The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-11-02

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Dec 39-ReIew. or lesson - tHsss sshoei-
y Torn CIOSk.
The papers ef this city publis, the fact
that d. d. Spencer (theyalso cal atte~
ton to the fact that this man las the
Cd. d." at the wrong end of his n,me-
this, however, is of small account was
at the time he absconded, leaving the
state savings institution, of which he lad
the charge, a wreck and ruin, an aso-
ciate member of the Young Mems Chrs-
tian association, of Chicago. No one, If
course, will think of holding the associ.-
tion responsible for what Mr. SpenceI
while enrolled upon its list of members
should please to do The fact, however
IS provocative of commentary, all the
same.
Perhaps the first thought suggested is
chat the cloak man wears can never
with any fairness, be made responsible
for whatever things he may choose tt
hide under it. 1t may suit him to selec.
for his purpose the very best cloak he cal
find, or at least can command. 30 far IS
he has reason to suppose that people vii
Judge him by this outer garment, he will
of course, aim to have in it the very bes
testimony possible to his gentility and his
title to respect. Il Is, to be sure, NJ
great sign of sagacity, to judge man BY
his cloak, yet that is what very mary
people in this world do. When they get
taken in, they should remember that it
is not the cloak that chooses the man,
but the man who chooses the cloak, and
that he, not it, is responsible for the sort
of man it j. made to cover.
It seems very like a truism to remark,
for another thing, that a mans cloak is
not the man. At the same time, it is
exactly one of the things which. agreed
to by everybody, are practically believed
by very few. There is many a man
hourishing his way through the world
with nothing under the sun to recon-
mend him but his fine cloak And even
the worldly-wise are oftensadly taken in.
There was poet, once - wrote, The
mans the man A'~~-----~ -~eoine
up from his farm to hnburgh, was
fascinated by the fine clmks be saw the
rich, the noble and the fashionable wear
ing; sacrificed his RUSTIC independence,
which became hin so wei, at the altar
of the gay world, and became from that
day a discontented, a dissipated and
ruined man. Religion is not fine cloak,
but it Is an eminently respectable one.
Simply as llora, however, it never com
municates respectability. Jesus saw
around Him most pretentious array of
these habiliments. \ touch of His fin
ger tore them into shreds. and Scribes
and Pharisees crept from His presence
with the vileness they had so diligently
cloaked and displayed in all its offensive
ness. A man does not become religious
by pretending to be so. Alas, that such
thousands and thousands shsuld keep on
deceiving themselves with the hope that
in some way the cloak, after all, may
answer for the man.
Then how certain it must be that
sooner or later, the cloak, which is
cloak merely, will be torn. 1t is not in
the nature OF things that mere preten-
sions sllNuld, in\t the end, or for any lon
period, be found to avail. There is not
an error, not faIsehood, not a shallow
pretensiOn, not any face or form of hy-
pocrisy but must some one day be ex-
posed as just what it IS Events of this
present life even, demonstrate and fore
shadow the certainty of this truth. If
one were to write down in a list the
names of those men, in official or busi
ness lille, who, in the last two years
have had their cloaks of pretensions not
only torn, but utterly stripped away, and
then been made to stand naked and
ashamed under the eye of scornful
world, he would be astonished to see how
the catalogue would grow under his
hand. What long array of names, be-
smirched ~eyond all hope of clearing
And the disclosures came about in an
operation of laws as Iinexorable as fate
ConcealmzFlt, even in this world, Is after
all impossible Very few pretenders fail
to be, sooner or later, found out. Are
not the awful revelations of the last day
herein anticipated and foreshadowed
What millions on millions of torn cloaks
must hang in the wardrobe of eternity
A true mans cloak may sometimes be
torn. He wears it, not for conceaiment,
but because it is the garment natural
and becoming to him. 1t may be torn.
Good men suffer rough treatment some
times. Happy they who have no
anxiety on this point. The outer gar
ment may suffer from the brambles that
line their way through life. Hostile
bands may seize them, and even rend
away the cloak. Temptation may pluck
at thin, and they may flee away W h
the garment left behind them SANDER
may rob them of both the cloak and the
coat also. No matter. That which does
not court concealment need never fear
disclosure. The true man aud the true
Christian has wherewith to enwrap him
self though all else be rent away. To
him it is granted to be arrayed in fine
linen, clean and white for the fine linen
is the righteousness of saints. - Chicago
Standard
"A Mr.. Brown of Tonawanda, is build
ing q raft of pine logs, at Niagara. with