Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-07-26
You Are Strong To-Day and Judge
HarshIy by the Letter Of the Law
Those Who Have Fallen.
Let the wheel Of Fortune Revolve and
Send the Powers OF Hell Around You
and You Sin a. Your Brother.
There y Good Blood and had blooh ana
the Grimes of the Bad do Not EQUAL
the PeccadiIIoes OF the Good.
volcEs or eAnpKNs 30 FrELDs.

AsiENiLLk, n ~ July 20 AuS hp''
T. De witt Tglmage, ID. D., is here at
this great summer watering place
spending few days. Vast throngs from
all the surrounding regions came in to
attend the religious service to-day. After
singing and prayer and Scripture exhorta-
ton, Or. TRlmsge preached sermon on
the subject, Measured by Your Own
Yard-siick" The text was from Matthew
VII, ?: "With what measure ye mete il
shall be measured TO you again" Or.
TalmAge said;
In the greatest sermon ever preached
sermon about fifteen minutes long, ac-
cordipg to the ordinary rate OF speech
sermon on the Mount Of Olives,
the Preacher, sitting while He
spoke, according TO the ancient
mode Of oratoTy, the people
were given to understand that the same
yard-stick that they employed upon Others
would be employed upon themselves.
Measure others by harsh rule, and you
will be measured by harsh rule. Meas
ure others by charitable rule, and you
will be measured by a charitable rule.
Give no mercy 10 others, and no mercy
will be given to you. "With what meas.
ure ye mete, il shall be measured TO you
again"
There IS a great deal Of unfairness in
the criticism of human conduct IL was
20 smite that uniairDess that Christ ut
tered the words OF the text, and my ser
mon will be a re-echo of the divine senti-
ment. In estimating thu misbehavior
OF others we must take into
consideration the pressure Of
circumstances. II IL never right 70 do
wrong, but there are degrees of culps-
Dility. When men misbehave or commit
some atrocious wickedness we are dis.
posed unfortunately 10 tumble them all
over the bank of condemnation Suffer
they ought and suffer they must, but
~ DIFFERENCE or DECREE.
In the FIRST place, In estimating the
misdoiug OF others we must take into
calculation the hereditary tendency.
There IS such thing as good blood and
there Is such thing as bad blood. There
are families that have had q moral twist
in them for hundred years back. They
have not been careful TO keep the family
record in that regard There have been
escapades and maraudings and scoundrel-
isms and moral deficits all the way back,
whether you call II kleptomania or pyro.
mania or dipsomania, or whether it be in a
milder form, and amount 10 no mania at
all. The strong probability is that the
present criminal started life
with nerve, muscle and bone contami-
mated. AS some start life with natural
tendency To nobility and generosity, and
kindness and truthiulness, there are
others who start life with Just the oppo.
site tendency, and they are born liars, OF
born malcontents, or born outlaws, oil
born swindlers.
There Is In England a school that IL
call the Princess Mary school All the
children In that school are the children Of
conyicts. The school Is supported By
nigh patronage. | had the pleasure Of
being present at one of their anniversa
ries, In 1879, presided over by the earl OF
KintOTe. BY wise law in England
after parents have committed certain
number OF crimes, and thereby shown
themselves incompetent rightly to bring
up their children, the little ones are
taken from under pernicious inhu
ences and put in reformatorl
schools, where all gracious ant
kindly Influences shall be brought upoI
them. OF course the experiment is younJ
and 1t has got TO be demonstrated how
large percentage OF the children OF con
yicts may be brought up TO respectable
and usefulness. But we all know that
Is more difficult for children of bad pa
rentage to do right than for children G
good patentage.
In this country we are taught by tn
declaration of American independence
that all people are born equal. Their
never was a greater misrepresentation
put in one sentence than In that sentenc
which implies that we are all born equa
You may as well say that flowers are Dor
equal, or trees are born equa
or animals are born equal. VIII
does one horse cost 500 an
another horse S50002 Why does on
sheep cost $40 and another sheep $500
Difference In blood. We are wise enoug
TO recognize the difference OF blood |
horses, In cattle, in sheep, but we are nc
wise enough to make allowance for the
DIFFERENCE IN TIKI HUMAN BLOOD.
Now demand by the law OF eternl
fairness, that you be more lenient in you
criticism OF those who were born wrong
in whose ancestral line there is hans
mans knot, or who came from a tree Oh
fruit of which for centuries has bee
gnarled and worm-eaten. DIR, Harris,
reformer, gave some marvellous statistic
In his story OF what he called "Margare
the Mother OF Criminals" Ninety year
ago she lived In village In upper Ne
York state. She was not only poor bT
she was vicious She was not well pre-
vided for. There was no almsnoust
there The public, however, somewh'
locked after her, but chiefly seoffed
her, and derlded her, and pushed her IA
Their down in her crimes. That wa
ninety years ago. There have been 90
persons In that ancestral line, 200 {
them criminals. In one branch OF ths
family there were twenty and nine {
them have been In state prison an
nearly all OF the others have turned OF
badly, II is estimated that that iamil
cost the county and state 500, 900, TO sa
nothing Of the property they destroyed
Are you not willing, as sensible people
TO acknowledge that 1t is a fearful disas
ter to be born In such an ancestral line
Does II not make great dtferenc
whether one descends from Margaret, IN
mother OF criminals, or from som
mother In Israeli Whether you are III