Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-08-21


tangle Of disorders, and that he Is the most
pitiable object on earth, who, though he y
very sick, does not look sick, and noDouy
synipathizes. Let me see. Did you NOT
saw that YOU could not be tempted TO
an e5ullition of temperl Since September
you come home from your summer watering
place, and you have inside, away pack IN
your liver or spleen. what we call in our day
malaria, but what the old folks called chills
and fever. You take quinine until your ears
are first buzzing beehives and then roaring
Niagaras. You take roots and herbs, you take
everything You get well. But the next day
you feel uncomfortable, and you yawn, aud
you stretch, and you shiver, and you con.
sumo, and you suffer. Vexed more than you
can tell, you can not sleep, you can not eat,
you can not bear to see anything that looks
happy, YOU go out to kick the cat that is
asleep in the sun. Your childrens mirth
was once music TO you; now it is deatenlng.
You say: "Boys, stop that racket" You
turn back from June to March. In the family
and in the neighborhood your popularity Is
IS per cent off. The world says: what Is
the matter with that disagreeable mani
What a woe-begone countenancel l can't
bear the sight of him." You have got your
pay at last--got your pay. You feel just as
the man felt THAT man for whom you had
no mercy, and my text comes in with mar
Velous appositeness: with what measure yo
mete, it shall be measured to you again"
In the study of society have come to this
conclusion-that the most of the people want
to be good, but they do not exactly know
low to make it out. They make enough good
resolutions to lift them into angelhood Tho
vast majority of people who fall are the vic
Inns of circumstances: they are captured BY
ambuscade If their temptation should
come out in regiment and fight them in
fair field they would go out in the strength,
and the triumph of David against Goliah.
But they do not see the giants and they do
not see the regiment. Suppose temptation
should come up to man and say; Here is
alcohol: take three tablespoonfuls of it day,
until you get dependent upon it; then after
that take half a glass three times day, until
you get dependent upon that amount; then
go on increasing the amount until you are
saturated from morning until night and from
night until morning" Do you suppose any
man would become drunkard in that way!
Oh, mol Temptation comes and says Take
these bitters, take this nervine, take this aid
TO digestion, take this night-cap." The vast
majority of men and women who are de.
stroyed by opium and by rum first take them
as medicines. In making up your dish OF
criticism in regard to them, take from thu
caster the cruet Of sweet oil and not the cruet
Of cayenne pepper Be easy on them. Do
you know how that physician, that lawyer,
that journalist became'the victim of dissipa-
ton? Why, the physician was kept up
night by night on professional duty Life
and death lowered in the balance. His nerv-
Gus system was exhausted. There came a
time of epidemic. and whole families were
Frustrated, and his nervous strength was
gone. He was all worn out in the service of
the public. Now he must brace himself up.
Now he stimulates. The life of this mother,
the life of this child, the life of this father,
the life of this whole family must be saved,
and the lives of all these families must be
saved, and he stimulates, and he does it again
and again. You may criticise his Judgment,
hut remember the process 1t was uot a sell
fish process by which he went down. 1t was
q magnificent generosity through which he
fell. That attorney at the bar for weeks has
been standing in a poorly ventilated court
room, listening to the testimony and contest
ing in the dry techncalities of the law, and
now the time has come for him TO wind up,
and he must plead for the life of his client.
and his nervous system is all gone. IL
he fails in that speech then his client
perishes. If he can have eloquence
enough in that hour his client is saved. HIS
stimulates. He must keep up. He says; II
must keep up" Having q large practice you
see how he is inthralled. You may criticise
his Judgment but remember the process. Do
not be hard. That journalist has had ex-
hausting midnight work. He has had to
report speeches and orations thai keep
him up till very late hour. He has
gore with much exposure working up
some case of crim9 in company with a
detective. He sits down at midnight
to write out his notes from memorandum
scrawled on pad under unfavorable circum-
stances. His strength is gone. Fidelity to
the public intelligence, fidelity to his own
livelihood, demands that he keep up He
must keep up. File stimulates Again and
again he does that aud he goes down. You
may criticise his Judgment in the matter, but
have mercy Remember the process. Do
not be hard.
Ny friends, this text will come TO fulfill
ment in some cases in this world. The
huntsman in Farmsteen was shot by some
unknown person. Twenty years after the
son of the huntsman was in the same forest,
and he accidentally shot man, and the man
In DIVING said: God is just. l shot your
father Just here twenty years ago" A bishop
said to Louis XII. of France: Make an iron
cage for all those who do not think as we
do-an iron cage in which the captive can
neither lie down nor stand straight up" II
was fashioned-the awful instrument Of pun.
ishment After awhile the Bishop offended
Louis XI., and for fourteen years he was in
that same cage, and could neither lie down
nor stand up. 1t is a Door rule that will not
work both ways. with what measure We
mete, it shall be measured to YOU again"
'Oh, my friends let us be resolved toscold
less and pray morel That which in the Bible
is useS as the symbol of all gracious infu
ences is the dove, net the porsupine. We may
so unskillfully manage the life-boat that We
shall run down those whom we want to res
cue. The first preparation for Christian use
fulness is warm-hearted common sense, prac
tical sympathy for those whom we want tc
save. What Roadway will we make in tbs
Judgment if in this world we have been hare
on those who have gone astray' What head
way will you and make in the last Greai
Judgment, when we must have mercy or per
ish! The Bible says; "They shall have judg
ment without mercy that showeth no mercy.
see the scribes Of Heaven looking up int
the face of such man, saying: "Wbat
you plead for mercy, you, who in all you
life never had any mercy on your fellows
Don't you remember how hard you were IL
your opinions of those who were astray! DOM
you remember when you ought to have glve1
helping hand you employed hard heel
Mercy You must msspeak yoursel
when you plead for mercy here
Mercy for others but no mercy for you
Look saws the scribes of heaven "look a
that Inscription over the Throne of Judg
ment, the Throne of Gods Judgment" SEE
it coming out letter by letter, word by word
sentence by sentence, until your startled Wis
| ion reads il and your remorseful spirit ap
propriates it: "With what measure We met.
it shall be measured to you again. Depart
ye cursedp'