Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-04-07

, one or two persons, but Is a gallery in which
thousands Of people may see their Ike,
ncSse- For instance, all those people who
wisiia s.lcy would not rob their neignbor Of
f4gtiiins, appropriate the money and ths
treasure u t. public. \ man as a house
to sell, and he tells bis customer il i. worth
$1,000 Next day the assessor comes
around and the owner says it is wcrtL SIS,
600 The government of the United States
took off the tax from personal income
among other reasons because so few people
would tell the truth, and many man with
an ipoome of hsndreds of dollars a day
MAGE statements which seemed to imply
az. was about to be hand, Il over TO the over
seer Of the poor.
Careful to pay their passage from Liver
pool TO New York. yet smuggling in their
Saratoga trunk ten silk dresses from Paris
and half dozen watches from Geneva,
Switzerland, telling the custom house Of
ficer on the wharf, There is nothing in
that trunk but wearing apparel" and put
ting i've dollar gold piece in his hand TO
punctuate the statement.
Described ia the text are all those who
are particular never to break the law Of
grammar, and who want all their Ian
guagc an elegant specimen of syntax,
straining ont all the inaccuracies of
speech with fine sieve OF literary criti-
cism, while through their conversation 20
Islander and innuendo and profanity and
falschood larger than IA whole caravan Of
camels. when they might better fracture
every law of the language and shock their
intellectual taste, and better let every verb
seek in vain for It's nominatiyc, and every
noun for its government, and every prepo-
sition lose its way in the sentence, and adj
jectives and participates and pronouns get
into grand riot worthy Of the Fourth
ward on election day, than to commit a
moral inaccuracy. Better swallow thou
sand gnats than one camel.
THE PETTY FAULT FINDEHs.
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 transgres-
sions There are IN every community and
in every church watchdogs who feel called
upon TO keep their eyes on others and
growl. They are full Of suspicious. They
wonder il that man is not dishonest, If that
man is not unclean. il there Is not something
wrong about the other man. They are al
ways the first to hear OF anything wrong
Vultures are always the first to smell car
rion. They are self appointed detectives.
! lay this down as rule without any ex-
those people who have the
most faults themselves are most merciless
in their watching of others. From scalp
Of head to sole Of foot they are full OF jeal
ousies and hypercritieisms.
They spend their life in hunting for
muskrats and mud turtles instead Of hunt
ing for Rocky mountain eagles: always for
mean instead OF something
grand. They look at their neighbors' inn
PROJECTIONS through microscope and look
Al their own imperfections through tele-
scope upside down. Twenty faults Of their
own do not hurt them half SO much rs one
fault of somebody else Their neighbors'
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 din inc satire
when we make the questions Of time more
prominent than the questions of eternity. |
Come now, let US all 90 into the comics /
'ionM Are not all tempted 10 make the /
question, Where shall live now greater |
hun the question. Where shall live for /
syer' How shall get more dollars heres /
greater than the question, How shall lay I
Up treasures in heaven the question. How /
'hall pay my debts to mans greater than i
he question. How shall meet my obliga- I
ions to Cod the question, How shall t
gain the world greater than the question,
v hat If lose my soulY the question, Why 1
lid God let sin come into the words greater
han the question, How shall get il ex-
Ipated from my natures the question.
What shall do with the twenty or forty
n seventy years Of my sublunar existences
yreater that the question, Whit shall do I
with the millions Of cycles OF my POSTER
estrial existences Time, how small it Isl
eternity. how vast It is, The former more L
in comparison with the latter
han gnat is insignificant when com
jared with Il camel. We lodged the text.
Ne said, That doesn't mean me, and that
DOESN'T mean me-" aud with ruinous be-
Ieyolence we are giving the whole sermon
way.
But let us all surrender TO the charge.
What nm ado about things here. What
oor preparation for great eternity As :.
hough a minnow were larger than a behe-
moth, as though "A swallow took wider cir
nit than'an alpatross, as though nettle
we're taller than Lebanon cedar, as j
hough a gnat were greater than a camel.
: though "A minute were longer than
entury, a. though time were higher. !
eeper, broader than eternity. So the
ext which flashed with lightning of wit :
; Christ uttered it, is followed by the i
rashing thunders OF awful catastrophe 10 I
hose who make the questions of time 9
reater than the questions of the future, |
be oncoming, overshadowing future. o