The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1867-08-30
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DID 1t never occur to any of you who are
continually subjectiDg others to the breath
Of SANDER, that the time may come, (for
none Of US can presume to imagine what the
future may have in store for us) when you
will have perhaps greater need to hope for
mercy at the hands Of those whom you
now in your hour Of triumph condemnt
VIII not the more thoughtful of you who
are always ready to credit every idle report,
that originates more frequently from envy
and malice than from any other cause, think
Of thisf No you will mott and why? Be-
cause such train of thought would bring
too foreibly to your minds the unpleasant
fact that you have even at the present mo-
ment enough 10 do TO cleanse your own
hearts, and think I can safely say that at
that employment you would all be kept suf-
heiently busy. The present gives all Of u
plenty Of such work to Perferm, unpleasant
though. it may be, without waiting for the
future 10 bring to our hearts and homes new
trials. Those Of you who are surrounded
byall thsthea can wish are fitted to per-
forn mrch more noble part in life than
that of lhe slsn1erers. know that to de.
prive many of you of the delightful EN-.
ployment Of telling all you hear, all you
believe, and more than you imagine about
Mr. and Mrs. or Miss so and 50, would be
more than depriving you of a portion of
your existence. Il is so elevating to YOUR
selves to degrade others in the estimation Of
the world, but just as you deceive others go
your poor weak minds viii deceive each OF
you with the fatteriDg thought that by put
ting yourselves up as @paragons of perfec-
tor, you will appear such in reality.
The tongues of many Of you would become
paralysed for want of exercise and you would
forget how to think if your neighbors we're
quite as perfec. as yourselves. To be sure
you might for time entertain your friends
by speaking of the weather, but that subject
like every thing else must wear out some
time, and should you depend upon some one
of your equally well informed friends, whose
conversational powers are as brilliant as
your own, to fly 10 your rescue, would
almest wish myself one among you that
too might be benefited by such display Of
talent as would surely follow. Did you
never think that out Of the great number
whom we condemn, there are many of them
whom we would not censure, if we could
read their hearts as He who is ruler over all
reads ours. None of US are perfect, all are
likely to err. Each of US oftentimes do
things, not really bad in themselves, but
very imprudent, and in measure unbecom-
ing the position We occupy. They are the
follies of life, but circumstantial evidence is
against US and We are subjected to the
breath of slsnder, and by the time the story
hss passed the lips of half dozen of the
renowned gossipers it is transformed to
something else. OF course it is more than
useless for the condemned if be is innocent
to pronounce himself so, for people will be-
lieve just as they choose any how. If a
woman once makes misstep (no matter
how slight the faulty all are ready TO con-
denim her; and why2 Because she is a
woman and you knew in your hardened
hearts, that if you can only succeed in pla-
cling her in the eyes of the world down,
down, to the lowest depths of sin, she will
not rise again to taunt you of your sins,
slauderer, unless perhaps she meet you in
darkness, not light, for there perfection
only sees you even if it were true that those
whom you condemn are as guilty as you
would have them. Do you for a moment
suppose that the course which you pursue
will ever work reformation7 Oh weak
minds and hard hearts, God will forgive
your condemned as freely as He will forgive
you! We cannot place ourselves exactly in
the position of others, in our imagination,
nor can we tell how we would act were we
in similar circumstances. Judge not, lest
ye be judged" and remember that the vir-
tue that depends upon opinion looks to
secrecy alone and cannot be trusted in q
desert Z.