, 1876-06-17
About Liars.

when Won begin the search for one
The PsaImist said, in haste, " Ali mel
are liars;" aal Scotch plTsou
thought lie might have said it in the
utmost deliberaiion. For, at bottom
lie is found in all SHINING, aud arC
rot all men sinners ? Happily a great
deal of the lying Is se.f destructive,
and lot more is balanced by other
living. There is DO region where one
may saw, Here. at last. | am beyond
the reach Of lies :" and there is No
subject upon which one may be sure
that all men tell the truth
Liars mean 10 deceive. That a
thing is not true as stated counts for
nothing. We are all poor creatures,
and hil pretty wide in shooting at the
truth. \ great deal Of hurtful un
/ truth cannot be laid on a personal
conscience. It grows out of igno:-
auce, Ioquacisy, big-headedness, and
imperfect hearing or seeing. Very
few men can be trusted to see or hear
a complex occasional battle, for in
,,aucp-anl report what occurred
/ Do not blame people too hardly for
| false REPORTS; they grew. A liar Is
dece!ver. lie states the thing as 1t Is
not and he does il ia malice. Lying
/ il the sword of evil purpose. Moth
/ ng else cuts so deep or kills so many
As this sword called lie.
Liars are foolish. The follyi5 varl-
ed and complex. y liars possible
work and his actual work are forru
nately far apart. a cool liar, holding
himself in balance, lying occasionally,
wing iudiriouSly, would Tavage society
ike a. pestl!euce. Bat a liar cannot
hold his tongue. He lies too much.
He blunts the edge of his sword by
hacking at everything. Presently
only greater fools than he believe him.
Hacking iolks does rim less good than
he thinks. Even the pleasure Of IL is
as proticmaticaI IS that of getting
drunk: the results Of it are seldom
up To his expectations, and usually
one hundred per cent. below them.
Sill deeper folly is shown in the ten
drncy of things TO get right side up
even though scores OF liars are hold
inc them wrong side Up. Lying is a
business that dorS not Stay done. The
inverted truth fops over while our
liar is busy on another talSehoUd. The
truth pays better aud Is safer even in
4 worI& full of lies.
Lars put out their own eyes. y
man who lives in darkness loses the
power 70 endure the light, and one
who continually looks upon dis'orte d
/ objects loses all serSe of harmony. So
a liar gets aS blind as a bat 10 the
real trulh. He Is all cun'orLcd and
doubled over himself, and his possible
man:inesS, decency and spirituality
are killed by se!finversion. lie can
not grow with his head in d0st heap
or be shapeIy with his body twisted
and battered in throwing and each
ing moral boomerangs.
Liars are a wasietul nuisance. They
block up every road TO truth; they
! double the work OF honest men. They
DO worse things but their obstructive
work is the most annoying. 1t Is a
constant torture f,r truth seekers 10
have to anticipate the liar, hide from
the liar, set his lies aside, anj answer
h.s follics with discretion. The " orid
would 90 twice as fast if the liar ill
not keep down his wicked brakes.
Divide a mans working life into four
/ periods, and three of The four are lost
ii contest with liars; in a world wiIh>
ont lies one>lourIh would turn OuJ As
much work Is the whole does now.
Liars are wicked. The Bible gives
them a precedence among sinners as
The progeny of the devil and all hu
man wisdom has confirmed this SEN
teuce anl added many more special
! dishonors. Ba, it is strange that kinds
Of lying &c; favor. Graceful lies, lies
that assist our plans, lie. that favor
our lheaIies-WhO has not given them
/ Inequalities:
/ What shall be done with the liar
The good Book tells US what will
come Of him at lest, but wha; shall
we DO with him here on earth? The
best proceeding is TO get him SOuOdIy
convicted and then soundly converted
Nothing short of that will cure him
Ills nature, whatever Won may think
OF your own, is corrupt, prone 10 evil
and that continually. We can think
Of nothing short of a new birth that
will make man ont of liar. "But
converted men lie" one will say
| We'll They need converting over again
/ Nothing osureiy urmaskS hypucriIc
as the discovery that a processing
Christian tells lies.-N, Y. Neth0
dist.
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the originator Of the beak>prowel
ship, which presents some great al
vautages, has lately introduced a four
bladed screw propeller, which is es
seniialIy peculiar. In appearance tn,
propeller Is paradoxical, for it resem
ble9 two double bIaded screws on on,
shaft, one screw being the exact re
verse OF tie o,ter. Hence it migh
be argued that one screw would neu
traiiz' the other, and all the power
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