Milford chronicle., 1889-05-31
MILFORD, DEL, FRIDAY, MAY 81 1889.


should come down with the force Of the
melting SHOWS from Lebanon, they could not
wash out one stain of your immortal SOUL
"wE ARE BETTER THAN OTHER PEOPLE"
Still further some persons apologize for
their sins by saying: I'VE are great deal
better than some people. You see people all
around about US that are great deal worse
tban we.n You stand up columnar in your
INTEGRITY. and look down upon those who are
prostrate in their habits and crimes. what
of that. my brotheri If / failed through
recslessness and wicked inlprudence for ten
Thousand dollars, is the matter allevlated at
all by the fact that somebody else has failed
for one hundred thousand dollars, and some |
body else for two hundred thousand dollars'
on no If / have the neuralgia, shall | re- |
fuse medical attendance because my neighbof
has yirulent typhoid feverl The fact that
his disease is worse than mine-does that cure
miuel II l. through my fooihardiness, leap
off into ruin, does it break the fall to know
that others leap off a higher cliff into
/ deeper darlnessl When the Hudson river
| rail train went through the bridge at Spuy-
I ten Duyvil, did it alleviate the matter at all
/ that instead of two or three people being hurt
there were seventy-hve niangled and crush
edl Because others are depraved, is that any
excuse for my depravityi Am l better than
thevl Perhaps they had worse temptations
than have had. Perhaps their surroundings
in life were more overpowering. Perhaps,
man. if you had been under the same stress OF
temptation, instead of sitting here today, You
would have been looking through the bars OF
n neuitentiary Perhaps o woman, if you
had been under the same power of tempta-
tion. instead Of sitting here today, you would
be tramping the street, the laughing stock
of mon and the grief of the angels OF
God, dungeoned, body, mind and soul, IN
the blackness of despair All, do not let us
solace ourselves with the thought that other
people are worse than we Perhaps IN the
futirre when our fortuses may change, I'm
less Cod prevents it, we may be worse than
they are Many a man after thirty years
after forty years, after fifty years, after six
tv years, has gone to pieces on the sand bars.
Obi instead Of wasting our time in hyper
criticism about others, let us ask ourselves
fine questions Where do we staudl What are
/ o,,r sinsl What are our deficits! What are
. our perilsl What our hopesi Let each
3 one say to himself: "Where will BET Shall
/ range in summary fields or grind in the
mills of a great ightl Wherel Where"
Some winter morning you go out and see 6
snow bank in graceful drifts, as though by
some heavenly compass it had been curved
:, and as the sun glints it the luster is almos
insufferabe, and it seems as if God haC
wrapped the earth in a shroud with WHIT
!, plaits woven in looms celestial Ana yo'
say. WAS there ever anything so pure
>, the snow, so beautiful as the snowt' bu
. YOU brought pail Of that snow aud put l
unon the stove and melted it; and you foun'
frat there was a sediment at the bottom, AM
- every drop Of that snow water was riled
= and Won found that the snow bank had gath
~ cred M the impurity Of the field, and tina
~ after nil it was not fit to wash in. And SO,
n saw. it will be if you try to gather up tines
- contrasts and comparisons with others, an
III with these apologies attempt to wash out til
- sins Of your heart and life 1t will be a
II unsuccessful ablution. Such snow waite
~ will never wash away single stain OF a
lie immortal soul
- GOOD RESOLUTIONS"
~ But I hear some one say: Il will try som
y. thing better than that Twill try the force
- n GOOD resolution That will be more pungen
~, more caustic, more extirpating, more clean
- inc. The snow water has failed, and now
~ will try the alkai of a good, strong resoi
), tion" NV dear brother, have you any id'
that q. resolution about the future will liqJ
~ date the pastl Suppose | owed you fl
IL thousand dollars and | should come to y
- tomorrow and say; "Sir, will never run
~ debt to YOU again, if L should live thir
- veors. will never run in debt to you again
eIa will Won turn to me and say: If you will n
- RIM in debt in the future, | will forgive "
~ the five thousand dollars" win you do thu
- MOI Nor win Col We have been runm
-. mn a long score of Indebtedness wi
80 God If for the future we shou
aro abstain from sin, that would be
- defravment of past indebtedness. Thou
~, Won should live from this time forth pure
,i+ an archangel before the throne, that wor
Iii not redeem the past. God, in the Bible, d
i've tinctly declares that ho will require u
which is pastn-past opportunities past NJ
lects. past wicked words, past impure I'M
/ e. nations past everything. The past Is a gr
cemetery and every day is buried in it. a
l--a here list long row Of three hundred and six
',, five Graves They are the dead days OF Is
nu uore is n long row of three hundred a
sixtv-fve more graves and they are the dc
I. ~. DAYS of 1887. And here is a long row
- three hundred and sixty-fve more gray
I = and they are the dead days of 1885. 1t
: vast cemetery of the past But God y
III rouse them all up with resurrectionary blt
l,h and as the prisoner stands face to face
-. Juror and Judge, 50 you and viii have
iii LJ come up and look upon those departed d
~ face to face, exulting in their smile or COW
80 inc in their frown.
- MURDER WILL OUT
n'u "Niurder viii OUT is proverD that st
oui too short Every sin, however small us
iiiSi as great, will out, In hard times in EnSla
on Years ago, it is authenticity stated tbs
our manufacturer was on his way, with ba.
ma money. to nav of his hands A man. inf
uoh, oted with hunger, met him on the road
ana took a rail with nail in it from pa
fence and struck him down, and the nail
lid tei.iny his skull instantly slew him. III
laou wears after that the murderer vent bac
'1nes that place. He passed into the grave y
whore tue sexton was digging grave
IS. while he stood there the spade Of the SCI
PEG Turned 10 a skull, and, lol the murderer
snow n nsil protruding from the back part Of
man sl.,iU and as the sexton turned the ski
tha5' seemed with hollow eyes, to glare
lner' the murderer, and he, first petr
ther, with horror, stood IN silence, but
Ildnt cried out GUILTY. guilty! o G
not, Tho mystery Of the crime was over
ng 70 man was tried and executed My friend.
itAed the uupardoned sins of our lives thous
con may think they are buried out Of sight
ed to gone into a mere skeleton Of memory,
d. turn no in the cemetery Of the pastand 81
upon mon rs with their mis.loings. say al
selves unDarloned sins Oh, have you done
allure prepos5erous thing Of supposing that
u not rras,ilntions for the future will wipe out
Win ,astS God resolutions. thonyh they ma
have .,,,,,.,,t and caustic as alllali have no
Iough - nentralize sin. have no power to
man o,,av \ transrression 1t wants some
1w an -, tl,on earthly chemistry to 10 this
ef. 80, tbongh u wash my hands with
wGif water. and should cleanse my hands in a
ay DO vet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch
nS Is mine own clothes shall abhor me.
rrupt SIN NO riowEnY PARTERnE.
to IT. You SEQ from the last part OF this text
-er DO Job's idea of sin was very different
nslGi t,at of Furene Sue. or George Sand or