Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-04-10

knowing that you would neither be able to
T, do it youself nor get anyone else to do It:
Then, before God and man you are q liar
You may say that it makes no particular
difference, and that If you had told the
truth you would have lost the job and that
people expect 20 be disappointed, but the ex-
cuse will not answer. There is voice of
thunder rolling among the drills and planes
and shoe lasts and shears which says, IAN
liars shall have their part in the lake that
burnett with Are and birthstone
| next notice ecclesiastical hes-that is
falsehoods told for the purpose of advancing
churches and sects- or for the purpose of de-
pleting them. There is 90 use in asking
many a Ca1vanist what an Arminiaal be-
lieves, 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 Calvinst believes that God made some
men Just to damn them. There is no need
in asking pRdo- Baptist what Baptist be-
lieves, for he will be apt to say that the
Baptist believes immersion to be positively
necessary to salvation. 1t is almost i'm
possible for one denomination of Christians
without prejudice 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.
It is strange also how individual churches
wall sometimes make miSstatements about
other individual churches. 1t is especially
SO in regard to falsehoods told with reference
to prosperous enterprises. AS long as a
church is feeble, anG the singing is discord-
ant, 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 large
ness and extent of the work, denounce and
misrepresent and falsify, starting the suspic-
ion 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 criti-
cisms The keenest jealousies on earth are
church jealousies. The field OF Christian
work is so large that there is no need thet
our hoe handles hit.
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 Won to come. When they send their
regards you do not know whether it is an ex,
preston Of their heart or an external civil.
ity. We have learned to take almost every
thing at a discount Word is sent mot at
home" when they are only too lazy to dress
themselves They say, The furnace has
just gone out y" when in truth they have had
no 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 entertainments 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 make you believe that some nice
sketch on the wall was the work Of master
painter. ut was an heirloom, and once
hung on the walls OF castle, and a duke
gave it to their grandfather" When the
fact is that painting was made by a man
down east" and baked so as to make it
look old, and sold with others for ten dol
lars dozen. People who will lie about
nothing else will lie about picture. On
small income we must make the world be-
lieve that we are aftiuent, and our life be-
comes cheat, a counterfeit and sham.
Few persons are really natural. When
! say this I do not mean to slur cultured man
ners It is right that we should have more
admiration for the sculptUred marble than
for the unknown block of the quarry. From
many circles in life lnSincerlty has driven
out vivacity and enthusiasm. A frozen dig
nifty instead floats about the room, and ice
berg grinds against iceberg. You must not
laugh outright: it is vulgar. You must
smile. You must not dash rapidly across
the room; you must glide There is a round
of bows and grins and batteries and obs!
and abs! and simpering and nambypamby-
ism-a world of which is not worth one
good, round, honest peal of laughter From
such hollow round the tortured guest re-
tires at the close of the evening and assures
his host that he has enjoyed himself.
What a round of insincerity many people
run in order to win the favor of the world!
Their life is sham and their death un-
speakable sadness. Alas for the poor butter
flies when the frost strikes themi
Compare the life and death of such a one
with that Of some Christian aunt who was
once blessing to your household. l do not
know that she was ever offered the hand in
marriage. She lived single, that untram-
meled she might be everybodys blessing.
Whenever the sick were to be VISITED, or the
poor to be provided with bread, she went
with blessing. She could pray, or sing
''Rock Of Ages for any SIGH pauper who
asked her. AS she got older there were days
when she was a little sharp but for the most
part auntie was Sunbeam-juSt the one Tor
Christmas eve. She knew better than any
one else how to fix things. Her every prayer,
as God heard it, was full of everybody who
had trouble The brightest things in all the
house dropped from her fingers She had
peculiar notions but the grandest notion
she ever had was to make you happy. She
dressed well-auntie always dressed well;
but her highest adOrnment was that or
meek and quiet spirit, which, in the sight OF
cod, is of great price. n hen she died you
all gathered lovingly about her, and as you
carried her out to rest the Sunday-schOol
class almost covered the coffin with japoDi-
cas-, and the poor people stood at the end OF
the alley, with their aprons to their eyes;
sobbing bitterly; and the man OF the world
said, with Solomon, Her price was above
rubies," and Jesus unto the maiden IN
Judea commanded, 81 say unto thee, arise"
But to many, through insincerity, this
life is a masquerade ball. AS at such en-
tertainments gentlemen and ladies appear
in the dress of kings or queens, mountain
bandits or clowns, and at the close or the
dance throw off their DISCUSSES, so in this
dissipated life all unclean passions move