St. Landry democrat., 1886-08-14
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umn in a whole congress of exclamatio,
points; and while you are reading the an
athena in the reportorial and editoria
paragraph, it occurs to you how much thi
story Is like that of the defalcation of fif
teen years ago, and clap of thunde
shakes the window-siu, saying: "Witl
what measure ye mete, it shall be m cas-
| ured to you againw
You look i'll another direction. There II
nothing like an ebullition of temper to put
man to disadvantage. You, man with
calm pulses and fine digestion and per.
feet health, can not understand how any.
body should be capsized in tenn per by an
infinitesimal annoyance. You say: 81
couldn't be unbalanced in that way.'
Perhaps you smile at provocation that
makes another man swear. You pride
yourself on your imperturbability. You
say with your manner, though you have
too much good taste to say it with YOUR
words: II have a great deal more sense
than that man has; l have a great deal
more equipoise of temper than that man
has; never could make such puerile ex-
hibitlon of my self as that man has made. F."
My brother, you do not realize that that
man was born with keen nervous organ
ization, that for forty years he has been
under depicting process, that sickness
and trouble have been helping undo what
was left of original healthfulness, that
much of his time it has been with him like
filing saws, that his nerves have come tc
be merely tangle of disorders, and that
he is the most pitiable object on earth
who, though he is very sick, does
not look sick, and nobody sympathizes.
Let me see. Did you not say that YOU
could not be tempted to an ebullitlon of
temper? Some September you come home
from your summer watering. place and
you have inside, away back in your liver
or spleen, what we call in our day mala.
ria, but what the old folks called chills
and fever. You take quinine until your
ears are first buzzing bee-hives and then
roaring Niagaras. You take roots and
herbs, you take every thing. You get
well. But the next day you feel uncom.
and you yawn, and you stretch,
and you shiver, and you consume, and
you suffer. Vexed more than you can tell,
you can not sleep, you can not eat. you
can not bear to see any thing that looks
happy, you go out to kick the cat that is
asleep in the sun. Your children's mirth
was once music to you; now it is deafen.
ng. You say: "Boys, stop that
'acketW You turn back from June
% March. In the family and in the neigh
'orhood your popularity is ninety five per
.elt. off. The world says: "What is the
natter with that disagreeable man? What
| woe begone countenance! l can't bear
he sight of him." You have got your pay
It last-got your pay. You feel just as
he man felt, that man for whom you had
10 mercy, and my text comes in with mar
elous appositeness.
With what measure ye mete, it shall be
measured to you again.
In the study of society have come to
his conclusion, that the most of the peo.
lie want to be good, but they do not ex-
city know how to make it out. They
1ake enough good resolutions to lift them
nto angelhood. The vast majority of
eople who fall are victims of circum.
tances; they are captured by ambuscade.
their temptations should come out in Q
egiment and fight them in fair field,
hey would go out in the strength and the
riumph of David and Goliath. But they
o not see the giants and they do not see
ne regiment. Suppose temptation should
oil; take three tablespoonfuls of it day
ntil you get dependent it; then, after
nat take half a glass three times day
ntil you get dependent upon that amount,
len 60 on increasing the amount until
on are saturated from morning until
light and from night until morning." Do
ou suppose any man would become
runkard in that way? Oh, no! Tempta-
on comes and says: stake these bitters,
Ike this nervine, take this aid to diges-
on, take this night cap" The vast ma
'rity of men and women who are de.
royed by opium and by rum first take
lem as medicines. In making up your
sh of criticism in regard to them, take
ON the caster the cruet of swest oil and
ot the crust of cayenne pepper. Be easy
! them.
Oh, my friends, let US be resolved to
old less and pray more. That which In
10 Bible Is used as the symbol Of all gra- Y
GUS influences is the dove, not the porcu. |
ne. We may 50 unskillfrlly m manags
10 life. boat that we sh all run down those
hom we want to rescue. The first
'eparation for Christian usefulness
warm.hearted common sense, Y
'actical sympathy for those whom va
ant to save. What headway will we T
axe in the judgment il in this world we ,
I'VE been hard on those who have gone :
tray? What headway will you and ! /
AXE in the last great judgment, when we
ust have mercy or perish? fhe Bibls 1
US: S
they shall have Judgment without mercy =.
at showed no mercy.
see the scribes of Heaven looking ur
to the face of such man, saying: !.
What! you plead for mercy you, whon