The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1877-06-27
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although speak with the tongues Of mer
and Of angels, and have not charity, / an, be
GENE as sounding brass, or a tinkling symbal
and though have the gift of prophecy and
understand all mysteries and all knowledge,
and though have all faith SO that could re-
move mountains, and have not charity, / am
It really seems that some peopie are never
better satisfied. nevsr more in their element
than when they have some story about theii
friends or neirhbors that thew can talk about
and have a GOOD time over others msfortunes
The fault. Of their neIabbors with freedom, they blame
But tax not themselves though they practice tho same
Fellow Christian when you see a brother
or sister fall by the way, would 1t not be bet
ter to help them up again, set them on their
feet, uttering kind, loving words of SYM
pathy aud encouragement to try again, than
to pass onthe other side, with the cutting re-
mark, just as / expected" always said
they would never hold out to the end Of the
race And you would have been a sorry Chris
tian if your prophecy had not been fulfilled.
Charity suffereth long and is kind.' Did
you never think that perhaps they walked on
the sunny side Of tho road where the sun
beams ill with seorching heat, that them noun
tains were harder to climb than those which
you enccunteredp There were more stones
in the way than met your feet, the darkness
came on long before your sun went down,
clouds obscured their sky and the storms beat
heavy about them, no rainbow gilded their
heaven, and in dark despairing hour they
fell. Christian, where were you then? Help
ing them? No. Afar off, looking on their
downfall with feelings Of contempt, going
about from place to place, talking and enjoy
ing yourself over the sorrows and troubles of
others. Oh how many a true heart that
would have come back like the dove to the
ark after it's first trangressiop, has been
frightened beyond recall, by the savage
charity Of an unforgiving spirit.
" He that covereth transgression seeketh
love, but he that rcpeatheth matter separa-
teth very friends.' How many tales that are
started and set afloat by long tongued mortals,
if they were not repeated by those that should
be ashamed to even notice them, would end
whore they started. He that covereth a
transgression seeketh love. It does not mean
to hide sin, to encourage sin, but think it
means to stop the tfangression from any
farther continuance in sin, to seek by loving,
helpful words to turn back in the straight
and narrow path the erring one. But he that
repeatheth matter separateth very friends.
Can any Of my readers remember some pre-
cious friends that they loved with all the deep
and tender emotions of their very soul, that
now are sundered and as far apart as If the
ocean rolled between them9 and all by the
gossiping of some would be friend" repeat
ing story that perhaps after all had no
foundation, but in their own imagination ?
Nothing ever loses anything by the telling OF
it, but if the mantle of charity were thrown
over the worst persons that dwell under the
sun the most glaring defects would be hid.
When minister stands In his pulpit it is not
exactly the most charitable thing to imagine
that the lady who is arrayed in the finest silk
dress, or the most becoming hat, with the
longest feather, has the least religion. When
the Sunday school teacher hears one member
of her class say they are not coming to Sunday
school because they have not sufficient clothes