Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-09-26
sAM jones' urTERASCes.

An idea 10 thought worked tst.
shape ready for hand. tongue or fso,
As you think, % you are. Iell me vkai
yoo are thinning about today, and III
tell you what you viii be doing toruor
row. 30, let me tell you, brethren
you'd better mind what you are think
ing about todsy. II 700 knog what,
good for you-f you vooId have any
respect 70 What you may b doing 10
morrow.
You partake of the nature of ths
men and things BY which yoo are sur
rounded. You are very much like ths
world around you-lIke your cirsum.
stances and associates. Place the vors,
man IN M1rffeesbsrouRh in good com
pany. and bell be as good a. anybody
No man can stay With me an hour anc
not be 40 Reod as am, and don't near
TO say that l am over good. only mear
TO say that in my presence, or In ths
presence of anv other minister of th,
Gospel. he will not swear. know nc
good man voold; or, / should say, M
Rentieman would. ID svs overheard mer
swear vho, On noticing my pressoes
woold begin 70 bsg my pardon. 'Poel
man, | have answered such. you'd q
great deal better Dc on your knees beg
ging Gods pardon, not mine
It's ten thousand times harder to be
Just than generous. IL is easy enough
TO give q poor woman dollar, sut when
1t comes to following Q straight line.
being just in all things, Just TO God, to
your family, TO your children, 10 all men,
Il 70 o different thing. some men are
nrtA to kAt
their cook i've dollars very willingly
Saturday night, bot when the esonomi-
cal, hard working. painstakinR wife asks
for little Insney on Monday, the brute
will say, On, wife, what do you want
with money!
"I knew a fellev In Georgia who had
been married ten years. His wife one
morning suggested shat that was her
birthday. and he said to himself: I've
got Q good wife; she has been kind, self
sacrihciuR and trae in all respects; |
must buy her a present So he vent
down that day and walked into a store
and bought himself a new hat. cousoling
himself that nothing would more please
q good wife than 10 make her husband q
present Of new hat. He's the meauest
man ever saw, and there are q great
many men Just that way.
We afs too often unjust to our chill
dren, sxaoting Of them things We don't
do ourselves, and beratine them with
oor tongues when they don's understand
what We want And then We sre too men
70 say tan words TO make one OF then
happy. Oh, hov unjust We are to wives,
husbands, children!
If you pat little downright Justice
in yoar conduct with your children,
you'll have happier homes. Did you
ever start anywhere with your wife, and
keep hurrying her mp when you eught
10 know she has not only 70 dress her
self, bot ave children besides, vhils you
have nothing to do bot get ready7 'Hur-
~ up, hurry up; don't want 70 be too
late! IL you don't hurry, I'll 90 on by
myself And after Q while she tells VOC
TO Go on, husband; Pm afraid l can't
get ready in time for you; don't want
TO hinder you
i've done Just that way. I've walked
of, oat the gate and fifty yards down the
road, end then I'd stop aad think. I'd
say, 'Sam Jones, you are tbs msanest
man living, and you shsn't 60 70 church
nsr any where else till you learn how to
behave yourself And then walk back
and 90 In and find worry in my wife's
faoe aud tears in her eyes, and 20 and
put my arms around her and kiss her
and there's nobody there bat rs two
and say, Wife, I'm as mean as dog;
know | AN. aud | want you to forgive
me,' and shc forgives me, and We get
ready and Ro-and nnd ourselves the
hrst ones there.
The Lord have mercv on Us; how
unjust We are TO our wives, our chill
dren. our brothers and sisters, and eur
neighbors!
There are men in this very town who
meet neighbor's wife on the street and
take of their hats and bow and smile 30
sveetly and tenderiy. How are you,
madam and then 90 home and wound
their own wives With their tongues
Clever 10 all wives but their own! And
30 it 10 With some wives: they are all
smiles and kind words in company, and
cut their husbands 20 the heart with
their tongues. God pity the man who
has such wife a. that,
II don't soold; II do, l intend 10
soold somebody else's wife. I've heard
msthers say, when a nsiQhbor's child
would break some article of value. Oh,
10 dossn't natter when, IL their own
child were 10 do ID, they'd slap him
clean Aogoss the room. Lord, give ~
a religion that will make as good TO
our wives and children and friends and
neiRhbors."