Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-03-28

are particular never 70 break the cav
grara.ssr. aaG Who want al their laa-
s-uaxe an elegant specimen Of synlax,
ssraiaing cut ali tAs inaccuracies q
speech with fine sieve Of literary eritf-
asa. while Through their conssrs<tioa 90
SANDER aud ienuenzo and profanity and
fAl.eAood larger than = sLoas caravan ef
cameis, when they might better fracture
every LAM Of tie language and shock their
Intellectual taste. and better lst every verb
seek IN vain for It's nominAtise, and every
noun for It's govern nnsnt. and every prepo-
sition lose it's way in the sentence, and cd
jeetives and participates and prononns get
into . grand riot worthy Of the Fourth
ward on election day, than TO commit .
neral inzccaracy Better swallow thou
sand gasts than one camel.
THE PETTY FAULT rISpERA
Such persons are also described In the
text who arc very much alarmed about
the small faults Of others and have 40
alarm about their own great rsnSgrss-
sions. There are in every community and
In every church watchdozs who feel called
upon 10 keep their eyes on others and
growl They are full Of suspicious. They
wonder If that man Is not dishonest, IL that
man is net unclsan. IL there is not something
wrong about the other man. They are al.
ways the first TO hear OF anything wrong.
yultures are always the first TO smell car
rion. They are self appointed detectives.
lay this down as q rule without any ex-
ception--thst those people who have the
most faults themselves are most mercileas
In their watching Of Others From scalp
of head 10 sole of foet they are full OF jeai-
ousies and approximations.
They spend their life in hunting for
muskrsfs and mud turtles instead of hunt
ing for Rocky mountain eagles: always for
something mean instead Of something
grand. They look at their neighbors inn
projections through microscope. and look
1t their own imperfections through tels-
scope upside down. Twenty faults Of their
own do not hurt them half so much as one
fault Of somebody else. Their neighbours
imperfections are like gnats, and they
strain them out; their own imperfections
are like camels, and they swallow them.
But lest any might think they escape
the scrutiny Of the text. have to tell you
that we all come under the divine satire
when we make the questions of time more
prominent than the questions of eternity
Come now, let US all go into the confess
osob&A- <AsC NV GA tSAuRSSu ~ k0&AC VIc
question, Where shall live now? greater
than the question, Where shall I live for
ever! How shall get moro dollars here.
greater than the question, How shall / lay
up treasures in heavepi the question, How
shall pay ray debts to man? greater than
the question. How shall meet my obligar
lions to God, the question. How shall I
gain the world9 greater than the question,
What 20 loxa so.,lS =.
did God let sin come into the world greater
than the question. How shall / get It ex-
tlrpated from my nature? the question,
What shall do with the twenty or forty
or seventy years of r,y sublunar existence,
greater that the question, What shall ] do
with the millions of cycles OF my POSTER
ras.rial existence, Time, how small it is!
Eternity, how vast il isl The former more
Insignificant in comparison with the latter
than "A gnat is Insignificant when COM
pared with camel. We dc Sged the text.
We said. "'fhat doesn't mean me, and that
doesn't rnean me" and with q ruinous be.
nevolcnce we are giving the whole sermon
away.
But let US all surrender to the charge
What an ado about things here. What
poor preparation for u great eternity. As
though a minnow were larger than q bchc-
moth, as though a swallow took wider cir
cult than an albatross. as though nettie
were taller than q Lebanon cedar, Nv
though a gnat were greater than camel,
as though u 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, il followed by the
crashing thunders Of awful catastrophe to
those who make the questions of time
greater than the questions Of the future,
the oncoming. oversbadowing future. o
EternityI Eternity! Eternity!