Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-08-11
WHERE THE TRUTH HURTS MOST.

Ihere Is now, mas always Deen,
anil ever will be in this world class
/ of men SO lean of soul, so poor OF
spirit, and SO selfish, narrow-minded
and contracted in their views that
they see mortal enemy Ill every
man who may differ from them in
any way or aspire to honors which
are open to all. Such men know no
! other manner OF warfare than that
which is held by the sayages-to
kill aud destroy. They never seek
to raise themselves to the level Of
the good and the great, but hope to
succeed by pulling others down to
their level.-Fr0m An EUe,y Day
4 Sermon.
That's true, only too true; but will
the reader stop to think where 1t is
most true. Is it true of the lowest
and humblest class OF people, or is it
true of men OF the highest position
and intellectual prominence The
poor mountaineer or backwoodsman
4 quarrels about trihe, tor to him
little things are all he has. Citizens
and neighbOrs in better circum-
stances have their differences and
their oppositions, but never above
or below their moral surrounding.
i But if yon want to see littleness,
unmanliness, underhandedness, 60 to
the haunts Of the GREAT AND GOOD!
4 You read the papers; watch the pro-
ceedings in Congress or Parliament;
see the child's play and the demons
way. Look into the highest social
aud political life for petty rivalry,
\ jealousy and the most interruptions
struggle for precedence. There the
modem moral inhumanity equals the
life and death struggle between riv-
al factions in ancient times, when the
strongest was the noblest hero. Re-
venge is just as sweet now as it was
under the Ole law, and it is still an
eye for an eye IN a less brutal way.
! True, as rule, men are governed
by more generous actions and i'm
pulses, but it is hard to keep the ex-
ceptions down. Under popular
government and equal social system
like in America, men of narrow
mind, hollow at heart, and thorough
ly unprincipled, work their way to
the highest POSITIONS in church or
state, by means as unworthy as
themselves. Read the daily press
again. Within the last year men tried
to be elevated to high ecclesiastical
positions by electioneering methods
too low for politics. Others again
, disgraced their sacred calling by
turning the SacralnentS into mon
ey traffic. Men will go out and So
licit or collect church debts who
would not disturb their ease to save
soul. Men win preach God and
charity Oh high affairs and turn
around with the fire of revenge in
their eye and the two.edged sword OF
sarcasm and denunciation flashing
right and left among the fold. There
souls are not saved bylove or grace but
by fear and terror of what is to come
hel and hereafter, and such saliva.
ton is Reproduction If God is the God
Of Love and Mercy.
Take great Monsignor who
would not bury the dead in chris.
tian ground or respect the ashes re-
duced by Modern Science christi
anity to him is subsection to ecclesi
astical caprice, but he would take
mawkish foreign title because he
could get it for five cents IRON some
broken down European simoniac
aud then air the holiness of his own
conversion i'll The Forum at dollar
line aaH
Take great cleric who would
marry forbidden bans in cathedral
state because OF their high social
standing, while i'll some other part
OF his dIoce SO the poor and unknown
couple are called out from the altar
in public penance because they mar
} ried GU tside of the Church when il
could not be performed within,
Though such a man build a thous.
and universities. the very ruins will
cry in judgment against him before
the Court of Last Resort for the
poor and unfortunate.
Take a pack of learned divines
wrangglng away their time in use.
less controversy while poor woman
star Ves and dies OF cruel treatment
on q loaf day; no one to comfort
or onsole; Christmas bells are ring.
ing affairs are respleBdent but for
her. death in cold and shelterless
gar ret. Mt. De Chantel once held
her bright and cheerful spirit, but
she married against the will OF
frit aud religion, and her doom is
Sc; lied for time and eternity. But
go into her howell of mlseIy,-no
lig bit, no food, no farewell on her
long journey to eternity A child
kneels alone in the dis NAL corner
go God help my marlmaw Who
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