Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-08-13

pitiable object on earth, who. though he is
very sick, does not look sick, and nobody
sympathizes. Let me see. Did yol not
say that you could not be TEMPTED TO
an ebuilition Of temperi Since 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
malaria, but what the old folks called Chills
and fever. You take quinine until your ears
are first buzzing beehive5 and then roaring
| N!c-ara5. You lake roots and here's, You take
everything. You get well. But the next day
you feel uncomfortable, and you yawn, aud
you stretch, an1 you shiver, AMI YOU con-
| 5ume ami you suffer. Vexel more than you
can tell, you can not sleep, you can not eat,
you can not bear TO see anything that looks
I'happy, yo1 70 out 10 kick the cat that is
! asleep in tie sun. Your childrsn's miTtl
was once music t. you: now it is dea' e ling.
! You say: "Boys, stop that racket Yo1
turn back from June 70 March In the family
and in tho neigh5Orhoo1 your popul rty is
s. PER cent OF. The world says; "What is
the matter with that disagresable mlnl
! What woe-bego gone countenancel 1 can't
bear the sight of him YoI have got your
pay as las;S-g0t your pay. You feel just as
the man - A-that ,aan for whom You had
! no mercy, aud my text comes in with mar
velous appositenesS: with what measure ye
nete, it shall be measured to you again.
In the study Of society have come to this
| conelusion-that the most of the people want
! TO be go)1, but they do not exactly know
now to make it out They make enough good
| res buttons to lit them into angelhood. The
| vast ma ority of people who fall are the vic
Tins of circumstan res; they are captured br
ambusca1e. If their temptation should
! ,)me out in a regiment and fight them in
tair field they would 60 out in the strength,
and the triumph of David against Goiah.
! But they do not see the giants and they do
not seq the regi nent. Suppose temptat on
should come up to man and say: Hero Is
alcohol take three tabeSpoonfuls OF it adaY,
lntil you get dependent upon it; til N after
that take half glass three times day, until
1ou get dependent upon that amoInt; thn
90 on increasing the amount unit you arc
saturated from morning until night and from
night until morning. Do you suppose any
nan would become drunkard in that way!
Oh, mo- Tempt ,tion comes aud says Take
hese btters, take this nervine, take this aid
20 digestion, take this night-cap.n The vast
majority of men and women who are de-
;troyed by opium aud by rum first take them
IS medicines. IN making up your dish OF
criticism in regard to them, take from the
,aster the cruet of sweet oil and not the crdet
If cayenne pepper. Be easy on them. Do
You know how that physician, that lawyer,
What journalist becameths victim of diSspa-
lion! Why, the physician was kept up
light by night on Professional duty. Life
ind death lowered in the balance. His nerv-
ous system was exhausted. There came
lime of endemic. and whole families were
Frustrated. and his nervous strength was
gone He was all worn ont in the service of
NE public. Now he must bra"e himself up.
Now he stimulates. The life of this mother
ihe life of this child, the life Of this father,
;he life of this whole family must b. saved
Ind the lives Of all these families must be
saved, and he stimulates, and he does it again
md again, YoI may criticise his Judgment
1ut remember the process. 1t was uot a sell
fSh process by which be went down. 1t was
magnificent generosity through which he
fell, That attorney at the bar for weeks has
0e3n standing in poorly ventilated court
'Oom, listening to the testimony and contest
ing in the dry technicalties Of the law, and
1Dw the time has come for him TO wind up,
and h. must plead for the life OF his client
inl his nervous system is all gone. If
le fails in that speech then his client
oerisheS. If he can have eloquence
enough in that hour his client is save1. He
stimulates. He must keep up. He says Il
must keep up" Having large practice you
zee how he is inthralled. You may criticise
lis Judgment, but remember the process. Do
lot be harl. That journalist has had ex-
lausting mi might work. He has had to
report speeches and orationS that keep
him ~ till very late hour. He has
gone Will llucu exposure WORKING up
some case OF crimo in company with
1ete tive He sits down at midnight
20 write out his notes from memorandum
;crawled on pad under unfavorable circum-
stances. His st 'ength is gone. Fidelity to
the public intelligence, fid3lity to his own
livelihood, demands that he keep up. He
n1st keep up. He stimulates. Again and
/ a n he does hat, and he goes down. You
nay criticise his ju3gment in the matter, but
nave mercy. Remember the process. Do
q)t be hard
Ny friends, this text will come to fulfill
Gent in some cases i'll tbs world. The
nuntSman in Farmsteen was shot by some
unknown pers)n Twenty years after the
son of the hunts nan was in the sane forest,
and he ci leuta,ly SHOT man, and the man
n dying said: God is just. | shot your
,ath r JUS here twenty years ago. A bishop
aid to Loni5 XI. of France: MAKE an iron
age for all those who do not think as we
loan iron cage in which the captive can
neither lie down nor stand straight up" 1t
vas fashionad-the awful instrument Of pun
SHIN ent After awhile the Bishop offended
Louis Xl., and for fourteen years he was in
hat same cage, and could neither lie down
lor stand up. 1t is a Door rule that will not
work both ways. "With what measure We
nete, it shall be measured to you again.
"Oh, my friends, lei us be resolved tosc)d
less and pray moral That which in the Bible
IS USED a the symbol OF all gracious inhu-
ences is the dove, not the por eupine. We may
50 unskillfully manage the life-boat that we
shall run down those whom we want to res
.ue. The first preparation for Christian use-
tulness is warm-hearted common sense, prac-
ical symDathy for those whom we want to
ave. What haadway will we make in the
Judgment if in this world we have been hard
IN those who have gone astray' What head
way will you and make in the last Great
Judgment, when we must lave mercy or per-
sh! The Bible says; "They shall have iudg-
nent without mercy that showeth no mercy"
see the scribes Of Heaven looking up into
ihe face of such a man, saying: "What!
you plead for mercy, you, who i'll all your
life never had any mercy on your fellows!
Don you remember how hard you were in
Tour opinions of those who were astrays Don't
you remember when you ought to have given
, helping hand you employed hard heel!
Mercy You must misspeak yourself
when .yol plead for mercy here
Mercy for others bat no merry for you.
Look" says the scribes of heaven, 'look at
that inscriotion over the Throne of Ju1g-
ment, the Throne of Gods Judgment" See
it coming out letter by letter, word by word,
sentence by sentence, until your startled Wis
lon reads it and your remoTSeful spirit ap-
propriates it: "With what measure We mete
it shall be measured to you again. Depart,
We cursedln