The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-22

the lips, and falling into cold sweat; and his
children were enough like their father to make the
old say: Few and evil have all the days of the
years OF my life BEEN" There was no need for
Esau to volunteer q private Vengeance. That
matter we may well believe Is taken care of in
every case. The mills of God grind slowly,
but they grind exceeding small" There is no
way out of it except by repentance. II you
know that man is sincere in his sorrow for any
otTense against you, / suppose you will forgive
him. If you Go not yon are worse than he.
You do not know whether he is sincere or not,
and so hesitate! Well you need not hesitate.
God knows whether he is sincere or no, and
there will be exact justice done. If he is not
sincere in his repentance the penalty waits. A
man that believes in God is patient. Simon
Peter draws his sword to defend his master and
to punish his masters enemies Let him put up
his sword and wair little and the Roman
legions will not leave in all Jerusalem one stone
upon another.
Of course there is no use of fighting anger upon
its own level-by resolutions. Nothing is SO fa-
tai to it as serious thought Charles Dickens
turned it over in his mind and concluded that he
had not time to hate any body. 1t seems so. All
our enemies under sentence of death any
way. Fifty years will see them all gone, and
while they live we may be certain that they are
not happy And why is any man insisting on
exact justice being measured out to his fellow
man here and nowI Does he not see that there
by he is asking for a rule that includes himselfl
If it is the proper thing for him to take his neigh
Dor by the neck and exact the utmost farthing.
it is also the proper thing for some one to take
him by the neck
Judge not, that We be not judged, for with
what measure We mete 1t shall be measured to
you again." And notice that that is the fact.
Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain
mercy" They do; as a rule, the world is gener-
Gus to the generous, and hard to the hard.
Wealth will buy in this world kind of tolera-
ton for the unmercifu man, but wealth happens
to take wings. Society does not comfort him.
When he is poor he is unwelcome in any circle
as wet umbrella in crowded street-car, and
he is going to be poor sometime, and his unmer-
ciful soul is going to the judgment seat of God.
1t is an awful thing to establish rule in our
dealings with men that will inevitably send us
to he'll think we. none Of US. care to ask for
exact justice Christ is very clear on this point:
after this manner pray We: forgive our tres
passes as we forgive those who trespass against
u.s." 1t would seem that salvation hinged on the
fact of merciful spirit, and that hard people
were on their way to hard place. Such
thoughts as these forbid me to entertain anger
The thing becomes ridiculous. 1t is as if in the
heat of the battle of Gettysburg one soldier
should ask his comrade to pay him 10 cents he
owed him, and do it quick, before they were
both dead. find that the things that separate
between man and man are little things-little
things allowed to grow Certain Sicilians who
form colony in New Orleans always fight and
knife one another when they meet. When you
inquire the reason of the vendetta. there is no
reason. The foundation of the quarrel is for
gotten. So senseless is much of the strife that
makes the earth wet.
The direction of the text is to take care of the
day; not spoil it by things brought over from
yesterday; to rise in the morning with clean
heart and a restored soul. Life, as short as it
is, is not altogether pleasant to make the best
OF it. 1t is pilgrimage, and the path Is rough;
and, it seems the knapsack gets heavier as the
strength gets less to bear it. 1t is not possible
to look at this caravan with any doubt. That
each one is getting. now, will some time,
reach all the grief he needs Our own hope in
the mercy of God bids us be merciful to our COM
rades.
LET all bitterness. and wrath, and anger and
clamor and evil speaking be put away from you
with all malice, and be We kind one to another,
tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as
God, for Christ's sake. hath forgiven YOU"