf thousands
!. more than eighteen hundred years aga
"And there shall in no wise enter it II
o New Jerusalen] anything that deficit
f neither whatsoever worketh abominatio
y or makeM a lie. but they which are wri
O ten in the Lambs book of life"
n In all those promises for those who wi
n be true, and in all these threateuings +,
&c those who will not, is certainly Involve
n the prohibition Of lying and every ina
v is therefore under the strongest moral Oh
. ligrtion to speak the truth. TO speak il
not simply when wcn say 1t is good
;. worldly policy and perfectly safe to do so
r bu, at all times, when not to do it woul'
:. bs to speak or-act q lie. aa
!. The sophist may contiuus to tel p
a that it is both impossible anc undesira
bic to have au honest heart and truth
!. lful tongue. He may continue to tell III
4 that perfect sincerity would work dire ru
!. IN in society. compelling men to express
!. every thought and feeling to turn thei
4 hearts inside ou. and satisfy the inquisi
tive. to yield themselves to the scrutiny
Of all. to use no concealment and wear n,
vail Of secresy, aud to expose others a,