The Brookhaven leader., 1886-08-05

much Of his time 10 has been WIN nun ike
filing saws, that his nerves have come to
be merely q tangle of disorders, and that
he is the most pitiable object on earth
who, though he is very sick, does
not look sick and nobody sympathiEes.
Let me see. Did you not say that you
could not be tempted to an ebullition OF
temperG Some 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 mala-
ria, but what the old folks called chills
and fever. You take quinine until your
ears are first burning bee-hives and then
roaring Niagaras. You take roots and
herbs, you take every thing. You get
we'll But the next day you feel uncoT-
Portable, and you yawn, aud you stretch,
and you shiver, and you consume, and
you suffer. Vexed more than you can tell,
you can not sleep, you can not eat, you
can not bear to see any thing that loos3
happy, you go out to kick the cat that is
asleep in the sun. Your children's mirth
was once music to you; now it is deafen-
ing. You say: "Boys, stop that
racketn You turn back from June
to March. In the family and in the neigh.
cent. of The world says: "What is the
matt err with that dsagreeable man? What
woe.begone coIutenance! 1 can't bear
the sight of him" You have got your pay
at last-got your pay. You feel just as
the man felt, that manyfor whom you bad
no mercy, and my text comes in with mar.
velous appositeness.
with what measure We mete 1t shall BIZ
measured to you again.
In the study of society | have come tc
this conclusion. that the most of the PEG.
pie want to be good, but they do not ex'
actlv know how to make it out. They
make enough good resolutions to lift them
into angelhood. The vast majority Of
people who fall are victims of circum.
stances; they are captured by amhuscade.
| If their temptations should come out in Il
re .iment and fight them in fair field,
| they would 20 out in the strength and the
| triumph of David and Goliath. Bat they
| do not see the giants and they do not see
| the regiment. Suppose temptat should
come up to a man aud say: "Here is alco-
| hol: take three tablesDoonfals of it day
| until you get dependent it.; then, after
! that take half a glass three times day
until you get dependent upon that amount
| then go on increasing the amour until
! YOU are saturated from morning until
! night and from night until morning" Do
! Won suppose any man would become q
! drunkard in that way? Oh, no! Tempta-
| ton comes an1&ays: "Take these bitters,
| take this nervine take this aid to diges-
| ton. take this night cap" The vast ma
| ioritv of mon and women who are de-
! al 11v, hXr, fir = talyn
them as medicines. In making up your
d sh of criticism in re gard to them, take
| from the caster the cruet OF ,Ueet oil and
not the cruet of cayenne pepper. Be easy
! On them.
| Do YOU know how that physician, that
lawyer, that journalist became the victim
of dissipation?
Why, the physician was kept up night
| by night on professional duty. Life and
death lowered in the balance. His nerv-
| Gus system was exhausted. There came q
| time of epidemic, and whole families were
! Frustrated and his nervous strength was
! gone. He was all worn ont in the service
of the public. Now he must brace himself
| up. Now he Stimulates. The life of this
mother, the life of this child, the life of
this father, the life of this whole family
must be saved and he stimulates, and he
| does it again and again.
Youma criticse his judgment, but re-
member the process. 1t was not a selfish
process by which he went down. 1t was
ma gnificent generosity through which he
fell.
That attorney at the bar for weeks has
been standing in poorly-ventilated
courtroom, listening to the testimony and
contestng in the dry tecnnicalites of the
law, and now the time has come for him
to wind up, and he must plead for the life
of his client, and his nervou, system is all
gone. If he fails in that speech his client
perishes. If ne have eloquence enough in
that hour his client is saved. He stimu-
lates. He must keep up. He says: ~
must keep up" Having a large practice
you see how he is enthralled. You may
criticise his judgment, but remember the
process. Do not be hard.
That journalist has had exhaustinC mid.
night work He has had toreport speeches
and orations that keep him up till very
late hour. He has gone with much ex-
posture working up some case of crime in
company with detective. He sits
down at midnight to write out
his notes from memorandum scrawled on
pad under unfavorable circumstances.
His strength is gone Fidelity to
the public intelligence, fidclityto his own
livelihood demand that he keep up. He
must keep up. He stimulates. Again and
agian he does that, and he goes down. You
may criticise his judgment in the matter,
but have mercy. Remember the process.
Do not be hard.
My friends. this text will come to fulfill
ment in some cases in this world. The
huntSman in Farmsteen was shot by some
unknown person. Twenty years after the
son of the huntsman was in the same
forest, and he accidentally shot man,
and the man in dying said "God is just;
l shot your father just here twenty years
ago" A bishop said to Louis XXI. of
France: "Make an iron cage for all those
who do not think as we do-an
iron cage in which the captive can neither
lie down nor stand straight up" 1t was
fashioned-the awful instrument of pun
shment. After awhile the bishop offend
was in that same cage, and could neither
lie down nor stand up. 1t is q poor 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 to
scold less and pray more. That which in
the Bible is used as the symbol of all graz
cious influences is the dove, not the porcu-
pine. We may so unskillfully manage
the life boat that we shall run down those
whom we want to rescue. The frs
preparation for Christian usefulness