Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-03-27
OBSER VER'S NOTES.

OBSER VER'S NOTES.
"rhou hypocritel First cast out
the beam out Of thine own eye, and
then shalt thou see clearly to cast
out the mote that is in thy brothers
eye" A gentleman was overheard
by us last week commenting favor.
ably upon our article in last week 5
issue. 1t pleased him that some one
had backbone to "go for' the license
advocates, etc That man is a
Christian, at least he publicly says
he Is, and we have no doubt he at
times makes desperate efforts to sub.
stantiatl his assertion. He is, we
are informed, praying member,
class leader and member of official
boards in one of our churches: in
short, he is one of the pillars in
said church. liz his comment upon
our article he in strong language
expressed himself upon the incon.
sistancy of some men who profes,
so and so, and yet do what he
thought to be to the contrary. They
were not what they professed to be,
but were hypocrites, etc. Twenty
four hours later this same person
was in conversation with others on
church matters, and he got terribly
angered because the action of his
church had been contrary to his
views even though it was done in a
proper way and by a majority vote;
and from that he drifted into abuse
of some of his brethren and then to
condemning the inactivity of the
churches in general. They were
doing no good getting worldly,
and being consumed by the flesh
and the devil. We thought it no
wonder, when this one, a class lead
er, prayer leader, pillar, etc, threw
such distractions in the way Of
their prosperity. We thought when
we heard him "going for" his breth-
ren(?-Yes, my friend, you are u
pillar, but its CATERPILLAR to eat
out and undermine rather than to
build up and strengthen. Now,
those of us who are "miserabIe sin
ners" take great notice Of sucn
action on the part Of these "shining
lights" in the church, and are forced
to conclude that men are often in
consistent in other matters as well
as on the question Of licensing the
liquor traffic, and when we are so
free in denouncing others we ought
occasionally to turn our eyes in
upon our own selves.
The idea! of a man having the
cheek to stand up in this city and
denounce institutions that have
stood for a half a century in our
midst as the heralds of Christianity.
that have trained, and
are to-day training and educating
his and other children in spiritual
things, and then to have a Ieader in
the church talk such stuff is dis
gusting in the extreme. They pray
Justify for the conversion OF the
poor sinner and then 90 out and
pervert the efforts Of the Lord to
bring it about.
Christians have a right to their
opinion as well as others but there
is a proper place and time to express
them, and "square-toed" Christian
win accord to his brothers and sis
ters equal privileges with himself,
and will in a true Christian spirit
submit TO the views Of the majority
and pull with them to make the
line Of work adopted a success; but
when one sits back and suIks, OF re-
fuses to take part in an official meet
ing, and then "kicks like a steer
because the decision Of that meet
ing was not as he wanted it, | ask
in all earnestness, what good is he?
Such persons during the week
poison the seed that was sown on