The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-08-09

story is like that of the defalcation Of fit.
teen years ago, and clap of thunder
shakes the window.sill, saying: "With
what measure we mete, it shall be m cas-
ured TO you again"
You look in another direction. There is
nothing like an ebullition Of temper to put
a man to disadvantage. You, man with
calm pulses and fine digestion and per.
feet health, can not understand how any
body should be capsized in temper by an
infinitesimal annoyance. You say: VI
couldn't be unbalanced in that way"
Perhaps you smile at provocation that
makes another man swear. You pride
yourself on your imperturbability. You
say with your manner, though you have
too much good taste to say it with your
words: ~ have great deal more sense
than that man has; have q great deal
more equipoise of temper than that man
has; never could make such a puerile ex.
hibition Of my self as that man has made"
My brother, you do not realize that that
man was born with keen nervous organ.
ization, that for forty years he has been
under depicting process, that sickness
and trouble have been helping undo what
was left Of original healthfulness, that
much of his time it has been with him like
filing saws, that his nerves have come to
be merely 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 sympathizes.
Let me see. Did you not say that you
could not be tempted to an ebullitlon of
temper? 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 buzzine bee and then
roaring Niagaras. You take roots and
herbs, you take every thing. You get
well. But the next day you feel uncom.
Portable, and you yawn. and 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 looks
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
racketw You turn back from June
to March. In the family and in the neigh.
borhood your popularity is ninety five per
cent. off. The world says: "What is the
matter with that disagreeable man9 What
a woe.begone countenance! 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 man for whom you had
no mercy, and my text comes in with mar.
velous appositeness.
With what measure ye mete, 1t shall be
measured to you again.
In the study Of society have come to
this con clusion, that the most of the PEG.
pie want to be good, but they do not ex.
actly 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 ambuscade.
II their temptations should come out In q
regiment and fight them in fair field,
they would go out In the strength and the
triumph of David and Goliath. Dyt<hsr
do not see the giants and they do not see
the regiment. Suppose temptation should
come up to man and say: "Here is alco.
hol; take three tablespoonfuls of 1t day
until you get dependent it; then, after
that take half glass three times day
until you get dependent upon that amount,
then 60 on increasing the amount until
you are saturated from morning until
night and from night until morning." Do
you suppose any man would become q
drunkard in that way? Oh, no! Tempta.
tion comes and says: "Take these bitters,
take this nervine, take this aid to diges.
ton, take this night cap" The vast ma.
jority of men and women who are de.
stroyed by opium and by rum first take
them as medicines. In making up your
dish of criticism in reg ard to them, take
from the caster the cruet of sweet oil and
not the cruet of cayenne pepper. Be easy
on them.
My friends, this text will come to fulfill.
ment in s,tue 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;
shot your father just here twenty years
ago." A bishop said to Louis XII. Of
France: snake 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
ishment. After awhile the bishop offend.
ed Louis XII, and for fourteen years be
was in that same cage, and could neither
lie down nor stand up. 1t is a poor rule
that will not work both ways.
With what measure ye mete, II shall bs
measured to you again.
Oh, my friends, let US be resolved te
scold less and pray more. That which il
the Bible is used as the symbol of all gra.
cious influences is the dove, not the porcu
pine. We may so unskillfully ma nag,
the life. boat that we shall run down tn os,
whom we want to rescue. The frs
preparation for Christian usefulness
is warm.hearted common sense
practical sympathy for those whom ",
want to save. What Roadway will ",
make in the judgment II in this world ",
have been hard on those who have gou
astrayl What Roadway will you and
make in the last great judgment, when VI
must have mercy or perishi Che Bibl
says:
They shall have Judgment without mere,
that showed no mercy.
see the scribes Of Heaven looking u,
into the face Of such . man, saying
"What! you plead for mercy you, WHOM
in all your life never had any mercy Of
your fellows! Don't you remember hov
hard you were in your opin ions Of thos