The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-08-31

,pitiable object on earth, who, though he Is
yeny stSk, a0sS L not m nook sss s.ek' Did aaa y 1o0G ncs
say that you could not bo tempted to
All eSullitior of tempert Since September
you como home from your summer watering
place, and you have inside, away back III
your liver or spleen. what we call i'll our day
malaria. but what the old folks called chills
AMI fever. You take quinine until your cars
arc first buzzing beehives and then roaring
Niagaras. You take roots and heros, you take
everything. You get well. But the next day
you feel uncomfortable, and You yawn, aud
you stretch, and you shiver, AMI YOU con-
sumo, and you suffer. VeScl 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 cnt that is
asleep in the sun. Your children's mirth
was once music to you; now 1T is deatening.
You say: ."Boys, stop that racketr'. You
and in the neighborhood you popul ,rity is
IS per cent. Off. The world says: 1What is
the matter with that disaGreeahlc manl
What a woe-begona conntenance! [ can't
bear the sight of him." You have got your
pay at laSt--got your pay. You feel just rs
the man felt--:hat man for who;n you had
no mercy, and my text comes in with mar
velous appositeness: with what measure 70
nlete, it shall be measured to you again."
In the study Of society I In We come to this
conclusion-that the most of the people want
to he good, but they do not exactly know
how to make it out. They make enough good
resolutions to lift them into a%ngelhood. The
vast majority Of people who fall nre the VIC
ambuscade. II their temptation should
come out in a regiment and tight them in a
fair field they would 81 out in tho strength,
and the triumph of David against Goliah.
But they do not see the giants and they do
not see the regiment. Suopose temptation
should come up to q man and say: Here is
alcohol: take thrce tablespoonful of it a day,
until you get dependent upon it; then after
khnk nly1 -1f - ~y~-@ kl,-~- .-lsI
you get dependent upon that AMOUNT; then
&c on increasing the amount until yoI are
saturated from morning until night and from
night until morning." Do you sup nose any
Oh, no! Tempt,tion comes and says. Take
these bitters, take this nervine, take this aid
to digestion, take this ~ight-cap." The vast
majority OF men and women who are de-
stroyed by opium and by rum first take them
IS medicines. In making up your dish Of
criticism in regard to" them, take from the
caster the cruet of sweet oil and not the crlet
Of cayenne pepper. BE easy on them. DC
you know how that physician, that lawyer,
that journalist hecame'the victim of dissipa-
tion7 Why, the physician was kept up
night by night on professional duty. Life
and death lowered in tho haiance. His nerv-
Gus system was exhausted. There came q
Of epidemic. and whole families were
gone. He was all worn ont in the service OF
the public. Now he must brace himself up.
Now he stimulates. Tho life of thi, mother,
the life of this child, the life of this father,
the life Of this whole family must b.. saved,
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
process by which he went do"L. II was
a magnificent generosity through which he
been standing in n poorly ventilated court
room, listening to the testimony and contest
ing in the dry tcchnicalities of the law, and
now the time has como for him to wind IL,
and he must plead for til, life 0: his client,
he fails in that speech then his client
If he cnn nave ]elo1uence
in that hour his client is saved. HIS
He must keep up. He says; II
ma1 ho keep p 1 !! ;nt1 haX,i1sa l ToS I p,S:t cris;ss; 9s
his Judgment, but remember the process. Do
be hard. Thai journalist has had ex-
haus!ing Midnight WORK. He has had to
report speeches and ~o-ationS thlt keep
Como with mach exposure w~orkin. UP
some case OF crimo in company with a
dete tive. He sits down at midnight
to write out his notes from a memorandum
scrawled on a pad under uafavorahle circum-
His strength is gone. Fidelity to
the public intelligence. tid eiity to his own
nan that he Keep IN. He
must keep ur. Ee Stimulates. Again and
aga n he does that, and he goes down. You
may ~criticise his judgment il the matter, but
have mercy. Remember the process. DO
bo hard.
Ny friends, this text will come to fulfill
uent in some cases in his world. The
in Farmsteen was shot by some
of the huntsman was in the same forest,
and he accidentally shot a man, and the man
IN dying said: God is just. I shot your
father just here twenty years ago" A bishop
cnge for all those who 10 not think as we
iron csgs in which the captive can
neither lie down nor stand straight up" It
was fashioned-the awful instrument Of pun.
After awhile the Bishop offended
Louis XII, and for fourteen years he was in
nor stand mp. 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 tosc Old
is usei rs the symbol Of all gracious infu-
ences is the dove, net the porcupine. 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, q
teal sympathy for those whom we want to
save. What Roadway will we make in the
Judgment if in this world we have been hard
on those who have zone astrays What head
will you and I make in the last Great
Judgment, when we must havemercy or per-
ishe The Bible says; 'They shall have judg.
ment without mercy that showeth no mercy"
I sec the scribes of Heaven looking up into
the face Of such a man. saying: WHAT
you plead for mercy, you, who in all your
life never had any mercy on your fellows!
Don t you remember how hard You We're in
your opinions of those who were astrays Don't
You remember when o ought to have gwen
a helping hana yol employed a hard heel;
Mercy! You must misspeak yourself
when you plead for mercy here.
Mercy for others but no mercy for you:
Look" saws the scribes of heaven, "look at
that inscription over the Throne of Judg-
ment, the Throne Of Gods Judgment" SEES
it coming out letter by letter, word by word,