The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-04-01
WEEKLY BAZOO.
SEDALIs MO.
TUESDAY. APRIL !, 1884.
CONSISTENCY.

consistency is a jewel, and most of us
have learned to prize it for its almost
priceless value. The scarcity of the
glorious gem has become go great,
Of late, however, that an additional
charm is added to the consistent man
or woman in whatever station in life
found. 1t may be that there are pro-
portionately as many consistent peo-
pie in the world now as there was q
century ago. but the glaring incon-
sistencies daily practiced, and which
are forced upon our observation some
times, make us believe that all of the
consistent people died young.
We see inconsistency in every de-
partment of life, in business and social
circles, in politics and religion and
even In the home itself.
The aspirant for political honors
and emoluments, who is disappointed
in receiving a nomination or election,
brands his more successful opponent
as an unprincipled, scheming wire
worker, and condemns him in the
strongest terms for using the very
means. only with greater success,
which he himself had employed. The
defeated candidate considers himself
much abused man, declares that he
was cheated out of his nomination by
chicanery and fraud, and that himself
and friends will not countenance such
villainy, by voting for mao who
would be guilty of such practices.
Perhaps when the time for the next
election rolls around, he is again in
the field as a candidate, and with the
assistance of the pointers received from
his scheming opponent in the last cam
paign, is more successful.
One of the good brethren in the
church has his ideas of religion and
morality terribly shocked by some
wicked young man who has attended
dance or a theatre, and after solemn.
ly declaring that his young brother is
On the road to ruin, goes to his store
and orders his clerk to hang out
placard to the effect that he is "giving
goods away in order to make room
for the spring stock"
One good sister meets another at
tired in the most elegant apparel
which money can purchase, and re-
marks to the first acquaintance
she meets, that it is really distressing TO
observe how Mrs. A is taken up with
the sins, follies and vauities of this
wicked world. Then she goes home
and torments the life out Of her hus-
band because he can not afford to buy
her as fine sealskin as the wealthy |
Mrs. A wears.
Jones denounces Smith because he
is penurious and never contributes a
cent for charity, and straightway pro-
ceeds to foiclose mortgage which be
holds on some poor mans little home,
and sells it over his head.
Brown charges that his competitor
in business is dishonest, and deceives
bis customers with shoddy goods, and
the next moment chuckles over bis
sharp practice in making a sale at its
original value of a piece of shop worn
goods, which he had long since given
up the idea of disposing Of at any
price.
And thus We see inconsistency on
every hand, and probably will con-
tinue to do so until the end of time.
The world would be better, however,
the number of cyrics and scoffers at
religion and morality greatly dimin
ished, and the ranks of consistent,
moral and Christian people largely re-
cruited, if all of us would make a
closer study of the beauties of consist
ency, exercise more charity, and make
a most earnest endeaver to practice |
what we preach.