Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-03-27
asp. This is what they call

their own grasp. This is what they call
nursing" the job.
How much wrong to his soul and in
suit to God a mechanic would save if he
! promised only so much as he expected to
be able to do.
Inext notice ecclesiastical lies-that
! is, falsehoods told for the purpose of adj
vancing churches and sects, or for the
| purpose of depicting them. There is no
use in asking many Calvinist what an
Arminian believes, for he will be apt to
tell you that the Arminian believes that
man can convert himself; or to ask the
Arminian what the Calvinist believes,
for he will tell you that the Calvinist be-
lleves that God made some men just to
damn them. There is no need in asking
pndo-Baptist what Baptist believes,
for he will be apt to say that the Baptist
believes immersion to be positively nec-
essary to salvation. 1t is almost impos-
| sible for one denomination of Christians,
without prejudice or Misrepresentation,
to state the sentiment of an opposing
Sect If man hates Presbyterians, and
you ask him what Presbyterians believe,
ne will tell you that they believe that
there are infants in hell span long!
1t is strange, also, how individual
churches will sometimes make misstate-
ments about other individual churches.
1t is especially so in regard to falsehoods
told with reference to prosperous enter
prises. AS long as church is feeble,
and the singing is discordant, and the
minister, through the poverty of the
church, must go with threadbare coat,
and here and there worshiper sits in
the end of pew, having all the seat to
himself, religious sympathizers of other
churches will say, "What pity!" But
let great day of prosperity come, and
even ministers of the Gospel who ought
to be rejoiced at the largeness and extent
OF the work, denounce and misrepresent
and fasify, starting the suspicion in re-
gard to themselves that the reason they
do not like the corn is because it is not
ground in their own mill. How long be-
fore we shall learn to be fair in our re-
ligious criticisms! The keenest jeaIousies
on earth are church jealousies. The
field..o Christian work is so large that
there is no need that our hoe handles
hit.
Next speak of society lies. This evil
makes much of society insincere. You
know not what to believe When people
ask you to come you do not know wheth-
CT or not they want you to come. When
they send their regards you do not know
whether it is all expression of their heart
or an external civility. We have learned
to take almost everything at discount.
Word is sent, ''Not at home," when they
are only too lazy to dress themselves.
They say, ''The furnace has just gone
fire in it all winter. They apologize for
the unusual barrenness of their table
when they never live any better. They
decry their most luxurious entertain
ments to win a shower of approval.
They apologize for their appearance, as
though it were unusual, when always at
, home they look just so. They would
1 make you believe that some nice sketch
9 on the wall was the work of some master
1 painter. SIT was an heirloom, and once
!, hung on the walls of castle, and duke
r gave it to their grandfather" When
the fact is that painting was made by a
G man ''down east" and baked so as to
l. make it look old, and sold with others
r for ten dollars a dozen. People who will
d lie about nothing else will lie about 8
g picture. On a small income we mus
d make the world believe that we are atflu
n ent, and our life becomes a cheat,
Y counterfeit and sham.
t. What round of insincerities man
/. people run in order to win the favor o
e the world! Their life is a sham and thei
y death an unspeakable sadness. Alas fol
|, the poor butterflies when the frost strike!
It them?
It Compare the life and death of such q
}, one with that of some Christian aunt
+ who was once blessing to your house
/? hold. do not know that she was ever
v nfforod tho hand in m ri 1;1,od
Q single. that untrammeled she might be
). everybody's blessing. Whenever the
sick were to be visited, or the poor to be
u provided with bread, she went with a
blessing. She could pray or sing Crock
s of Ages" for any sick pauper who asked
$ her. AS she got older there were days
n when she was little sharp, but
r for the most part auntie was sun
s beam-just the one for Christmas eve.
u She knew better than any one else
how to fix things. Her every prayer. as
t God heard it, was full of everybody who
!. had troubles The brightest things in all
r the house dropped from her fingers. She
e had peculiar notions, but the grandest
) notion she ever had was to make you
!, happy. She dressed well-auntie always
n dressed we'll; but her highest adornment
: was that of meek and quiet spirit,
t which, in the sight of God, is of great
: price. When she died you all gathered
D lovingly about her, and as you carried
t her out to rest the Sunday-school class
Q almost covered the coffin with japonicas,
and the poor people stood at the end Of
! the alley with their aprons to their eyes,
Q sobbing bitterly; and the man of the
l world said, with Solomon, "Her price
3 was above rubies," and Jesus, as unto
the maiden in Judea commanded, 81 say
3 unto thee, arise!''
But to many, through insincerity, this
life is masquerade ball. At such en-
tcrtainmcnts gentlemen and ladies APP
pear in the dress of kings or queens,
, mountain bandits or clowns, and at the
close of the dance throw off their dis
: guises, so in this life all unclean passions
move in mask. Across the floor they
| trip merrily. The lights sparkle along
the wall or drop from the ceiling-a CO.
hort of fire! The music charms The
; diamonds glitter. The feet bound.
) Gemmed hands stretched out clasp
gemmed hands. Dancing feet respond to
dancing feet. Cleaning brow bends to