The Columbus journal., 1881-05-25

Mock characters, like false lights,
are worse than darkness. There are
any number OF s&in-deep saints in
the world at all times; and sleeps
clothing and long robes are always
in great demand ia the market. In
deed we all use cosmetics of the
moral kind to remove freckies or
wrinkles. To meet the respectable,
smooth-shaved, decorous, venerable
ornaments of society we sometimes
see, You would not suspect that any
slsnders could find birth against
men so soft spoken, SO frank and so
confidential.
But they do. Raven black and
dead eyes, and drawn down corners
of the month, and an exceptional lie,
don't always stand for godliness.
CucullGs non .fact mOndchum--The
owl does not make the frisr. That
highly respectable board of direc-
tors, so hale, loud spoken, well fed,
seem, every man of them, fit for
prizes at an exhibition of CONNER
cisl morslities; still they are in
trouble about loans, contracts, or
prospectuses. That manufacturer
sings loud in his pew on Sundays.
but makes thirty five inches to the
yard on Mondays: and that prosper
Gus shopkeeper has strangely dark
windows; and does that one believe
his own pufls The millennium has
not come yet, and can hardly be
hoped for, by appearances, at any
very short date. Somehow, the bot
ties do not show the same straw
berries all the way down, in all
csses and jockeys sometimes forget
to tell a horses faults; and there
have been books written on adulter-
ations and tricks in trade and mems
words or writings are not always
the uncIoudcd expression of their
thoughts. And yet to meet men,
how nearly perfect they seem; in
their suavity, innocence and senti-
ments. There are a good many ST.
berisn crabs, and apples of Sodom,
and huge pears that look like honey
and eat like wood. We have our
psnics, and thousand liquidations,
and a hundred millions of railway
stock unproductive, bankruptcy |
court revelations. The crop of
knayes and half knaves is by no
means extinct. There is dark side |
TO a good many things besides the
and has not the sun its spots,
not to speak of eclipses that happen
pretty widely throughout the uni
verse?
Be you, young man, contrast to
all this. Character that is only a
mask is beneath you, and mere con-
ventional goodness is a lie of the
devil. Determine, from the first, to
be transparent and truthful to God
and your fellows, let Mephistoclese
say what he likes. Ii is better, after
all, to have the universe on your
side than against you. Curses, like
chickens, come home to roost; and
30 do falsities, il not outwardly, yet
in your soul. pray you don't offer
3 prophets chamber in your con-
science TO satan. Life is sacred
keep ii so. We are born for a pur-
pose, and can serve il only as we
serve God. Humanity is a whole,
not q mere mob of generations, and
has a destiny in which every one
has q set part. The little moment
of our being is great enough to live
we'll in, and leave true work behind
{. Play the man, not the trickster.
Evelyn saw men at Leghorn stalking
heir liberty for life in mad gamb-
ing, and, having lost it, presently
ed off into. slavery. He who has to
10 with a lie stakes his soul and
oses in any case. Character, pure
md noble, chimes in with the eter-
hal harmonies; but falsehOod is a
lideous clangor, now and forever.
What any life, however humble, can
10 is secret with God; il may
widen its influence through ages,
'r il may leave trace seen only by
be light Of Gods truth and laws, il
8 holy forever. The city of God
lowly rises through the ages, and
very true life is a living stone in
ONE Of it's palaces. You were
made for. God, young man, from
ternity, and no lie is born of Him,
'e it in trade or profession, in act or
n word. Insincerities are marks
m the DEVILS tally, and so are hyp-
critics and shams. Let your char
cter be real, the shining warp aud
Voof of each day working out the
art God has set you in the great
Dom Of time.-C. Geikie, ID. ID.