Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-02-05

can be DuJ one result. IL ne lives Until
June 30th he will be hanged by the neck
until he is dead, and the people will say
amen, without adding the legal form,
may God have mercy on his soul. There
is no occasion for the mercy.
HYPOCRISY.
And why call We me Lord, Lord, and do no
| the things l say?-St. Luke 6, XVI.
Hypocrisy and lip service differ in this
that the former is the very essence anG
life of the pretence. while the latter i;
only one way of feigning to be what one
is not. Religious hypocrisy can only ex-
list in moral and religious community
Among dissolute people, where vice
and sin pass unrebuked, there IS little
need of pretence of virtue; crime and i'm
morality do not debar a man from polite
society, and why should he feign to be
what he is not, when he would gain
nothing by it?
In the days of the Grand Monarque OF
France, Louis XIV, and his successor,
no man pretended to be virtuous; king
and courtiers were alike vile. But in a
church going, religious community,
where disreputable persons are ostracised
from society and places of trust and
power, many act the hypocrite to serve
their own interests.
Some feign to be what they are not, to
deceive their fellow men. They fancy
that, by making broad their phylacteries,
and praying in the market places, they
impress observers with belief in their
piety, and that the "odor of sanctity" will
cling to their garments. By making loud
professions of Christianity they hope tc
gain the trust and confidence of their
associates. They go into prayer meet
ings and Sunday schools as speculation,
trusting that the scarcity of the genuine
article will make even the spurious pay
ing investment.
There may be other hypocrites, who
thus hope to deceive God. They perhaps
think that their Creator is a man like
themselves, and that he judges from ap-
pearances, and they hope by saying
"Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in
Thy name, and in Thy name cast out
devils" that when they are arraigned at
the Judgment seat Christ will appear as
their advocate.
That the work Of the hypocrite is for
naught, and that his labor bring s no sat-
isfactory results is evident to all. The
man ''who steals the livery Of Heaven to
serve the devil in" seldom passes for a
servant of God Can a merchant spend
the week in lying and cheating, and TAX
ing advantage of another to make money,
and then by going to church twice Sun
day and teaching bible lesson in Sunday
school, expect to be trusted as an honest
man? There is probably not an employee
in his establishment, from confden-
tial clerk to Grand boy, who does
not hold him at his proper valuation
Every business man in this city is sur
rounded by "cloud Of Witness" who
are weighing him daily and give him the
character he deserves and no other
Every man, in his family, is teaching n.y.
pocrisy or truth. A son once said: 81 will
have nothing to do with the bible or
churches; my father Disguised me with
Christianity. He was a good deacon
abroad, but at home he used to brow
beat my mother, tyranize over the chill
dren, and squeeze the last cent out of a
poor man, and then talked about the
love of God and the peace of the right
eous."
A person animated by the spirit Of
Christ has no need to say "Lord, Lord,''
or make frequent mention of his
growth in grace.
A true Christian is recognized every
where, not by his words, but by his liv-
ing. Honor, truth and virtue speak for
themselves, in the lives of their possess
ors.
What harvest the hypocrite expects to
reap from the vile seed he sews is mat
ter of conjecture. But the sentence of
condemnation spoken by cur Savior
points out his doom with terrible dis
tinctness. "Woe unto We scribes and
Pharisees, hypocrites! for we make clean
the outside of the cup and platter, but
within they are full of extortion and ex-
cess.''