Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-28

TO deprcre the fruit market, and rs LONG rs
eau remember we Lara heard every summer
the peach crop at Maryland IL n failure, and
by the tilhe TIE orcp euutes In tho inierepre..
sentpt!ou inakps u difference O. millions OF
| dollars, A imam who would hot stoal one
peach basket stoalr 5o,oJo pnach baskets.
Tho Tendency to Cry Gown Good Men.
I know In our time the :endeacy is to
charge religious frauds upon good men.
They say, "oh, what n class of frauds you
have in tho Church OF God in this day" ana
when an elder Of church, or deacon, or
minister of the Gospel, or d supcrintenoene
of q sabbath school turns out defhulter,
what display heads there are IN many OF the
newspapers, Great primer type. Fiye-line
plea. Another Saint Absconded, Clerical
Scoundreltsm," Religion at Discount"
"Shame on the Churches;" while there are
loco scouadreis outside the Church TO wnere
there is one inside the church, and the mis-
behavior OF those who never see the INSIDE
OF u church is so great tt Is enough 10 teInpg
man to become Christian to get out OF
their company. But in all circles, religious
and irreligious the tendency is to excuse Sin
in proportion as 1t is mammoth.
Described in the text are all those who are
particular never to break the law OF gram
mar, and who want all their language an
elegant specimen of syntax, stra1ntng out
all the inaccuracies or speech Win nne
sieve of literary criticism, while through
their conversation go slander and fnnuendo
and profanity and falsehood larger than a
whole caravan of camels, when they might
better fracture every law OF the LANGUAGE
and shock their intellectual taste, and bet
ter let every verb seek in vain for its nomi-
native, ard every noun for Its government,
and every proposition lose its way in the
sentence, and adjectives and participies
and pronouns get into a grand riot worthy
of the Fourth ward on election day, than to
commit moral inaccuracy.
The Mote snd the Beam.
Such persons are also described IN the text
who are very much alarmed about the small
faults of others, and have no alarm about
their own great transgresslons. There are
in every community and in every church,
watch-dogs who feel called upon to keep
their eyes on others and growl. They are
full of suspicious. They wonder if that man
is not dishonest, if that man is not unclean,
If there is not something wrong about the
other man. They are always the first to hear
OF ANYTHING wrong. Vultures are always
the first to smell carrion. They are self
appointed detectives.
: Hay this down as q rule without any excep-
tion, thar those people who have the most
faults themselves are most mercilcss IN their
sole of foot they are full of jealousies and
hypercriticisms. They spend their life in
hunting for muskIats and mud turtles in
stead OF hunting for Rocky Mountain eagles,
thing grand. They look at their neighbors
1mperiections through microscope and
their own ilnperlectionS through a telescope
upside down. Twenty faults or their own
do not hurt them half SO much as one fault
Oh somebody else.
But lest any might think they escape the
scrutiny o: the text, / have to tell you that
We ali come under the divine satire when
We make the questions OF time moro prom
inent than the questions of eternity.
Overratipg the Presents Impor,nncc.
Come now, let US all go into the con
fessional. Are not all tempted TO make the
question, where shall / live now: greater
than the question, where shall ! 1.-Two
forever: How shall ! ge. more dollars here:
greater than the question, how shall I lay
up treasures in heavens the question, how
shall l pay my debts to man? greater than Z
the question, how shall ! meet my obliga-
tions to God? the question, how shall I gain
the world? greater than the question, what
let sin come into the world? greater than
the question, how shall l get it e4tirpated
from my nature2 the question, what shall l
do with the 20 or 10 or 20 years of my sub
lunar exisJence@greater than the question,
what shall 1 DO with the millions of cycles
of my post-terrestrial existence?
What an ado about things here. What poor
prepar ton for great eternity. As though
a minnow were larger than = behemoth, as
though 4 swallow took wider circuit than an
albatross, as though a nettle were taller than
u Lebanon cedar, as though q gnat were
greater than camel, as though a minute
were longer than a century, as though time
were higher. deeper, broader than eternity.
So the text which flashed with lightning of
wit as Christ uttered it, is followed BY the
those who make the questions of time
greater than the questions o. the future. the
oncou1ing, oyer-shedoUfng future. Eter
nifty! Eternity! Eternity.