New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-06-15

and influential tongue but refuse to open your
mouth and plead his Out a invoke fearful re-
sponsbiity indeed You refuse TO turn away tne sworn
and a or 70 S how ben dwes the
OF God In your hearth The nature and reasons tor THIS
Humanity may suffer in you. All the great neces-
stiles OF humanity uhere in humanity constitutonay
ino ACTIVITY II then the activity Of adversely should
ever press upon you bv want or safcrne or sorrow.
they now want 1t at your hands The day may be near
when you will change places with the poor the neeay,
the and the dumb then W asea
thy In you will call for and demand mutual RESPONSE
o,y on the part Of your fellow men Who are not 10 aa
And you faint in the day OF adversely appointed 20
others, because your strength s small anu your near
smaller you need not wonder others faint too 10 tne
day of your adversely The realization OF responsibility
is sympathetic. but II il rests upon You so lightly as not
move sluggshly towards you In the breasts OF
Others when you are in adversely There never %as
vior Happy the mercfu. for they shall obtain
mercy" Then let the very possibilities Oh your own
bility concerning the needs OF others whatsoever
We would that men should do unto You that 90 ye unio
them" This Is the golden rue 1t Is the law OF human
10y Also and bond of the Nothing 80 tests the
moral strength of men as their treatment OF others
adversely II weak. with the small measure that
you it shall be meted out to you again." and II
j. is mighty the measure MADE to you return WIN b So
cause he suffering man we must help MN, for rs
hep. Now wy let Us for a few moments examine
Ii The excuses which men offer for shaking off this
responsibility. Solomon insists that our excuses mere
are gronndcss an thou say, 10. know not this,
shall the trer OF hearts, perceive and tne Keeper
of thy soul he not knOwf And ne renders DacK 10
every man according to his deed" This shows that men
often urge here without searching Tor the Sc
cret sprug from which enanates while God reads the
motive the most hidden grot OF the heart There 10 no
Incidence fraity by which plausible excuse can
misead him as to its correctness THE rier OF hearts
shall perceive" We often accept msy reason for our
conduct either because wish To take no notice OF our
own oiense, because are not concerned enough
about IL to push inquiry at ALL Then, again, some
times we hatter ourselves that we have an apology
which, because 1t passes current with the world,
may he rejected by God. The man VINO THINKS tnat
the claims his family furnish excuse for the making
OF money. whether IN way that Is rlght or wrong-tne
voluptuOus, who think that the strength OF passion
is an excuse ndulgence-the cOvetOus, who THINK
that the need of boarding for children uses the greed
and even OppressiOn;- OF these may JUSTIFY MS con
duct before large portion OF the worm, hence no
dreams that the same vindicaton Will procure him &C
quittal before God 1t Is just here that man maze 10
feel the first pressure OF bis responsibility III GOu
searches and detects every excuse he VIII expose s
faseness Our prevail with our fellowmen pc
cause they not industrious enough hOnest enough
sagaciOus enough to ponder the motive ana give yer
dict against But God knows everything doth not
he that pondercth heart consider itf" Then, God
will admit valid which he has not subjected
to the most rigid after pryng earnestly INTO every
recess OF motive demonstrate that there Is no naw
| i'm the reckoning of the Deity when he overwhem'
the seifapOOgist, and his un0unded excuses Tor neg
lecung his felOwtnan. No man can argue from
present TO the future, and expect 10 DC treated IN
the next world in this. when God shall render TO
every according to his deeds. Every man Is now
substantially fixing his recompense. and II God per
mits him escape here, there can be no mpun here
after ask you, them to cherish right 1eeilng OF
manly responsibility. to through life WITH right con-
cepton OF all your responsibilities, and to discharge
them all right principes ana DC you sure that tue
| man who hOnOrs his manhood and his Maker IN tnls
way shall be blessed both, in this world and also in
| that which Is to come. Amen