The Brookhaven leader., 1886-08-05
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
How Men Are Measured by Their
Own Yard-Stick.
Hard Thoughts Concerning Others pelng
Their Own Reiribution-The Question
of Hereditary Tcndency-Desl
Kindly with Others Faults.

the surrounding region to hear him. He
took for his text:
with what measure We meet IL shall be
measured TO you agaln.-Malthew vii, ..
DR.. Talmage said: In the greatest SER
mon ever preached-a sermon about if
teen m nutes long according to the ordi-
nary rate Of speech-a sermon on the
Mount Of Olives, the preacher sitting
while he sp Ike, according to the ancient
mode of oratory, the people were given to
uuders and that the same yard stick that
they employed upon others would he en-
ployed upon themselves. Measure others
by a harsh iula, aud you will he measured
by harsh rule. Measure others by a
charitable rule. and you will be measured
by charitable rule. Give no mercy to
others. and NJ mercy will be given to you.
with what measure We mete. it shall be
measured to you again.
There is a great deal OF unfairness in
the criticism of human conduct. 1t was
to snite that unfairuess that Christ ut
tered TIL words Of the text, and my SER
mon VIII be a re- echo of the divine senti-
ment. In estima ting the misbehavior of
others " e must take into consideration the
pressure of circuns ances. 1t is never
right to do W, ong, but there are degrees
of cuIpabiity. When men mishehave or
commit some atrocious wickedness we are
disposed indiscrimiuatelv to tumble them
all over the bank Of condemnation. Suffer
they ought and suffer they must, but in
difference Of degree.
In the first place, in estimating the mis-
doin,s Of others, we must take into calcu-
latiOn the hereditary tendency. Til re is
such a thing as good blood and there is
such a thing as bad blood. The are
families til { have had a moral twist in
them for hundred years hack. Thy have
not b en- careful to keep the family ecord
in that regard. There have been esca-
PAGES and marsulngs, and scoundrel sms
and moral deficits all the way back,
whether you call it kleptomania, or pyro-
mania, or dipSuman a, or W ether it be in
amiller form and amount to no mania at
all The strong probability is hat the
present criminal started lie with nerve,
muscle and bone contaminated. As some
start life with a natural tendency to no.
6ility and generosity, and kin mess and
truttfuiness. there are others who start
life with just The opposite tendency, an
they are horn liars, or born malcon' ents,
Or born outlaws. or born swinllers.
There is in England a school that is
called the Princess Mary School. All the
children in that school are the childr en- of
conyic.s. The school is supported
BY high patronage. | hal the pleas
ure of Icing present a one of their an
nrver5aries, in 1879 presided over by the
Earl Of Kintore. BY use law in En-
gland, after pa ents have committed
certain number of crimes, aud thereby
shown themselves inc. mpetent rightly to
bring up their chill lren, the little ones are
taken from their perntriOu' influences and
put in reformHtury schools, where all graz
cious and kindly influences shall be
brought upon hem. Or course the expert
ment is young, and it has got to he denon-
strated how large a percentage of the chill
dren of conyicts may be brought up to
respectability and usefulness. But we all
know that it is more difficult for children
Of had parentaGe to do right than for chill
dron or good parentage.
In this country we are taught by the
Declaration of American Independence,
that all people are horn equal. There
never was a greater Misrepresentation put
in one sentence than in that sentence
which implies that we are all born equal.
You may as well say that flowers are born
equal or trees are born equal, or animals
are born equal. Why does on" horse cost
POW ana announcer n"'Ne o'S' ,S''0'' ny
noes one S"eeP 'oSD zen Ho'l'lo "ni al"
other sheen cost 500? Difference in blood.
We are wise enough to recognize the diff
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