The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1874-05-06
DO rs YOU WOULD BE Be DONE

~ ~ 700 MOULD BE. DONE
BY. I'd
To the Editor of the Morristown aazette: 80
Easy enough to do. yet very few
do it. But few people understand
the meaning of the above injunction.
It simply means that We shall do
unto others as we would 4haye them
do unto us, under thessame. circum-
stances. For instance, L meet d
friend on the corner, early in the
morning, who informs me that he is
feeling very nnwell, was up late last
night, hayn't a red this morning,
can't ask for credit, and would like
to have my spirits aroused. His
looks indicate plainly every thing he
has said, l hand him 25, cents. and
the work is accomplished have
done as 1 would, and have been done
by, many time. . ..
Some men are real mean about do
ing as they would be done by. How
many persons like to be neighborly.
/, for one, like to visit my neighbors,
to see how they are getting along
and if it is not convenient to visit
them in the day time, [ like to go at
night, and examine their smoke
house, count the pieces of meat, see
whether or not they have a comfor-
table house for their chickens see
whether or not their wood is cut the
right length, ETC., etc. But I am
deprived of this pleasure with some
of my neighbors, by the dogs they
keep. No man can comply with the
above holy injunction, and at the
same time keep dog that will pre-
vent his neighbors from visiting him
at any and all times.
Some men viii bore the very life
out of fellow, for little debt he
may happen to owe them. This is
wrong, and if a man would Just think
for moment, he would not ask au-
other for debt, more especially if |
ne is trying to obey the Scripture,
and do as he would be done by.''
But if man has no respect for him.
self, and asks you for a debt. /" do |
IS yoa would be done by and pay |
lim, provided you have the where !
With.
If a fellow mortal is in distress
md asks you to go his security, .'do |
IS you would be done by and go it.
It's but little trouble; all you have
o do is to sign your name. fthere
should ever be any after troubles
lbout it, the Sheriff will manage it.
l think, of all men, tax collectors
'ome nearer failing in complying
With the above injunction, than any
'thers, except SO far as taking care
# number one'' is concerned.
1t seems that they want itall their
'wn way. They will bore man to
leath for his tax, and then keep it
.fter they get it. This is wrong.
Now, if l was tax collector, L would
make it known that / qcas tax col
ector, and then / would "do as
would be done by" and never ask a
nan for cent. but whatever amount
night be paid over to me uoluntarily,
hat, l would appropriate to my own
se. Then / would feel that my
onscience, "a thing one gets at a
rocery) was clear. But the idea of
oring every tax payer in the coun-
y for his taxes, and keeping all 1
'hen you get it, is not doing as one
vould wish to be done by. as regards
ither the tax payer or the col I
ectsr's securities. II
Next to a tax collector comes wo-f
ian, who, with regard to flowers,
lshions and finery is never willing
do as she would be done by, al I
ays trying to out do, outdress and
ggravate her neighbor. But as /
'el utterly incompetent to do this
art of the subject justice, 1 win :
ass it by for future generations. {
Hoping that what / have said will /
, much good. that all who own bad =
ogs will at once dispose of them, :
Iat tax collectors think before it is 1 i
70 late; and that all oyer-fashion- =
de ladies of the present day, may =
We to see the time that by the aid e
their much righteousness, they ;
ay by their faith have their shape !
anged from that Of human to that !
dromedary, and that too in the /
of an eye, just by asking.
Thomas BAsCUM.
Snoao In The North y
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