Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1888-01-07

AIiIplA kiiAS 1890
should face in the right direction 80 that they
shall come up in the resurrection OF the Just
-n rhever way they are buried. how many
there are chiefly anxious that a minister OF
the GOSPEL shall come In the line OF apostolic
succession. not caring 50 much whether he
comes from Apostle Paul or Apostle Judas.
/ They have way Of measuring q gnat until
1t Is larger than a camel.
Again: Ny subject photographs all those
who are ahhorrent of small sins, while they
are reckless III regard to magnificent thefts.
No1I VIII fini many a merchant who. While
he Is 50 careful that he would not take a yard
Of cloth or a spool Of cotton from the counter
without paving for II, and who. II a bank
cashier should make a mistake and send IN a
roll of bill, 81 too mt"h, would dispatch a
messenger in bot hastH u return the surplus,
vet who viii 70 into n stock company In
which. after q while, he gets control OF the
stock. and tnen waters the stock and makes
$lr,UD appear like >s210.ppj He only
stole 500, UU by the OPERATION. Many of
the men Of fortune made their wealth in that
way. One of those men, engaged in such I'M
righteous acts, that evening, the evening Of
the very day when he watere1 the stock, Will
find a wharf rat stealing a newspaper from
the basainen: doorway. and will go ont and
catch the urcnin by the collar. and TWIST the
collar 50 tightly the poor fellow cannot say
that 1t was thirst for knowledge that led him
70 the dishonest at, but grip the collar
tighter and tighter, saying: II have been
looking for YOU a LONG while; You We stole my
paper four or five times. haven't youl-
you miserable wretch And then the old
stock gambler, with a voice they can hear
three blocks, Will cry out: Police. police"
That sam man, the evening OF the day IN
which he watered hi, stock, will kneel
with hi, family III prayers and thank
God for the prosperity of the day,
thcn kiss his children good night with
an air which gems to say: II hope you
viii all grow up to lie as good as your
father. Prisons for sins inse-tlle in size,
but palaces for crimes drOmedarlan. No
mr1cy for sins animalcule in proportion, but
great ienlency for maStOiOn lnlqulty. A
poor boy slyly takes from the basket Of q
market woman a choice pear-saving some
one else from the cholera-and you smother
hIm IN the horrible atmosphere OF Raymond
Street Jail or New York Tomhs. while his
cousin. who has been skillful enough to steal
$J0,0O from the city. you will make him q
candidate for the New York legislaturei
There is a great deal Of uneasiness and ner-
vOusneSS now among some people III our
time to have gotten unrlghteOuS fortunes,
a great deal Of nervousness about dynamite.
| tell them that God will put tn Ter their mn
righteous fortunes something more explosive
than dynamite, the earthquake Of his omnip-
otcnt Indignation. 1T Is time that we learn
III America that sin is not excusable in pro
portion as 1T declares large dividends and has
10 pcr,Ition, position ahead and lackey be-
hind To steal one copy of a newspaper IS a
gnat: to steal many thousands of dollars Is a
camel. There is many a fruitdealer who would
not consent to steal Il basket OF peaches from
IA neighbors stall, but who would not Scruple
to dcpress the fruit market: and as long as
| can remember we have read every summer
the peach crop of Maryland is a failure, and
by the time the crop comes in the mlsappre-
hension makes a difference Of millions of dol
Lars. a man who would not steal one peach
basket steals 10000 peach baskets. Go down
/ - 10 -n.- .-,a $,1. into @La AfA-n I'll
library, III the readin, room, and see the
newspaper reports IF the crops from all parts
Of the country, and their phraseology is very.
much the same, and the same men wrote
them. intellectually and UNANIMOUSLY carry
Ing out the huge lying about the grain crop
from year to year and fo9 n score Of years.
After a while there will be a corner IN
the wheat market. and men who had a
contempt tor q petty THEFT Will bur
glarize the wheat bin of a nation and
commit larceny upon the American corn
crib. And some of the men will sit in
churches and III T~eformatOry institutions try
Ing to strain out the small gnatS of scOundrel-
ism. while in their grain elevators and their
StorehOuSeS they are fattenlng huge ca nlelS
which they expect after a while to swallow.
Society has to be entirely reconstructed on
this subject. We are to find that a sin is in
excuSable III proportiop as it is great.
know III our time the tendency Is to charge
religious frauds upon good men. They say:
oh, what Il class of frauds you have in the
Church OF God in this day" and when an
ealer Of q church. or a deacon, or a minister of
the 'io-pei> or a superInten cent OF a Sabbath
school turns out a defaulter, what display
heads there are III many of the newspapers.
treat primer type. Five | ne plea. Another
Saint AbSconded,, Clerical Scoundrei-
ISM Religion at a DISCOUNT Shame
on the Churches while there are a
thousand scOundreiS outside to where
there is one inside the church, and
the lnl>behavlOr of those who never see
the inside Of a church is 81 great it is enough
To tempt a man to become a Christian to get
out ef Their company. But N ali circles,
religious and lrrel rlous, the tendency IS to
excuse SIN III proportion As II Is mammoth.
Even John Milton in his Paradise Lost. =
while he condemns Satan, gives such a grand
description OF him You have hard work to
suppress your admiration. oh, this strain
INK ont o. small sins like gnats and thi, gulp-
Ing down great inilutties Ike caucl>'
Inns subject does not give the picture Of
one or two persons, bat i, Il gallery Ill which
thousands Of people may see their lihelt>Ses.
for instance, al tf"s' poopl" who. While they
would not rob their u"i-htor Of a farthiuE.
appropriate the money and the treasure of
the ptnli,. A man has a house to sell. ana
/, he tells his customer 1t IS worth S2n,ee).
Next day the assessor comes aTo!lIl and
: the owner says ii is worth S15.ooO. The
government Of the United states took
Off the tax from personal income, Jumony
other reasons, because so few people
: would tell the truth. and many a man with
an income of hundreds of dollars a day made
] statements which seemed to imply he was
), ahoIt 10 BE- hanlcd over To the Oversecr of
, the poor. Careful t. pay their passage from
! Liverpool to New NorH. vet smuggling in
!, their Saratoga trunk ten silk dresses from
Paris and a half dozen watches from Geneva.
Switzerland. telling the c,I>tom-houSe officers
; on the wharf: There Is nothing in that
: trunk hUt wearing apparel" and putting a
r hve dollar gold piece III his hand to punCtuate
tue statement.
> Described in the text are all those who are
! particular never To break thu law Of gram
mar, an who want all their language an ele-
giant 4 %tiInen of >EntaX. Strainlng out all
the inaccuracies OF speech with a fine sieve of
literary criticism, While through their con
: yersation - SANDER aui innuenio and pro
1 fanlty aui Iti~chepl larger than a whole car
| aNaa Of catleiS, When they might better
8 fracture every law Of the ancua-
D and shock intellectual t.s:e. and better let
. every verb SIX II VAIN for lis nomlnatIve.
4 ami every noun for It's government. ami
i every proposition ! SO It>way III the sentence.
. am aiJeItlveS AMI partIciples ami pronouns
Get into a grand not worthy OF the Fourth
2 Ward on election day, than u commit a
D moral lnaccuracy. Better swallow a thou.
: Sani C1atS than opa tamal