Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1892-04-01


thinAa little more, in a spring morning
than IN a starless midnight.
RELIGIOUS work without any humor or
wit in it Is a banquet with side Of beef,
and that raw, and no condiments and no
dessert succeeding People will not sit
down at such a eanquet. BY all means re
move all frivolityNan all pathos and all
irhtness and all wulgarity-strain them
ont through the sieve of holy discrimina-
tion; but, on the other hand, of that
monster which overshadows the Christian
church today, conventionally, coming up
from the Great Sahara Desert Of Ecclesi-
asticism. having on its back a hump of
sanctimonious gloom--and vehemently re-
l fuse to swallow that camel.
MAMMOTH CRIMES IN TRADE.
Oh how particular great many people
are about the iniinitesimals while they are
quite reckless about the magnitudes.
What did Christ say? Did he not eXcori-
ate the people in his time who were so
careful to wash their hands before meal,
but did not wash their heartsg II is bad
thing to have unclean hands; it is worse
thing to have an unclean heart. How
many people there are in our time who are
very anxious that after their death they
shall be buried with their feet toward the
their whole life they should face in the
right direction so that they shall come up
in the resurrection of the just whichever
4 way they are buried How many there
are chiefly anxious that minister OF the
GOSPEL shall come in the line Of apostolic
succession. not caring so much whether he
comes from Apostle Paul or Apostle Judas.
4 They have a way Of measuring gnat I'M
til it is larger than "a camel
Again, my subject photographs all those
who are abhOrFent Of small sins While
they are reckless in regard to magnificent
thefts. You will find many a merchant
who. while he is so careful that he would
not take a yard Of cloth or a spool of cot
ton from the counter without paying for
it, and who if "A bank cashier should make
a mistake and send in n roll Of bills five
dollars too much would dispatch mes
senger in hot haste to return the surplus,
vet who will go into stock company
in which after awhile he gets control OF
the stock and then waters the stock and
makes 100000 appear like s2OO,OOO. He
stole only 100000 by the operation. Many
of the men of fortune made their wealth in
that way
One of those men engaged in such IN
righteous acts, that evening, the evening
OF the vary 0AtN ftllA AlE NtAtNANNA tAAN tNS-Nr
will find Il wharf rat stealing an even ng
newspaper from the basement doorway,
and will go out and catch the urehin BY
the collar aud twist the collar 50 tightly
the moor fellow cannot say that it was
thirst for knowledge that led him to the
dishonest act, but grip the collar tighter
and tighter, saying; Il have been looking
for YOU long while. You stole my paper
four or five times, haven't yOug You mis-
cradle wretchl" And then the old stock
gambler. with voice they can hear three
blocks, will cry out, "Pclice, police"
That same man, the evening Of the day
ON which he watered the stock, will kneel
with lis family in prayer and thank Cod
for the prosperity Of the day, then kiss his
children good night with an air which
seems to say, Il hope you will all grow up
to be as good as your fatherW Prisons Tor
sins insectile in size, but palaces for crimes
dromedarian. No mercy for sins animal
eule in proportion, but great ieniency Tor
mastolon iniquity.
COLOSSAL LIES ABOUT THE CROPS.
It is time that we learn in America that
sin is not exausable in proportion as it de
clares large dividends and has Outriders in
eouipage. Many Il man is riding to perdi-
ton position ahead and lackey behind.
To steal dollar is gnat; to steal many
thousands Of dollars is a camel. There IS
many fruit dealer who would not consent
10 steal basket of peaches from neigh
tor's stall, but who would not seruple to
depress the fruit market; and as long as /
can remember we have heard every sum
mer the peach crop of Maryland is a TAIL
ure, and by the time the crop COMES III the
MISREPRESENTATION makes difference Of
millions OF dollars A man who would not
steal one peach basket steals fifty thou
sand peach baskets.
ANY summer go down into the Mercan
tile library, ia the reading rooms, and see
the newspaper reports Of the crops FROM al
parts Of the country, and their phraseo.osy
is very much the SAME and the same Inen
wrote them, mctGOdically and iRfamOasiy
carrying ont the huge lying about the
Grain crop from year to year and for u score
OF years. After awhile there is a corner
in the wheat market and men who had
4 contempt for a petty theft will burglarize
the ,yheat bin of a nation and commit lar
eenv upon the American corncrib. And
men will sit in churches and in reforma-
tory institutions trying to strain out the
small gnats Of scoundrelisn, while 10 theif
grain elevators and in their storehopses
they arc fattening huge Gamels which they
exnect after awhile to swallow. Society
has to be entirely reconstructed on this
subject. We are to find that u sin is inex-
eus;;ble in proportion as it is great,
know in our time the tendency is to
charge religious frauds upon good men.
They say. sob, what class Of frauds you
bave in the Church Of God in this day"
and when an elder of church or deacon
OF minister Of the Gospel or superln-
tendent of a Sabbath school turns out ace
faulter what display heads there are III
many Of the newspapers-great primer
type; five line plea" Another SAINT A D.
sconded y electrical ScOundrelism, Re
lieion at a Discount" "Shame on the
Churches" while there are thousand
scoundrels outside the church to where
there is one inside the church, and the mis-
behavior of those who never see the inside
of church is so great it Is enough 70
tempt a man to become Christian to get
out Of their company.
But in all circles, religious and ifIen-
gious, the tendency is to excuse sin IN pro
portion as it is mammoth. Even JOhn
Milton in his Paradise Lost while he
condemns Satan, gives such a grand de-
scription Of him you have hard work TO
sunnress your admiration. Oh, this strain
ing out of small sins ike gnats, and tins
gulping down great iniquities like camels.
This subject docs not give the picture OF
one or two persons, lisa gallery ~ which
thousands Of people may sec their Ike
f,,sests For instance, all these people who,
while they would not rob their neighbor OF
a farthing, appropriate the money and the
treasure Of the public, a man has house
10 sell. and he tells his customer il IS worth
$4,000. Next day the assessor comes
around and the owner says it is worth 49,
900. The government OF the United States
took off the tax from personal income
among other reasons because 50 few people
would tell the truth, and many man with
an income Of hundreds OF dollars q day
made statements which seemed to imply
he was about to be handed over to the over
seer Of the poor.
Careful to pay their passage from Liver