Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-03-23
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in it those who lack in the element OF
veracity. They cannot all be
trusted. In times when the de-
mand for labor is great, it is impossi'
BILE to meet the demands Of the public,
or do work with that promptness and
perfection that would at other times be
possible. But there are mechanics
whose word cannot be trusted at any
time. No man has a right to promise
more work than he can do. There are
mechanics who say that they will come
on Monday, but they do not come until
Wednesday. You put work into their
hands that they tell you shall be COM
pleted in ten days, but 1t is thirty.
There have been houses built of which
it might be said that every nail driven,
every foot of plastering put on, every
yard of pipe laid, every single ham
mered, every brick mortared, could tell
OF falSehood connected Herewith.
There are men attempting to do ten or
fifteen pieces of work who have not the
time or strength TO do five or six pieces;
but by promises never fulfilled keep all
the undertakings within their own
grasp. This is what they call "nurS-
ing" the job.
How much wrong to the soul and in
suit TO God mechanic would save II he
promised only so much as he expected
to be able TO do so. Society has no right
to ask of you impossibilities. You can
not always calculate correctly, and you
may fail because you cannot get the
help that you anticipate. But now am
speaking of the wilful making OF prom
Uses that you know you cannot keep.
Did you say that that shoe should be
mended, that coat repaired, those bricks
laid, that harness sewed, that door
grained, that spout fixed, or that win
dow glazed by Saturday, knowing that
YOU would neither be able to do it your
self nor get any one else To do 1t? Then,
before God and man you are liar. You
may say that il makes no particular
difference, and that il 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 a 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 burneth
with fire and birthstone"
ECCLESIASTICAL FALsEHOODs.
next notice ecclesiastical lies; that
is, falSehoodS told for the purpose OF
advancing churches or sects, or for the
purpose of depicting them. There is no
use i'm asking many Calynist what an
Arminian believes, for he will be apt to
tell you that the Arn.inian believes that
a man can convert himself; or to ask the
Arminian what the Calvinist believes, for
he will tell you that the Calvinist believes
that God made some men just TO damn
them. There is no need of asking a
pedo-Baptist what a Baptist believes,
for he will be apt TO say that the Baptist
believes immersion to be positively nee
eSSary TO salvation. 1t is almost imposs-
ible 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,
he will tell you that they believe that
there are infants in hell span long
Ii is strange also how individ ual
churches will sometimes make misstate-
ments about other individual churches.
1t is especially so in regard TO false
hoods told with reference to prosperous
enterprises. As long as church Is
feeble, and the singing is discordant,
and the minister, through the poverty
of the church, must go with thread
bare coat, and here and there wor-
shipper sits in the end OF "A pew, having
AL the seat to himself, religious sympa-
| L e ,.bnrqhag will
"What pity" But, let great day OF
prosperity come, and even ministers oil
the Gospel, who ought TO be rejoiced at
the largeneSS and extent OF the work,
denounce, and miSrepresent and falsify,
starting the suspicion in regard 70 them
selves, that the reason they do not like
the corn is because il is not ground In
their own mill: How long before we
shall learn to be fair in our religious
criticisms. The keenest jealousies on
earth are church jealousies. The field
of Christian work is so large that there
liSno need that our hoe-handles hit.
SOCIAL LIES.
Next, l 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 eY-
preston of their heart or an external
civility. We have learned TO take al
most 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 out,
when in truth they have had no fire in
= il all winter. They apologize for the
, unusual baroness OF their table,
+ when they never lived any bet
' ter. They decry their most
/ luxurious entertainments, to win
+ appearance, as though It were unusual,
e when always at home they look just so
e They would make you believe that some
n nice sketch on the wall was the work OF
a master painter. at was an heirloom,
, and once hung on the wall of a castle
. and duke gave it TO their grandfath
err" When the fact is, that painting
=, was made by man ''down East" and
Q baked. so as to make it look old, and
e sold with others for ten dollars dozen
l. People who will lie about nothing else
|, will lie about a picture. On small in
q come we must make the world believe
:. that we are atliuent, and our lie De-
: comes cheat, counterfeit, ana q
= sham.
Few persons are really natural. When
n | saw this, do not mean to slur cul'
e tured manners. 1t is right that we
d should have more admiration for the
b scnlptured marble than for the un'
q known block of the quarry. From
y many circles in life insincerlty has driV'
en- ont viyaclty and enthusiasm. A FRO
, zen dignity instead floats about the
=, room. and Iceberg grinds against ice
I berg. You must not laugh outright; II
d is vulgar You must smile. You must
l. not dash rapidly across the room; you
must glide. There is round OF BOWS,
$ and grinS, and batteries, and chs! ana
' abs and simpering, and mombypamby'
; ism-a world of which is not worth one
! good, round honest peal OF laughter,
From such hollow round the tortured
ruest retireS at the close OF the even
y INC and assures his host that no has en-
. joyed himsefl
What n round Of insinceritles many
= peyple run In Sfder to win the layer q
K the world. Their life is q saam ana
I their death an unspeakable sadness
Alas for the poor butterflies when the
e frost strikes them.
e Rut to many through insincerity this
e life is a masquerade ball. As, at such
entertainments, gentlemen aud ladie'
!, appear 10 the dress Of kings or queens
mountain bandits or clowns, and at the
' close of the dance throw of their dis
9 guises, so, in this disSipated life, al
y 01.. .n..ior. ,nnun In mask Across