Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-23

you cannot get the help that You antini
pate. Bat now am speaking OF the will
lal masking Of promises shat you know you
cannU. Keep. DID You say that Jhgt shoe
suodid .a Monde I, that cont repaired, those
bris.. Wi T. Chat harness saWed, that door
grained, thut spout fixed or that window
glazed by Saturday, knowing that You
would neither be able to do it yourself nor
get any one else to do it,? Then, before
God and man you are liar. You may say
that it makes no particular difference, and
that II you had told the truth you would
have lost the job, and that people expect
to be disappointed, but that excuse will
not answer There is q voice of thunder
rolling among the drills and planes and
shoe lasts and shears which says "All liars
shall have their part in the lake that burn
eth with fire and birthstone"
ECCLESIASTICAL LIES.
/ next notice ecclesiastical lies-that is,
falsehoods told for the purpose of advanc-
ing churches and sects, or for the purpose
of depicting them, There is no use in
asking many a Calyinist what an Arminian
believes, for he will be apt to tell you that
the Arminian believes that a man can con
vert himself; or to ask the Arminian what
the Calyinst believes for he will tell you
that the Calyinist believes that God made
some men just to damn them, There is no
need in asking pmdo-Baptist what a Bap-
tist believes, for he will be apt to say that
the Baptist believes immersion to be posi-
lively necessary to salvation. 1t is almost
impossible for one denomination of Chris
tans, without prejudice or misrepresenta-
ton, to state the sentiment of an opposing
sect. If man hates Presbyterians, and
you ask him what Presbyterians believe,
hewill tell you that they believe that there
are infants in hell span long!
1t is strange, also, how individual
churches will sometimes make misstatc-
mcnls about other individual churches. It
is especially so in regard to falsehoods told
with reference to prosperous enterprises.
As long rs a church is feeble, and the sing
ing is discordant and the minister, through
the poverty of the church, must go with a
threadbare coat and here and there a wor-
shipper sits in the end of a pew, having all
the seat to himself, religious sympathizers
of other churches will say, "What a pity!'
But let great day Of prosperity come, and
even ministersof the Gospel who onght to
be rcjoiced at The largeness and extent of
the work. donounce and misrepresent and
falsify, starting the suspicion in regard to
themselves that the reason they do not
like the corn is because it is not ground in
their own mill. How long before we shall
learn to be fair in our religious criticismsl
The keencst jealOusies on earth are church
iealousirs. The field of Christian work is
so large that there is no need that our hoe
handles hit
SOCIAL LIES.
Next | speak of social lies This evil
makes much Of society insincere. You
know not what to believe. When people
ask you to come you do not know whether
or not they want you TO come. When they
send their regards you do not know
whether it is an expression of their heart
or an external civility. We have learned
to take almost everything at a discount
Word is sent Not ut home, when they
are only too lazy to dress themselves.
They say, "The furnace has just gone out"
when in truth they have had no fire in it
all winter. They apologize for the un
usual barrcnuess of their table when they
never live any better. They decry their
most luxurious entertainments to win a
shower Of approval. They apologize for
their appearance, as though it were un-
usual, when always al home they look
lust SO. They would make you believe that
some nice sketch on the wall was the work
of a master painter at was an heirloom,
and once hung on the walls of n castle,
and duke gave it to their grandfather"
When the fact is that painting was made
by q man "dOwn east, - and baked so as
to make it looI> old. and sold with others
for ten dollars dozen People who will
lie about nothing else will lie about pict-