Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-03-28

and see the newspaper reports OF th'
crops from all parts Of the country, ant
their phraseology is very much the same
ard the samc men wrote them. method
ically and infamously carrying out the
huge lying about the grain crop from
year to year and for a score Of years
After awhile there is corner in the
wheat market, and men who had con
tempt for petty theft will burglarize
the wheat bin of nation and commit
larceny upon the American corncrib.
And men will sit in churches and IN re-
formatory institutions trying to strain
out the small gnats of scoundrelism.
while in their grain elevators and in
their storehouses they are fattening huge
camels which they expect after awhile
10 swallow. Society has to be entirely
reconstructed on this subject. We are
10 find that sin is inexcusable in pro
portion as it reat.
THE WORLDS sNEER AT A FALLEN CHRIS
TIAN.
know in our time the tendency is to
charge religious frauds upon good men.
They say. "Oh, what a class Of frauds
you have in the church of God in this
day" aud when an elder of a church, or
a deacon, or "a minister of the Gospel, or
a superintendent of Sabbath school
turns out defaulter. what display heads
there are in many Of the newspapers.
Great primer type. Five line plea.
Another SAINT Absconded," Clerical
Scoundrelisin," Religion at a Dis
count, !" "Shane ON the Churches" while
there are thousand scoundrels outside
the church to where there is one in
side the church, and the misbehavior OF
those who never see the inside Of
church is so great it Is enough 10 tempt
man to become Christian to get out
of their company
But in all circles, religious and ire
liyious the tendency is to excuse sin in
proportion as it is mammoth. Even
John Milton in his "Paradise Lost"
while he condemns satan, gives such a
grand description Of him you have hard
work to suppress your admiration. Oh,
this straining out of small sins like
gnats. and this gulping down Of great
iniquities like camels.
This subject does not give the picture
of one or two persons, but is q gallery
in which thousands of people may see
their likenesses. 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 a house to sell, and he
tells his customer it is worth SEQ 900.
Next day the assessor comes around and
the owner says it is worth $15, 200. The
government of the United States took
off the tax from personal income, among
other reasons, because 30 few people
would tell the truth, and many man
with an income of hundreds of dollars
day made statements which seemed to
imply he was about to be handed over
10 the oveTseer of the poor.
Careful to pay their passage from
Liverpool 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 officer on the wharf, |
There is nothing in that trunk but |
wearing apparel and putting five |
dollar gold piece in his hand to punctu-
ate the statement
Described in the text are all those who
are particular never to break the law
of grammar and who want all their
language an elegant specimen of syn
tax, straining out all the inaccuracies of
speech with fine sieve of literary criti-
cism, while through their conversation
go SANDER aud innuendo and profanity
md falsehood larger than whole cara
van of camels, when they might better
fracture every law of the language and
shock thcir intellectual taste, and better
let every verb seek in vain for its nom
NATIVE and every noun for it's govern
ment, and every proposition lose its way
IN the sentence and adjectives and par
Iiciples and pronouns get into a grand
riot worthy of the Fourth ward ON cleo
tion day, than TO commit moral mac
Better swallow thousand
ynats than one camel.
THE CENsoRIoUs HYPocRITE.
Such persons are also described in the
ext who are very much alarmed about
,he small faults Of others, and have no
alarm about their own great transgres-
lions. There are in every community
ind in every church watchdogs who
EEL called upon TO keep their eyes on
,thers and growl. They are full of sus-
licions, They wonder If that man is not
If that man is not unclean, if
here is not something wrong about the
'ther man. They are always the first to
lear of anything wrong. Vultures are
always the first TO smell carrion. They
ire self appointed detectives. lay this
lown as rule without any exception,
hat those people who have the most
aults themselves are most merciless in
heir watching of others. From scalp
Il head to sole of foot they are full of
and hyperoriticisms.
They spend their life in hunting for 1
and mud turtles instead of
uniting for Rocky mountain eagles, al
Ways for something mean instead Of
grand. They look at their
eighbors' imperfections through mi
roscopo and look at their own imper-
ections through telescope upside 1
own, Twenty faults of their own do q
ot hurt them half so much as one
Ault of somebody else. Their neigh s
ors' imperfections are like gnats and s
hey strain them out; their own imper- a
ocions are like camels and they swal- I
Nv them.
But lest any might think they escape
he scrutiny of the text have 10 tell a
on that we all come under the divine s
attire when we make the questions of o
me more prominent than the questions \
eternity. Come now, let us all go
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