Sharp County record., 1891-04-09

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tba, artisans. To their hand we must
look for the building that shelters us
for the garments that clothe us, for the
car that carries us. They WELD a wide
spread influence. There is much
derision of what is called muscular
Christianity" but in the latter day OF
the worlds prosperity l think that the
Christian will be muscular We nave
a rioht to expect of those stalwart
men of toll the highest possible
integrity. Many of them answer
all our expectations and stand al
the Aont of religious and philanthroplc
enterprises. But this class, like the
Others that | have named, has IN IL
those who lack in the element OF
veracitv, They can not all be trusted
In times which the demand for labor Is
great, it is impossible to meet the de-
mands of the public, or do work with
that promptness and perfection that
would at other times be possible. But
there are mechanics whose word can
not be trusted at any time. No man mas
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 in their hands that they
tell YOU shall be completed in ten days,
but il is thirty. There have been houses
/ built, of which it might be said that
everHnail driven, every foot OF plaster
ing rt on, every yard of pipe laid
everyl single hammered, every brick
mortated, could tell of falsehood con-
nectt4 Herewith. There are men at,
tempting to do ten or fifteen pieces OF
work who have not the time or strength
to do more than five or six pieces, but
by promises never fulfilled keep all the
undertakings within their own grasp
This is what they call nursing" the
job.
next notice ecclesiastical lies; that
is, falsehOods told for the purpose OF
advancing churches and sects, or for
the purpose of depicting them. There
isno use in asking many a Calvinist
what an Arminian believes, for he will
be apt to tell you that the Arminian be-
lieves that man can convert himself;
or to ask the Arminian what the Cal.
whist 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 pado-Baptist what
a Baptist believes, for he will be apt to
say that the Baptist believes that i'm.
mersio9 to be positively necessary for
salvation. 1t is almost impossible for
one denomination of Christians, with
out preiudicd or misrepresentation, to
state the sentiment of animposing 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.
{ 1t is strange, also, how individual
churches will sometimes make mis-
statements about individual churches.
1t is especially so in regard to false
hoods told with reference to prosper
Gus enterprises AS long as a church is
feeble, and the singing is discordant,
and theAnNiJer, through the poverty
of the church. must go with thread
bare coat, and here and there a wor-
SHIPPER sits in the end Of pew, having
all the seat to himself, religious
sympathizers of other churches
will say: "What pity" But,
let a great day of prosperity come
and even ministers of the Cos
pei, who ought to be rejoiced at the
largeness and extent of the work, de-
nounce and misrepresent, and falsify,
starting the suspicion in regard to them
selves that the reason they dc 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
criticisms? The keenest jealousies on
earth are church jealousies. The field
of Christian work is so large that there
is no need that our hoe handles hit,
Next speak of social lies This evil
makes much of society insincere, You
know not what to believe, When peo.
pie ask you to come you do not know
whether or not they want you to come.
When they send their regards you dc
not know whether it is an expression
Of their heart or an external ciyility.
We have learned to take almost every.
thing at q 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 it all win
ter. They apologize for the unusual bar.
renness of their table when they never
live any better They decry their most
luxurious entertainments to win n
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
at was an heirloom, and once hung N
the walls Of u castle, and duke gGve
it to their grandmother" When the
fact is that painting was made by man
"down east" and baked so as TO make
IL look old, and sold VITA others for ZEN
dollars dozen. People who will @
about nothing else will lie about u p CT