Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-04-02

| o camel. There Is many q truit uealer
who would not consent TO steal basket
of peaches from neighbours stall, but
who would not scruple to depress the
fruit market; and rs long as can RI
member we have heard every summer
the peach crop of Maryland is failure,
and by the time the crop comes in the
Misrepresentation makes a difference
of millions of dollars. A man who
would not steal one peach basket steals
fifty thousand peach baskets. Any
summer 90 down into the mercantile
library, in the reading rooms, and SEQ
the newspaper reports Of the crops from
all parts of the country, and their
phraseology is very much the same, and
the same men wrote them, methodically
and UNANIMOUSLY carrying out the huge
lying about the grain crop from year
| to year and for score Of years. After
a while there is corner" in the wheat
market, and men who had n contempt
for q petty theft will burglarize the
wheat bin of nation and commit lar
ceny upon the American corn crib.
know in our time the tendency is to
charge religious frauds upon good men.
They say: 20, what class of frauds you
have in the church of God in this day."
and when an elder of church, or q
deacon, or a minister of the gospel, or a
superintendent of Sabbath school
turns out u defaulter, what display
heads there are in many of the news
papers. Great primer type. Five line
plea. Another Saint Absconded,"
''Clerical Scoundrelism." Religion at
Discount" "Shame on the Churches"
while there are thousand scoundrels
outside the church to where there is one
inside the church, and the misbe-
havior of those who never see
the inside of a church is so
great it is enough to tempt a man to
become Christian to get out of their
company. But in all circles, religious
and irreligious, the tendency is to ex-
cuse sin in proportion as it is mammoth.
This subject does not give the picture
of one or two persons, but is u gallery
in which thousands Of people may see
their likeness. For instance, all those
people who, while they would not rob
their neighbor of farthing, appropriate
the money and the treasure of the pub
lie. A man has house to sell, and he
tells his customer it is worth 1000.
Next day the assessor comes around and
the owner says it is worth $4,000.
Described in the text are all those who
are particular never to break the law OF
grammar and who want all their Ian
guage an elegant specimen of syntax,
straining out all the inaccuracies OF
speech with fine sieve of literary criti-
cism, while through their conversation
60 SANDER, and inuendo, and profanity,
and falsehood larger than whole cara
van of camels.
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 watch dogs 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 un-
clean, 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-ap-
pointed detectives. 1 lay this down
as rule without any exception,
that those people who have the
most faults themselves are most merci-
less in their watching of others. From
scalp of head to sole of foot they are
full of jealousies and hypercriticisms.
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 confessional. Are not all
tempted to make the question: where
shall 1 live now?" greater than the
question: where shall l live for
ever?" "How shall / get more dol
lars here?" greater than the ques-
ton: "How shall / lay up treasures in
Heaven? the question, How shall 1 pay
my debts to man? greater than the
question, How shall meet my obliga-
tons to God? the question, How shall
gain the world? greater than the
question, What if 1 lose my soul? the
question, Why did God let sin come into
the world? greater than the question,
How shall get it extirpated from my
nature? the question, What shall I
do with the twenty or forty or seventy
years of my sublunar existence?
greater than the question, What shall
l do with the millions of cycles of post
terrestrial existence? Time, how small
it is! Eternity, how vast it is! The
former more insignificant in comparison
with the latter than gnat is insignif-
cant when compared with camel. We
lodged the text. We said, THAT doesn't
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